OMG I was there! I have told plenty of people of the years one of the best marks I've seen. I was on the outer wing and it happened right in front of me. I am so pleased that it actually is there to be seen. Thanks for sharing.

Why is this only the first time I'm seeing this legendary mark? This is arguably the best I've ever seen and if the camera done it justice then it would be the best ever

I think it was Bob Tardif he leapt up over. Incredible. I'm a Glenelg supporter but that was the most amazing mark I'd ever seen. Though it doesn't come across on the audio my memory is that there was a gasp around the ground and then everybody, Glenelg and Norwood supporter alike cheered this great footballer.

Fortunate to witness this too - as an eleven year old standing on the wing. My memory was that it occurred right in front of us but clearly in the middle of Glenelg Oval. We would see marks like this almost every week from Carman. Freakish talent.

I was there in the Glenelg members stand that day and Fabulous Phil took one of the best marks of all time directly in front of me. What made it even better was that it was a wet day and he didn't require any help from Bob Tardif to get elevation.

He was ahead of his time. Apparently, even in the way he trained.

Fabulous Phil.... I was a ten year old behind the goals that day. Looked up to see the mark. Dad was marking the point in the budget & missed most of it. WHen i said 'did you see that Dad', he mumbled 'that was alright' rather unethusiastically. Next day it was all over the Sunday Mail back page

I was 14 at the time, standing down the primary school end goals when I saw Carman leap up out of nowhere to take the most memorable mark I've seen.. Unfortunately the camera angle doesn't capture the height...and neither did the photo published in the Sunday Mail the next day... he was way up there on top of Tregenza and Schlein's shoulders and they were both tall dudes!!!

@Chapps1941

Жыл бұрын

I was same age. Did you go to to Norwood Demonstration Primary School?

What a fantastic mark!

You are supposed to hold the mark. That just bounced straight out of his hands.

didnt hold it long enough...you cant just get both hands on the ball, you have to control it.

SANFL was brilliant in early seventies

Like other respondents, I was at the ground - in the outer and at "ground" level. The TV angle just didn't capture how spectacular that mark really was. The crowd just erupted - the only better mark I ever saw was also by Carman - at Woodville Oval, but that wasn't captured on film. I've seen many other great marks but none better. But that was Phil Carman. My memory is clouded, but I recall that at Glenelg Oval he kicked a goal on the run from centre-wing in front of the grandstand and I think it was in that same game. He was capable of the most mercurial football; capable of winning a game off his own boot. He should have been remembered as one of the greats of the game; should have been in winning grand final teams and should have won a Brownlow. Perhaps if he had achieved that success in his first years at Collingwood, he might have settled down, but controversy dogged him for his entire career (all the while he played at Norwood in his earliest years, Collingwood were aggressively claiming him as a player from its country zone). Unfortunately, it's the controversy that is remembered more than the genius.

@brendanreilly8860

5 жыл бұрын

Phil's greatest mark that I saw was against North Melbourne at Victoria Park in 1977. Like this one, it wasn't done justice by the TV footage. His leap was the thing - against North Melbourne, he just jumped sideways across the front of the pack and, without any ride, was so astonishingly high it was scarcely credible. Unfortunately, it was in the forward line immediately below the TV camera, so only those of us at ground level really appreciated what we had just witnessed. He was the single best all-round football talent I ever saw and the most exciting player, ever. Best spring, best on both sides of his body, best endurance, just better at absolutely everything than any other player. On his day, he was absolutely unstoppable. Have a look at the footage of him taking Bruce Doull to the cleaners in the 1978 first-semi for Collingwood. Have a look at him win the 1977 QF against Hawthorn almost single-handedly. Have a look at him playing on Southby for SA in the State games before he came to Victoria. I'm a rabid Collingwood supporter - but when they let him go, I went to watch him play for Melbourne, Essendon and North (there with Malcolm Blight, Ross Glendinning, a young Bruce Abernethy and the Krakouer brothers, amongst many others). It's a tragedy that he didn't end up being remembered as the greatest player the game has ever seen and it's a shame there isn't more footage of him. In a way, his freakish talents got in his way - he was the most gifted centreman I ever saw play for Collingwood but - despite being about Scott Pendlebury's size - he could also dominate at CHF and FF and, in those days, goals were the thing.

@hanajinks1044

2 жыл бұрын

​@@brendanreilly8860 I loved George Young as a kid and couldn't get my head around how he could kick 8 and yet the bloke at the other end could still kick 3 more than even that. In White Boots. What I'd pay for a tape of that game...

@simontrencher8245

7 ай бұрын

​@@hanajinks1044 There's a name - George Young. Seemed to move effortlessly...

@hanajinks1044

7 ай бұрын

@simontrencher8245 Deceptively big and strong too - very talented. It was devastating for Saints when he went back West.

😊.

Comment Wally May!

Did he even hold that... ?

@brendonm9601

3 жыл бұрын

Very similar to the mark payed to Steven Silvagni against Collingwood, did they control it all the way to the ground, clearly not, but ump on the day said it was a mark, so it is.

@Chapps1941

Жыл бұрын

Paying it promotes players going for the unexplainable

@timn4481

3 ай бұрын

nope. he didnt. not a mark at all.