I didn't attend my first game until early in the 73-74 season, but my first-hand experience of the latter half of the decade was one that I'm so glad coincided with my late primary/high school years. I didn't go home and away like it did in the late 80s and early 90s, but nothing beats having a successful team and sharing them with like-minded school mates at the time in your life when football is all-consuming. I often think that those years gave me a such a fund of goodwill, that even when it has been severely tested at times this century, AVFC are still very much in credit.