David Harding
Cain LynchFame for Humbling Big V
June 2nd 2010 14:38
Sourced: The Mercury Voice of Tasmania
TASMANIA'S win against Victoria in 1990 may have re-established the state's place in Australian football.
But the shock victory was not the only highlight for key forward Shane Fell.
Only the 1960 upset over the Big V rates higher in Tasmanian footy than the 20.12 (134) to 14.17 (101) win at North Hobart in front of 18,651 people, where the home side survived a last-quarter fightback to run away with a famous result.
Former Sydney Swan and Glenorchy spearhead Fell booted three goals before having his day ended in the third term due to injury, but it was the pre-game build-up which sticks largely in his mind.
Yesterday the State of Origin match was the sixth induction into the "memorable game" category in AFL Tasmania's Hall of Fame.
It joins the 1960 encounter, the 1988 Statewide grand final between Glenorchy and Devonport, North Hobart and Wynyard's State Final in 1967, the 1955 State Final featuring Longford and Ulverstone and the Clarence-Glenorchy TFL grand final in 1979.
Only two years earlier Tasmania was unceremoniously excluded from section one of the 1988 bicentennial interstate carnival in Adelaide and the "Map" had something to prove.
"It's one of those achievements that as time goes by you are pretty proud of," Fell said yesterday. "You play football all your life and then in two hours on a Saturday you become a little part of history in Tasmania.
"There are a couple of things which really stand out at me. We stayed next door and after we had our little speeches before the game, he [coach Robert Shaw] walked us into the ground at the Brooker [Highway] end.
"There were 18,000 people there and we walked through all the wet area, past the small grandstand, right through the whole crowd before taking us down into the rooms.
"It was one of those moments in life that is so inspirational. You had the whole football ground barracking for you.
"Then when we went down to the rooms the 1960 side was in there. But just to walk through the crowd in the wet area, which wouldn't happen today, was one of the highlights that has stood out."
But the shock victory was not the only highlight for key forward Shane Fell.
Only the 1960 upset over the Big V rates higher in Tasmanian footy than the 20.12 (134) to 14.17 (101) win at North Hobart in front of 18,651 people, where the home side survived a last-quarter fightback to run away with a famous result.
Former Sydney Swan and Glenorchy spearhead Fell booted three goals before having his day ended in the third term due to injury, but it was the pre-game build-up which sticks largely in his mind.
Yesterday the State of Origin match was the sixth induction into the "memorable game" category in AFL Tasmania's Hall of Fame.
It joins the 1960 encounter, the 1988 Statewide grand final between Glenorchy and Devonport, North Hobart and Wynyard's State Final in 1967, the 1955 State Final featuring Longford and Ulverstone and the Clarence-Glenorchy TFL grand final in 1979.
Only two years earlier Tasmania was unceremoniously excluded from section one of the 1988 bicentennial interstate carnival in Adelaide and the "Map" had something to prove.
"It's one of those achievements that as time goes by you are pretty proud of," Fell said yesterday. "You play football all your life and then in two hours on a Saturday you become a little part of history in Tasmania.
"There are a couple of things which really stand out at me. We stayed next door and after we had our little speeches before the game, he [coach Robert Shaw] walked us into the ground at the Brooker [Highway] end.
"There were 18,000 people there and we walked through all the wet area, past the small grandstand, right through the whole crowd before taking us down into the rooms.
"It was one of those moments in life that is so inspirational. You had the whole football ground barracking for you.
"Then when we went down to the rooms the 1960 side was in there. But just to walk through the crowd in the wet area, which wouldn't happen today, was one of the highlights that has stood out."
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