Buckley to sign new two year deal

[BazBoy]

Who would you have replace him RB

[stui magpie]

[BazBoy]

Your joking I hope

[swoop42]

Well for the first time a contract extension is being based on team performance rather than just blind faith in an individual so that's a positive.

Buckley now has 3 years to win us a flag or he should walk after 11 seasons for failing to do so.

Pretty simple really.

[BazBoy]

And it hasn’t gone unoticed if SEN assessment is anything to go by

[TaylorMade]

Bucks wont make the same mistake that Malthouse did...

[Pies4shaw]

You mean by mistakenly winning a premiership?

[BazBoy]

MM had us in four GF,s for one premiership from 2000 to 2011 and we sure loved it

Bucks has just got us into a GF for the first time after coaching 2011 to 2018

Who is to say Nathan will fail in his next attempt / s

We have began to build a formidable group who pushed the boundaries with constant injuries and other events

My personal drive is to make 16 flags then surpass that to 17 or more

[E]

[K]

E, you are the master of Freddie threads. Maybe you could take the lead here.

[BazBoy]

Cake Walk was around for the length of our clubs exsistance

Managed 15 with it in our song

[K]

Baz, some questions:

Do you remember when they started playing the club songs from speakers before games? (I don't think this was happening in the 50s.)
What about players running through cheersquad banners?

And do you remember when it started to become hard to get a Grand Final ticket? (You could just walk up on the morning of the game in the 50s.)

[BazBoy]

Started my GF,s in 1952 and the supporters sang the song as the boys ran out
thru a black and white crepe paper covering at the exit from the race

I remember the mid year Collingwood v Geelong game at Geelong in 1953 & the Cats were coming off 23 straight victories—we nutted them that day and the train back to Spencer Street our song was sung until we were hoarse

Cake walk was in it I’ll guarantee that

Tickets booking came around the 60,s. I had to book 1966 one I’m sure

[BazBoy]

The 52 GF we walked from close by Fitzroy Baths to the G at around 6am and got there before 7am —-you joined the queue usually twenty back from ticket box

Tickets started selling bout 10am and we got them and ran like the bejezus to the fence (wing Bay 13) and procedded to decorate the fence

Under 19 game started soon then the Magoo,s —then the big one

Superstitious we were as 51 and 52 finals we did up the fence so 53 we didn’t

It worked “Good Old Collingwood forever swept the crowd

Ah those salad days. I loved living thru them

[K]

Thanks for that, Baz.

I guess getting a ticket was not completely easy if you had to line up before 7am on GF day.

I assume back then, all the GFs you went to had almost all of the crowd supporters of one of the two teams actually playing, right? Not like now, when there are corporate boxes, neutral fans, etc. Maybe they still had MCC members, though...