The what if thread

[99cents]

Seems strange because it didn’t cost us anything, but Henry Playfair has possession of the ball with about 15 seconds to play in round 21 2007. Geelong had come from 6-7 goals down against Port in a game of fairly little consequence.
We were leading by a point or so, playfair looks around like a deer in headlights and gets tackled, coughs it up and cassisi kicks a goal to win the game.

That loss interrupted streaks of 15, and 11 wins. If the deadshit just kicked the f***ing thing, we win 27 straight and 51 out of 53.

Henry's last game in the hoops, as I recall?

 

[PhatBoy]

Henry's last game in the hoops, as I recall?

Thank God

 

[99cents]

Sigh. If Geelong win that game and meet Freo in the gf... Would've been a good game

Dockers may have their first flag.

But that choke in the first half against the hawks proved too hard to come back from; many suspect that the Dockers may have also found the occasion overwhelming had they been up against the cats. Who knows? Dockers beat em a fortnight earlier

 

[99cents]

what if bevo didn't call bob up to the stage?

Dogs go back- to- back, sorry Tigers.

 

[Captain_Bender]

What if David Mundy had missed his shot after the siren to beat the tigers last year? Richmond still would have won the flag but done it from top position and we wouldn’t have had to endure the countless threads about the grand final being played at the g.

Nah sooky interstate supporters would still try find something to sook about

 

[The Joker]

What if Hawthorn didn't have their cheersquad officiating in 2013...

 

[gbatman]

Koutoufides didn't injure his knee late in 2000. Essendon were a formidable side but Carlton with Kouta in it were right up there, but unfortunately he was such a massive part of their side that without him they came back a long way... Also the brownlow medal.

 

[MadDocker]

What if the great man Brandon Fevola had his act together !? He was something special on the field.

Brendans brother?

 

[Sttew]

Oh yes, that 15 minute bike ride from Geelong to Melbourne is really tough on the bodies. Different timezones.

What if New Zealand had been invited to be part of Australia over Western Australia and accepted the offer?

 

[cannavo]

'07 Prelim Cats v Pies
What if, there were 4 more secs, Maxwell runs through, grabs it and slammed it on his right?
Well, it looked better since the siren went he was the only one wanting the ball, had a clear path but I think Stokes was lurking plus it would've been a shank

What if Fitzroy were a club again.

Bring em back!

I'm running a "What If" graphic design competition based around Ex and Proposed footy clubs, this week Fitzroy!
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/what-if-wednesdays-week-25-fitzroy-lions.1186069/

 

[Randy Campbell]

Hawthorn did not trade Trent Croad to Freo for the number one pick.

 

[Resigned]

What if Mark Couglan got a good run with injury? Hurts me more than picking Tambling over Franklin.

 

[OneEyedHawk]

2001 prelim against Essendon.

If Croads 60 meter bomb goes through instead of swinging late and hitting the post. Hawks take the lead, i believe the game and an unlikely grand final appearance

What if anyone bar Darren Goldspink officiated that day? And the Bombers weren't gifted 4-5 goals in the first quarter?

Will never be topped as the most disgraceful umpiring performance of all time.


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[beema limapep]

What if New Zealand had been invited to be part of Australia over Western Australia and accepted the offer?

There'd be less sooking in the country thats for sure.

 

[Macpotata]

If Collingwood beat us in 07, they play Port in the GF and only win by 80.

 

[mianfei]

What if Chris Grant didn't have that shot smothered in the dying seconds vs the Crows in the prelim of 1997. The dogs would have played the Saints and we would of had a different winner. Who would have won that game?

I have always felt that most likely the Dogs would have won as playing later was oddly advantageous since the fine weather was returning so that playing on the rainy Friday was if anything a disadvantage. It could easily have set the Bulldogs up for a back-to-back premiership in 1998 with that momentum – they certainly possessed the talent to do back-to-back and even threaten a hat-trick (although North and Essendon would likely have had too much momentum).

What if like Melbourne, was good, and stuff?

That led me to think, what if the clubs had been allotted different country zones in the draw done in 1968??

Whilst there are a very large number of “what-ifs” regarding the draw for country zones that would take its own forum and a lot of thinking to discuss, suffice to say that if Melbourne had been allotted a good zone they would likely have re-established themselves as a League power in the 1970s and held themselves against the financial and social changes of the 1980s, and remained a power like Hawthorn actually did. It’s even possible that Melbourne could have stayed a power after country zoning for a longer period than Hawthorn did, but one would need far more analysis than I can provide in a short post.

 

[74561347]

What if New Zealand had been invited to be part of Australia over Western Australia and accepted the offer?

fiji and new zealand were originally part of the process, but ultimately decided not to join the federation

 

[Sttew]

fiji and new zealand were originally part of the process, but ultimately decided not to join the federation

I knew about NZ but not Fiji

 

[SAweagle]

Probably been mentioned but the biggest in recent years has to be the ball doing an offbreak on stevey milne with 2 minutes to go in the 2010 granny. Saints would have run over the pies if they'd taken the lead there. Milne let it sit for some reason.

 

[HTT]

'07 Prelim Cats v Pies
What if, there were 4 more secs, Maxwell runs through, grabs it and slammed it on his right?
Well, it looked better since the siren went he was the only one wanting the ball, had a clear path but I think Stokes was lurking plus it would've been a shank


I'm running a "What If" graphic design competition based around Ex and Proposed footy clubs, this week Fitzroy!
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/what-if-wednesdays-week-25-fitzroy-lions.1186069/

I only had vague memories of that game, went back and watched the last few minutes.
When Medhurst (?) kicks the goal to put Collingwood within 5 points, he was taking Rocca’s kick. The clock was stopped at 1:17 to sort that all out, but then Medhurst takes a run up, clock winds down to 1:11 and the umpire stops play again. There was effectively 6 seconds lost there.
What if those 6 seconds weren’t lost?

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Imagine how good some of those GWS & Gold Coast players could have been had they been drafted by established clubs.

 

[Acinath]

Henry's last game in the hoops, as I recall?

Good ol Playfair. Showed us that even though Geelong were dominate on and off the field, mistakes were still made.

Smartest thing Geelong did with him was move him on

 

[Suns of Anarchy]

What if Scott Clayton wasn’t list manager between 2010-17...

 

[TedDougChris]

What if Scott Clayton wasn’t list manager between 2010-17...

We can do that one too .....

 

[tony__montana]

What if the hawks drafted Selwood?? How many more flags would that have netted them??