Goal feasts

[Adrian Shelton]

Just as an add on to Mobbsy's highest score post, i'm wondering about games where the losers got a belting but still kicked a heap themselves(eg the SwansvSubi game where swans got 40 but the lions still got 20) and some of those end to end rampages of the 70's and 80's(especially in SA and WA) where both teams ended up with 20 something goals each.

Thanks to my trusty Footy Times annual for 1989 heres a few SANFL ones to start with

Centrals 23.13 v South 26.11 (1976)
Centrals 27.17 v Torrens 23.14 (1976)
Glenelg 23.11 v West 29.13 (1983)
Glenelg 25.15 v North 22.12 (1984)
North 24.12 v Norwood 26.22 (1975)
North 21.18 v Torrens 21.11 (1976)
Norwood 20.14 v Sturt 22.14 (1940)
Port 16.20 v Glenelg 31.18 (1985)
Port 21.10 v North 21.17 (1936)
Port 24.22 v South 21.13 (1974)
South 39.16 v Woodville 19.14 (1984)
South 21.13 v West 22.9 (1986)
Sturt 16.14 v Norwood 32.10 (1987)
Sturt 21.15 v Centrals 20.23 (1982)
Sturt 25.24 v West 21.10 (1982)
Sturt 21.14 v Glenelg 27.15 (1984)
West 36.21 v Torrens 16.5 (1982)
West 23.15 v Woodville 25.13 (1984)
West 34.17 v Woodville 19.14 (1983)
Torrens 23.9 v West 23.7 (1982)
Woodville 29.11 v Torrens 23.13 (1982)
Woodville 23.10 v West 29.16 (1984)


sure to be plenty more where that lot came from, post away!

 

[McAlmanac]

Originally posted by Adrian Shelton
Torrens 23.9 v West 23.7 (1982)

Did they widen the goals for this game? Goalkickers? I suspect Peter Johnston and Roger Luders.

 

[mud n blood]

hahahahaha

How can ya kick 24 goals and lose ???

Great defensive strategy ...........

 

[Balip]

There was a game at Bassendeen in the last 10 years where swans kicked 20.8 and subi kicked 20.4

 

[play on]

Bundoora 24 16 160 def Lower Plenty 20 12 132

West Preston 23 8 146 def NTH Heidelberg 22 11 143

Both of these matches were in 2000, and they were both in B grade in the DVFL.

 

[Blues_Brat]

What a great thread, inspired me to fired up the video...

In regards to goal feasts, Rick Davies kicked 15 off his own boot against eventual premiers, West at Footy Park in 1983.

Final Scores:

Sturt 29.16 (190)
West 17.14 (116)

Intersting things to see:

A very young Bruce McAvaney comentating.
Peter Motley in full flight (brought a tear to my eye)
John Halberts beard
Rick Davies was only the size of a house rather than an apartment block
A sparsely populated Football Park, memories are much better than reality, even at its height SANFL was too small for that ground in minor round games.
Neil Kerley prior to senility setting in.

 

[Adrian Shelton]

Just thought of another one

Glenelg 32.21 v West 16.17 (1987)

 

[mianfei]

South 39.16 v Woodville 19.14 (1984)

I’ve known of that one for some time, and looked for footage of it on the South Adelaide highlights for 1984 a few months ago without finding a mention of it! I checked again and could not see it today.

Yet, when I had a look at the quarter-by-quarter scores, it showed an amazing 21-6 (132) aggregate score for the final quarter! That is two goals more than the VFL/AFL record, and is above the WAFL record. Woodville actually more than doubled their score in the last quarter with 11-4 (70), and one imagines the Warriors kicked most of those goals during time-on and that the quarter might have gone for forty minutes or so. I can recall from the Round 5, 1989 North Melbourne v Richmond game that the 115-point (18-7) last quarter went for 38 minutes.

Actually, it is easy to see why teams kicking goal after goal as would have had to happen in a 21-goal quarter might not be at all interesting to watch - even compared to a quarter with no goals in awful conditions. It would very likely be repetitive and reflect poor play on the part of the defence, so one would learn little.

 

[worbod]

Kooyong Park 31.6 (192) d Coolaroo Rovers 27.18 (180), Panton Hill Football League, 1987
Cooee 31.8 (194) d East Devonport 26.18 (174), NWFU, 1984
Preston 28.7 (175) d Sandringham 26.12 (168), VFA Division 1, 1981

 

[mianfei]

Just as an add on to Mobbsy's highest score post, i'm wondering about games where the losers got a belting but still kicked a heap themselves(eg the SwansvSubi game where swans got 40 but the lions still got 20)

In Subiaco’s next match, I might note, they scored 19.9 (123) to Claremont’s 20.11 (131) - which does not look exceptional unless you realise that it was pouring rain for much of the match and that according to The West Australian the conditions became worse as the game progressed.

At the time, Claremont were on top of the ladder and Subiaco were last, so it was a near-upset that was described as an exceptional standard game by The West Australian.

 

[Todman]

Nyora 39 21 255 Catani 18 9 117
Ellinbank DFL Grand Final 2007