RIP Super Sid

[fester69]

Super Sid was guest coin tosser at Norwood Oval a few years ago. So in the end he came "home"!
R.I.P Super Sid Goodfellow.

[doggies4eva]

Ialways thought he was a chop short of a barbie until he jumped ship.

Then i realized he knew footy better than most

[Mr Fuller]

Tell us, Dogger, what would the award be for?

The best hip and shoulder from an adult to a child behind the goals while trying to retrieve the match ball

The winner of the next norwood vs eagles match given he supported both teams at different stages of his life?

Another great character of the SANFL gone. RIP.

[prowling panther]

I will always remember 'Super Sid', he was the real genuine fellow who had a love of footy and was always interested in getting young kids to play football.

He came around to our place one day in 1961 on a recuiting drive of the young lads in the Hectorville, Tranmere, Finchley Park, Magill areas looking for kids of all ages to form a team known as Hectorville Supers, the home ground was DALY Oval and the teams colours were Royal Blue and Red, Daly Oval still had the bitumen Go-Kart track around it in those days.

One of Sids earliest ploys to raise money for the local kids footy teams in the area was to sell 1/- tickets in the chook raffle at the front bar of the TOWER HOTEL most saturday nights, remembering it was 6.00pm closing in those days, Sid would keep selling tickets right up till last drinks were called, then he would stand on the bar, draw the winning ticket, call out the winner and then promptly tell him the chook was in his chook house a few streets down the road, and he had 3 minutes to catch it, if not, then out of the chook house, dont think anyone ever got to taste the chook for the Sunday roast, the regulars never bothered and the blow-ins always saw the funny side to it.

Another of Sids many skills were his trainers skills, he had a bottle of LINAMENT that would cure a crook horse, just rub it on and then back into the thick of things, trouble was, Sid only knew about ankles, so if you went down at any time during the game, Sid would be there with his horse linament rubbing your ankles through you sox, then ask you how you felt, if you didnt complain then it was straight back on to the field and continue playing.

Pity my memories of Sid has faded with time, but others who have been with Sid will keep his legend alive

RIP Sid, RIP

[CENTURION]

Lived straight across the road from my uncle, on Griffith Street, the Norwood connection in my family.

[Interceptor]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/farewell-to-a-legendary-larrikin-super-sid-goodfellow/story-e6frecj3-1226367708664

Sid was a prisoner of war for three and a half years, consigned to bury fellow Diggers and mates tortured by the infamous Burma Railway project. Later, he was sent to work in a Japanese coalmine near Nagasaki, where he witnessed the blast of the second atomic bomb.

Bloody hell, talk about a double whammy!
Vale Super Sid.

[Aerie]

I will always remember 'Super Sid', he was the real genuine fellow who had a love of footy and was always interested in getting young kids to play football.

He came around to our place one day in 1961 on a recuiting drive of the young lads in the Hectorville, Tranmere, Finchley Park, Magill areas looking for kids of all ages to form a team known as Hectorville Supers, the home ground was DALY Oval and the teams colours were Royal Blue and Red, Daly Oval still had the bitumen Go-Kart track around it in those days.

One of Sids earliest ploys to raise money for the local kids footy teams in the area was to sell 1/- tickets in the chook raffle at the front bar of the TOWER HOTEL most saturday nights, remembering it was 6.00pm closing in those days, Sid would keep selling tickets right up till last drinks were called, then he would stand on the bar, draw the winning ticket, call out the winner and then promptly tell him the chook was in his chook house a few streets down the road, and he had 3 minutes to catch it, if not, then out of the chook house, dont think anyone ever got to taste the chook for the Sunday roast, the regulars never bothered and the blow-ins always saw the funny side to it.

Another of Sids many skills were his trainers skills, he had a bottle of LINAMENT that would cure a crook horse, just rub it on and then back into the thick of things, trouble was, Sid only knew about ankles, so if you went down at any time during the game, Sid would be there with his horse linament rubbing your ankles through you sox, then ask you how you felt, if you didnt complain then it was straight back on to the field and continue playing.

Pity my memories of Sid has faded with time, but others who have been with Sid will keep his legend alive

RIP Sid, RIP

Great stuff prowling panther. A good read. RIP "Super Sid"

[Navy2005]

RIP Super Sid you'll be greatly missed!

[GWW]

There's an obituary for Super Sid on page 76 of today's Advertiser.