They have a great collection and the most coasters in the world.” “You hear people who don’t like it, but I’m not in that camp at all. “Magic Mountain has had its ups and owns over the years,” Dahlin said. He said comments on his blog about Colossus varied. “I think it’s going to be getting a new chapter, and that’s what all the speculation is about.” With its cross-hatched wooden frame, slow rhythmic ascent, dramatic pause at its 100 foot peak, and 62 mph dive into a curve, Colossus remains a favorite among coaster riders far and wide, said Kurt Dahlin, a Castaic resident behind. A vague statement by Six Flags Magic Mountain on Tuesday left many speculating on social media and blog sites about what will happen to the gigantic coaster and its iconic frame seen in movies, television, and visible by motorists from the 5 Freeway in the Santa Clarita Valley. So when Salazar and other Colossus fans heard that the ride would end its run at the end of summer, the news was, well, nothing short of colossal. These days, the kids want to be upside down and fly.” “These are the old fabulous roller coasters we grew up with. “It’s my favorite ride,” the 59-year-old El Monte resident said as she and several members of her family made their way into Six Flags Magic Mountain on Wednesday. He departed as a Richmond great – its longest serving coach – and as significant a figure as Hafey, as Hart, or as Bartlett.VALENCIA > There’s something about the click, click, click, then clack, clack, clack of a rickety wooden roller coaster that keeps Rosie Salazar returning to Colossus. He wanted to leave the club, and the game, on good terms. “I’ve pushed every button I can.” There would be no farewell game. “It’s been an incredible ride,” he said on Tuesday. His teams would grind the opposition to dust, and then pick up their rubbish afterwards. He found the perfect balance of risk and reward, of the analytical and the animal. He took Richmond from a laughing stock to a colossus. His impact can be seen at other clubs – the entire psychology and method of Collingwood right now screams Richmond in 2017. The dogs bark, and the caravan moves on.īut the Hardwick era will endure. Fox Footy paid a stunned tribute, and then quickly moved on to speculation over the coaching future of Adam Simpson. On Monday night, in a sign of the times, most of the focus was on whether Tom Morris had the right to break the story.
One of his best friends had stepped down from the North Melbourne job a few days earlier. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.įor 15 minutes against West Coast and for four quarters against Geelong in recent weeks, there were signs of life and hope. For more information see our Privacy Policy. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. They could have won all four if a Texan who slept diagonally on his bed wasn’t waiting with a baseball bat on preliminary final night in 2018. “Their beauty was in the grind – the knowledge that wherever the ball was, whatever the state of play, they were always just a little bit harder than the opposition, and a little bit smarter.” It netted three of the next four premierships. “Every game was an arm-wrestle that they always held a slight but undeniable advantage in,” Jay Croucher wrote for The Roar. We’d had the brutal simplicity of Leigh Matthews’ Brisbane, the free-flowing purity of Mark Thompson’s Geelong, and the Swiss precision of Alistair Clarkson’s Hawthorn. It was wave upon wave of power-endurance runners.
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Their opponent was GWS, a crack side that year. He was at intervention stage for a while there. Richmond had taken him to places no footy supporter should go. He’d been saying that since Richard Lounder. “Trust me mate, we’re ready to pop,” he said. I’d been dragged to the MCG by a Richmond supporting friend. I’ll always remember the game where they finally convinced me. Indeed, in every sentence written about the Hardwick era, it should be mandatory to tack on at the end “… and he had Dusty”. It helped that Dustin Martin had one of the greatest years a footballer has ever had. His team played like kids – for fun and without fear. The cranky coach of 2016 was suddenly replete with homilies and dad jokes. Resembling undertakers, rebel board candidates were determined to raze the place and start again.īut the club held its nerve. By the end of that year, he’d won 74 of 157 matches. He lost three elimination finals in a row – the kind of games that would have broken a lot of a coaches, and a lot of clubs. In his first year, smart arse bookmakers paid out on them finishing last halfway through the season.
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