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20 years ago Jonny warren passed away

He'd be even less impressed with the quality of men players coming through compared to 20 years ago...

All this so called methodology has certainly had a detrimental effect on the technical and tactical quality of footballer Australia produced.
 
The Flying Bat said:
He'd be even less impressed with the quality of men players coming through compared to 20 years ago...

All this so called methodology has certainly had a detrimental effect on the technical and tactical quality of footballer Australia produced.
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Don't summon the milieu mate .... please....
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
Birds of a feather eh? "Memorials" are a little more sincere when they arent impregnated with a propaganda, just trying to cut it off at the past...
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If u want to be a wanker to decentric thats ur business, just keep it to yourself mate
 
Hey Graz, JW was very passionate to follow the Brazillian joga bonito.
He travelled there a bit, I wonder what he would think as we have discussed.
His 20yrs of passing is ironic of their fall as well in some ways.

My Dad's parents lived at Blakehurst/St George area, I was a little kid then, took us to watch St George play now and then when we visited Nonna/Nonno.
JW was King those days, I don't recall much then but as the years went on obviously saw him towards retirement age.
Massive NSL eras and he was a huge voice god bless him.
 
LFC said:
Hey Graz, JW was very passionate to follow the Brazillian joga bonito.
He travelled there a bit, I wonder what he would think as we have discussed.
His 20yrs of passing is ironic of their fall as well in some ways.

My Dad's parents lived at Blakehurst/St George area, I was a little kid then, took us to watch St George play now and then when we visited Nonna/Nonno.
JW was King those days, I don't recall much then but as the years went on obviously saw him towards retirement age.
Massive NSL eras and he was a huge voice god bless him.
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Did u ever see him live?
 
LFC said:
Hey Graz, JW was very passionate to follow the Brazillian joga bonito.
He travelled there a bit, I wonder what he would think as we have discussed.
His 20yrs of passing is ironic of their fall as well in some ways.

My Dad's parents lived at Blakehurst/St George area, I was a little kid then, took us to watch St George play now and then when we visited Nonna/Nonno.
JW was King those days, I don't recall much then but as the years went on obviously saw him towards retirement age.
Massive NSL eras and he was a huge voice god bless him.
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Also as u say it would be interesting to see what he thoughtand if he wouldve tried to steer things in a different direction. Nsl clubs being shafted for 20 years u would think would be more unlikely...then again les murray wasnt too critical
 
grazorblade said:
Did u ever see him live?
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as mentioned his retirement age was when I was a mid teen (no license yet) therefore being taken to games by the old man your not that focussed or understood the importance.
Funnily my take on him was that he was a bit of a hog, he was good that was the game, I actually thought he had a big head of himself but hey your the mouth piece and he was a inspirational Captain - as you mature you get it and listenning as time went.
Being a key player does that I forgave him watching the '74 Roo campaign :) again was mid teen but knew it was massive.

I may have had a minor bone with him as a teen for I recall Dad told me StG came back in this Final 2 down to win 2-5 and who scored the 5th !
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By the way check out the crowd and the tackle causing some supporter pitch invasion lol....

I reckon he would have been impressed of the Barca way, like who couldn't.
 
Great man Johnny Warren, yes I saw him play as a youth for Australia, a long long time ago.
He loved the Jogo Bonito & the Brazilian way of playing. The 82 & 86 Brazilain sides were the ones I remember, the earlier was before my time.
They had the attitude doesn't matter how many you scored we'd score more, didn't take into account one Paulo Rossi though.
But back to Johnny, yes the passion for Aussie football was there.
 
I saw him play frequently in the sixties.He was a good player,not outstanding but in those days for an Australian born player to play first grade was a rarity as most of the top Sydney based clubs,APIA,Pan Hellenic,Hakoah,etc used overseas born players( this was when the post war migrant boom was at its peak).He could shoot and had good ball control but couldn't head to save himself

He was passionate about the game and his book"Sheilas,Wogs and Poofters"is an Australian football classic.
 
grazorblade said:
Did u ever see him live?
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I did.

Great player, by state ;league standards of the day.

Terrible coach, poor administrator, and a fence sitting pundit. Sorry, I know this doesn't follow the narrative.

I'm hoping someday that Mills and Boon publish a novel on the subject.
 
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