Amazing coincidences in football

[TheRealComptroller]

2022 & 2023 GF similarities

The phrase “sweet sixteen” was applied in the coverage of both victories - Geelong for their consecutive wins and Collingwood for their cup count.

For the first time in seventy years both teams won their first flag outside the odd/even numbering they had become accustomed to. Since 1952 the Cat flags were in 1963, 2007, 2009 and 2011 and Collingwood’s since 1953 were in 1958, 1990 and 2010.

Both victories were against relocated/merged foundation VFL teams.

Edit:

More connections.

Both coaches were Brisbane players.

Norm Smith winner was an import. Also both recent arrivals: Smith in his second season for Geelong and Hill in his first for Collingwood.

With Stengle and Hill both teams had their highest scorer kick four goals and they were also players in their first season at their club.


The two players who wore #46 (Blicavs and Cox) had very unorthodox pathways to the AFL.

Both teams started the next season with two losses …

 

[Vdubs]

Rd 1. Geelong v St.Kilda 2011: 6-12 48 v 6-7 43, a dour low scoring battle. Geelong 2010 - Too old, too slow, Gone!

Rd 1. Geelong v St.Kilda 2024:10-16 76 v 9-14 68, a dour, low scoring battle. Geelong 2023 - Too old, battered and slow, Gone!

 

[BigVic]

Rd 1. Geelong v St.Kilda 2024:10-16 76 v 9-14 68, a dour, low scoring battle. Geelong 2023 - Too old, battered and slow, Gone!

Geelong won the flag in 2011 with a bad prematch entertainment and in wet weather

 

[BigVic]

2012 Olympic Games in a European City NSW team won the flag, Chinese Year of the Dragon, Democrats defending the White House

2024 Olympic Games in a European City, Chinese Year of the Dragon, Democrats Defending the White House

 

[Vdubs]

Geelong won the flag in 2011 with a bad prematch entertainment and in wet weather

the year after a Collingwood premiership.....

 

[Werewolf]

Geelong won the flag in 2011 with a bad prematch entertainment and in wet weather

Wasn't that 2009? Meatloaf? I remember 2011 being a nice but overcast day

 

[BigVic]

Wasn't that 2009? Meatloaf? I remember 2011 being a nice but overcast day

2011 and we were playing them. Meatloaf was performing and Channel 10 aired its last AFL Grand Final and last footy game for the forseeable future

 

[BigVic]

Wasn't that 2009? Meatloaf? I remember 2011 being a nice but overcast day

2009 was a wet one. There was brief periods of rain in that game. The game remembered for its infamous entertainment than the actual game which was good for at least 3 quarters then the Cats pulled away as in 1937.

 

[Borussia Teeth]

2012 Olympic Games in a European City NSW team won the flag, Chinese Year of the Dragon, Democrats defending the White House

2024 Olympic Games in a European City, Chinese Year of the Dragon, Democrats Defending the White House

Who gives a s**t?

 

[BigVic]

2023 - Geelong start 0-3 in the following season after beating a merged/relocated Melbourne team in Grand Final
2024 - Collingwood start 0-3 in the following season after beating a merged/relocated Melbourne team in Grand Final

 

[BigVic]

2023 - Geelong start 0-3 in the following season after beating a merged/relocated Melbourne team in Grand Final
2024 - Collingwood start 0-3 in the following season after beating a merged/relocated Melbourne team in Grand Final

Geelong won its first game of the season in the grand final rematch vs Sydney and defeated the eventful wooden spooners in gather round

Collingwood won its first game of the following season in the grand final rematch vs Brisbane

 

[situationz]

Please stop

 

[Borussia Teeth]

Geelong won its first game of the season in the grand final rematch vs Sydney and defeated the eventful wooden spooners in gather round

Collingwood won its first game of the following season in the grand final rematch vs Brisbane

Who gives a s**t

 

[SC_Power]

Some of the lengths people go to in order to post in this thread are just nauseating.

Knowing what is a coincidence and what is just pure drivel……

 

[matthew_s]

Some of the lengths people go to in order to post in this thread are just nauseating.

Knowing what is a coincidence and what is just pure drivel……

It’s one person

 

[Consolaçao]

Third letter in their first names is an M

H.A.M

Tom, F-yeah! is an anagram of Tom Hafey and is coincidentally precisely what the fans used to say when he crashed through packs.
Damn’d Chair Hawk is an anagram of Damien Hardwick, who enjoys sitting on chairs and also played numerous times against Hawthorn.

 

[FreoGirl]

Brisbane keeps playing Take Me Home Country Road and now there's been sus pics of them in cowboy hats all over social media

 

[BigVic]

Today both matches on Gather Round ended with the losing teams scoring 42 points

 

[situationz]

Today both matches on Gather Round ended with the losing teams scoring 42 points

More interestingly, it was almost the same score, 111-42 and 112-42

 

[kriles76]

Essendon honoured the 40 year anniversary of the 1984 Grand Final today and the margin was identical (24 points) and the final scores for both teams almost identical to that day (107-83 today compared to 105-81 forty years ago)

But where does it rank on the list of 40th anniversary grand final replays?

 

[BigVic]

2017
Richmond win grand final against non-Victorian team
2018
AFL GF decided by under a goal
2019
Richmond win 2nd grand final in 3 years easily vs GWS
2020
world shuts down due to pandemic

2022
Geelong win grand final against non-Victorian team
2023
AFL GF decided by under a goal
2024
Geelong to win 2nd grand final in 3 years, easily against GWS
2025
world shuts down due to....

EDIT: Collingwood played a non-Victorian team debuting in 1986 (West Coast 2018 and Brisbane 2023) and both winners started the following seasons 0-1.

 

[juice t]

Fremantle have scored 2.2 at Quarter Time in 4 out of 5 games this season

The odd game out is the Round 2 game against North Melbourne... in which they were 2.1 at Quarter Time

 

[SC_Power]

Fremantle have scored 2.2 at Quarter Time in 4 out of 5 games this season

The odd game out is the Round 2 game against North Melbourne... in which they were 2.1 at Quarter Time

Must be a WA thing.

2023 West Coast
Rd 5 v Geelong, qtr time 2.3
Rd 6 v Port Adelaide, qtr time 2.3
Rd 7 v Carlton, qtr time 2.3
Rd 8 v Richmond, qtr time 2.3
Rd 9 v Gold Coast, qtr time 2.3

Five games in a row

if you include Rd 2 GWS and Rd 11 Essendon, seven occurrences in ten games.

 

[TheRealComptroller]

In the R6 2024 game between Carlton and GWS both teams had three players who kicked three goals: Curnow, McKay & De Koning for the Blues and Hogan, Kelly & Riccardi for the Giants.

Surely this is unique?

Also the game was decided by approximately three goals - nineteen points.

All the GWS players kicked their three majors without kicking a behind yet none of the Carlton players kicked three straight.

 

[Whisper in the Wind]

Coincidence Watch:
The ANZAC day game usually falls in Round 5-6.
We could see Pendlebury and Goldstein break the 10,000 career Disposals and Hitouts in the same game.

Pendlebury - 9995
Goldstein - 9974