Games that left you shell shocked?

[Milanista28]

Ess kicked 15.4.94 in the 1st quarter in a game v's GC a few years ago at Marvel. Biggest first Q score ever?

Reimers kicking 8 is the most shell shocking of all.

 

[DogsAreBarking]

2016 GF without a doubt. I was calmly prepared to lose to a great Swans team, content with the fact that I'd finally seen a PF win and it was a fantastic team effort against the odds. I really didn't see our luck stretching any further.

 

[Goldust]

Richmond (the reigning wooden spooner) beating Carlton (the reigning premiers) in 1988.
Chris Pym booted three and played the game of his life with 27 possessions (Chris who??) and the Flea Weightman also starred.
Genuinely speechless!

 

[North park]

Two games come to mind.

Collingwood beating Richmond in last year's Prelim Final. I gave Collingwood some chance of winning if it was close at half time but didn't expect us to be so dominant in the first half.

The other game was Round 6 in 2007 when Geelong beat Richmond by 157 points. Richmond was bad that year but Geelong was coming off a poor 2006 season and were only 2-3 after five rounds. That win turned Geelong's 2007 season around - losing only one more game and taking out the premiership.

 

[Old Shinboner]

Two North games within about a month of one another back in 1983.

Both North and Carlton were in the 5 and Carlton were the reigning back to back premiers. We beat them by 100 points at Arden Street. Was a great day.

Then only a few weeks later we were equal top of the ladder with Fitzroy and traveled to the Junction Oval in a top of the table clash. They beat us by 150 points in probably the most amazing game I have ever seen.

 

[Lsta062]

Two games come to mind.

Collingwood beating Richmond in last year's Prelim Final. I gave Collingwood some chance of winning if it was close at half time but didn't expect us to be so dominant in the first half.

The other game was Round 6 in 2007 when Geelong beat Richmond by 157 points. Richmond was bad that year but Geelong was coming off a poor 2006 season and were only 2-3 after five rounds. That win turned Geelong's 2007 season around - losing only one more game and taking out the premiership.

I like to think that we started Geelong’s dominance from 2007-present. That game really was a turning point for them wasn’t it?

 

[Trouto]

North V Dons in 2001 i think it was, Norths 12 goals up, lost the game.

 

[Trouto]

2013 we blew a ******* 52 point lead to Brizzy at the GABBA where McGrath goaled after the siren from 60. Led by about 38 at 3qtr time too.


I looked like my Avatar at the end of the game.

I remember that game, was his 200th game as well if i recall!

 

[Trouto]

Also, not trying to put the boot in, but if I was a Port supporter, i would be pretty shell-shocked after the Eagles kicked 2 goals in the final 80 seconds last year.

 

[Macpotata]

There was a game in 2014 I think when the Saints (who were last I think) played Freo at Docklands (who were near the top) . Saints pulverised them from start to finish.

Usually at least one of those wtf games a season though, ( Saints v tigers 2017 e.g) where the losing fans trot out the 'virus through the team' excuse afterwards.

The biggest swans one for mine wasnt the quartet of classics in the 05 series, but rather the 2003 qualifying final between us and Port. We were a steady team and had done well but no one gave us a snowballs chance in hell. We were Buster Douglas and they were Mike Tyson.
I was listening on the radio during a family holiday and my jaw dropped further and further as we kicked goal after goal during that second quarter.

I backed you guys that day

Hall had a blinder!

 

[Scotland]

I remember that Swans QF win in 2003 but Port were notorious chokers in the early 2000s. Straight sets 2001, lost a home QF then away PF 2002 then lost a home QF and away PF 2003. Was pretty much a case of play Essendon or lose. Finally got it done in 2004 though.

 

[Scotland]

Also, not trying to put the boot in, but if I was a Port supporter, i would be pretty shell-shocked after the Eagles kicked 2 goals in the final 80 seconds last year.

Port's record against WC since moving to AO:

-10
-8
-10
-2 (extra time then goal after the siren)
-4 (goal after the siren)

They have had one win in that time but it was at Subiaco and we don't play there any more.

10 min into the 3rd quarter last year and it was 9.2.56 to 4.4.28. Finished 9.4.58 to 9.8.62. We kicked 5.4 to 0.2 in the last 40 minutes or so.

 

[Jcpdragonx]

Collingwood vs Richmond prelim. 20 odd straight wins at the MCG, game over at QT.

 

[Macpotata]

Port's record against WC since moving to AO:

-10
-8
-10
-2 (extra time then goal after the siren)
-4 (goal after the siren)

They have had one win in that time but it was at Subiaco and we don't play there any more.

10 min into the 3rd quarter last year and it was 9.2.56 to 4.4.28. Finished 9.4.58 to 9.8.62. We kicked 5.4 to 0.2 in the last 40 minutes or so.

**** lol

 

[Macpotata]

And Jetta nailed them with 45 sec to go from 60 in the JLT game too, in between the after the siren wins.


Port supporters would hate WCE

 

[jackster83]

R8, 2006 - us vs Richmond.

We were top of the ladder at the time and had been described as unbeatable. Richmond came out and started running down the clock from the first bounce.

Neil Craig had a strictly zone-based gameplan, which left Richmond players free to chip the ball 15m to each other unopposed. They took nearly 200 marks for the game.

 

[edgie]

There was a game back in ‘07, I think, we played Port in Tassie, looking like we had it won for all money mid-late last quarter, but somehow we managed to let them kick a number of last gasp goals and pinch it. At that point, experiencing a Hawthorn flag drought like I never had before, but feeling like we were willing ourselves back into contention under Clarko, that one REALLY hurt.

Ebert kicked the last goal a few seconds left from the point post, drop punt set shot.

 

[Scotland]

I remember in 1995 when Carlton were good (yes kids, it happened) they went 20-2 and managed to get flogged by Sydney and St Kilda in successive weeks and both those teams were shit.

 

[Macpotata]

R8, 2006 - us vs Richmond.

We were top of the ladder at the time and had been described as unbeatable. Richmond came out and started running down the clock from the first bounce.

Neil Craig had a strictly zone-based gameplan, which left Richmond players free to chip the ball 15m to each other unopposed. They took nearly 200 marks for the game.

I remember that. Tiges lost by about 20 goals the week before to Sydney.

 

[Scotland]

McGrath kicking the winning goal against Geelong at the Gabba was the end of a ridiculous passage of play. Amazing comeback given it was 88-36 at one stage but WTAF were Geelong doing?

55 seconds to go when Hawkins kicked a (difficult) behind to put them ahead. Josh Hunt marked it just forward of CHB with 45s to go. Kicks it to Selwood who marks with 37s to go. He plays on (why?) and kicks down the line to Dawson Simpson who marks and plays on (why?) and they turn it over after Sauce Merrett marks 15m out from goal with 22s to go. Chain of possessions and McGrath marks just inside 50 and kicks the goal.

This is Hunt kicking to Selwood. Note the teammate and no Brisbane players forward of the ball:

 

[Macpotata]

I remember in 1995 when Carlton were good (yes kids, it happened) they went 20-2 and managed to get flogged by Sydney and St Kilda in successive weeks and both those teams were shit.

That Swans team were on the verge of big things though and made the GF the next year as you're well aware. Lost to the reigning premiers by a point in Perth, missed the 8 by two games as did the Saints.

Still surprise wins no question.

 

[Tall poppy Syndrome]

I remember that Swans QF win in 2003 but Port were notorious chokers in the early 2000s. Straight sets 2001, lost a home QF then away PF 2002 then lost a home QF and away PF 2003. Was pretty much a case of play Essendon or lose. Finally got it done in 2004 though.

Oh yeah, the Swans 2003 QF win over Port. I’d almost forgotten the “miracle on grass”. Genuinely stunned at the time.

 

[Blues177]

Reimers kicking 8 is the most shell shocking of all.

That reminds me of another one, Simon Beaumont kicked all his 8 goals for Carlton by 1/2 time in a game v's Collingwood in 1999.

 

[AstroboyUK]

Asking a Richmond supporter which time a game shell shocked him, is like asking a WWI trench Digger which one of the 100m artillery shells in that war bothered him the most. Individual matches? Pft. We were shell shocked by whole seasons and whole decades. Those of us who made it home, (2017) still didn't really make it 'home'. We are the Vietnam Vets of football.

 

[AstroboyUK]

Lost the GF in 1977
Lost the Prelim in 1978
Lost the GF in 1979
Lost the GF in 1980
Was leading the 1981 GF at 3/4 time, but were worn down and lost by 20 points.
I pretty much gave up going to the footy for a few years after that. Just couldn’t hack it any more & needed a rest.
Yep, I guess as a youngster I was shell shocked.

that sequence is as soul destroying as you can get. No one would believe it if it wasn't there in the history books.
What a coach TF was -except for that final step. Was it him, or the players or the club or bad luck or all four?