Football's Greatest Bloopers

[Mr Ripper]

They churn this sort of carp out ad nauseam on the telly, so why can't footy have a slice of the action?

So what are football's greatest bloopers?

A few nominations:
* Blighty running into an open goal v Richmond in '81 and dribbling it through for a behind.
* The soon to be toothless Trevor Keogh thinking he could take on Mal Brown at Adelaide Oval in 1972.
* Crackers Keenan putting his back out whacking Don Scott in the '78 Second Semi.
* Umpire Peter Carey's chest mark, Freo v St.K, 1999.
* In 1984, Gubby Allan's shortpass across the face of goal which is intercepted by Simon Beasley.

More suggestions, people?

 

[Dan26]

What about Blight kicking out of bounds on the full in 1978 (?), after kicking a point and being given a second kick, which lost them the game.

Or Kernahan's out on the full effort (when only a point was needed) against Essendon in 1993.

 

[Aussie_Roo]

I thought the night the sprinklers came on at Waverley Park during an Escort Cup game in the 80's was pretty good.

Malcolm Blight has given us a few classics over the years as well.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Percy Jones kicking the ball into the behind post while standing six inches away from it and in the clear in the goalsquare.

 

[JUBJUB]

Stepen Kernahan's shot at goal after the siren that missed everything and caused a draw with Essendon.It was about 5 or 6 years ago.

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"He is a loathsome offensive brute,yet I can't look away".

 

[Guest]

In the SANFL, Sturt's Paul Bagshaw kicked a magnificent checkside goal from the boundary line at the Unley oval without his pants. The cool and calm 'Baggy' never missed a beat. You probably had to be there but it was funny.

 

[Same Old's]

What about when Steve Silvange kicked the ball straight to Scott Lucas in the dying seconds of a late season H&A match in 1998, which resulted in a goal to the bombers and also the win.

Great Stuff.

This season, between Essendon and Geelong where the geelong player(forget his name)was a metre infront of the goals and he totally missed the goals and it went out of bounds, on the full.

 

[hilly]

The umpire not paying the mark for Leigh Colbert in the 97 1st semi final. I believe this cost Geelong the premiership.

Or North trading for David Calthorpe

I'm sure there are many others

 

[servo]

Tony Modra when at Adelaide on the goal lione kicked the ball straight up. It did go over the line but the wind blew it back into the field. The decision was play on.

The night the lights went out, was it St K v Ess?

Long time ago but you see it on blooper tapes regularly. The trainer comes out to tend to a felled player, gets to him, picks up the ball and hurls it at the perpetrator.

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

Melbourne as a whole late in the last quarter of the 1987 prelim vs Hawthorn. Wasted opportunities.

Was it Simon Eishold who had a shot for goal a few metres out on an angle and hooked it terribly for a point?

Poor Jimmy Stynes copped the flack for the 15 metre penalty that enabled Buckenara to kick the winning goal but that piece of play was inevitable after the work Melbourne had done to self-destruct before that.

 

[Curly5]

Foggy day in Blues v Saints (I think) game.
Full back kicks out in the gloom. Players can't see the ball.
Percy Jones yells, "There it is!
Saints player runs in, grabs it and kicks a goal.

 

[Donkey Kong]

Any team Richmond plays in Rnd 22 is always good for a laugh. 1994 was immensley satisfying, 1996 was not as good, 1998 was the creme de reistance and 2000 cause it was Carlton was as sweet a blooper as i can remember. Hawthorn made Richmond's job harder, but surely any team with any sort of dignity and intestinal fortitude would have come away not 73 points in the rear. Talk about soft **** Tigers !

 

[Richmondfan#1]

Hahahahahahaha Donkey Kong.

Don't you have anything better to do.

Lol. YOU are good for a laugh. All your posts seem to be about rubbish...hahahaha.

 

[Grendel]

There was a home and away game in the late seventies i think. Anyway it was the Hawks vs Lions in a nothing sort of game.

The Hawks were winning by two/three goals and the Roys were trying to attack by placing nearly everyone up forward. There was a turnover and the ball went forward to a pretty much empty Hawthorn forward half. There were two players in the front fifty, Normie Goss was lurking near the CHF line and a Roy bloke (ive forgotten who) closer to the boundary. The balls gone straight to the Roy bloke, whos looked up and seen everyone covered. Normie is 30-40 meteres away, not fleet of foot and looking at this bloke.

Instead of putting in the effort to run him down and chase or pressure, he calls out "Handball, HANDBALL IT TO ME".

In one smooth motion, the Fitzroy player swivels, launchs a perfectly executed 30 metere bullet handball straight into the gut of one bewelidered Norm Goss who cant believe his luck. The whole ground just stood there and their collective jawa dropped. Goss stood stock still for all of two seconds before turning around and running into the open goal. But the Roy bloke? Well ive never felt more embaressed for a bloke on the football field. He fell to his knees, pulled his jumper over his head and made like an ostrich. Not ONE teamate went near him, the Hawks fans burst into laughter, even the Roys fans had a chuckle at it.

Poor bastard, i wonder if he ever played again lol.

 

[dyson]

A dead man in a spa.

 

[ant]

All the one's I can think of have been mentioned, but from another type of football, soccer, how about that Manchester United goalkeeper, Taibi, letting in a goal between his legs last year?? I support them and I thought that was hilarious!!

 

[GoEagles]

Originally posted by dyson:
A dead man in a spa.

Erm. Are you talking about what happened to Jeremy Silcock in Bali after East Perths end of season trip? Because thats what happened to him

 

[Asgardian]

There was a night match a few years back, when the scoreboard was suddenly lit up far more than it should have been. Somehow a fire started, and the scoreboard was alight, send scared patrons in the opposite direction.

Another was when (I think I have the right player) Ang Christou let loose his own private member out of his shorts.

ps. my wife would love to get a picture of this incident

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Chris

(Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus)

 

[Catman]

Originally posted by hilly:
The umpire not paying the mark for Leigh Colbert in the 97 1st semi final. I believe this cost Geelong the premiership.

We would like to think it may have, but who knows it could have happened.

 

[Catman]

The Collingwood Football Club.

One big blooper, idiot of a president, a coach who wishes he stayed in perth, and a playing list even manangatang thirds don't envy.

 

[Catman]

Would have to say Cameron Ling against the essendon last year. i still don't know how he missed everything. Still scratching my head about that one.

 

[Mr Ripper]

Asgardian recalled:
Another was when (I think I have the right player) Ang Christou let loose his own private member out of his shorts.

The same fate which befell Wayne Johnston in the movie "The Club".

 

[AlfAndrews]

Catman,

In a word ... er, two words actually ... GET STUFFED.

OK.

Back to the topic:

There was a classic Collingwood blooper at a match last season against Hawthorn.

Anthony Rocca lines up Croad with the clear intention of taking him out of the game ... for life ... Croad somehow manages to avoid him ... and Rocca collects Tarrant with an absolute bone-cruncher. Bump of the year.

I wasn't laughing at the time ... but I think it's hilarious now.

Another great blooper was Wayne Jackson's effort at the 1997 Brownlow count, when he made more of a big deal about Chris Grant NOT winning it than he did about Harvey winning it.

And all that time I thought Wayne Jackson was a Sensitive New Age Guy ... but he's really just a Caring Understanding Nurturing Type.

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**floreat pica**

 

[JUBJUB]

What about Matthew Lloyd decking Blake Caracella in 1999 [or maybe 2000].

Now that was funny

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[Carey=Queen]

What about one Jim Stynes giving Buckernara a 15 metre penalty for running between the man on the mark and Bucky. I think it was in the late 80s and also cost the Dees the game.

NO IRISH JOKES FROM ME

[This message has been edited by Magpie24 (edited 14 January 2001).]