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Im okay with it. If one side is truly better (especially if the media have talked them down and talked up their opponent relentlessly) then I can appreciate it.

2014 and 2015 were great for exactly that.

I also enjoyed 2007. Geelong stuck their foot on Port's throat early and never lifted off until the final siren. That takes supreme dedication.
I rate 2014, not for the gf performance but for Hawthorn's performance during the season. They had key players missing for blocks of games and still were able to give themselves the best possible chance by finishing the h&a in 2nd possie.

Skill wise from both sides 2011 was superb for the first 3/4s.
 
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2011 was a better grand final than all of them except 2002 in my view.

Phenomenal game of football and no one in the competition bar maybe Hawthorn would've come within ten goals of either side that day
Considering we lost the prelim by kick and lost to Geelong by less than ten goals in the QF
 

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It's true, 2013 was a horrible spectacle. I didn't buy the dvd that year
That's ridiculous. Surely you'd get the DVD. Ive watch 07 heaps of times and I love it. Even if we won a flag because the opposition misses a set shot from 10mts to win the game after the siren id still buy it. Who cares.
 
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I watched this game just recently. Hawthorn shot away from Geelong early and Geelong played catch up all day. Greatest GF ever...NO Fcuken way. Far from it. Geelong's defence that day was non existant. Tim Darcy and Michael Shultze were very average campaigners. and they were Geelong's Key backmen. Brereton was not hit hard enough by Yeates ..he should have jumped on him and whacked him again. He then went down to the forward pocket and played on another ordinary campaigner in Steve Hocking who should have hit him the same way he hit Lethal in 1985. Instead he stood there and let DM take a relatively uncontested mark. Sure it was a high scoring game and Geelong got within a kick but truly NEVER looked like winning the game. For Hawthorn supporters this one would be right up there but Geelong to me that day were poor and had virtually no Defence to speak of. Hocking was our best mid fielder and he was the player opposition sides targeted early. He never was as good in the big games was our Buddah. You can go on but best recent GF was 2011...Geelong "we know how to play the game never rang truer"! 1989 Forget it!!!!!
So still hurting. Hope you can get over it one day.
 

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1989 was the last great game of football ever played. It's been systemically manipulated ever since. The AFL changed it's name the following year and with it the game itself has under gone major cosmetic surgery. The last 5 years have been more than disappointing with the sanitation department turning the game into some sort of hybrid Gaelic football? The rules are now more laughable than ever, the Umpires have no chance to officiate it according to those rules and in doing so diluted the once great game of Australian Rules Football. Any similarity today's game has to 1989 is purely coincidental...
The only thing this years Grand Final has going for it is no matter what the outcome it will be better than 2005 and 2006, what i call the "Dark Ages of Aussie Rules."


1989
1984
1973
1970
2009
2011

I like those!
 

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lol at all you hawkers thinking a 10 goal win is the greatest football has been played in a grand final. its nothing compared to 119.
Thing is nobody was surprised by it (119). Port were shite and you were the best team all year by far.

Swans were favourites in 2014. Bit of a difference.
 

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Thing is nobody was surprised by it (119). Port were shite and you were the best team all year by far.

Swans were favourites in 2014. Bit of a difference.
Port werent as shite as everyone thinks. They had a huge second half of the season, beat geelong in geelong not long before the finals and won their prelim in a smashing. Plenty of people on here were expecting a port gf win, particularly hawthorn supporters. They were a far better team then the tigers this year. Also the reason geelong were favourites and most people were expecting a geelong win was because the geelong of 2007 was a better side then the hawthorn of 2014.
 

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1989 was the last great game of football ever played. It's been systemically manipulated ever since. The AFL changed it's name the following year and with it the game itself has under gone major cosmetic surgery. The last 5 years have been more than disappointing with the sanitation department turning the game into some sort of hybrid Gaelic football? The rules are now more laughable than ever, the Umpires have no chance to officiate it according to those rules and in doing so diluted the once great game of Australian Rules Football. Any similarity today's game has to 1989 is purely coincidental...
The only thing this years Grand Final has going for it is no matter what the outcome it will be better than 2005 and 2006, what i call the "Dark Ages of Aussie Rules."


1989
1984
1973
1970
2009
2011

I like those!
Weird you pick 1989 gf. Geelong got robbed blind by corrupt umpiring that day. Umpires used to give away far more free kicks per game back in the 80s then they do today.
 

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2010 would've been the greatest ever with extra time. Replay was a piece of shit and I thought "We waited a week for that?!". Thank **** replays are dead forever.
No it wouldnt. The quality of the football was awful that day save for lenny hayes and goddard. It was good cos it was close.
 

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Weird you pick 1989 gf. Geelong got robbed blind by corrupt umpiring that day. Umpires used to give away far more free kicks per game back in the 80s then they do today.
Yes, the umpiring was difficult. We lost it ourselves and can tell the exact moment we did. 19 points down late in the 3rd quarter and Hocking gets flattened, he was out on his feet. Mark Bos runs by and should've noticed that Hocking was in no shape to take the kick. Bingo...out of bounds on the full! Hawthorn rebound and score a vital goal before the final break. We lost, but it was the last great game of Aussie rules. The way the game was played for 100 years before. We will never see the like of it again except in replays, which of course i cannot watch!
 
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No it wouldnt. The quality of the football was awful that day save for lenny hayes and goddard. It was good cos it was close.
I was at the G that day and I agree with you. It's a tale of 2 halves for both sides. Personally 2011 (I was there for that as well) and 2009 were better spectacles (despite the result in 2011).
 

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As a 'neutral' I enjoyed 2012 the most- momentum swings and a great final quarter.

really hope we get a classic tomorrow
 
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