Amazing coincidences in football

[BigVic]

1952: North Adelaide v Norwood in the SANFL GF

2022: North Adelaide v Norwood in the SANFL GF


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1910 had Port Adelaide and Sturt

1901 featured Norwood as well but they played Port Adelaide instead

 

[BigVic]

Melbourne and the number 28 this year

Melbournes losses this year.
Round 11 lead Freo by 28 pts 11 mins second quarter.
Round 12 lead Sydney by 28 16 mins second quarter.
Round 13 vs Collingwood lead by 28 5 mins third term.
Round 20 vs western bulldogs lead by 28 pts late first quarter.
First semi final vs Brisbane lead by 28 pts just before half time.

 

[Werewolf]

Melbourne and the number 28 this year

Melbournes losses this year.
Round 11 lead Freo by 28 pts 11 mins second quarter.
Round 12 lead Sydney by 28 16 mins second quarter.
Round 13 vs Collingwood lead by 28 5 mins third term.
Round 20 vs western bulldogs lead by 28 pts late first quarter.
First semi final vs Brisbane lead by 28 pts just before half time.

That would be amazing, except most of those numbers are wrong

 

[BigVic]

Chris Scott

Chris Scott

Age

47

Ht

182cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.6

4star

K

11.2

4star

HB

5.4

4star

M

5.1

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

0.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

13.2

4star

K

10.2

4star

HB

3.0

3star

M

2.2

3star

T

2.8

5star

G

0.4

3star

coached his 450th game as a Player/Coach against Brisbane in 2020, Cats won the prelim that year

Chris Scott

Chris Scott

Age

47

Ht

182cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.6

4star

K

11.2

4star

HB

5.4

4star

M

5.1

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

0.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

13.2

4star

K

10.2

4star

HB

3.0

3star

M

2.2

3star

T

2.8

5star

G

0.4

3star

will coach his 500th game as a player/coach against Brisbane tomorrow night, Cats to win tomorrow?

 

[adammania9]

I attended the Melbourne vs Sydney qualifying final two weeks ago, and the Geelong vs Brisbane preliminary final last night. In both games I sat in the MCC

On both occasions, by pure chance I managed to be allocated the exact same reserved seat to watch the games

 

[Stabby McGee]

In 60 and 40 year intervals

You haven't come close to anything amounting to a coincedence in god knows how many posts. All you are doing is quoting random facts with, at best, a tenuous link to each other.

 

[Stabby McGee]

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See? Now if that comes true later tonight then that's a coincedence. And an eerie one. You lot aren't killing monarchs to give your lads a gee up, are you?

 

[BigVic]

I attended the Melbourne vs Sydney qualifying final two weeks ago, and the Geelong vs Brisbane preliminary final last night. In both games I sat in the MCC

On both occasions, by pure chance I managed to be allocated the exact same reserved seat to watch the games

It’s a 1:23,000 chance to get the same reserved seat

 

[BigVic]

Lions under the Fagan era

2019: 5th (out in straight sets, GWS lose GF after beating them in SF)
2020: 4th (lost to Geelong in Prelim by 6 or more goals)

2021: 5th (out in straight sets, Bulldogs lose GF after beating them in SF
2022: 4th (lost to Geelong in Prelim by 6 or more goals)

 

[BigVic]

Carlton and draws across all competitions

Back to Back draws across V/AFL/W history:

Back to Back draws
1911- Carlton (V/AFL)
1921-Carlton (V/AFL)
2017-GWS Giants (V/AFL)
2022-Carlton (AFLW)

 

[Roo Beauty]

I haven’t read an amazing football coincidence in weeks.

 

[dogs105]

It’s a 1:23,000 chance to get the same reserved seat

If the same 23,000 people go, there's a 63% chance that at least one will have the same seat.

 

[juice t]

26 years later and a Preliminary Final at the SCG ends with the Swans winning by a point

 

[Boxhead_31]

Two foundation clubs meeting in a GF for the first time ever next week

 

[apollo_creed]

can we ban bigvic from this thread and start a thread for him to post in called ‘largely uninteresting things with tenuous linkages’

 

[apollo_creed]

Wait until bigvic realises the last SCG prelim was also a one point win to the Swans and that is somehow amounted to being an ‘amazing coincedence’..

 

[beez]

2022 Preliminary Final:

Sydney 14.11 (95)
Collingwood 14.10 (94)

24 hours later in Round 7 of the Sweet FA

=====================================
SIREN SOUNDS FOR THE END OF QUARTER 4
Gumbies FFC : 14.10.94
Roys FFC : 14.11.95
=====================================

 

[BigVic]

2022 Preliminary Final:

Sydney 14.11 (95)
Collingwood 14.10 (94)

24 hours later in Round 7 of the Sweet FA

=====================================
SIREN SOUNDS FOR THE END OF QUARTER 4
Gumbies FFC : 14.10.94
Roys FFC : 14.11.95
=====================================

Lightning strikes twice

 

[BigVic]

2018 - Casey, Norwood and West Perth all make VFL, SANFL and WAFL grand finals

2022 - Casey, Norwood and West Perth all made VFL, SANFL and WAFL grand finals

 

[kozi]

Another one of those 10 year parallels in the works it seems.

2012:
Richmond player awarded Brownlow under widely perceived controversial circumstances
Richmond player also wins Coleman Medal
------
2022:
Carlton player awarded Brownlow under widely perceived controversial circumstances
Carlton player also wins Coleman Medal


2013:
Essendon supplements saga becomes public
Richmond lose elimination final to team that takes Essendon's place after they're disqualified
-----
2023:
Hird returns to coach Essendon
Carlton lose elimination final to team that takes Essendon's place after they're disqualified?

 

[TheRealComptroller]

Doug Wade.

As a Cat played in two GFs: a win against Hawthorn in 1963 and a loss against Richmond in 67.

As a Roo he has the same experience against the same teams: a win against the Hawks in 75 and a loss against the Tigers in 74.

Has another player beaten the same team in a GF while playing on different teams?

Has another player lost a GF to the same club on different teams?

Doug Wade doing both seems pretty freaky IMO.

Post made the day before the 2022 GF.

If Sydney wins then Lance Franklin will have won a GF against Geelong as a player on two different teams by having also been with Hawthorn in 2008. Isaac Smith will have then lost a GF to the Swans as a player on two different teams by having also played in the 2012 Hawthorn GF loss.

If Geelong wins then Isaac Smith will have won premierships against Sydney as a player for two different sides as he was in the 2014 Hawthorn team.

Also if Sydney wins then Buddy will be that rare player who lost a GF to a team (2012) and then joined that team and played in a premiership with them. Other examples being Shannon Grant, who played in the 1996 GF loss as a Swan to North and then won it with them in 1999, and Blake Caracella, who as a Bomber played in the 2001 GF loss to Brisbane and then in a GF win with the Lions in 2003. Caracella IIRC is probably the player who came closest to becoming the first person to play in flags on three different teams; if not for a 2006 career-ending neck injury he could have been a member of Collingwood’s 2010 flag team as a 33 year-old.

 

[Yellow Feathers]

It’s been weeks since I’ve read an amazing football coincidence.

 

[Roo Beauty]

It’s been weeks since I’ve read an amazing football coincidence.

Coincidence?

I haven’t read an amazing football coincidence in weeks.

 

[BigVic]

1900 Melbourne won last premiership under Queen Victoria

2021 Melbourne won last premiership under Queen Elizabeth II

 

[TheRealComptroller]

Doug Wade and Lance Franklin.

Both wore 23 and have kicked almost the same amount of goals and if Sydney wins tomorrow they will be the only players in history (?) to have beaten the same club in a GF as players in different teams.

Wade vs Hawks in 1963 as a Cat and in 1975 at NMFC.

Buddy as a Hawk against Geelong in 2008 and as a Swan in 2022?

CORRECTION. Just looked it up. Wade was only in #23 as a Cat. He wore #2 as a Kangaroo.