1969 Victoria Park Come & See The Real Thing

[@Gezza1967]

1969 VFL skilled demonstration film at Victoria Park featuring league stars McKenna, Jezza, Wade, Keddie, Bryant and Big Nic. Footage from the VFL Marking Time video.

[@danrobinson572]

Fantastic video Gezza

[@danrobinson572]

Ian Bryant got some tree trunk legs. Hate to tackle that bloke

[@robertSharp-s3s]

The 'Torp' by Doug Wade is a thing of beauty, it started well right and hit the target when it needed too. With great distance. And he was at the end of his career. Nothing now, is better at all. Just money.

[@normlieberman372]

Great stuff mate👍👍👍 Peter McKenna my first Magpies hero. Funny story-mum at that time didn't know too much about footy, but we were Collingwood fans so she had me in a Collingwood jumper in 1968 with Macca's number 6....because I was 6 years old 🤣🤣🤣

[@vinorob]

Mine too. Top man

[@Bridgette1111]

😂👌🖤🤍

[@C.A.MARSUPIAL-ys6tl]

You didn't have to support Collingwood to love McKenna. He's Joe Cool. Tiger's supporter.

[@craigelliott6226]

Wonderful clip! My two favourite players, Billy Goggin and Wadey! Plus the best exponent of the drop punt ever in Peter McKenna, and all the other stars!

[@perpetualgrin5804]

Loved the drop kicks, that's all I did playing kick to kick as a kid. All gone.

[@kerrymattrobertsharris6707]

All the skills on display here. Thanks Gezza👍

[@coolhand1964]

No elephant juice back in the day, these guys were just BIG, elite sportsmen. Nice to see an original Fitzroy jumper. Many years ago I was travelling overseas and met another Australian in a bar. First thing he said, after recognising my accent, was, 'What footy team do you support? ' Straight away I said you're from Melbourne aren't you? 😅👍🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@hanajinks1044]

Wade kicked over a thousand goals and all of them Torps. Jezza was an absolute Freak.

[@AIJimmybad]

Weren't they really flat punts? I thought he had accuracy problems early on from set shots and spoke to Huddo who only kicked flat punts and Huddo advised Wade do the same, he took the advice and the rest was history.

[@hanajinks1044]

@AIJimmybad Very interesting to hear. A flat-punt spun the opposite way to a drop-punt and wasn't that easy to control, with most of them veering off the the right. A lot of Wade's (and Huddo's) kicks looked to be floaters, but Wade was renowned for his Torps.

[@AIJimmybad]

@@hanajinks1044 I'm no expert, I had a quick look for the interview I read with Wade where he spoke about this, whilst looking for that I saw another discussion on the flat punt that referenced Wade and Hudson and somebody said 'A flat punt is essentially a torp without the spin' . So maybe both things are true.

[@hanajinks1044]

@AIJimmybad Hmmm, maybe. Peter Knights was the last guy l can remember that regularly kick flat-punts - big long ones to get it as far away from defence as possible. And also David McKay of Carlton kicked a lot of flat-punts when having shots from a long way out, and they spun the opposite way to a drop-punt. I've seen both the Huddo and Wade floaters on old Clips and I've never really known exactly what to make of them. Sure seemed effective though.

[@ians5597]

I never knew about any kicking conversation between Huddo and Doug Wade, but I did used to copy Hudson's kicking style and found it incredibly effective when it comes to accuracy. The ball looks ugly as anything in the air but because more of your foot connects with more of the ball, it stays true "as long as you follow through"! I could never get a torpedo punt right until I saw Wade on The Front Bar, and he basically gave away his secret. Hold the ball as if you're going to kick a Huddo-style flat punt, then as you're releasing it, just give it a little twist. It's already spinning at you connect with it. I tried it the next day and kicked perfect torps every time! So maybe that convo did take place and Doug just put his own twist on it, literally...

[@jumbo6009]

Saw Wadey kick a torp from the boundary line about 60 out down at Kardinia Pk late sixties..I was sitting on my old mans shoulders....went straight through the guts and been obsessed with the Cats ever since. Thanks Dougy.

[@alansimmonds9030]

Old 'barge-arse' took my side to the cleaners twice on Grand Final day in both 1963 & 1975.....Not so fond memories of him in my childhood.

[@jumbo6009]

@@alansimmonds9030 Yep..he had a bum on him. Good on ya Alan.

[@markw6586]

A jewel of content Gezza, keep them coming.👍

[@timothyjoyce9554]

What great footballers they all were. Especially big nick and jezza u unbelievable those 2 gentlemen. Absolute legends

[@mjames4709]

Nicholls was a thug.

[@AarnavSayani]

You wouldn't be a Carlton fan by any chance?

[@dimitrietheone]

What a place Melbourne was back then ey, what a dream ...

[@1mmickk]

Looks like when they took the pics for the footy cards.

[@iankearns774]

I have a book from 1970, Queens jubilee with a lot of these in it as still photos. I have had it 54 years.

[@danrobinson572]

Fantastic video

[@gpet23]

That torp though 😮

[@paulstewart2672]

Magnificent!!!

[@TheMicturation]

magnificent upload,4 superstars in theyre prime and 1 soon to be 2 years after this shoot

[@darylcumming7119]

Childhood memories of World of Sport program.

[@wongnaichungrd]

Oh yeah the long lost, but not forgotten, stab kick too!

[@jimbo4838]

Brilliant Gezza

[@lightofgodindarkness]

Thanks alot for sharing My friend, New friend here stay connected God bless you

[@gettinhungrig8806]

Big Nick was massive. They should bring back the stab kick, it would help cut through the forward congestion.

[@foxtrot109]

Magnificent

[@mjames4709]

McKenna. An absolute gold standard legend.

[@jumbo6009]

The perfect kicking technique.

[@C.A.MARSUPIAL-ys6tl]

​@@jumbo6009💯 . He's Joe Cool.

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

❤ you Gezza

[@zhoulijun6296]

Love it. Thanks

[@tomgeeCalliope]

Seen mkenna at northland last year.

[@timwatt2574]

I use to work at Northland and saw him there often. He was a gentleman, and had a smile or hello to anyone who engaged with him, being a cat’s supporter I remember the dread I had watching him destroy us at KP on many occasions,but his skills were pure magic and wished his stripe ran horizontally 😊

[@alansimmonds9030]

Rock-star back in his day too..... Had a couple of hit songs.

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

When footy was footy

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

Man against man the real thing.

[@jon6346]

Dropkicks!

[@daznic]

brilliant

[@engellyjones8683]

Bring back the torp

[@brett515627]

Great video

[@Ducatirati]

What do they say , Lead , like you have em all , coz BIG NICK is the Leader of all men ,is the only footballer ive seen at least 50 times , and never beaten , never , he is the perfect footballer , GO BLUES RARARA

[@Ducatirati]

I gotta say , at Princes Park one moody day , cold , Overcast , Peter McKenna , got the ball about 35 meters out , but 50° angle , got the ball , got tackled , swung around 360° , and torpedo punt at the exact right moment , one of the best goals i ever seen , The whole CARLTON ARMY went berserk , he looked good in NAVY BLUE , GO BLUES RARARA

[@iankearns774]

@@Ducatirati I am a Carlton supporter myself but lived up the street from the great man Peter Mckenna in Heidelberg West and his Mum was in the office at my high school Latrobe in the 70's. He sometimes came to pick her up and all the young girlies would try and get his autograph. He was a superstar, I was supposed to go to Big Nicks last game in 1974 with my Dad but Harris announced his retirement after R17 against South. I saw him play against Richmond at the G earlier in that year. I remember standing on beer cans to watch the game.Big Nick another legend of the game.

[@Ducatirati]

@iankearns774 HA The Beer cans , yeah , gosh , you could knocked me over with a wet fish when I read that , the Beer cans , In 1968 , at the GF , I'm 10 yo , snuck into the G them days and Moorabbin boy , so 35 Min on train , but that game Carlton kicked 7. 14 .56 and I'm tip toes on tinnies, so no squash cans then , and I couldn't make out the Essendon score , apart from Ess 8 @@@@ and I'm looking and all of a sudden Every BLUE went mental , the first time a team , kicking less goals win a GF , I literally love George Harris , and Jezza thought a lot of him , anyway , Cans Charlie Chans amazing wow ,cheers ian GO BLUES RARARA

[@Ducatirati]

Wish George was at Carlton when Elliott dogged it , but ,let's move on ,GO BLUES RARARA

[@COLEY72]

Awesome

[@rd4in37]

A screaming torpedo......classic

[@alansimmonds9030]

Some bloody legends there....Looks like Bob Keddie was solely there to play the dupe.

[@AarnavSayani]

He did win hawks '71 flag.

[@alansimmonds9030]

@@AarnavSayani Indeed he did.

[@melthoidserendipity1332]

Did anyone ever see McKenna kick a torp?

[@AarnavSayani]

Or wade and Hudson kick a drop punt?

[@MarkSmith-rb5ep]

When did the drop kick disapeer from the game.

[@gettinhungrig8806]

About 1972. Coaches started to ban their players from using it due to the high error rate. It lingered on for a few years. Barry Cable was one of the last exponents and Kevin Sheedy too could be seen using it in finals on the drier grounds in September.

[@o8thman812]

Fullback bringing the ball back into play via a dropkick should be a rule...

[@greebo7857]

Nah. Torp. It takes an Irishman to do it these days ( Zac 'Reg' Touhy, number 2 for Geelong ). Crowd goes nuts when he does it, not often enough.

[@rataylor59]

How come they looked like grown men back then, not boys?

[@gettinhungrig8806]

They were more thick-set back then. Broader across the beam. Nowadays players are much leaner, more the build of long-distance runners because that's what the game requires of them.

[@darylcumming7119]

World of sport.

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

Muscles on ruckman just as big as today.

[@pjav1988]

No mate they were much smaller

[@alansimmonds9030]

@@pjav1988 If you can find a player today to match Big Nicks hips & thighs - then good luck with that.

[@scanspeak00]

4 minutes missing!

[@greebo7857]

Sadly, in today's game none of these blokes would get a go. Well, Goggin maybe.

[@iankearns774]

Definitely wrong there mate, they would have grown taller, trained differently and still would have made it. Ability, reading the play and hand/eye coordination still would have been there. Jesaulenko would have still been a superstar. Big Nick would have been 6 ft 8 instead of 6 ft 2.

[@timwatt2574]

They would definitely get a go and would be just as good and most probably better. Their skills are much better than todays players.

[@robertchapman6795]

Before woke and 12 months of the year were taken up with footy. 😢

[@JohnJohn-zn8ib]

Women weren't running around and playing football trying to prove themselves, pathetic.

[@C.A.MARSUPIAL-ys6tl]

I'm I tiger's supporter and Royce Hart was a beautiful kick but nobody comes close to Peter McKenna. If you're young watch McKenna and learn to kick like him. He's Joe Cool 👍

[@ians5597]

Yay! Bob Keddie!! In retrospect I bet Cowboy Neale wishes he'd tried to knock him out in the '71 Grannie lol.

[@alansimmonds9030]

Too quick for him to catch, I'd venture.

[@shannonpincombe8485]

Grouse!