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Gold Coast Suns home ground (Rounds 1-11)
Cazaly's Stadium, Cairns
Optus Stadium, Perth
GABBA, Brisbane
Jiangwan Sports Stadium, China
Metricon Stadium, Gold Coast

Gold Coast Suns home ground (Rounds 12-23)
Metricon Stadium, Gold Coast
 
"TORRENTIAL rain in Cairns made for terrible conditions on Saturday night and as a result, North Melbourne set a modern-day record for the fewest marks ever officially taken in a game.

Since stats have been recorded by Champion Data in 1999, no team has taken fewer grabs than North's 21 against Gold Coast, which is three fewer than the individual marking record for a match.

The previous low was held by the Western Bulldogs, with 25 against Geelong in round 16, 2014."

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-03-26/how-many-north-short-of-the-mark-in-cairns

This sort of article annoys me. How can they bang on about records when the database they use covers not even two decades over the entire history of the league?

Thanks to AFL Tables I was able to learn that North's 21 is in fact not a record at all.

https://afltables.com/afl/stats/teamshi.html#l2

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Another tidbit from the Gold Coast v North Melbourne game.

When did a team last find itself in the Top 4 after Round 1 after scoring only 7 goals (or fewer).

Turns out the last time it happened it for two teams.

South Melbourne 6.10.46 d North Melbourne 4.12.36 (Into 3rd position on the ladder)
Melbourne 7.5.47 d Richmond 6.5.41 (Into 4th position on the ladder).

53 years ago.
 

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Assuming Port players Jack Hombsch, Hamish Hartlett, Brad Ebert, Travis Boak and Justin Westhoff play one of their 2 scheduled games at Perth's Optus Stadium, they will have each played at 18 different venues. The current record is 19 to Paul Salmon and Robert Harvey, with 6 other former players on 18.

https://afltables.com/afl/venues/overall.html#04

Jack Hombsch has played at 17 venues in just 84 games. Contrast that with Alan Didak who played 218 games but only at 6 venues (MCG 135 games, Docklands 44, Football Park 12, Stadium Australia 10, Subiaco 9, Gabba 8)!
 
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Buddy Franklin has now kicked 8+ goals on 12 occasions, this makes up almost half of all occasions by current players.

L Franklin - 12
JJ Kennedy - 5
J Riewoldt - 3
J Roughead 2
E Betts - 1
J Jenkins - 1
M Lecras - 1
TT Lynch - 1
J Carlisle - 1

This is the most by a player since Lloyd retired who did it 13 times.
Lockett did it an incredible 51 times.

T Lockett - 51
J Dunstall - 44
G Coventry - 38
P Hudson - 34
P McKenna - 29
G Ablett Snr - 28
 
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I was looking up old SANFL ladders, and noticed some remarkable stats from the 1980s:

1. Every year from 1981-1985 inclusive, the West Torrens Eagles finished second last, and the Woodville Warriors last.
2. The 1985 Woodville team finished with the wooden spoon and a 6-16 win loss records, but had the second highest points for the season (2752) behind only 4th placed West Adelaide. Unfortunately, somebody forgot to tell the Warriors that when one is playing Australian Rules Football one needs to prevent one's opponents from scoring where possible, and the green and golds conceded 3185 points for the season.
 
Carlton and Collingwood first met in a premiership match on 7 May 1892. After tonight’s game, the two clubs will have met at least once every year from 1892 to 2018. That represents 127 consecutive years. I’d be interested to know if any pair of clubs in any sport in the world have ever exceeded this record, taking into account wars, flu epidemics and promotion/relegation systems.

Here is a table that shows fixtures that have been played every year for a century or more (including 2018 matches that have not yet been played). Note that the record for Geelong is 75 years against 10 other clubs since it resumed in 1944:

Carl v Coll, 127 (1892-2018)
Carl v Fitz, 113 (1884-1996)
Carl v Rich, 111 (1908-2018)
Coll v Rich, 111 (1908-2018)
Coll v Fitz, 105 (1892-1996)
Carl v SMelb, 102 (1917-2018)
Coll v SMelb, 102 (1917-2018)
Rich v SMelb, 102 (1917-2018)
Carl v Ess, 101 (1918-2018)
Carl v St.K, 101 (1918-2018)
Coll v Ess, 101 (1918-2018)
Coll v St.K, 101 (1918-2018)
Ess v Rich, 101 (1918-2018)
Ess v SMelb, 101 (1918-2018)
Ess v St.K, 101 (1918-2018)
Rich v St.K, 101 (1918-2018)
SMelb v St.K, 101 (1918-2018)
Foots v NMelb, 101 (1918-2018)
Carl v Melb, 100 (1919-2018)
Coll v Melb, 100 (1919-2018)
Ess v Melb, 100 (1919-2018)
Melb v Rich, 100 (1919-2018)
Melb v SMelb, 100 (1919-2018)
Melb v St.K, 100 (1919-2018)
Foots v Haw, 100 (1919-2018)
Haw v NMelb, 100 (1919-2018)
 
Derby103 said:
I’d be interested to know if any pair of clubs in any sport in the world have ever exceeded this record, taking into account wars, flu epidemics and promotion/relegation
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"There is little history in cricket that can pride on being richer and older than the distinguished 'Battle of the Blues' in Sri Lanka. The English could take offence, for their legendary Eton vs Harrow was first played in 1805 at Lord's, but that rivalry was interrupted during the two World Wars. The annual encounter between St. Peters College and Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, though, is the longest uninterrupted cricket rivalry, having started in 1879. The Royal-Thomian, too began in the same year, but it involved the schoolmasters too. The next year, it turned exclusive to the students. The Battle of the Blues, can stop for Tea but never for war, as once quoted by a foreign journalist who was blown away by the exultation of the event."

http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/100878/battle-of-the-blues-a-rivalry-with-no-hate
 
One of the longest hoodoos in football is the Woodville West Torrens Eagles Magarey Medal drought.

No WWT Eagles player has won the SANFL best & fairest award in the 27 years since the merged club commenced from the 1991 season, and of the merger partners the last West Torrens Eagles player to win it was Lindsay Head way back in 1963, while Woodville's only Magarey Medalist was Malcolm Blight in 1972.
 

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5 years of Carlton and Brisbane, not pretty. Carlton tends to start bad, win a few games to mid-season, then lose almost all of their last 10 games. Brisbane start every year 1-5, at best have 2 wins before the bye, then improve to win about 30% from Round 15 on.

Carlton's last 1-0, 2-0 and 3-0 start was in 2012. Brisbane's last 2-0 and 3-0 start was in 2010.

Carlton's last 1-0 finish was 2013, last 2-0 finish was 2004 and last 3-0 finish was 2001. Brisbane's last 2-0 and 3-0 finish was 2012.

Carlton & Brisbane.JPG
 
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Just noticed the top 5 spots on the ladder are occupied by teams from 5 different states.
 
Rounds 2 and 13 of 1976 are the only rounds where the two teams in each game had previously played each other in a grand final.

Carlton vs Essendon: 1908, 1947, 1949, 1962, 1968
Collingwood vs South: 1918, 1935, 1936
Fitzroy vs St. Kilda: 1913
Footscray vs Melbourne: 1954
Geelong vs Richmond: 1931, 1967
Hawthorn vs North: 1975
 
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Actually they have equalled their lowest ever score.
Brisbane also kicked 2.5 (17) v Hawthorn in Rd 12, 1988
https://afltables.com/afl/stats/games/1988/021019880618.html
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What makes today's game stranger than the one nearly 30 years ago is that the Richmond vs. Brisbane Lions was played in fine conditions at the MCG, the 1988 match between Hawthorn and the Brisbane Bears was played on a cold winters day with constant heavy rain on a muddy, waterlogged Princes Park.

It is also interesting that both incarnations of Brisbane, the Bears and the Lions, now share the same record lowest score of 2.5-17.

On a side note, the Hawthorn vs. Brisbane Bears game in 1988 was also possibly the worst jumper clash match I have seen, pitting Hawthorn in brown and gold jumpers against the Bears in their triangular BB maroon and gold jumper in gloomy weather conditions.
 

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Buddy Franklin has now kicked 8+ goals on 12 occasions, this makes up almost half of all occasions by current players.

L Franklin - 12
JJ Kennedy - 5
J Riewoldt - 3
J Roughead 2
E Betts - 1
J Jenkins - 1
M Lecras - 1
TT Lynch - 1
J Carlisle - 1

This is the most by a player since Lloyd retired who did it 13 times.
Lockett did it an incredible 51 times.

T Lockett - 51
J Dunstall - 44
G Coventry - 38
P Hudson - 34
P McKenna - 29
G Ablett Snr - 28
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Others ahead or equal to Buddy also:

J Coleman - 20
D. Wade - 19
B. Pratt - 18
B. Mohr - 17
J. Titus - 16
H. Vallence - 13
L. White - 13
M. Lloyd - 13
J. Moriarty - 12

So he is equal 15th overall.

Other to have done it 10 or more times include:

S. Beasley - 11
B. Taylor - 11
F. Fanning - 11
M. Moncrieff - 11
S. Rocca - 10
J. Longmire - 10
K. Templeton - 10
M. Roach - 10
P. Salmon - 9
 
Ron Barassi Jnr. had some interesting firsts and lasts in his playing and coaching tenures as follows:

* His first coaching games for Carlton, North Melbourne and Melbourne (a single game filling in for Norm Smith against Fitzroy 1964 not withstanding) were all against Hawthorn.
* Barassi's tenures as a Melbourne player, and coaching Carlton, North Melbourne and Sydney all finished with games against Collingwood.
* Barassi's first game coached for Sydney was against former team Carlton, and his first win coaching the Swans was against Melbourne. Barassi's last ever game as a player was in 1969 for Carlton against Melbourne, and his first ever win as a player came in a victory by Melbourne over Carlton.
* A 5 year stint as Melbourne coach from 1981-1985 ended for Barassi with a loss to Richmond. The Tigers were Carlton's opponents in Barassi's first GF as a coach in 1967, and also defeated sides coached by Barassi in the 1969 (Carlton) and 1974 (North Melbourne) Grand Finals. Barassi did not play in a winning Demons team in his first season in 1953, the best result for him that year being a draw - against Richmond.
 
Carlton are 0-4 but have started their last 4 seasons 1-4, so expect them to beat West Coast at the MCG this coming weekend.

Brisbane are 0-4 but have started their last 4 seasons 1-5, so expect them to beat the Suns at the GABBA this weekend then lose away to the Giants.
 
Craig Hutchison said on Footy Classified last night that this season is the first time in history that after Round 4 all teams have been beaten.

Presuming he means VFL/AFL history, that is totally incorrect as in 1989, all sides had been beaten after just 3 rounds!
 
I wouldn't rely on any AFL journo or commentator to get stats correct.

1927 & 1940 - all 12 teams had lost a game by Round 3
1989 - all 14 teams had lost a game by Round 3

1911 - none of the 10 teams were 3-0 after Round 3 [best was 2-1-0]
1916 - none of the 4 teams were 3-0 after Round 3 [best was 2-1-0]
1920 - none of the 9 teams were 3-0 after Round 3 [best was 2-0 and a bye]
1933 & 1935 & 1957 - none of the 12 teams were 3-0 after Round 3 [best was 2-1-0]
1991 & 1992 - none of the 15 teams were 3-0 after Round 3 [best was 2-0 and a bye]
 

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