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SaintWiki wrote: ↑Tue 04 Apr 2023 10:03pm
I understand it's 8 games in 3 days on Adelaide Oval and we play in the last one - Hope the turf survives.
6 in 4 days
Be like playing at Victoria Park.
Slightly safer going home but.
After the game standing up on that Victoria Park railway station, that was so high up, one nearly got a nose bleed. The icy wind and often sleet rain that always seemed to happen when we were on that rickerty platform waiting for a train to arrive. I can recall I always kept my eye gaze fixed on the ground, didn’t want to eyeball a Collingwood supporter & get a mouth full of abuse.
We were sure made of stern stuff travelling to Victoria Park ground in them there dark days to support our belov’d Saints. FQF was ingrained into us from little kids and the horrow & danger of attending matches at Victoria Park was simply a rite of passage to Sainthood
saynta wrote: ↑Wed 05 Apr 2023 8:00pm
Yeah, first time an excuse for a human being spat on me and my saints jumper. And I was still a very young child.
Far more hostile world in those days.
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saynta wrote: ↑Wed 05 Apr 2023 8:00pm
Yeah, first time an excuse for a human being spat on me and my saints jumper. And I was still a very young child.
Far more hostile world in those days.
No .What a silly comment. I am talking about filth park. Hasn't got better over the years, only worse.
One improvement has been not playing games in that slum, where the patrons would punch and kick you in its latter years. Stab you even.
The only reason those morons don't bite is because the great majority don't have teeth.
SaintWiki wrote: ↑Tue 04 Apr 2023 10:03pm
I understand it's 8 games in 3 days on Adelaide Oval and we play in the last one - Hope the turf survives.
6 in 4 days
Be like playing at Victoria Park.
Slightly safer going home but.
After the game standing up on that Victoria Park railway station, that was so high up, one nearly got a nose bleed. The icy wind and often sleet rain that always seemed to happen when we were on that rickerty platform waiting for a train to arrive. I can recall I always kept my eye gaze fixed on the ground, didn’t want to eyeball a Collingwood supporter & get a mouth full of abuse.
We were sure made of stern stuff travelling to Victoria Park ground in them there dark days to support our belov’d Saints. FQF was ingrained into us from little kids and the horrow & danger of attending matches at Victoria Park was simply a rite of passage to Sainthood
Personally didn't mind going to Victoria Park, one of my enduring memories was the peanut man. He had a potato bag full of peanuts which he sold for about 10 cents a bag.