Whitten Oval, Windy Hill

Deagan · Post by **Deagan** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 7:19 pm

I've been to footscray

Cheesie-the-Pirate · Post by **Cheesie-the-Pirate** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:17 pm

sandyhill · Post by **sandyhill** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:38 pm

Did you talk to Sam Newman?

HoldenV8 · Post by **HoldenV8** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:22 pm

Not the best quality but found this on Flickr the other night. Credit to the photographer of course.

Windy Hill

spinDr · Post by **spinDr** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:25 pm

very nice pics cheesie, i dont suppose you have a high res pic of the first one, and or a shot with the 'Windy Hill' sign, id very much love to use it for a signature.

Cheesie-the-Pirate · Post by **Cheesie-the-Pirate** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:54 am

spinDr wrote:very nice pics cheesie, i dont suppose you have a high res pic of the first one, and or a shot with the 'Windy Hill' sign, id very much love to use it for a signature.

I've got 3072 x 2304 pixel versions of all of these pictures. I've also got a decent picture of the Windy Hill sign above the doors to the social club part of the ground.

PM me your email address and I'll send them (and any other requests).

hot_dogma · Post by **hot_dogma** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:08 pm

Essendon can go and die.

Then again one of my biggest regrets in sport was not being able to suck my dad in enough despite my valiant efforts to attend Essendon v Richmond at Windy Hill in 1991 despite being in Northcote a few hours before the game on the premise he said we would get belted.

We won.

tailz · Post by **tailz** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 2:57 pm

i was up at windy hill yesterday for the essendon legends game and got photos of the ground and stand's with people actually in them, plus some of the showers looking very bare. will post in the coming days

Simmo79 · Post by **Simmo79** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 3:11 pm

hot_dogma wrote:Essendon can go and die.

Then again one of my biggest regrets in sport was not being able to suck my dad in enough despite my valiant efforts to attend Essendon v Richmond at Windy Hill in 1991 despite being in Northcote a few hours before the game on the premise he said we would get belted.

We won.

oh dear

hot_dogma · Post by **hot_dogma** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:22 pm

Simmo79 wrote:
hot_dogma wrote:Essendon can go and die.

Then again one of my biggest regrets in sport was not being able to suck my dad in enough despite my valiant efforts to attend Essendon v Richmond at Windy Hill in 1991 despite being in Northcote a few hours before the game on the premise he said we would get belted.

We won.

oh dear

sandyhill · Post by **sandyhill** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:01 am

hot_dogma wrote:Essendon can go and die.

Then again one of my biggest regrets in sport was not being able to suck my dad in enough despite my valiant efforts to attend Essendon v Richmond at Windy Hill in 1991 despite being in Northcote a few hours before the game on the premise he said we would get belted.
We won.

tailz wrote:i was up at windy hill yesterday for the essendon legends game and got photos of the ground and stand's with people actually in them, plus some of the showers looking very bare. will post in the coming days

And the connection between these two - the Essendon Legends game also featured a recreation of the famous half-time Essendon/Richmond brawl of 1975 (still occasionally shown on TV when these sides meet). That might be the other reason Mr HD Snr didn't want to go - Tiger barrackers unsafe in hostile territory at Windy Hill -
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/ ... 42,00.html

BTW Tailz - still waiting for the pics.

tailz · Post by **tailz** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:31 pm

yeah i know, havin internet troubles, god damn telstra sons of b*tches!!!!!
as soon as i'm back up to normal speed they'll be up

hot_dogma · Post by **hot_dogma** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 7:25 pm

sandyhill wrote:
hot_dogma wrote:Essendon can go and die.

Then again one of my biggest regrets in sport was not being able to suck my dad in enough despite my valiant efforts to attend Essendon v Richmond at Windy Hill in 1991 despite being in Northcote a few hours before the game on the premise he said we would get belted.
We won.

tailz wrote:i was up at windy hill yesterday for the essendon legends game and got photos of the ground and stand's with people actually in them, plus some of the showers looking very bare. will post in the coming days
And the connection between these two - the Essendon Legends game also featured a recreation of the famous half-time Essendon/Richmond brawl of 1975 (still occasionally shown on TV when these sides meet). That might be the other reason Mr HD Snr didn't want to go - Tiger barrackers unsafe in hostile territory at Windy Hill -
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/ ... 42,00.html

BTW Tailz - still waiting for the pics.

Richmond has a bit more of a connection to the ground as it was the location of the 'Save Our Skins' Richmond legends game v Carlton in September 1990 where over 18,000 turned up to help keep the Tigers alive. This attendance was actually better than some of the home crowds for Essendon that season.

As it happened I missed out on this game too as my dad was up bush and I had no one to take me.

Simmo79 · Post by **Simmo79** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:39 am

hot_dogma wrote:
sandyhill wrote:
hot_dogma wrote:Essendon can go and die.

Then again one of my biggest regrets in sport was not being able to suck my dad in enough despite my valiant efforts to attend Essendon v Richmond at Windy Hill in 1991 despite being in Northcote a few hours before the game on the premise he said we would get belted.
We won.

tailz wrote:i was up at windy hill yesterday for the essendon legends game and got photos of the ground and stand's with people actually in them, plus some of the showers looking very bare. will post in the coming days
And the connection between these two - the Essendon Legends game also featured a recreation of the famous half-time Essendon/Richmond brawl of 1975 (still occasionally shown on TV when these sides meet). That might be the other reason Mr HD Snr didn't want to go - Tiger barrackers unsafe in hostile territory at Windy Hill -
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/ ... 42,00.html

BTW Tailz - still waiting for the pics.
Richmond has a bit more of a connection to the ground as it was the location of the 'Save Our Skins' Richmond legends game v Carlton in September 1990 where over 18,000 turned up to help keep the Tigers alive. This attendance was actually better than some of the home crowds for Essendon that season.

As it happened I missed out on this game too as my dad was up bush and I had no one to take me.

It's just been too long since I was last up bush

tailz · Post by **tailz** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 3:08 pm

alright as promised here is a couple to get started, will put more up but i'm on my to the footy so i'm in a hurry