Earlier this year, there was quite a lot of chatter about the decision of the North Melbourne Football Club to forego a premiership reunion for the heroes of 1975. Instead, the club decided to opt for a whole-of-club celebration for their centenary.
Whether you agreed with this, or not, is inconsequential now. The club made their decision, and we now move on. Probably.
However, what the focus on that 1975 team made me do was jump back into the tapes and footage of not just that historic first premiership, but the years before and after. And then I watched the next year, and the next, and the next – it was an era which could have provided the Roos with a dynasty to match even the best of the modern game.
But it didn’t. They exited their window of contention with two premierships, three failed attempts, and a period thereafter of being good enough to win it all, but never getting close.
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