GF Zero to Heroes thread

[Luv_our_club]

Clark Keating

Schoenmakers played his best game in the 2015 grand final. Was getting cheered by the crowd.

 

[PhatBoy]

Travis Varcoe was never particularly shit but his 2011 grand final was eye catchingly better than most of his footy before it

 

[ize_]

Xavier Ellis probably didn’t play too many better games than his 08 Grand Final.

 

[HolyRioli]

Xavier Ellis probably didn’t play too many better games than his 08 Grand Final.

That’s what I came to say. Clinton Young too, until he was injured just after half time

 

[Dirty Bird]

Cyril Rioli

 

[kozi]

5 game veteran Jack Graham matching up on and beating the oppositions best player is hard to top.

 

[HurleyHepsHird]

Schofield.

Solid career as a role player. Resting into a WAFL role when Sheppard goes down with injury. Played a stupid good game.

I'd nominate Sheed, but he was tearing it up since coming in for Gaff and playing onball. Considering he has carried that form over into 2019, it's probably not fair. High draft pick, who had underpeformed due to being played out of position. Worked on his game, given some responsibility and was already repaying it.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

He was rubbish at Hawthorn until the finals series and that fat little campaigner exploded

Geelong didn't pay him proper respect imo. As a Crows fan I can tell you from experience that Dew was the last player you want to let roam around unchecked.

 

[iluvparis]

Tom Hawkins picked the right moment to come good... about halfway through the third quarter of the 2011 GF.

Good nom - I always remembered that night after the game thinking I'd be shattered if I was a pies fan and we'd arguably lost a flag because Tom Hawkins had somehow turned into Wayne Carey at half time - would have been gutting

 

[Alphonse_]

Jack Graham

He has gone from Hero to Zero.

 

[TJASTA]

He has gone from Hero to Zero.

Reported.

 

[iameviljez]

Good nom - I always remembered that night after the game thinking I'd be shattered if I was a pies fan and we'd arguably lost a flag because Tom Hawkins had somehow turned into Wayne Carey at half time - would have been gutting

The one point I'd make on that is that we were already starting to edge our way on top by the time that Hawkins went nuts - he just slammed the door shut.

I still think Selwood was BOG that day, simply because it was he and Bartel who kept us hanging grimly in it when we went three goals down, and then turned the midfield battle in the third quarter.

 

[iluvparis]

The one point I'd make on that is that we were already starting to edge our way on top by the time that Hawkins went nuts - he just slammed the door shut.

Seems a solid re-writing of history there. You were 3 points down at half time and he kicked the first two goals of the third quarter

 

[Wojcinski]

Geelong didn't pay him proper respect imo. As a Crows fan I can tell you from experience that Dew was the last player you want to let roam around unchecked.

Eh, from the likes my comment got I'll have to say many agree with me

 

[iameviljez]

Seems a solid re-writing of history there. You were 3 points down at half time and he kicked the first two goals of the third quarter

They were a bit Joe-the-Goose though. The real work to haul us back into the game was done through the middle.

Stats don't tell the whole story here.

Source: How many times do you think I've re-watched that game?

 

[Tarkyn_24]

They were a bit Joe-the-Goose though. The real work to haul us back into the game was done through the middle.

Stats don't tell the whole story here.

Source: How many times do you think I've re-watched that game?

If anyone deserved the Norm Smith that day for you lot it was Malthouse.

Never seen a more insipid coaching display in a Grand Final. Utterly terrible.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Eh, from the likes my comment got I'll have to say many agree with me

The people who liked your post only demeaned themselves. Dew was a gun player.

 

[Damon_3388]

Glenn Freeborn, 1996. His three goals in the 2nd quarter turned the game in North's favour (similar to the Dew goals in 2008), after Sydney had gotten out to a four goal lead early in that 2nd term.

 

[Del165198]

I feel like half Richmond's 2017 team fit this category

 

[iameviljez]

If anyone deserved the Norm Smith that day for you lot it was Malthouse.

Never seen a more insipid coaching display in a Grand Final. Utterly terrible.

For anything beyond the failure to react quickly to Hawkins overpowering Reid?

 

[Tarkyn_24]

For anything beyond the failure to react quickly to Hawkins overpowering Reid?

Yeah, playing an injured Jolly, Fasolo as the sub ahead of a versatile Goldsack. Tarrant sitting on ****ing Steve Johnson when they had their sole tall tearing apart our injured tall defender. Failing to move O’Brien onto Johnson...

 

[iameviljez]

The people who liked your post only demeaned themselves. Dew was a gun player.

He was very good, but let's not pretend that 2008 Dew was the same as 2004 Dew - or, more to the point, that it was evident at the time that he was capable of turning a game the way that he did. I mean, he hadn't kicked a goal in the previous five games.

Besides, when you've got a forward line where the FF has kicked over 100 goals, the CHF has 75, and there's a forward pocket with nearly 50, you don't really put so much into the fat flanker.

 

[iameviljez]

Yeah, playing an injured Jolly, Fasolo as the sub ahead of a versatile Goldsack. Tarrant sitting on ******* Steve Johnson when we had they had their sole tall tearing apart our injured tall defender. Failing to move O’Brien onto Johnson...

Those are all fair criticisms, but to be honest I don't think that any of them really addressed what really won Geelong the game for mine - the sheer weight of numbers through the middle. Daisy and Pendles were excellent, but Swan was completely beaten by Ling and there wasn't enough beyond that.

He was too slow on the Tarrant move, but by the time that the move became obvious, the game was half-won anyway.

 

[Occidental]

1958
Barry Harrison.
Blanketed Barassi (mostly illegally) and enabled the Pies to win the GF in a massive upset to stop Melbourne winning 4 flags in a row.

 

[iameviljez]

1958
Barry Harrison.
Blanketed Barassi (mostly illegally) and enabled the Pies to win the GF in a massive upset to stop Melbourne winning 4 flags in a row.

What was the quote from their captain? "So we went around, and... we hit a few players."