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Scoreless Quarters!!!

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mianfei said:
Probably a bit inappropriate, insofar as North Adelaide kicking only one goal reflected an utterly perfect Port Adelaide defence rather than terrible weather. They were as tough as the huge defensive lines of gridiron and even the feared Geelong or Hawthorn attacks would never have managed more than two or three goals: Port just played in front literally one hundred percent of the time in such a way that even one lead from Dunstall would have seemed out of the question, and put so much pressure on from start to finish that the one clean possession by North’s key forwards went straight out on the full! Upfield North had as much of the ball as Port, but not one of their kicks was easy and a quite incredible number were simply smothered.

Compare that with the way Geelong smashed a Footscray defence that looked unbreachable on a Western Oval lake against a weakened West Coast attack. The Eagles did not score into the wind in either the first or third quarter, but if you buy the game you would guess that if Peter Sumich had been playing they would probably have kicked two or three goals in that third quarter before Matthew Mansfield kicked one at the seventeen minute mark for the Bulldogs. At least twice the Dogs’ backline simply pushed aside the slightly built Matt Clape, Ashley McIntosh and Chris Lewis: if they had been replaced by the more solid Sumich and Stevan Jackson (traded to Richmond that year) who knows what would have happened, but more than likely the Eagles would have done something.

The only times anyone in the AFL could potentially have rivalled Port’s perfect display would have been:

  • Carlton against Sydney in Round 19 of 1987 (for three quarters only)
  • West Coast against Melbourne in Round 1 of 1991
  • West Coast against Essendon in Round 4 of 1999, where the Bombers did not score for almost two quarters in perfect conditions.
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Lulwat? :eek:
 
Scoreless quarters since 1919?

RogersResults said:
Some stuff about Scoreless Quarters here
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Worthwhile addition to your site.

Why don’t you add a list restricted to the post-1919 period to “weed out” the low scores before World War I? That would make for more interesting comparisons.

I knew Richmond have never failed to score in the last quarter since the dreadfully wet and low-scoring (not a single team kicked ten goals) twelfth round of 1961, but I was surprised to see that they had done so only seven times before that.
 
In the 1986 Night Grand Final, Carlton were scoreless in both the first and last quarters, as I discovered when reading on Blueseum. A team being scoreless in the first and last quarters has in the regular competition occurred only with:

  1. St. Kilda against South Melbourne in Round 12 of 1919
  2. Melbourne against South Melbourne in Round 15 of 1913
  3. St. Kilda against Geelong in Round 16 of 1910
  4. University against Collingwood in Round 12 of 1908
  5. St. Kilda against Melbourne in Round 8 of 1904
  6. Geelong against Collingwood in Round 9 of 1900
  7. St. Kilda against Collingwood in Round 13 of 1898
  8. Carlton against Collingwood in Round 12 of 1898
and perhaps by Fitzroy against Geelong in Round 6 of 1897, in a game that ended in semi-darkness. In the VFA, this happened to Waverley in the opening round of 1965 on the infamously wet Easter Monday.
 

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