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Two unique 'torch passing' moments happened between us and the Dogs that year.
James Sicily, in only 6th game, takes a mark and kicks the winning goal in the same moment that ruptured Bob Murphy's ACL.
Then later that year in the semi-final, Marcus Bontempelli, in his 3rd season, outmarks Luke Hodge and kicks a goal, and from that moment on the Dogs don't look like losing. Bont announces himself that night as a genuine big game player.
Hodge and Murphy would 'retire' in the same game only 12 months later, while Bont and Sicily, both from the same draft pool, wind up All Australians and captains of their respective sides.
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There are a couple of games.
Round 3, 2005 - Hawthorn are six points up seven minutes into the final quarter. After Matthew Lloyd kicked a point, Dean Solomon is awarded a goal for a kick that clearly came off Jonathan Hay to give Essendon the lead and more importantly the momentum. Scott Lucas and Andrew Lovett kick two more goals. Willo and Hodge kick goals to bring the margin back to two points, but we can't find that extra goal that was gifted to Essendon to win the game. Umpires boss Jeff Gieschen said during the week that the goal umpire made a mistake.
Round 22, 2009 - Hawthorn needed to beat Essendon to sneak into the eight after winning the premiership the year before. Hawthorn would be the first team in ages to not make finals after winning the premiership the previous season. Max Bailey was playing just his second game back from tearing his ACL in June 2008 when he did the other ACL five minutes into the ground. Poor guy. Then Matthew Lloyd sniped Brad Sewell early in the third quarter that knocked Sewell out of the game (Sewell suffered a fractured cheekbone and eye socket as a result). With two players out of action, Essendon ran over the top of Hawthorn and won by 17 points as they kicked six goals to three after three-quarter time and 11 goals to five after half-time to win the game.
Preliminary Final, 2001 - Croad's poster and Darren Goldspink. Can't say much more. Although, to be honest, I didn't fancy our chances against the Lions the following week. I think it could have been a bloodbath, but we were robbed of the opportunity to play in our first grand final for 10 years by Goldspink's cheating.
Round 3, 2005 - Hawthorn are six points up seven minutes into the final quarter. After Matthew Lloyd kicked a point, Dean Solomon is awarded a goal for a kick that clearly came off Jonathan Hay to give Essendon the lead and more importantly the momentum. Scott Lucas and Andrew Lovett kick two more goals. Willo and Hodge kick goals to bring the margin back to two points, but we can't find that extra goal that was gifted to Essendon to win the game. Umpires boss Jeff Gieschen said during the week that the goal umpire made a mistake.
Round 22, 2009 - Hawthorn needed to beat Essendon to sneak into the eight after winning the premiership the year before. Hawthorn would be the first team in ages to not make finals after winning the premiership the previous season. Max Bailey was playing just his second game back from tearing his ACL in June 2008 when he did the other ACL five minutes into the ground. Poor guy. Then Matthew Lloyd sniped Brad Sewell early in the third quarter that knocked Sewell out of the game (Sewell suffered a fractured cheekbone and eye socket as a result). With two players out of action, Essendon ran over the top of Hawthorn and won by 17 points as they kicked six goals to three after three-quarter time and 11 goals to five after half-time to win the game.
Preliminary Final, 2001 - Croad's poster and Darren Goldspink. Can't say much more. Although, to be honest, I didn't fancy our chances against the Lions the following week. I think it could have been a bloodbath, but we were robbed of the opportunity to play in our first grand final for 10 years by Goldspink's cheating.
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Actually 96 is a really good one, thanks for the reminder.
It was back in the weird early days of the Final 8 system where we’d snuck into 7th or 8th (can’t remember) and therefore had to play the Swans away who’d finished 1st or 2nd.
Needless to say we were rank underdogs (still had Dunstall and Platten) but took it right up to them and held a lead until late.
To make it worse, it was a windy night in Canberra and either late in the 3rd or early 4th (can’t remember exactly) there was a blackout so the TV cut out. So I had to go and sit in the car on the street with the engine running to listen on the radio for the last quarter. Which coincided with us being overrun.
And there’s something particularly ominous about listening on the radio, but not being able to see, when the tide turns against you. It’s the increasingly excited tones of the commentators and rising noise of a hostile crowd, for some reason you feel even more powerless.
Pure misery by the dashboard light that night, ain’t no doubt about it.
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Let's put it this way, I listened to the second quarter of our game against Richmond last year (Dusty's 300th) and due to the massive crowd noise and inability to actually SEE how the game was unfolding, it drove me absolutely insane. It felt like we were just hanging on to a lead and making constant mistakes.
Arrived at the pub by half time, then watched the third quarter on the TV and realised I'd had nothing to worry about all along.
Radio SUCKS when your own team is playing.
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that 2014 prelim was the worst umpired fourth quarter in history
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Just the last two games - we beat Collingwood comprehensively in the QF.
Will never forget that night, absolutely ripped off. Flew up for the game with then fiancee who would become wife just 2 weeks later. Bloody AFL spread the Hawks supporters all over the ground like confetti so we couldn't make a scene regarding the merger, no more than 5 or 6 supporters together, anyone with a 'No Merger' sign was quickly set upon by security. Dunstall did his knee in a tangle of Swines players and ruined any chance of beating Lockett to Coventry's record, Salmon dragged to ground in goal square and no free-kick in last 10 minutes, players absolutely gave everything they had, super proud of them that night but utterly gut wrenched in what could have been our very last game had the AFL and Melbourne members had their way.