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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on March 23, 2016, 02:50:25 PM

Title: The night the MCG scoreboard caught fire
Post by: one-eyed on March 23, 2016, 02:50:25 PM: Anyone here, there that night?

Friday night, Round 22, 1999 and we were playing Carlton. Razor Ray Hall's debut ;D.

(http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/28f9a0b7baef4ad02f9e0d907682bc14?api_key=zw4msefggf9wdvqswdfuqnr5)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtJ8Cmjha7w
Title: Re: The night the MCG scoreboard caught fire
Post by: cub on March 23, 2016, 03:16:52 PM: A rare miss that one, just out of hospital in full leg brace and crutches for the first time. Poo weather sat on the couch got stoned and drank scotch.
Would of been a sight trying to jump that fence!
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Post by: YellowandBlackBlood on March 23, 2016, 03:22:10 PM: Was claw there? I thought he might have lit the fire in protest of another spud being picked for his first game! I can just picture him with a match in his hand growling hhhhhaarrrrrgghhh! ;D
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Post by: Jackstar 1960 on March 23, 2016, 03:43:52 PM: Yep
Sat in AFL members that night
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Post by: Willy on March 23, 2016, 03:54:45 PM: Yep, I was sitting on the other side of the ground, in the top deck of the southern stand.
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Post by: YellowandBlackBlood on March 23, 2016, 04:06:50 PM: I was stuck at work! :banghead
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Post by: wayne on March 23, 2016, 04:28:19 PM: I was sitting in the scoreboard having a dart and drifted off to sleep, next thing I know I'm getting carted out by a firefighter.
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Post by: Willy on March 23, 2016, 04:40:48 PM: :lol
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Post by: Diocletian on March 23, 2016, 04:42:50 PM: Was standing underneath it having a smoke about two minutes before it started.....
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Post by: JP Tiger on March 23, 2016, 04:57:32 PM: Yep, had a great view of it too, from the club members section on the terrace in the Northern Stand. People milled out onto the ground to avoid any trouble & then made their way back into the stands - several Carlscum supporters were trying to get off the ground by climbing over the fence in our area. We pushed them back & even pushed them off the fence as they were trying to climb over, explaining that this is a Richmond members area & they couldn't come in! They went away, wisely deciding that burning to death was better than taking on a whole bay of Richmond members! ;D :snidegrin
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Post by: WilliamPowell on March 23, 2016, 05:20:26 PM: Yep was there

Watched it all unfold from the southern stand
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Post by: Go Richo 12 on March 23, 2016, 05:29:59 PM: Was there in the southern stand.
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Post by: one-eyed on October 22, 2021, 05:09:05 AM: Out of the vault after 22 years.

@mikeamor7 has all the wash-up from the MCG scoreboard fire the night before.

Watch here: https://twitter.com/rhettrospective/status/1449847687533056000
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Post by: Go Richo 12 on October 22, 2021, 05:31:04 AM: I was there
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Post by: Andyy on October 22, 2021, 06:34:59 AM: I was there. Safe on the wing
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Post by: eliminator on October 22, 2021, 07:00:39 AM: I was there but sitting in the Southern Stand.
Title: Re: The night the MCG scoreboard caught fire
Post by: one-eyed on December 16, 2022, 08:21:09 PM: Sandy Roberts with a succinct update coming out of half-time break about the MCG scoreboard fire.

I love that he did a time check

Watch here: https://twitter.com/rhettrospective/status/1603622357150486528