Best Shirtfront You've Seen?

[Kappa]

seconded. there's something almost poetic about the way Kemp's body does a 180 and his head is the first thing to hit the ground.

would get 8 weeks today.

so it should, it’s a cowardly hit on a bloke who isn’t looking and leaves him with damage to his brain. Nothing tough about that.

 

[MerryHell]

Dunno if this one has been mentioned before, but Woosha Worsfold against a rampaging Ablett in a SoO match from the early 90's. Ablett, as per usual, presented his elbow, yet Woosha managed to collect him with just about the fairest hip & shoulder you could imagine.

That was monstrous, it's at the end of this clip:


This thread disappoints with a lack of videos

 

[jle101]

Yep, that's where I would have seen it! Glad you were able to track that one down!

 

[Baird]

Steven May on Dayne Zorko a few years ago

 

[squawk]

This was a ripper - Norwood’s Paul M Cormack on Port’s Rodger Delaney, 1995.

 

[MF]

Is this what people found entertaining back in 2006?

I'm disgusted

 

[Sttew]

I probably posted this years ago in the same thread but CBF searching for it - Gary Ablett Senior cleaned up Carlton's Wayne Johnston at Kardinia Park in the late 1980's (I think) with a classic Ablett shirtfront. To this day I can still hear the sound of the impact.

 

[westie]

so it should, it’s a cowardly hit on a bloke who isn’t looking and leaves him with damage to his brain. Nothing tough about that.

Absolutely putrid act. I believe that Kemp still suffers the affects to this day!

 

[Diverbelow]

Brad Shine hit Dean Laidley so hard at leederville oval early 80s??. Then stepped over him and did not flinch. Tough bugger was Brad.

 

[dumb]

Mid 90s Collingwood v Brisbane.

M Voss on Richardson

I remember this one. I seem to recall it broke a bone in Alan Richardson's ear? Thread is so old I may have already posted about this

 

[Chinacats]

ricciuto on Kemp was big.

 

[ash_1050]

Contrasty my favourite shirt front that didn't work. Voss was an absolute weapon at his peak.

 

[iluvparis]

Might as well post this assassination again

 

[Hollow Knight]

Once Voss shitmixed Alan Richardson (on his birthday) at the Gabba , every other bump had to settle for the fight for second place.

 

[kozi]

Scott Turner ending Gary O'Donnell in the '95 semi

 

[Back One Out]

Dermott Brereton on Paul Van Da Har on the members wing at Waverley in the 80's

The best thing about that bump was that it was a 2nd Semi Final and it literally changed the momentum of the game

The Bombers were on fire up until that point. The Hawks were struggling and trailed by 4 goals

Then Dermie ironed out Van der Haar with a brutal, clean hit - the perfect shepherd for Pritchard who raced into goal - and from there, the Hawks switched on and crushed Essendon.

I can't remember another big game where all the momentum shifted so abuptly from one single incident.

 

[Chunky09]

Scotty turner sending Gary O’Donnell into dreamland 95 semi

 

[sobrave]

Sandilands vs Davis:


If you look carefully you can see a silhouette of Phil's face in the cloud of sweat he leaves behind.

this is classic. like running into a stobie pole

 

[sobrave]

Is this what people found entertaining back in 2006?

I'm disgusted

lmao
you joined this board in 2006. and these are still entertaining

 

[My Tilly]

 

[tigs2010]

Scott Turner ending Gary O'Donnell in the '95 semi

still salty about it

 

[Billy ray]

Abbot on Putin

 

[blueboy25]

Subiaco v West Perth at Subiaco Oval in the mid 90's

Richard Ambrose (Subi) cleaned up Dean Brunton (WP) with the cleanest hip and shoulder I have seen live. What made it even better was there would have been only 500 people in a ground holding 40k and the noise reverberated around the near empty stadium.

 

[freddy mercury]

Nothing from Pickett. Bloke was an absolute sniper, dog of a player.

 

[Meteoric Rise]

Not actually a shirtfront this. But one of the best fair bumps you could ever wish to see. When you consider it is layed by an 18yo in his first season against a very strong mature player, it is all the more remarkable. Take note of the proper bumping action, ie, leading with the hip then shoulder rather than as we so often see these days, head and shoulder. Not one bit of head contact, but I have never seen a player running flat out in one direction being made to slide metres in the opposite direction by the sheer force of a bump like this.



As a side note I played a lot of country footy and was on the giving and receiving end of some decent shirtfronts. When you ran through someone with a proper shirtfront it felt sort of similar to smashing your driver down the middle, or nailing a torp or middling a big 6, you sort of barely felt it. However, I was on the receiving end of a proper shirtfront once, no head contact but absolutely perfectly delivered hip and shoulder right up the middle, jesus it hurt. Always a massive shock to the system as well. You really haven’t lived until that has happened to you at least once.