Games that you'll always remember but others probably forget

[chunksngravy]

I'm in the same boat 14 y/o son thinks it's all too easy. I had to wait until I was 37 and my dear mum & dad who brought me up to be the resilient Swannie I am passed away in '99 & '05 respectively without ever having that joy!

I think many of us have the same issue. My three sons aged 16,14 and 11 take every win in their stride and seem to expect success without question. Thankfully they bleed red and white but can't understand that things haven't always been this way. I suppose Prince William has the same worries-will George grow up to be a spoiled, entitled little tosser! Thankfully I was able to take my dad to 2005, who had waited all those years, and meet a few of the '45 blood bath veterans over the years so hopefully I can teach them that the period of sustained success we have had is not normal and has taken a lot of effort from a lot of fantastic people over many years. Long may it continue!

[Plugger46]

I have memories of one game that will have been consigned to the "delete" tray of pretty much any other Swans fan. It was a game late in 1995 against the Lions at the SCG. Our season was petering out, notwithstanding some exciting, unexpected wins earlier in the year, while the Lions were making a late charge to the finals. It was a beautiful late winter afternoon and there were probably fewer than 10,000 people scattered around the SCG,

I remember it because my dad and his wife were over visiting me from the UK and this was the one and only game I ever took them to. I'd only discovered the game for myself a couple of months earlier and they were keen to see what I was so excited about. The only perception they had about AFL was that it was quite a violent, dangerous game, with lots of injuries. I spent the lead up to the game trying to persuade them that this wasn't really the case (though mindful of the fact that their game was soccer (both ardent Fulham fans) so compared to that, it was a little more physical) and that serious injuries were relatively infrequent.

Anyway by quarter time, the game was all but over on the scoreboard. I think the Lions had kicked something like ten goals, to the Swans not very many. But more telling was that by that first break, no fewer than three players had been carted off the ground on stretchers!

I thought we beat Fitzroy a couple of times that year. Lockett kicked 16 at the Western Oval and I seem to remember us knocking them off earlier in the year at the SCG.

Edit: I suspect you meant the Bears! Clearly an easy mistake to make.

[ShockOfHair]

The game against Essendon at SCG mid-1995. We won, Mickey O was the teenage excitement machine and I went home thinking 'we're back!'.

[DamY]

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[RogueSwan]

Brfxfzzomty Are

Exactly

[liz]

I thought we beat Fitzroy a couple of times that year. Lockett kicked 16 at the Western Oval and I seem to remember us knocking them off earlier in the year at the SCG.

Edit: I suspect you meant the Bears! Clearly an easy mistake to make.

Yep, sorry, I did mean the Bears. They're just Brisbane to me!

I thought the Lockett 16 goal effort against Fitzroy was in 1996. I travelled down to Whitten Oval to see that game, and I don't think I was "into" AFL enough to do that in 1995.