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Well... dammnit where do i start??? I was born in 1987... With Collingwood tattooed on my butt... My dads side of the family wasn't into sport... My mums side of the family... Was the collingwood cheersquad... My Uncle played footy with Dermott when they were kiddies... Amd Dermott was a familiar face around the house (when he got shafted from hawks to pies)... I had no option but to go for collingwood lol... I remember the 1990 GF... even though i was only 3... the whole family... and i mean the WHOLE family was crowded around my Grandpa's brand new Colour TV... And all i remember is jumping around wildly for an unknown reason... (i was 3 gimme a break) But now i know that reason was a pride that was built into me from the beginging.
Why's it so good to be a Pies supporter? Because no matter win or lose... we still love those boys for getting out there and doing there best to make themselves proud of who they are and why they wear that black and white. Black and white are the too simplest colours... they stand out the most... and they make you bloody proud to be wearing them. Another big part of collingwood is pride... We are very proud of our team... and our HERITAGE! (black and white stripes forever) I don't know what else to say...
skaman wrote:Great post Troppo. You must be following me all over Australia!. My brothers and sisters went to Bennetswood (I went to Narmara), then we all went to Burwood High. My Cousin is David Flintoff (Haw/Melb.), cousin of Gary Lyon (Melb). Half my family are converted Hawtorn to Melbourne supporters, whilst my immediate side are dyed in the wool Pies! I remember sometime back in my youth, a drunken uncle at Xmas bought me a Hawthorn jumper to convert me, to which I replied, "piss off", much to the horror of my poor ol mum.
Thanks skaman! I guess there is a certain karma in our mutual links. After I left Bennetswood I also attended Burwood High for a year before going to college in Adelaide for a while. Returning to Melbourne I went to MHS and then out to Blackburn High - quite a rotation in secondary education - but you can only follow your family fortunes can't you. While I was at Blackie High I played in the school basketball team with Don Scott who of course went on to a great career with the Hawks. I always felt his temperament was more suited to Victoria Park - he was always a mongrel!
Don and I caught up in the 80's when he had a horse property in Melbourne's outer east. He was involved in show jumping at the time and had built a massive indoor training arena which was widely used by other horse clubs for shows and I used to compete there on my Quarter horses. Don was still his mongrellish self and was very put out when my Rotty demolished one of his prize watch dogs! He was further pissed when he found my dog's name was 'Weideman'!
Now we are both in the dry tropics metropolis of Brownsville - must catch up at some time.
Should do! Maybe we even played eachother in basketball. Dont know your vintage mind you. I was also in the high school basketball team. We won the high school championship of Victoria. Had some handy players, all who played in my regular basketball club. Played with Wattle Park Saints, Nunawading Demons/ Spectres. Went to Tassie in all Australian championships. Played for Army, inter area and inter service. We must've crossed paths somewhere! I also played in the Diamond valley league aginst some pretty rough footy players eg. David (big hips) Cloke. David (huge eagle tattooed back, missing toothed) Toomey. Main comp I played in though, was EDJBA, then the MEBA.
Cheers, must have some coolies some day!
P.s I was at Burwood High 75-80. Blackie High...ewwwww, notorious for scrag fights and underage preggie girls!!!
This has been a great read....
I'm another family type - both parents are pies, mum purely by chance (she grew up in Nth Balwyn) dad cos of his dad and grandfather. He had uncles play for Richmond and Melbourne, but stuck with the pies. Irish catholic-working-class background so what else could he do?
Don't remember 1990 - I was seven and at a friend's house. Her dad (a scum supporter) was watching it and me and my friend watched bits of it (i converted her to pies in conjunction with her grandparents!) but living 300km from Melbourne I didn't realy get into it.
There was a time when we didn't even get commercial telly, but me and my bro and sis always had pie jumpers, and my bro was pretty obsessed. we used to kick a soft football he'd made around the back room - collingwood1 vs collingwood2 and both of us had 35 on our jumpers.
First game at age 12 (1995) and we pumped St Blunda by 12 goals on a Fri night at the g. Never got to see a game at Viccy park - I'd only been to five games before I moved to the city (2001) cos it required so much organisation to get down etc.
It's amazing how many people here have followed the pies without ever being to games etc. I now try and recruit as many foreigners as possible to the black-and-white: I have friends in Germany who wear their Magpies scarves all winter!!!
Collingwood es bueno para siempre
Ellos saben como jugar el juego....
skaman wrote:
P.s I was at Burwood High 75-80. Blackie High...ewwwww, notorious for scrag fights and underage preggie girls!!!
Good one Ska, I predate you by several years. My basketball was only a fleeting interruption (as I believe it was for Scotty too!) to other things in my life.
As far as Blackie High was concerned, scrag fights, well we used to fight 'em anywhichway including loose! Underage preggie girls? Not responsible! I think ...
Send me a PM with your personal email and we'll get together for a few coldies - mine's Toohey's Old ATM!
... Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent ... Wittgenstein
We used to get Loys soft drinks delivered in Canterbury in the 70s Rudeboy, but not to Monomeath Ave, we weren't quite in that social strata - how about Highfield Rd? Was that you?
Mike wrote:We used to get Loys soft drinks delivered in Canterbury in the 70s Rudeboy, but not to Monomeath Ave, we weren't quite in that social strata - how about Highfield Rd? Was that you?
Loys factory was in Burwood Mike! Orange soft drink bottle with straw, neon sign. An icon on the hill on Burwood Hwy. A kin to the skiping girl neon sign icon in my books...just up the road from the Burwood drive-in. The first drive-in theatre in the southern hemisphere!
Mike wrote:We used to get Loys soft drinks delivered in Canterbury in the 70s Rudeboy, but not to Monomeath Ave, we weren't quite in that social strata - how about Highfield Rd? Was that you?
Loys soft drinks in canterbury....LOL
Back in the 70's canterbury would of been the first area to introduce perfumed aroma... bottled water.
Loys would of been for us scumbags from the preston circuit
You were there... you were in Canterbury when I was and no amount of Northern/Western suburbs speak will get you ot of it.
Actually, I can do that stuff too. I also lived in Southernhay St in Reservoir in the 70s and worked at Preston Motors in Preston. Can I be working class now please? Go on. No? Oh well it was worth a try.
We did get Loys delivered in Canterbury though... I remember that... even if most of my other memories are starting to dim somewhat.
The story goes that when my mum came from Greece in the 60's her family settled in Abbotsford. Mum, with her two brothers, went to school at Victoria Park Primary.
Curiosity finally got the better my uncles who would wonder what was all that noise was taht was coming from the ground in Lulie Street on a Saturday afternoon. Growing up knowing only soccer they assumed that it must have been a soccer match.
Inside Victoria Park they were confronted with this strange game, no round ball, no nets no sleeves on the jumpers! But after a few more games the game was learnt and Collingwood adopted as the team of choice.
When you look at it, it's funny that the footy influence comes from mum's side. My dad, although he is from a Greek background, was born here but never really got into the footy. He grew up playing soccer and following the South Melbourne Soccer Club.
Theres so much on here i'm going to take a couple of visits to read it all.
I dont know why i am a Collingwood supporter, its certainly not easy at times, but the sight of a great player in black and white is an awesome sight. For some reason seeing Peter McKenna, Len Thompson and Wayne and Max Richardson on the field inspired fanatical following in me. It is something that you never lose.
The only thing i love more than Collingwood is my son, and when i take him to see the pies for the first time at the MCG during the next year, it will be very interesting to see if he supports them or not. Either way, i want him to see the other thing in my life that has meant so much to his dad, and maybe he will become one of us.
Who knows.
For those who haven't bothered to go back to page 1 of this thread, I reckon the following deserves an airing.
Mike wrote:
Postscript - 5/2006: Come to think of it, that was a fairly significant day. That 11 year old kid dishing out allegiances to his 7 year old brother would one day become Managing Director of Renault Australia and set up a major sponsorship of the greatest club in the world - and his little brother, after waiting 40 years for personal computers and the internet to be invented, would pass on the passion to his son by establishing the first, the biggest (and I think the best) unofficial fan site for the greatest club in the world.
I was a late bloomer, my entire family on my father's side barracked for the Pies, and although i liked them i was never really that into football as a kid. Got interested as a teen though, watching Hawthorn in the eighties i had a crush on Gary Ayres, so I followed the Hawkes for a while, albeit halfheartedly. I had to admit that although i was a Hawkes supporter, Collingwood was fast becoming a favourite team and it wasn't because of any individual player. Its not exactly something you can put into words. Every time I watched a Collingwood game, win or lose, I felt a kind of pull toward becoming a Pie supporter. My first game was the Qualifying final replay between the Pies and WCE at Waverly in 1990. We sat amongst a crowd of Collingwood supporters and the atmosphere was magic. I really felt like a part of something huge and yet, down-to-earth and welcoming. It was like I was part of a really, really big extended family. It's the way I've felt ever since. The win was a major bonus!
I became a Pie through and through after watching the 1990 Grand Final and seeing my dad and his brothers, my brother and cousin Dave sing the song, arm in arm in a circle like the players do in the rooms, tears in their eyes and grins on their faces that wouldn't go away for at least a week. Or maybe two. I didn't want to be seen as a bangwagoner so i pretended to barrack for Hawthorn for about six months after that fateful October day but when Darren Millane died, I was devastated and that kind of clinched it for me. My dad looked at my face and said "We got her", to my brother and I'm pleased to say they did, after all! I celebrated twelve years of barracking for Collingwood by getting a tattoo of Jock One Eyed McPie on my shoulderblade. I'm now a proud Pie supporter for life.
I'm proud to say my daughters are both Collingwood, and I'm well on my way to converting the Better Half. Just a couple of games should do the trick....
Congrats Bucks, on a great return! Bring on the Crows!
2 PIES IN CAIRNS wrote:For those who haven't bothered to go back to page 1 of this thread, I reckon the following deserves an airing.
Mike wrote:
Postscript - 5/2006: Come to think of it, that was a fairly significant day. That 11 year old kid dishing out allegiances to his 7 year old brother would one day become Managing Director of Renault Australia and set up a major sponsorship of the greatest club in the world - and his little brother, after waiting 40 years for personal computers and the internet to be invented, would pass on the passion to his son by establishing the first, the biggest (and I think the best) unofficial fan site for the greatest club in the world.
Thanks again, Mike. We all owe you.
GO PIES.
Thanks 2PIC but I think I got a bit carried away and loose with the truth. We weren't the first, that honour goes to Driver with "Magpie Magic" and I think that Newelly might have been in front of us with "Swoop" - but we are definitely the oldest
I also played in the Diamond valley league aginst some pretty rough footy players eg. David (big hips) Cloke. David (huge eagle tattooed back, missing toothed) Toomey. Main comp I played in though, was EDJBA, then the MEBA.
