Did You Know...?

[SBD Gonzalez]

I can not only wiggle my scalp back and forth, but from side to side as well. No-one else can do this. No-one.

 

[Doss]

Hawthorn and Richmond have never played in a final against one another

Of the Victorian sides, neither have Footscray and Richmond, nor Footscray and Carlton, nor Footscray and Fitzroy.

St Kilda and North have only ever met once in a final- the 1997 prelim- and North never met South Melbourne when they were still Victorian based, but have done so twice since relocation to Sydney.

 

[Admiral Byng]

Gary Buckenara played his first senior game by accident. He turned up expecting to play Colts, but as they were getting ready the Reserves coach came into the room and said so-and-so is ill, so I need one of you blokes to play reserves. He was the first to stick his hand up to volunteer. Then, getting ready for the ressies, the senior coach walk in and said so-and-so is injured, I need one of you blokes to play. Once again he volunteered and was chosen. (Source: G Buckenara at an after dinner speech).

Karl Langdon worked as a bank teller in a branch that was held up by notorious bank robber Brendon Abbot, and was threatened with a gun. (Source - I worked at that same branch years later, hold-up drill was taken very seriously)

My first ever game of live footy as a kid, Brad Hardie lost his boot and ran around for about 10 minutes on just his sock. A trainer picked up his boot but every time Brad paused to put it back on the ball would come his way do he had to drop the boot and run after the ball. As 9-10 year old kids me and my mates thought it was hilarious.

 

[Danog]

Richmond must really time their run at 9th well

You blokes have us pipped this year.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Grenville Dietrich (SA full forward) missed a State of Origin training in the 80's and his excuse was that he was riding home with a pizza balanced on the handlebars. It fell and burned his leg.

 

[ep2018]

That's more amazing, because Guerra's career has sen him always playing for good to dominant teams.

Poor Carr had to play for the bunch of purple pansies.

and Port

 

[SBYM]

Some of you guys may already know it, but a pretty crazy stat:

Geelong's score in the 2007 Grand Final was 24.19.163. 24 was the number of Mark Blake, who was controversially dropped for Steven King to play in the big game, and 19 was Matt Egan's number, who broke the navicular bone in his foot in Round 22 of that season and never played another game (and obviously missed the Grand Final). 163 was the year Geelong last won a premiership before beating Port Adelaide. The Power's score of 6.8.44 was also eerie, with 44 being the number of years between drinks for the Cats.

 

[Roysforever]

Did you know, that since 1983, Fitzroy have made the finals more often than Richmond?

You can actually make that same comment but from the year 1979.

 

[Roysforever]

In Round 11, 1912 South Melbourne kicked the year. That is they scored 19.12. I know this was the only occurrence of this circumstance during the 19th and 20th centuries. Howzat for a useless fact! Nonetheless keep an eye out for this event to repeat in the early 21st century - if it hasn't already arisen.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Wayne Schwass's dad was an All Black.

 

[autocol]

What did he start doing wrong? Do you know?

A friend of mine used to be his f---buddy, and fair to say he was a genuinely loose unit.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Brett Montgomery played finals in every completed season he played (retired early in his last year after getting injured).

He was at Port Adelaide in 2000 and they finished 14th.

 

[Schauermann]

Such an absurd record to hold for a team that made the GF!

Well, not that unlikely. Had they lost a few more games the average margin would have probably dropped a lot because it is very unlikely for a quality side to get beaten more often by such a big margin. And even the worst sides are often competitiv in a few games so the average margin won't blow out too much...

 

[Tuco]

Most people know the saints famously won their only gf by a single point. Less known is that from the inception of the VFL they only won 2 games in the first 6 seasons (1897-1902). And in what was regarded as just as miraculous an event at the time, their first ever win in game one of their 4th season was ALSO just by a single point over Melb (68-67).

 

[Post padding]

Over the last 2 weeks there's only 1 side that hasn't won at least a quarter of footy.

Moral of the story:

DON'T TAKE DRUGS:

 

[Cosmic Energy]

Robert Walls was telling a story the other weekend that the match committee initially didn't have Rhys-Jones in the side for the '87 grand final. Walls wanted him in but was outnumbered.

I heard the same story but the issue wasn't whether or not Rhys-Jones was going to be in the team, but rather that Walls wanted him to play on Brereton specifically, and that was the debate between Walls and the match committee. Walls was out-voted but got his way in the end.

 

[Roobs321]

Sydney last year becomes the first team since Melbourne in 1960, to have lost three of their last four home and away matches and go on to win the Grand Final. The difference is Melbourne that year had secured top spot before losing its last three games coming into finals. Sydney on the other hand still had a minor premiership and home finals up for grabs. The only other time this had occurred was back in 1916 but due to WWI, Fitzroy lost nine in a row and secured the wooden spoon before playing the first final because only four teams competed in that year.

So the 2012 premiership is the only time in 116 years a team has carried such form and went on to win the Grand Final if you don't count the Fitzroy anomaly. Sydney also were the first team since Hawthorn in 1976 to have lost their last two games coming into finals and win the flag - this also has only happened three other times.

To be fair, Sydney had a brutal draw in the final rounds. It wasn't like they were losing to no hopers.

 

[sd26]

In Round 11, 1912 South Melbourne kicked the year. That is they scored 19.12. I know this was the only occurrence of this circumstance during the 19th and 20th centuries. Howzat for a useless fact! Nonetheless keep an eye out for this event to repeat in the early 21st century - if it hasn't already arisen.

Last Sunday round 19 2013 Collingwood 20.13 vs Essendon.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Most people know the saints famously won their only gf by a single point. Less known is that from the inception of the VFL they only won 2 games in the first 6 seasons (1897-1902). And in what was regarded as just as miraculous an event at the time, their first ever win in game one of their 4th season was ALSO just by a single point over Melb (68-67).

Most people know that in 1958, underdogs Collingwood famously put the kybosh on Melbourne's tilt at a equalling their fourpeat.

Less well known (and what few Pies fans appear to want to remember) is that in the GF two years later, Collingwood kicked a mind-boggling 2.2.14 to lose to Melbourne 8.14.62

 

[Jack_the_Ninja]

Did you know that by the mid 1980's the VFL was stone motherless broke so it invited non-Victorian Clubs to bail them out financially and West Coast with their 4 million Dollar licensing fee literally saved the competition from being kaput. Karma is a beautiful thing .

 

[Roby]

To be fair, Sydney had a brutal draw in the final rounds. It wasn't like they were losing to no hopers.

They did but there are numerous instances where this has happened (tough last few games) and teams have either come out with wins or losses. I can tell you that when the come out with wins it usually is a good indicator that they win the premiership. If they lose, well, the previous post already explains it.

 

[joop]

Cricket related:

In 2004 (roughly) Brad Hodge was at Warnies house watching t.v. Warnie was sitting on the opposite couch in nothing but his y-fronts, in one hand Warnie had a slice of pizza and a cigarette, in the other hand he had a cold Vb. when some pizza dropped onto Warnies stomach, he looked up and said:

"hodgey, you're looking at the greatest cricketer in the world".

 

[Gydafud]

Did you know that by the mid 1980's the VFL was stone motherless broke so it invited non-Victorian Clubs to bail them out financially and West Coast with their 4 million Dollar licensing fee literally saved the competition from being kaput. Karma is a beautiful thing .

I am curious to know how that equates to "karma"?

 

[Mr Smiff]

The Jacuzzi was founded by 7 Jacuzzi brothers.

Tom Hanks is distantly related to Abraham Lincoln.

In a royal family, there were 8 generations of William Cavendish and then after a George Cavendish was born, there was 3 separate William Cavendish.

Mt Dandenong used to be called Corhanwarrabul.

Shiiiiitttttt
Little wonder the asda thingy is investigating Essendon for "dope".......!

 

[Mr Smiff]

Most people know that in 1958, underdogs Collingwood famously put the kybosh on Melbourne's tilt at a equalling their fourpeat.

Less well known (and what few Pies fans appear to want to remember) is that in the GF two years later, Collingwood kicked a mind-boggling 2.2.14 to lose to Melbourne 8.14.62

Did you know that it pissed rain that day.......and the farmers blamed the footy.....????????