Best individual performance ever?

[MagooTheRoo]

Malcolm Blight against Carlton at Princess Park in 1976. Won the game with 3 goals in time on including an absolute ball-bursting torp after the siren. Unbeatable individual brilliance.

 

[pazza]

i do remember simon madden playing an outstanding game in a GF 84 or 85, shit load of hitouts, 20+ marks 3 or 4 goals. any bombers fans remember that game?

He dominated in 1985. 22 touches, 23 hitouts, 14 marks and 2.1.

I can remember an under-rated bloke called Gary Malarkey tearing it up for Geelong one day.

 

[Rosstickle]

im sorry but i don't think players from back then could make much of an impact of today's game

And very few players from today could've made an impact back then. Imagine Gibbs or Riewoldt coming up against Leigh Matthews or Francis Bourke. They'd ball their F___g eyes out.

 

[Yianni]

Sometimes an individual player will play a brilliant game in a team that gets absolutely thrashed.

For example, in 1992 Brisbane Bear John Hutton kicked 8 goals in a team that lost by 164 points to Geelong.

Yep. David King kicked 7 goals in the 125 point Elimination Final hiding by Essendon in 2000.

 

[Pykie]

diesel might still be good at the stopages but the speed of the game would kill him, i just think that today's footballers are more talented profeissional athletes then those from the past and footy is a much harder game then it was back then

Am I missing a significant step in human evolution over the last 20 years? They are both still human, players arn't any quicker, stronger, can jump higher than 20 years ago.


AFL athletisim is sometimes very overated. Alot of draftee's come straight into football clubs and top the beep tests and 3km time trials, yet they havnt been in a professional environment, sure the players are fitter and stronger than most, but they don't have a "god" like level of fitness.

Craig Motram gave the Richmond players a head-start on a race around the Tan last year, and he still destroyed the next best by a few hundred meters.

And not everyone way-back-when sank 30 beers after a game, there were still some brilliant athletes.


Phil Carmen, Wayne Carey and Gary Ablett are almost unmatched in athletisim, even in todays game.

Franklin has awesome speed for his size, however, he doesn'y come close to most other area's that these guys had.


Over 150 years of the game, you have to expect there to be some players, whos complete package of skill and talent, completely surpasses that of any athletic ability, which funnily enough are the same people mentioned mostly in this thread.



As for mine.

Carey's 94' final series. unbelievable.

 

[Bomberlicious]

Still cannot forget James Hird's performance against the eagles where he kicked goals, won clearances and directed play against a gold class midfield. His sheer will changed the direction of the match and won Essendon the game. And there is that famous embrace with the crowd after kicking a goal to seal the game. It may not be statistically the greatest, but I cannot remember seeing one man "do it all" against champions like Sir James did that day.

My Crows-supporting missus almost jumped ship that night...

Gary Ablett Snr's 14 goals in a losing side against Essendon in 1993.

Seconded; all we had to do that day was outscore Ablett...

Often overlooked though, is the fact the Big Fish kicked 10.6 in just over 3 quarters.

IIRC, he tightened up in the hammy late in the 3rd. Very early in the last, he led out, marked & pulled his hammy this time. Went back, kicked his tenth, then went off...

A genuine star, the Big Fish!!

 

[larson]

Daniel Kerr- on the hour, every hour, for ten hours.

hahahahah i forgot about that, a great effort

 

[Edward Teach]

19 yr old Stephen Kernahan of Glenelg playing in the SA State of Origin Team vs Victoria in 1984.

Kicked 10.4 from centre half forward in the most star studded SOO match every played, on possibly the hardest defenders Victoria has ever had.

 

[Johnson#26]

Sometimes an individual player will play a brilliant game in a team that gets absolutely thrashed.

For example, in 1992 Brisbane Bear John Hutton kicked 8 goals in a team that lost by 164 points to Geelong.

Kingsley Hunter with seven against the Pies in round 15, 1997 at Victoria Park in a 100-point loss.

 

[Edward Teach]

19 yr old Stephen Kernahan of Glenelg playing in the SA State of Origin Team vs Victoria in 1984.

Kicked 10.4 from centre half forward in the most star studded SOO match every played, on possibly the hardest defenders Victoria has ever had.

Correction he was 21.

 

[Bloods]

Pluggers 10-8 onSilvagni was better than his 16 on various overmatched Fitzroy opponents.

Probably, because of the opponent. But in the first half that day, he was just incredible. He had 10 goals half-way through the 2nd qtr! There was a mix up with the bench and he sat the last part of the qtr on the bench. He probably would've beaten Fanning's record. His game against us in '92 when he slotted 15 was ridiculous.

He had a lot of brilliant games, but he used to play some of the most remarkable halves of footy you'd ever see.

'91 against Adelaide at Moorabbin - Had missed the first 6 games of the year (with a back injury I think) and then came out to kick 9 in the first half.

'98 against Geelong - 8 in the first half.

'98 against Port Adelaide - 9 in the second half to turn the game on its head.

I could go on all day but what a freak that man was.

 

[scottyijoe]

Still cannot forget James Heard's performance against the eagles where he kicked goals, won clearances and directed play against a gold class midfield. His sheer will changed the direction of the match and won Essendon the game. And there is that famous embrace with the crowd after kicking a goal to seal the game. It may not be statistically the greatest, but I cannot remember seeing one man "do it all" against champions like Sir James did that day.

This was the first that came to mind for me actually. Hird played in the midfield, forward and back line and everything just seemed to go right for him. Single handedly won them the game I thought.

 

[DarwinRoo]

Judd has never got 40+ posessions.

What a hack. Adam Simpson has done it twice.

 

[Johnson#26]

I also rate Nathan Buckley's 2002 Grand Final up there with the very best (ditto Voss).

Others which spring to mind are Carey against St Kilda in round 14ish at Waverley, 1998. Absolutely dominated, as he did in round 17 against Melbourne/Shanahan that season. Just in awe of him that season. He was brilliant.

Harvey in the 2005 QF was all class.

 

[Cyclops]

I've seen Ablett rise above a game like an attack ship on fire off the shoulder of Orion. By God he could destroy a game.

For degree of difficulty I appreciated Judd's second last final for the Eagles where he dragged victory out of the bleeding corpse of Adleaide with the last ounce of grunt in his ruined body.

 

[Rod Stroker]

Yep. David King kicked 7 goals in the 125 point Elimination Final hiding by Essendon in 2000.

From the half back flank, and in what still remains as the greatest losing margin in a final. If only Geelong had kicked 1 more goal last year

 

[emuboy]

Kingsley Hunter with seven against the Pies in round 15, 1997 at Victoria Park in a 100-point loss.

Another one I remember from the 1990s; Paul Roos picked up close to 50 posessions in a 1991 game for Fitzroy against the Eagles that the Lions lost by 99 points at Subiaco Oval.

Roos just seemed to lift against the Eagles; the above mentioned game aside, Fitzroy were a bogey side of West Coast in the early 1990s with Roos dominant in every game played between the clubs.

 

[Hawks to fly]

This was the first that came to mind for me actually. Hird played in the midfield, forward and back line and everything just seemed to go right for him. Single handedly won them the game I thought.

Remember a game Hird played against Hawthorn around 1993 at Centre Half Forward. He was opposed to Andrew Gowers who I thought played a great game but Hird took about 16 marks, nearly all contested and kicked 5 goals and the Bombers won by that margin. Gowers managed to stop him taking 25 marks but Hird was brilliant

 

[dylan123]

What a hack. Adam Simpson has done it twice.

but i bet judds 10 touches are more useful then simpsons 40

 

[DarwinRoo]

but i bet judds 10 touches are more useful then simpsons 40

We won both games and both were against the Cats.

 

[pazza]

From the half back flank, and in what still remains as the greatest losing margin in a final. If only Geelong had kicked 1 more goal last year

Might be for North, but, I'm sure Pies fans don't want to be reminded of the 1984 Preliminary final do they?

Essendon: 8.1 (49), 17.6 (108), 21.6. (132), 28.6. (174)
Collingwood: 2.4. (16), 3.6 (24), 4.9. (33), 5.11 (41)

Total margin: 133 points. Half-time over the PA (hey it was at Waverley): "Could all Pies fan bus drivers please return to their buses". And to think former Bomber Ron Andrews got 3 of the 5 Collingwood goals that day .

 

[tribey]

Far from the best performance ever but Warren Tredreas 22 disposals, 17 marks and 8.4, before dislocating his knee cap was amazing(Round 7, vs. Carlton, 1998). Particularly considering he was only 19 at the time.

Just his eighth game and three of his four opponents that day were Peter Dean, Glenn Manton and Michael Sexton. None of this cherrypicking shit on undersized, out-of-position garbage like David Teague or Ty Zantuck.

Just imagine the hype if a kid did that now so early in their career.

 

[XFactor1979]

ivor warne-smith tormenting richmond at the east melbourne cricket ground

 

[DarwinRoo]

Just his eighth game and three of his four opponents that day were Peter Dean, Glenn Manton and Michael Sexton. None of this cherrypicking shit on undersized, out-of-position garbage like David Teague or Ty Zantuck.

Just imagine the hype if a kid did that now so early in their career.

Some players only have to fart and they are called a star.

 

[fella1]

R22 - 2007: Scott Lucas kicks 7 in the last quarter (and was robbed of an eighth) to almost win the game for the Dons. Not an all-time great match performance, but certainly one of the best quarters of footy ever. Another legendary quarter that springs to mind is Hird v West Coast in 2004 (15 touches, 6 clearances, 2 goals).