1980 SANFL grand final recall - Port Adelaide v Norwood

Russell Ebert, Keith Thomas and Bruce Abernethy talk through the dramatic 1980 SANFL grand final

[@victorpunguatji1438]

Loved south Australian footy back then in the eighties can't forget it

[@neilgrant873]

Good old SANFL establishment - Union Jacks in each square.

[@RCT1963]

British flags in the goalsquares? What was the explanatiion for this?

[@donjohns4878]

Great win. What a team Port had. Might have troubled many VFL sides as well.

[@dits791]

3 years later a West Adelaide side would have too.

[@donjohns4878]

@@dits791 1983 Westies side was a ripper. Followed them a lot with my father in law Reggie Ellis, who played a few games for them back in the day.

[@dits791]

@@donjohns4878 I'm a life member of Westies, iv'e been the property steward for 16 years...love the club, probably do it till i die. :) .

[@donjohns4878]

@@dits791 you might know my mate and former workmate Ian Goed and his lads. They go to most Westies games. Die hard Bloods. When I was a lad we played Westies under 17s at Richmond oval al part of a Riverland combined team. We slept in the club rooms and went to the Grand Final next day, it was 1973, Bays V North. Great weekend, West Adelaide footy club made our meals and looked after us. Great times.

[@dits791]

@@donjohns4878 Can't say i know your workmate personally but the name sounds familiar. After 16 years of service, iv'e seen a lot of people come and go, meet a lot of people on the terraces but it's hard to remember everyone. Your mate probably knows of me and has seen me collecting footies behind the goals during warmups.

[@john2ndname]

I was at this game.i was 14 and i remember Port Adelaide the Magpies dominance of this era!..such great players in the time. what memories.Port was so good they added them later to be Port Power in the nation wide AFL and the rest is history.

[@stevenvarcoe4843]

Love seeing Keith Thomas a Norwood legend surrounded in Port Adelaide Gear. I know he was Ports CEO at the time but before he played for the redlegs he was a passionate Port supporter as a kid 😅

[@Chapps1941]

But we turned the tables on em in '84 and from 5th again. First team anywhere in Australia to win from 5th.

[@JHollowayNetwork]

Advanced Australia Fair did not become the official national anthem in the country until 1984.

[@chrish4469]

What was with the Union Jacks in the goal squares?

[@daviddawson6595]

Pffft. That Brisbane team would have drubbed em by 25 goals. The wobbles got lucky in 02 didn't they?

[@joelsmart]

Wrong league man