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The # 1 songs in Australia when these clubs won their last premiership....

Adelaide: 1998 "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" (Aerosmith)
Brisbane: 2003 "White Flag" (Dido)
Carlton: 1995 "Kiss From a Rose" (Seal)
Collingwood: 2010 "Only Girl (in the World)" (Rihanna)
Essendon: 2000 "I'm Outta Love" (Anastacia)
Geelong: 2011 "Somebody I Used to Know" (Gotye featuring Kimbra)
Hawthorn: 2015 "You Ruin Me" (The Veronicas)
Melbourne: 1964 "I Should Have Known Better" (The Beatles)
North Melbourne: 1999 "Mambo Number 5" (Lou Bega)
Port Adelaide: 2005 "She Will Be Loved" (Maroon 5)
Richmond: 2020 "Mood" (24kGoldn featuring Iann Dior)
St. Kilda: 1966 "Yellow Submarine" (The Beatles)
Sydney: 2012 "Battle Scars" (Guy Sebastian and Lupe Fiasco)
West Coast: 2018 "Shotgun" (George Ezra)
Western Bulldogs: 2016 "Closer" (The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey)
 
sandeano said:
The # 1 songs in Australia when these clubs won their last premiership....

Adelaide: 1998 "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" (Aerosmith)
Brisbane: 2003 "White Flag" (Dido)
Carlton: 1995 "Kiss From a Rose" (Seal)
Collingwood: 2010 "Only Girl (in the World)" (Rihanna)
Essendon: 2000 "I'm Outta Love" (Anastacia)
Geelong: 2011 "Somebody I Used to Know" (Gotye featuring Kimbra)
Hawthorn: 2015 "You Ruin Me" (The Veronicas)
Melbourne: 1964 "I Should Have Known Better" (The Beatles)
North Melbourne: 1999 "Mambo Number 5" (Lou Bega)
Port Adelaide: 2005 "She Will Be Loved" (Maroon 5)
Richmond: 2020 "Mood" (24kGoldn featuring Iann Dior)
St. Kilda: 1966 "Yellow Submarine" (The Beatles)
Sydney: 2012 "Battle Scars" (Guy Sebastian and Lupe Fiasco)
West Coast: 2018 "Shotgun" (George Ezra)
Western Bulldogs: 2016 "Closer" (The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey)
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What a s**t list.
 

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Does anyone have the numbers on fewest games played to multiple premierships won? Pickett would have to feature pretty high I would have thought. 2 flags/20 games.
 
Franc de Borges said:
Hawthorn and Richmond have each won eight of their last ten Grand Finals. Three of the four combined losses were to Carlton.

In fact, Richmond haven’t lost a Grand Final to any club other than Carlton for 76 years.
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I pledge to forever inform Tiger fans of this fact should they utter "It'd be good to have Carlton up and about again." Staggering fact really.
 
big_e said:
1. Why doesn't it make sense that Rohan and Hinkley are cousins?

2. Fitzroy didn't win the wooden spoon in 1916.

3. Pretty much every club has been financially strapped at some point in its history, many of them multiple times.

4. What's quirky about Collingwood having the second best overall win/loss record? It has to be someone.
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You must be fun at parties
 
Andrew McLeod and Tyson Edwards hold the record for two players playing together - 307 times.

The quirky bit is, they despise each other and don't talk: https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/spor...5eda11502?sv=5f532095aaadfb58266cf8289bc5b8c5

The only other players to play 300 games together are Adam Goodes and Jude Bolton.

Joel Selwood has played 260 with both Harry Taylor and Tom Hawkins, so might get there.
 
St. Kilda: 1966 "Yellow Submarine" (The Beatles)

I know what I’m singing next time I’m at a Saints game. Might change the “we” to “you”
 
big_e said:
1. Why doesn't it make sense that Rohan and Hinkley are cousins?

2. Fitzroy didn't win the wooden spoon in 1916.

3. Pretty much every club has been financially strapped at some point in its history, many of them multiple times.

4. What's quirky about Collingwood having the second best overall win/loss record? It has to be someone.
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where did Fitzroy finish the season in 1916? Was it last? Then the won the spoon and the flag
 
Carlton won the Premiership the year World War 1 commenced in 1914 and when World War 2 finished in 1945, with South Melbourne Swans runner up both times. The Swans won the Grand Final the year World War 1 finished in 1918 by beating Collingwood, with the Magpies also losing the 1939 Grand Final to Melbourne in the year World War 2 commenced.
 
SunshineBoy said:
where did Fitzroy finish the season in 1916? Was it last? Then the won the spoon and the flag
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Fitzroy finished the H&A season fourth and last with two wins. But all four teams played finals. Collingwood (2nd and Richmond (3rd) were eliminated in semi finals so officially, after finals, Richmond finished the overall season in fourth spot and were “officially” recognised as finishing last and wooden spooners.

Carlton and Fitzroy won their first finals, played off in the prelim, which Fitzroy won, and then played again the next week (I suppose some sort of “challenge” by Carlton as they finished on top), and Fitzroy won again.

12 game H&A season, Carlton won 10 games and Fitzroy just 2. Yet Fitzroy beat second-placed Collingwood (6 wins) in their first final, then beat Carlton twice in a row.
 
Roobs321 said:
2018 is the only time since Pearl Harbor that Melbourne & Richmond have featured in the same finals series. Was sad to wave goodbye to those 76 years ('42-'17). The final rounds of '98 and '17 and the Nathan Brown injury in '05 some particularly cursed highlights.
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Eh he wasn’t even that good a player for Melbourne.
 

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big_e said:
4. What's quirky about Collingwood having the second best overall win/loss record? It has to be someone.
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Might already have been covered but I think he was referring to head to head records. Pretty sure the Eagles are the only team with a >50% record against us
 
Altum Volantes said:
At one point Adelaide and Port Adelaide were captained by Nathan Van Berlo and Dom Cassisi (both West Aussies), while West Coast and Fremantle were captained by Shannon Hurn and Matthew Pavlich (both South Australians).
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I thought Hurn didn’t become captain until 2015, think both Van Berlo and Cassisi were both gone from the captaincy at least by that point. still like it as a fact anyway
 
Tzatziki_Man said:
I think I'll get the ball rolling, keep adding to the increasing list. I always find these interesting. Happy Quirks!



- Gary Rohan & Ken Hinkley are cousins.

- Hawthorn & Richmond have won 26 of the last 100 AFL/VFL Premierships. They've crossed paths in finals only once and never in a Grand Final. The 2018 Qualifying Final was their only match up.

- Fitzroy won the wooden spoon in 1916. They also won the premiership in 1916.

- VFL Park's initial plan was for it to hold a capacity of 150,000 people.

- Collingwood have a better win/loss record than every single club in the AFL/VFL - Except one. West Coast. They are tied with Carlton too.

- Collingwood were once a financially strapped club. Their arch rival Carlton supported them joining the VFL in 1897 and even allowed Collingwood to keep gate receipt income from home matches!

- In 1924, Footscray from the VFA defeated the reigning VFL Premiers Essendon. This victory was the catalyst in the growth of the VFL competition. In 1925, Hawthorn, North Melbourne and Footscray all joined in the VFL.

- Essendon were once known as the 'Blood Stained N word'. No records can be found of Essendon referring to themselves as this, it was more a fan-made nickname such as 'mosquito fleet' and 'baby bombers'. None the less, a reflection of past generations and racism and a cruel reminder why we must continue to grow as a society.

- Although unrelated to the Richmond Football Club established in 1885. Tom Wills, the inventor of Aussie Rules, founded and captained the original Richmond Football Club in 1860.

- Geelong and Ford hold the WORLD record for longest tenured sponsorship between a sporting club and corporate company. Now that's cool!

- Port Adelaide shocked South Australian Football when they submitted an application to join the VFL. The other SANFL clubs hated them so much they banded together to form the Adelaide Crows. Which joined the competition instead. According to rumour and innuendo, Port Adelaide were furious because they wanted to use the moniker 'The Crows'. Could you imagine the Port Adelaide Crows? Weird...

- Luke Darcy had one 24 hour period where he partied with the US Open tennis champion, saw the twin towers collapse in New York City and Tony Liberatore have a conversation with Michael ******* Jackson.
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Don't mean to be *that* guy but Rohan and Hinkley aren't cousins. It's Rohan's dad and Ken Hinkley that are the cousins.
 
sandeano said:
The # 1 songs in Australia when these clubs won their last premiership....

Adelaide: 1998 "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" (Aerosmith)
Brisbane: 2003 "White Flag" (Dido)
Carlton: 1995 "Kiss From a Rose" (Seal)
Collingwood: 2010 "Only Girl (in the World)" (Rihanna)
Essendon: 2000 "I'm Outta Love" (Anastacia)
Geelong: 2011 "Somebody I Used to Know" (Gotye featuring Kimbra)
Hawthorn: 2015 "You Ruin Me" (The Veronicas)
Melbourne: 1964 "I Should Have Known Better" (The Beatles)
North Melbourne: 1999 "Mambo Number 5" (Lou Bega)
Port Adelaide: 2005 "She Will Be Loved" (Maroon 5)
Richmond: 2020 "Mood" (24kGoldn featuring Iann Dior)
St. Kilda: 1966 "Yellow Submarine" (The Beatles)
Sydney: 2012 "Battle Scars" (Guy Sebastian and Lupe Fiasco)
West Coast: 2018 "Shotgun" (George Ezra)
Western Bulldogs: 2016 "Closer" (The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey)
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Some Hits from the past
 
South Melbourne collected the 1962 wooden spoon, but had the rare distinction of kicking the highest score for that season of 22.11-143 against Fitzroy, the Swans beating the Lions 22.11-143 to 17.16-118 in a high scoring match at the Brunswick Street Oval. Unfortunately for South Melbourne, they also kicked the lowest score of the year, just 1.11-17 in a hiding from Melbourne on a wet day at the MCG.
 
I'll play.
In round 8 1972 a scrawny 18yo Michael Tuck made his senior debut against Richmond.
In the absence of the injured Hudson, his understudy Moncrieff and goal sneak Keddie, Tuck (after kicking 63 goals in the reserves the previous year) lined up at FF and after a nervous dropped mark and a few handballs he then become one of the few players prior to and thereafter to kick three goals with his first three kicks in senior football...
 
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Van_Dyke said:
I thought Hurn didn’t become captain until 2015, think both Van Berlo and Cassisi were both gone from the captaincy at least by that point. still like it as a fact anyway
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Oh you might be right - I can remember it being referenced at the time but don’t remember the year and could have been Hurn stepping in as captain earlier or something I guess?
 
deanc said:
I'll play.
In round 8 1972 a scrawny 18yo Michael Tuck made his senior debut against Richmond.
In the absence of the injured Hudson, his understudy Moncrieff and goal sneak Keddie, Tuck (after kicking 63 goals in the reserves the previous year) lined up at FF and after a nervous dropped mark and a few handballs he then become the only player prior to and thereafter to kick three goals with his first three kicks in senior football...
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Jason Tutt kicked 3 goals with his first 3 kicks a few years ago
 
theyellowsash said:
Jason Tutt kicked 3 goals with his first 3 kicks a few years ago
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He did, Tuck's feat is just a fond memory and gee it appears there are a few others, including some who have kicked four goals with their first four kicks - and how about Clen Denning (Carlton) who kicked six goals from his first six kicks in 1935..!!!

en.wikipedia.org

List of VFL/AFL players to have scored a goal with their first kick - Wikipedia

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The longest streak of winning Grand Finals without losing one is six, held by Collingwood, who won all six they played in between 1927 and 1936.

The longest streak of Grand Final losses without a win is eight, also held by Collingwood, between 1960 and 1981.

The greatest Grand Final winning percentage is 72% (Hawthorn), while the worst is 14% (St. Kilda). Just seven clubs have a Grand Final winning percentage better than 50%.
 
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