All-Time Most Mysterious Games
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Last round of 2011, Pies v Cats, 1 v 2 on the ladder with Collingwood only dropping the one game with a massive %, Pies get hammered big time.
Not a head scratcher IMO though, was a dead rubber and the Cats simply wanted it more.
Not a head scratcher IMO though, was a dead rubber and the Cats simply wanted it more.
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Round 18 2001 Hawthorn vs Fremantle, Hawthorn leading by 5 goals at half time to a winless Dockers, end up losing the match by 3 goals after a 6 goal to 1 last term. Hawthorn were third at the time.
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Richmond beating Collingwood by 91 points in 2015 despite the Pies having more inside 50’s
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That last quarter of that game was probably the worst thing I have ever seen live.
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Round 22 1977 North vs South at Arden Street.
North are easily holding South by 4 goals at 3/4 time whilst over at the Western Oval the Bulldogs are leading 5th placed Carlton 6 goals.
North amazingly fall in a hole in the last quarter as South kick 6-4 to 1-1 to get up by 10 points, most of them late in the game, and snatch 5th place from Carlton to make the finals, even though Carlton flew home with 7 goals in the last quarter..
The old timers reckon money passed hands that day.
North are easily holding South by 4 goals at 3/4 time whilst over at the Western Oval the Bulldogs are leading 5th placed Carlton 6 goals.
North amazingly fall in a hole in the last quarter as South kick 6-4 to 1-1 to get up by 10 points, most of them late in the game, and snatch 5th place from Carlton to make the finals, even though Carlton flew home with 7 goals in the last quarter..
The old timers reckon money passed hands that day.
Round 9, 2011: West Coast v Western Bulldogs
At the 11 minute mark- the bulldogs kicked a goal to bring the margin to 22 points. They’d kicked two in a row and had some momentum it seemed. However the Eagles would go on to win by 123.
WC would later go on to have similar large scale victories in that 2011-2015 era- but I have never seen such a massive drop off from a team so quickly in a match.
At the 11 minute mark- the bulldogs kicked a goal to bring the margin to 22 points. They’d kicked two in a row and had some momentum it seemed. However the Eagles would go on to win by 123.
WC would later go on to have similar large scale victories in that 2011-2015 era- but I have never seen such a massive drop off from a team so quickly in a match.
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Hawthorn vs Geelong last Easter Monday wasnt quite as bad but 5 minutes left in the third Hawthorn were down by 14 and had a chance to score a goal to bring the margin back to 8. Geelong end up winning by 86.
Essendon v Sydney Rd.1 2006- Reigning premiers coming up against a side widely tipped for bottom four. Essendon fly out of the blocks with a 9 goal to 2 opening term. Essendon coast to victory thereafter, with Lloyd kicking 8. We would go on to contest another grand final, while Essendon would record only a further two victories for the season.
Sydney v North Rd 18(?) 2004- At three-quarter time seems to be a regulation Swans win, leading by 40 points. North launch a huge fightback in the last quarter with a 9 goal to 2 final quarter to win by a goal. There were mitigating circumstances with one of our trainers having a heart attack at three-quarter time, but it still isn't known the extent to which the players knew about it. I'd guess they knew something had happened, but it was still a startling collapse.
Sydney v North Rd 18(?) 2004- At three-quarter time seems to be a regulation Swans win, leading by 40 points. North launch a huge fightback in the last quarter with a 9 goal to 2 final quarter to win by a goal. There were mitigating circumstances with one of our trainers having a heart attack at three-quarter time, but it still isn't known the extent to which the players knew about it. I'd guess they knew something had happened, but it was still a startling collapse.
GWS v Sydney in Rd.1 2014 was also weird. Buddy's first game, expected to make a run for the flag. Had accounted for GWS by three-figure margins in their embryonic years. Expected a closer game, but was almost a certain win (was probably 1.02 or something similar with bookmakers). Thunderstorms hit at quarter time, they stick around for a further two quarters and completely overrun us in the last. Birth of a footballing juggernaut, sure, but still was a result no one saw coming.
Our round 1 games have often been bizarre, often for the wrong reason. We just don't do them well.
Not quite a weird result, but in 2015, Essendon (who had no preseason due to the drug saga furore) led by 34 points at 3/4 time. We do kick 7 goals to nil in the last to win by two goals, but for a long time, it looked like being yet another embarrassing first-round loss.
Our round 1 games have often been bizarre, often for the wrong reason. We just don't do them well.
Not quite a weird result, but in 2015, Essendon (who had no preseason due to the drug saga furore) led by 34 points at 3/4 time. We do kick 7 goals to nil in the last to win by two goals, but for a long time, it looked like being yet another embarrassing first-round loss.
I couldnt remember who the Crows were or werent missing, but thats hardly half a side. And Eagles may have been the reigning premiers but they finished 5th so only 6 spots above Crows.
Sure a comfortable win may have been expected, but not the biggest win in our history and probably top 10 in the AFL era.
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Point is, Crows were crap and missing some key players, and you were the reigning premiers.
Adelaide were on the end of a similar result in the final round of 2004 against Brisbane.
Wasn't there some sort of a crisis meeting after that North game? We came up after North Melbourne beat them and they destroyed us 222-65. We know what happened after that.
I have been waiting for years for Richmond to destroy someone like that at AFL level but it did not happen yet. At least I followed us belting a team 219-31 in the VFL last year
“A crisis meeting”? Look at the 50 games before and after, it was a 180 degree turnaround in the space of a week, the likes of which I’d dare to suggest has rarely been seen before. It’s truly bizarre.
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Yeah it is definitely a sharp turnaround. Turned into one of the most dominant teams we have seen in recent years. I don't know, I remember hearing that they had this review or something like that after losing to North Melbourne that year.
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Demons against us last year, could have finished with a solid percentage boosting win but just took their foot off the pedal and in the end cost them a finals appearance by, what, .5% or something?
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I remember that game. Kennedy had 6 to half time and kicked his 7th shortly after the margin was cut back to 22. From that point on we kicked 16 goals to 1 and Kennedy only kicked 3 of them. 7 of the first 10 then only 3 of the last 16. Can only imagine what would've happened if we kept looking for him.
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Even considering the previously mentioned "when it comes to Melbourne, throw out rational thought," what the * was going on July 30th in 2011?
We all know they came down to Geelong, 1 game out of the 8, to play against Geelong, who were starting to get into top gear. They lost by 186 points, leading to their coach being sacked.
But, earlier in the day, Melbourne's VFL affiliate Casey (who finished 4th), came up against Geelong, who only won 6 games for the year. They lost the match by 128 points. Melbourne lost 2 games that day by a combined 314 points. What did they do on Friday night?
We all know they came down to Geelong, 1 game out of the 8, to play against Geelong, who were starting to get into top gear. They lost by 186 points, leading to their coach being sacked.
But, earlier in the day, Melbourne's VFL affiliate Casey (who finished 4th), came up against Geelong, who only won 6 games for the year. They lost the match by 128 points. Melbourne lost 2 games that day by a combined 314 points. What did they do on Friday night?
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Have you seen the sides?
Port were (un)lucky that everyone else was so poor that year and Geelong were clearly better.
On the day it is believed that Phil Walsh convinced Chocco not to flood back and spoil the GF spectacle when it was all going **** up.
That was a day from my childhood that I remember because Carlton occupied one of the top 5 spots from rounds 1-21 and then dropped out of the top 5 for the first time after that final round loss at Footscray. South made the finals and finished ahead of Carlton by half a game. The blues 3 point loss to Richmond at the G in round 21 proved to be costly.
Also that season reigning premiers Hawthorn unexpectedly put in a shocker in the preliminary final against North, losing by about 12 goals and kicking only 5 goals on a dry surface. Peter Hudson had returned to Hawthorn that season, kicked a ton and the Hawks were expected to at least make the grand final.
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I remember there being rumours of a brent moloney led player's revolt.
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He got 0 touches that day, so could be around the mark.
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Collingwood were in a good run of form to their credit, better than ours. We were limping to the end of 2017, I wasn't too surprised.
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We went away with my wife's family that weekend and were all staying in our own cabins, so we all did our own thing at night.
I asked my Crows supporter father-in-law the next morning what he thought of the game? He said he changed the channel halfway through the third quarter because he'd seen enough!
