1 2 3 Ad credit: http://www.bestadsontv.com Contents WARWICK CAPPER The Wiz, Waverley and the one and 6 only Warwick. TOP 5 MARKS The most spectacular marks from the 70s 8 and 80s. 30 YEARS AGO TODAY The VFL ventures into unknown territory as 10 it introduces two new franchises outside of Victoria. TOP 5 GOALS The most breathtaking marks from the 70s 11 and 80s. REVIVING THE KANGAROOS North Melbourne’s rise from the wooden 12 spoon to the premiership cup. JOHN GREENING A budding superstars career cut tragically 15 short. footy rewind VFL TO AFL Footy Rewind focusses on the magical moments of Australian Rules Football The birth of the AFL saw the emergence of from the 1970s and 1980s. An era characterised by big marks, big men and 16 a truly national game. even bigger hairstyles. We will look back at some of the memorable moments, grounds, players and premierships. We hope to take you back in time with the TRADE WARS Collingwood & Richmond. A bitter rivarly design of the magazine and give you a glimpse of footy back in the good old days. 18 and the ensuing trade war. TEAM OF THE DECADE meet the team 22 The best of the best from the 70s and 80s. NICKNAME ALL-AUSTRALIAN The best nicknames of the 70s and 80s, in- 24 spired by the late Lou Richards. FULL FORWARDS The 70s and 80s saw countless incredible full 26 forwards strut their stuff on the big stage. QUIZ Think you know your 70s and 80s footy? Test 29 yourself on our quiz. Jacob Manzie Christopher Daniel Freeman 1989 GRAND FINAL Chrysostomou One of the greatest grand finals of all time as 30 the Cats and Hawks squared off in 1989. Jarryd Barca Jayden Cameron Dylan Brown Jed Lanyon WAVERLEY PARK Waving goodybe to the potential mega-stadium. 4 32 5 Photo credit: Front cover - www.audioboom.com, Title page & back cover - www.heraldsun.com.au/sport, Contents - www.aflplayers.com.au Capper kicked 84 goals in his the field, it was his persona and bane Bears players resented the first 30 games with the Swans, but charisma that truly vaulted him money he was on and “wouldn’t pass it was the appointment of Tom into superstar status. The long the ball to [him].” While he was un- Hafey as the Swans senior coach blond hair, the tanned skin, the able to replicate his 1986 and 1987 in 1986 that kick-started the rise coloured boots and shorts so tight form at the Bears, his impact and of Capper. In his two seasons un- they left nothing to the imagination. influence at the Swans is unquestion- der Hafey, he would go onto kick able. He was inducted into the Swans 195 goals and finish runner-up in “I used to wear my son’s Hall of Fame in 2011 and believes the Coleman Medal twice. it’s only a matter of time until he’s Hafey allowed Capper to be his size three shorts, and I inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame. lairising self and the results spoke had to wear a G-string If he was to be inducted he for themselves. He became the backwards to make me would join Steven Silvagni and poster boy for football in Sydney jump a bit higher.” Chris Langford, who he rates as two The Wiz, and in 1987 became only the sec- of the best defenders he ever played Warwick Capper ond Swan to break the 100-goal on. Although he cheekily quips that barrier in a single season. he still “kicked ten on Silvagni”. After finishing runner up in the Waverley Capper’s teammate and Brown- When it comes to comparing Coleman Medal to Tony Lockett low medalist, Gerard Healy noted himself to the games other high and the one and only in 1987, Capper moved to the at the time that Capper was one flyers, Capper is characteristically Brisbane Bears at the end of the of Australia’s three best known modest about his aerial ability. “I took season on the richest contract in sportsmen. For a handful of years, better marks than Modra at training Warwick VFL history. While Capper claims he shared the national sporting and Jesaulenko, well I was his coach.” he doesn’t regret the decision to Thirty years ago, Warwick Capper A hush fell over Waverley Park nature fashion and strutted back- spotlight with golfer Greg Nor- Capper believes that the mod- leave the Swans, he managed just 71 launched at Waverley and what fol- as Capper reached the peak of his wards to the delight of the crowd. man and cricketer Allan Border. ern game is worse off for the lack goals in three seasons at the Bears. lowed had to be seen to be believed. flight trajectory. Time seemed to While Shaun Smith holds the As talented as Capper was on of flair and true full-forwards kick- Capper believes that the Bris- The now 54 year old claims he still slow down as he hung on Lang- official title for mark of the cen- ing bags of goals. He says the 100- hasn’t landed yet. ford’s shoulders with his arms tury, Capper unabashedly claims goal barrier unfortunately won’t stretched out, calling the Sherrin he holds the title for “mark of the be broken again due to the fixa- By Daniel Freeman home. Then the unexpected hap- universe.” It was undoubtedly one tion on rotations. He also offered pened, Langford’s shoulders buck- of the greatest marks in VFL/AFL a stark warning to any runner hris Langford glanced behind led under the weight and Capper’s history and it was taken by one who would tell him to get off the Chimself as he shuffled back- legs flew out from underneath of the game’s greatest and most ground after he kicked a goal, “I’d wards into football folklore. He him. His boot studs cleared his polarising figures. punch the f**king runner out.” would eventually go on to hang golden locks as he hung horizon- Capper is a breed of footballer Capper is the true definition up the boots with four premier- tal and posed for the camera man. that we just don’t see in the game of a sporting enigma. You never ship medallions around his neck, It was at this moment that Cap- anymore. He was outspoken, con- know what you’re going to get, but he was about to feature in per’s flight was interrupted by an troversial and created must-watch but at the same time you just his career’s defining moment. At incoming phone call. television. An excitement machine can’t look away. Even at 54 years least according to the ever-flam- that brought fans through the old, Capper is still the same boyant Warwick Capper. “I got a phone call from gates with his presence alone. bubbly character that graced the It was the 1987 qualifying final Even before his rise to fame, football field over three decades and as the clock ticked towards Air Traffic Control and Capper knew he was born for the ago. When people reminisce about half-time the Swans trailed the they said Warwick get out big stage. “I had a vision at eight Capper they often overlook his Hawks by 33 points. Capper had of the airspace. There’s a years of age to visualise great- freakish ability as a player. His already slotted two majors on the 747 approaching.” ness and be the next Royce Hart. larger than life-persona will never day and brought up the century Which I achieved five years later be forgotten, but the day Capper Warwick Capper for his season tally. However, as and became better than him.” hung up the boots the game lost a Mark Bayes pumped the ball into While in reality it took Capper genuine star. Capper obliged and crashed back a vacant fifty, Capper had other more than five years to stake any “Sometimes they forget how down to Earth and reality, but not thoughts on his mind. The self-pro- claim to Hart’s resume, it was this good I was…Tony Lockett used before he secured the one-hand- claimed ‘Wiz’s’ eyes lit up as Lang- confidence that made him the to punch their heads, I used to sit ed mark on his bicep. He took a ford turned into a human step-lad- perfect marketing tool for the on their heads and kick nine or split second to find his composure, der and one of the game’s greatest newly born Sydney Swans. ten.” personalities was cleared for lift-off. before he raised the ball aloft in sig- 6 7 Photo credit: Title image - www.bigfooty.com, Swans photo - http://www.gettyimages.com.au/ Top 5 Marks Ross Dunne “We might be back here next week” By Jarryd Barca echoed through TV sets around Australia as Ross ‘Twiggy’ Dunne (#12) took a mark ne of the main traits that a player in the AFL possesses is the ability to in the dying seconds of the 1977 Grand Otake eye-catching marks around the field. Final. With the Magpies down six, ‘Twig- gy’ went back and nailed the set shot as Marks that are captured at the right time by photographers, these images are Collingwood and North Melbourne played often the centrepiece of a publication due to the sheer ‘amazingness’ it displays out just the second draw in AFL history. about the sport, as opposed to other mainstream sports.