We should have won in 1970 1977 and arguably 1966 and 1979 , but invariably the better side won most of those years that we lost. Collingwood always punched above its weight and was good enough to get to the grand final but not good enough to win.
I remember the 1977 like it was yesterday. We should not have lost that. Bloody Barrassi like in 1970.
In 1979 we should have won and the Wayne Harmes incident gave them momentum. We were in position to win and lost by 5 points.
We were in control in 1981 and stuffed that up. Think Moore had an injury in that game as did some others.
We got shafted by the umpires in 2002. No one expected us to be close.
We were in front, Tarrant does not get an obvious free kick 20 in front.
Ball goes to the other end & Lynch gets a dodgy one and they hit the front.
Then bloody Acker kicks one out of his backside and we lose.