Autopsy Saints in biggest last quarter comeback in history.

[sauce_head]

It double amuses me as one of the melb defenders is running after him trying to run him down... which would have been a double goal to us as it was a 50 meter paid, not advantage. They were completely wrecked mentally that quarter.

It was Higgins. It would have been a tackle around the neck and paid against him as holding the ball…

 

[Windtagger]

Love the Higgins free where he runs into a goal with Dwayne screaming: "THIS...LITTLE...HIGGIE...WENT...ALL THE WAY HOME!!!" and Dermie going "What have you done?" to the Demon dickhead who threw Jack to the ground just in front of the goal square

All time best troll!

That dump tackle on Higgins was hilarious.

 

[austinnn]

Don't know how many times I've watched the last quarter.

But even when I just chuck on the last two minutes I still tear up every time. Is that weird?

Pretty nice one to have on the backburner over summer as we get ready for 2026. What an all time game.

That last quarter is just poetry, absolute epic poetry. I was moved to write commentary to it as I rewatched. I know you guys have seen it multiple times but for your interest, here it is in written word form:

T -20:00, 46 points down

GOAL 1 - Jack Higgins: First bounce gets the ball tumbling towards our defence, but we repel it and it ends up with Pickett in our F50. He tries lumping it out to Salem running out but Hill desperately causes a fumble and after a bit of pinball, it ends up in the hands of Hall who kicks truly into the right pocket towards Snags, who - much to Dermie’s pleasure - has sniffed a goal and run into space for the uncontested mark. He calmly kicks his third for the night.​

T - 18:45, 40 pts down

After plenty of good play from Hall, Nas, Wood, and Arie, the ball ends up in the Dees’ goal square but Hill hits the post. Dees play fast and precise down the wing but Viney can only score a behind.​

GOAL 2 - Brad Hill: Melbourne’s defence tries to kick out to Gawn to mark on the far wing but under close attention from Wilkie, the ball drops and Windy powers out of the crowd and slips it back to Wilke before being collected. Wilke handballs it to Macrae, who kicks it to Jones back on the wing, who plays on quickly and boots it to Marshall who turns and gets it to Nas all alone in the centre. NWM shoots a laser at Hall in the far pocket who, along with Rivers, gets fingertips to it and the ball falls into the path of Tauru who scoops it up to Wood who hands it to Hill near the far pocket boundary. Bad Brad simply turns and spectacularly threads the needle a centimetre in front of a sprinting McVee.​

T - 16:18, 34 pts down

GOAL 3 - Cooper Sharman: From the resulting centre bounce, the ball bounces away from the rucks and Gawn can only tap it into the path of Hall who smuggles it to Nas and the run starts, Nas handballing to Zac, who kicks to Tauru who can’t mark under pressure and the ball falls behind to Sharman with a red and blue goon either side of him at the top of the goalsquare. He wheels around to his right and snaps a left-footed beauty! Saint have all the momentum.​

T - 16:00, 28 pts down

Dees have been roused, their premiership stars start getting their hands from it, but from the resulting set shot, Oliver pulls it a touch to the left. The ball stops falling our way and the game becomes a bit more 50-50, and some sharp Melbourne play gets the ball into Melksham’s hands within range, but he only hits the post.​

Nas takes the kick-in, dishing off one-twos to McRae and Sinclair while blasting past Spargo and Langdon into the far wing before kicking a boomer into F50 towards Byrnes who can’t meet it and the ball bumbles around in F50 before kicks a high ball to Fritch on the edge of his D50 who would mark but for the acceleration of Wilkie who somehow spoils it and a bunch of Saints get Marshall to mark right in front inside 50. He kicks…Urgh, wtf…​

T - 10:37, 30 pts down

GOAL 4 - Jack Steele: Throw in on far wing, Hall gets Gawn’s tap and has time to evade Spargo and Lindsay before dishing off to Boxy in the centre who gets it to Clark, who doubles back and kicks magnificently to his captain in the inside pocket and surrounded by four Dees, Steele marks and calmly goes back and slots the set shot! Whatever happens the Saints haven't died wondering…​

T - 09:44, 24 pts down

GOAL 5 - Mason Wood: No one really wins the bounce, but Hall, Macrae and Clark scrap with Viney, Langdon and Oliver before the ball is marked by Jones, running toward F50. He stops and quickly kicks it to a Saint alone just inside F50 but the ball is punched out of his hands and Pickett runs it out of there, before hitting it lace out to Caminiti who has out-positioned Van Rooyen. Clark demands the ball then gets it to Macrae in the centre, who kicks to the busy Hall dead in front all alone. He winds up and puts it up high for Wood to mark in more or less the same spot as Steele did with the Demon defenders all distracted by Tauru, Owens, and Steele. He kicks truly! By this stage, everyone in the stadium including the commentators knows the Saints are going to win but they do not know how! St Kilda are still 3 goals down and it’s by no means a given.​

T - 08:35, 18 pts down

Marshall smashes the ball out of the centre bounce, Nas and Windy chase it towards defence, Nas handballs it to his housemate who seeks out Sinclair running the other way, who hands it off to Hall who calmly switches it to Hastie on the far wing, who kicks the perfect ball to Wood who again marks just inside 50, but this time he can’t calm himself and his shot is wide.​

T - 07:38, 17 pts down

Melbourne play on quickly and the ball ends up with Viney giving Hall the Don’t Argue and kicking a great release ball to Langford in the centre, but Wood spoils before getting it to Sinclair who drives that ball into the far wing for Hill to run onto. A frantic contest in the Saints F50 ensues and Sinclair slides it across to Clark all alone at the apex of the F50 but his shot only just makes it to the behind post and it’s an easy collect for Rivers who bolts and bombs but Hastie marks spectacularly just forward of CS. He puts it up to the goal square, Sharman is closest but can’t grab it and the last 20 seconds is basically a replay except this time Hastie can’t mark and the ball ends up in Oliver’s hands and the Dees slow it down.​

T - 05:06, 17 pts down

GOAL 6 - Cooper Sharman: A marking contest on the rarely-used near wing ends up with Clark handballing back to Sinclair, who moves it to Windy, who turns and switches to Wood on the opposite D pocket who gets it to Jones on the wing. Zac kicks it to Higgins on the wing, who boots it to the F50 line where Sharman jumps over McDonald to collect and although the ball is dropped, the mark is given. Coops goes back and quickly smashes it goalward and it sails strsight through the goals mid-post height. He gave it everything!​

T - 04:21, 11 pts down

GOAL 7 - Jack Higgins: The ball gets tapped to Oliver but he can’t grab it and it falls to Hall who has Nas running on his outside. Without breaking stride, Nas fires an absolute sniper shot into the rushing chest of Higgins in the middle of F50. Snags is comically dumped to the ground by Rivers who thinks he saw the ball graze the fingers of his teammate. While he and all his idiot teammates are trying to convince the umpire, Higgins gets up and walks nonchalantly away from the protesting crowd towards the new mark the umpire has given him, then starts running into an empty goal. Despite having watched Higgins get the 50m pen, Rivers still tries to chase Higgins for reasons unknown. It is of no consequence as Snags buries the ball into the upper echelon of the stands in front of the delirious Saints cheer squad and celebrates his fourth of the night with them.​

T - 04:07, 5 pts down

Mebourne score a behind. Yawn. Petracca gets it out on the full. Goodwin looks absolutely bewildered, like he didn’t expect a football match to take place. Nearly every single player on the field touches the ball. The ball ends up flying into the Demons right forward pocket, it bounces luckily into the arms of Oliver who executes a scrappy one-two with Spargo before wearily splaying a shot out on the full again. Melbourne are zombified, going through the motions but they must by now know they are living in someone else’s dreams, as Dave Chapelle once put it.​

T - 01:54, 6 pts down

Caminiti kicks a horrible kick in down the line and it somehow bounces inward to Stocker, who is caught by Spargo. Heated contests ensue everywhere.​

T - 01:03, 6 pts down

GOAL 8 - Nasiah Wanganeen Milera: The umpire throws it in on the far side, the rucks can’t get to it but Windy can, and through traffic gets it to the running forward Wood who keeps running with the Demon on his hammer and kicks a Hail Mary deep into that forward pocket that has been so generous to St Kilda this night. Fritch and McVee think they have it covered but halfback-cum-star forward Nasiah Wanganeen Milera outruns McVee and, putting his knee into Fritch's back, sails over the top of him and lands with a nice little forward roll, jumping on to his feet with the ball in his hands and ice in his veins. Teammates, coaches, tens of thousands of supporters commentators, all going nuts, while the coolest man in Marvel walks back, looks at the scoreboard, rolls up his socks, takes a couple of deep breaths then starts walking towards the goal, then trots and after a few steps kicks a gunbarrel-straight goal to tie the scores. The messiah gets his due rapture as the Saints somehow avoid a massive loss. The End. Just time enough to stop Melbourne scoring and we’re set for a slightly satisfying draw.​

T - 0:08, scores level

GOAL 9 - Nasiah Wanganeen Milera: As the players prepare to do battle in the centre, the umpire notices an infringement and, despite the pleas of all the Saints midfielders, is steadfast and calm in his officialdom. As all players reset for a Saints free kick, the umpire cooly waits for all the Demons mids to come back to the centre. Meanwhile Marshall calls Nas over to hatch an audacious scheme. As every single Demon including the head coach looks around perplexed and Choco counts the players performatively, NWM tells all his forwards to head to that famous right forward pocket and give him space down the left. He’s lucky that Gawn doesn’t see the danger as he watches Viney leave his man and run uselessly to the wing.​

As Gawn beckons his forwards back, Nas explains the plan to Windy who knows he has to shepherd. When the whistle blows, Wanganeen Milera makes a beeline for the left inside 50 with Caminiti running forward ahead of him and the Dee mids stuck on the other side of Windhager or nowhere. Nasiah turns to receive with Viney chasing and Bowey who has realised too late that Nas is the receiver runs back to him. They are both metres away and Marshall’s kick has to be perfect to give him time to mark cleanly with no contest. It is! NWM marks above his head, falls back and with a backwards roll, springs up again as calm as you like. However, marks don’t win points and he still has the most important kick, some might say a four-million dollar kick, ahead of him as the siren blows.​

​

Bedlam shakes the stadium as Nasiah walks back and after a few deep breaths he commences his approach. With Saints hearts around the world hammering and everyone watching except Demons fans riding the ball, he walks slowly down the path of his destiny, the path that terminated Simon Goodwin’s term as senior coach, possibly the path that put the nail in the coffin of the Melbourne careers of their two main midfielders and end their club’s premiership era, the path that changed the pay scale of AFL players and the path that germinated seeds of possibility in the minds of many AFL players, notably Tom DeKoning, Sam Flanders, Jack Silvagni and Liam Ryan. The walk turns into a trot and with another perfect kick, the goalposts are gloriously split, the game is won, history is re-written and victorious St Kilda have a new saint.​

​

Now they just have to stop him leaving the club in the next month…​

 

[austinnn]

If Marshall's horrible shank before the Steele goal nearly cost us the greatest 4th quarter comeback win in history, was his inch-perfect kick to Nas eight seconds before the final siren his... ...sure shank redemption? YEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHH

 

[phantom13]

That last quarter is just poetry, absolute epic poetry. I was moved to write commentary to it as I rewatched. I know you guys have seen it multiple times but for your interest, here it is in written word form:

T -20:00, 46 points down

GOAL 1 - Jack Higgins: First bounce gets the ball tumbling towards our defence, but we repel it and it ends up with Pickett in our F50. He tries lumping it out to Salem running out but Hill desperately causes a fumble and after a bit of pinball, it ends up in the hands of Hall who kicks truly into the right pocket towards Snags, who - much to Dermie’s pleasure - has sniffed a goal and run into space for the uncontested mark. He calmly kicks his third for the night.​

T - 18:45, 40 pts down

After plenty of good play from Hall, Nas, Wood, and Arie, the ball ends up in the Dees’ goal square but Hill hits the post. Dees play fast and precise down the wing but Viney can only score a behind.​

GOAL 2 - Brad Hill: Melbourne’s defence tries to kick out to Gawn to mark on the far wing but under close attention from Wilkie, the ball drops and Windy powers out of the crowd and slips it back to Wilke before being collected. Wilke handballs it to Macrae, who kicks it to Jones back on the wing, who plays on quickly and boots it to Marshall who turns and gets it to Nas all alone in the centre. NWM shoots a laser at Hall in the far pocket who, along with Rivers, gets fingertips to it and the ball falls into the path of Tauru who scoops it up to Wood who hands it to Hill near the far pocket boundary. Bad Brad simply turns and spectacularly threads the needle a centimetre in front of a sprinting McVee.​

T - 16:18, 34 pts down

GOAL 3 - Cooper Sharman: From the resulting centre bounce, the ball bounces away from the rucks and Gawn can only tap it into the path of Hall who smuggles it to Nas and the run starts, Nas handballing to Zac, who kicks to Tauru who can’t mark under pressure and the ball falls behind to Sharman with a red and blue goon either side of him at the top of the goalsquare. He wheels around to his right and snaps a left-footed beauty! Saint have all the momentum.​

T - 16:00, 28 pts down

Dees have been roused, their premiership stars start getting their hands from it, but from the resulting set shot, Oliver pulls it a touch to the left. The ball stops falling our way and the game becomes a bit more 50-50, and some sharp Melbourne play gets the ball into Melksham’s hands within range, but he only hits the post.​

Nas takes the kick-in, dishing off one-twos to McRae and Sinclair while blasting past Spargo and Langdon into the far wing before kicking a boomer into F50 towards Byrnes who can’t meet it and the ball bumbles around in F50 before kicks a high ball to Fritch on the edge of his D50 who would mark but for the acceleration of Wilkie who somehow spoils it and a bunch of Saints get Marshall to mark right in front inside 50. He kicks…Urgh, wtf…​

T - 10:37, 30 pts down

GOAL 4 - Jack Steele: Throw in on far wing, Hall gets Gawn’s tap and has time to evade Spargo and Lindsay before dishing off to Boxy in the centre who gets it to Clark, who doubles back and kicks magnificently to his captain in the inside pocket and surrounded by four Dees, Steele marks and calmly goes back and slots the set shot! Whatever happens the Saints haven't died wondering…​

T - 09:44, 24 pts down

GOAL 5 - Mason Wood: No one really wins the bounce, but Hall, Macrae and Clark scrap with Viney, Langdon and Oliver before the ball is marked by Jones, running toward F50. He stops and quickly kicks it to a Saint alone just inside F50 but the ball is punched out of his hands and Pickett runs it out of there, before hitting it lace out to Caminiti who has out-positioned Van Rooyen. Clark demands the ball then gets it to Macrae in the centre, who kicks to the busy Hall dead in front all alone. He winds up and puts it up high for Wood to mark in more or less the same spot as Steele did with the Demon defenders all distracted by Tauru, Owens, and Steele. He kicks truly! By this stage, everyone in the stadium including the commentators knows the Saints are going to win but they do not know how! St Kilda are still 3 goals down and it’s by no means a given.​

T - 08:35, 18 pts down

Marshall smashes the ball out of the centre bounce, Nas and Windy chase it towards defence, Nas handballs it to his housemate who seeks out Sinclair running the other way, who hands it off to Hall who calmly switches it to Hastie on the far wing, who kicks the perfect ball to Wood who again marks just inside 50, but this time he can’t calm himself and his shot is wide.​

T - 07:38, 17 pts down

Melbourne play on quickly and the ball ends up with Viney giving Hall the Don’t Argue and kicking a great release ball to Langford in the centre, but Wood spoils before getting it to Sinclair who drives that ball into the far wing for Hill to run onto. A frantic contest in the Saints F50 ensues and Sinclair slides it across to Clark all alone at the apex of the F50 but his shot only just makes it to the behind post and it’s an easy collect for Rivers who bolts and bombs but Hastie marks spectacularly just forward of CS. He puts it up to the goal square, Sharman is closest but can’t grab it and the last 20 seconds is basically a replay except this time Hastie can’t mark and the ball ends up in Oliver’s hands and the Dees slow it down.​

T - 05:06, 17 pts down

GOAL 6 - Cooper Sharman: A marking contest on the rarely-used near wing ends up with Clark handballing back to Sinclair, who moves it to Windy, who turns and switches to Wood on the opposite D pocket who gets it to Jones on the wing. Zac kicks it to Higgins on the wing, who boots it to the F50 line where Sharman jumps over McDonald to collect and although the ball is dropped, the mark is given. Coops goes back and quickly smashes it goalward and it sails strsight through the goals mid-post height. He gave it everything!​

T - 04:21, 11 pts down

GOAL 7 - Jack Higgins: The ball gets tapped to Oliver but he can’t grab it and it falls to Hall who has Nas running on his outside. Without breaking stride, Nas fires an absolute sniper shot into the rushing chest of Higgins in the middle of F50. Snags is comically dumped to the ground by Rivers who thinks he saw the ball graze the fingers of his teammate. While he and all his idiot teammates are trying to convince the umpire, Higgins gets up and walks nonchalantly away from the protesting crowd towards the new mark the umpire has given him, then starts running into an empty goal. Despite having watched Higgins get the 50m pen, Rivers still tries to chase Higgins for reasons unknown. It is of no consequence as Snags buries the ball into the upper echelon of the stands in front of the delirious Saints cheer squad and celebrates his fourth of the night with them.​

T - 04:07, 5 pts down

Mebourne score a behind. Yawn. Petracca gets it out on the full. Goodwin looks absolutely bewildered, like he didn’t expect a football match to take place. Nearly every single player on the field touches the ball. The ball ends up flying into the Demons right forward pocket, it bounces luckily into the arms of Oliver who executes a scrappy one-two with Spargo before wearily splaying a shot out on the full again. Melbourne are zombified, going through the motions but they must by now know they are living in someone else’s dreams, as Dave Chapelle once put it.​

T - 01:54, 6 pts down

Caminiti kicks a horrible kick in down the line and it somehow bounces inward to Stocker, who is caught by Spargo. Heated contests ensue everywhere.​

T - 01:03, 6 pts down

GOAL 8 - Nasiah Wanganeen Milera: The umpire throws it in on the far side, the rucks can’t get to it but Windy can, and through traffic gets it to the running forward Wood who keeps running with the Demon on his hammer and kicks a Hail Mary deep into that forward pocket that has been so generous to St Kilda this night. Fritch and McVee think they have it covered but halfback-cum-star forward Nasiah Wanganeen Milera outruns McVee and, putting his knee into Fritch's back, sails over the top of him and lands with a nice little forward roll, jumping on to his feet with the ball in his hands and ice in his veins. Teammates, coaches, tens of thousands of supporters commentators, all going nuts, while the coolest man in Marvel walks back, looks at the scoreboard, rolls up his socks, takes a couple of deep breaths then starts walking towards the goal, then trots and after a few steps kicks a gunbarrel-straight goal to tie the scores. The messiah gets his due rapture as the Saints somehow avoid a massive loss. The End. Just time enough to stop Melbourne scoring and we’re set for a slightly satisfying draw.​

T - 0:08, scores level

GOAL 9 - Nasiah Wanganeen Milera: As the players prepare to do battle in the centre, the umpire notices an infringement and, despite the pleas of all the Saints midfielders, is steadfast and calm in his officialdom. As all players reset for a Saints free kick, the umpire cooly waits for all the Demons mids to come back to the centre. Meanwhile Marshall calls Nas over to hatch an audacious scheme. As every single Demon including the head coach looks around perplexed and Choco counts the players performatively, NWM tells all his forwards to head to that famous right forward pocket and give him space down the left. He’s lucky that Gawn doesn’t see the danger as he watches Viney leave his man and run uselessly to the wing.​

As Gawn beckons his forwards back, Nas explains the plan to Windy who knows he has to shepherd. When the whistle blows, Wanganeen Milera makes a beeline for the left inside 50 with Caminiti running forward ahead of him and the Dee mids stuck on the other side of Windhager or nowhere. Nasiah turns to receive with Viney chasing and Bowey who has realised too late that Nas is the receiver runs back to him. They are both metres away and Marshall’s kick has to be perfect to give him time to mark cleanly with no contest. It is! NWM marks above his head, falls back and with a backwards roll, springs up again as calm as you like. However, marks don’t win points and he still has the most important kick, some might say a four-million dollar kick, ahead of him as the siren blows.​

​

Bedlam shakes the stadium as Nasiah walks back and after a few deep breaths he commences his approach. With Saints hearts around the world hammering and everyone watching except Demons fans riding the ball, he walks slowly down the path of his destiny, the path that terminated Simon Goodwin’s term as senior coach, possibly the path that put the nail in the coffin of the Melbourne careers of their two main midfielders and end their club’s premiership era, the path that changed the pay scale of AFL players and the path that germinated seeds of possibility in the minds of many AFL players, notably Tom DeKoning, Sam Flanders, Jack Silvagni and Liam Ryan. The walk turns into a trot and with another perfect kick, the goalposts are gloriously split, the game is won, history is re-written and victorious St Kilda have a new saint.​

​

Now they just have to stop him leaving the club in the next month…​

Chills, literal chills.

Gonna watch this again tonight.

 

[True Believer]

If Marshall's horrible shank before the Steele goal nearly cost us the greatest 4th quarter comeback win in history, was his inch-perfect kick to Nas eight seconds before the final siren his...View attachment 2466575...sure shank redemption? YEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHH

Mods - I'm assuming this automatically attracts a permaban?

 

[dudeintheswamp]

Chills, literal chills.

Gonna watch this again tonight.

Haha I watched the last quarter again last night