2004 Round 17 - Worestest performance ever?

[Footyboy]

Everytime I look at the 2004 Results, Round 17, vs Brisbane at the Gabba, still haunts me today.

Brisbane 29.15 (189)
Adelaide 6.12 (48)

141 point loss, would you agree this was our worse performance ever in our 14 years of existenice?

This was under Neil Craig, just I hope the crows know what they are doing reappointing Neil (or Craig), as coach for 2005.

 

[No 1 Draft Pick]

Everytime I look at the 2004 Results, Round 17, vs Brisbane at the Gabba, still haunts me today.

Brisbane 29.15 (189)
Adelaide 6.12 (48)

141 point loss, would you agree this was our worse performance ever in our 14 years of existenice?

This was under Neil Craig, just I hope the crows know what they are doing reappointing Neil (or Craig), as coach for 2005.

I was at the game . It was certainly up there with our 'worestest' game ever. The funny thing was they actually looked OK in the first half and were leading early in the 2nd qtr IIRC and only went in 4-5 goals down. But that 2nd half......terrible manning up of opposition players like Power, Black etc who just ran rampant. Their delivery to the fwd line was 1st rate and Aker played a blinder also

The Crows breakfast the next morning as you may imagine was a fairly sombre affair

 

[bringbackbucky]

Everytime I look at the 2004 Results, Round 17, vs Brisbane at the Gabba, still haunts me today.

Brisbane 29.15 (189)
Adelaide 6.12 (48)

141 point loss, would you agree this was our worse performance ever in our 14 years of existenice?

This was under Neil Craig, just I hope the crows know what they are doing reappointing Neil (or Craig), as coach for 2005.

That night was bad but it was Brisbane you were playing...

For me pick any one of the drubbings at the hands of Lockett and St Kilda at Moorabbin in the early days. Now they were embarassing!

 

[Blue Red and Gold]

I dont think you can rate those early loss' as the worse loss' in our history, of course there are going to be teething problems.

I wouldnt say Brisbane was our worse lose as we were playing a very inexperienced line up including Henschel, jericho, watts and Rutten to name a few.

However in saying this I cannot remember a worse lose of the top of my head. The pre lim final would rate up there as we were in such a strong position to win but apart from that I have a mental bloke.

 

[Footyboy]

That night was bad but it was Brisbane you were playing...

I know it was the top team we were playing and at the Gabba, but still for modern football, a loss is a loss, but a loss like that, is well, something I hope I never see again.

Also only watched the last half of that game, so didn't know crows were actually leading at during the 2nd quarter, now that just even haunts me more!

 

[Jars458]

In the top three

Others to consider:

When West Coast thumped us by about 143 and Cummings kicked 13.

The other was a close match but when we lost to Fitzroy when they couldn't buy a win and Andrew Jarman was the only one who showed any heart. Manson killed us and Bernie Quinlan was coach. Horrible, horrible loss.

 

[Truck Rutten]

How about the Carlton game last year? That still ********es me when I think about it.

And getting rolled by Freo at Aami last year was a new low. We just shouldn't get beaten by teams like that on our own dung heap.

 

[arrowman]

...This was under Neil Craig, just I hope the crows know what they are doing reappointing Neil (or Craig), as coach for 2005.

.....

 

[macca23]

Everytime I look at the 2004 Results, Round 17, vs Brisbane at the Gabba, still haunts me today.

Brisbane 29.15 (189)
Adelaide 6.12 (48)

141 point loss, would you agree this was our worse performance ever in our 14 years of existenice?

This was under Neil Craig, just I hope the crows know what they are doing reappointing Neil (or Craig), as coach for 2005.

Anyone who was around at the time would know that I probably was the most vocal anti-Craig critic prior to his appointment.

But he was appointed as our coach, in spite of that disaster, and IMO he starts with a totally clean slate.

This year it will be his team, playing his way etc etc, not just a caretaker situation as was the case last year.

So let's all get behind him, and judge him on his coaching from game 1 onwards, not the past. I genuinely hope he proves to be our best coach ever.

 

[Footyboy]

I genuinely hope he proves to be our best coach ever.

Same here, I mean, thats all we got !

 

[Stiffy_18]

Anyone who was around at the time would know that I probably was the most vocal anti-Craig critic prior to his appointment.

But he was appointed as our coach, in spite of that disaster, and IMO he starts with a totally clean slate.

This year it will be his team, playing his way etc etc, not just a caretaker situation as was the case last year.

So let's all get behind him, and judge him on his coaching from game 1 onwards, not the past. I genuinely hope he proves to be our best coach ever.

Oh I remember well. I remember Triggy pulling out his hair beacause of you






kidding.

I do agree with you on the clean slate bit. From my perspective, Craig goes into this year with no record what so ever. He is starting from scratch and should be judged purely on this year not on 9 games from last season.

His offseason "form" has been very encouraging and there has been some noticable improvements in some players. There are also some noticable changes in the game plan he is trying to implement and some of the structural changes at stoppages and positions.

I can't wait for the real stuff to start

Statistically, Brisbane game is our worst loss and we played some insipid footy in the second half despite showing some really good signs before half time and especially in the first quarter.

 

[zajicrow]

statistically our worst losses are Brisbane by 141 points last year and the Eagles by 135 points in 1995 but both at times where the opposition was so much better we should have expected to lose by 100+ points.

2 losses stick in my mind.

Round 20 vs Sydney @ SCG. A side at the time only about 1-2 wins better than the crows, 25.9 (159) def us by 118 points 5.11 (49)

Preliminary Final 93. Brought up so many times but... thats what u get for squandering a 42 point half time lead one game way from the granny!

 

[tribey]

In the top three

Others to consider:

When West Coast thumped us by about 143 and Cummings kicked 13.

Actually, big Scotty kicked 14 that night. How f-ing woeful is that? Talk about payback for Jammo and Showdown I a few years earlier.

Remains the record bag booted against us - and considering Lockett, Sumich, Ablett, Carey, Sav and Dunstall all met us at their respective peaks, my gob is well and truly smacked.

 

[Alex99]

I still have nightmares about the early days when the Crows had to play against St Kilda at Moorabbin and Essendon at Windy Hill or Geelong at the cattery or West Coast in Perth, Huge loses every time. At least Brisbane was the three time regaining premiere at the time.

 

[thesouthernend]

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Preliminary Final 93. Brought up so many times but... thats what u get for squandering a 42 point half time lead one game way from the granny!

I agree

 

[Cove Cobra]

Everytime I look at the 2004 Results, Round 17, vs Brisbane at the Gabba, still haunts me today.

Brisbane 29.15 (189)
Adelaide 6.12 (48)

141 point loss, would you agree this was our worse performance ever in our 14 years of existenice?

This was under Neil Craig, just I hope the crows know what they are doing reappointing Neil (or Craig), as coach for 2005.

Triggy was in the box as well.

Not happy at all about the appointment of Craig to this day. I think we could have done a hell of a lot better in somebody like Eade.

Time will tell eh?

 

[Arsene Wenger]

howbout showdown 1 where no one gave Port a shot ?

 

[Fergus]

howbout showdown 1 where no one gave Port a shot ?

Best thing that happened to us. Woke us up and we went on to win two flags in a row.

 

[Jars458]

howbout showdown 1 where no one gave Port a shot ?

Rubbish

Crows had Tom Gilligan in ruck with Rehn Pittman Keating Robran Chalmers etc all out injured.

It was always anybody's game.

 

[outback jack]

well that game showed if anything that craigy already had the job, no one should be appointed with a heartless result like that on their resume. What was actually funny was a couple of days later Triggy was on 5aa giving a interview (cause he was in the box too) and he said to cornsey that what he saw in the box was 'quite impressive' and then he spent the next five mins explaining to corensey how a 140 pt loss can still be impressive, that pretty much said it all…

 

[rooboy]

I was at the game . It was certainly up there with our 'worestest' game ever. The funny thing was they actually looked OK in the first half and were leading early in the 2nd qtr IIRC and only went in 4-5 goals down. But that 2nd half......terrible manning up of opposition players like Power, Black etc who just ran rampant. Their delivery to the fwd line was 1st rate and Aker played a blinder also

The Crows breakfast the next morning as you may imagine was a fairly sombre affair

I was also at the bloody disaster of a game. I have been trying to get my Queensland wife to go to the footy for years, and sure enough this was her first game. She thought we were an absolute joke, but enjoyed the game as the Queensland team smashed us.
And you are right about the breakfast. My mate is with the club and it was a very sombre night as well.

 

[arrowman]

well that game showed if anything that craigy already had the job, no one should be appointed with a heartless result like that on their resume. …

..and if I had told you after the Melbourne game that NC should get the job on the back of that result, you would have told me it would be stupid to appoint a coach on the basis of one game, and you would have been right. But it's not stupid to dismiss a coach on the basis of one bad game, eh?

 

[outback jack]

that game as well as the freo game are enough to say that at any other club he would not have been appointed. Remember that was the biggest loss ever, and the first time freo have ever won at FP, pretty poor effort.

 

[jo172]

I wouldnt say Brisbane was our worse lose as we were playing a very inexperienced line up including Henschel, jericho, watts and Rutten to name a few.

You know what, i thought Rutten played rather well that night, to hold Lynchy to only 8 goals with the ball spending it's whole time in the forward line with the delivery the Lions were giving was astonishal!

 

[arrowman]

that game as well as the freo game are enough to say that at any other club he would not have been appointed. Remember that was the biggest loss ever, and the first time freo have ever won at FP, pretty poor effort.

Clearly you decided early on (well before the Brisbane game) that you didn't want Craig as coach. You have accused the AFC board of making the decision as a "done deal" regardless of performance, yet you do the same thing in reverse, you have made up your mind also.

Nothing NC or the AFC does short of a permiership will change your mind.

Melbourne game doesn't count, Brisbane game does. You are a hypocrite.

At least the other posters on this board have demonstrated a more open-minded approach.