Who would you rate as the strongest wooden spoon side of the last 20 years?

[Altum Volantes]

Eagles in 2010 had a load of talent but was coming off poor years in 2008 and 2009 too.

Worked out ok in the end...

Don’t finish last in 2010...then we don’t draft Andrew Gaff with pick 4...then he never punches Andrew Brayshaw and Dom Sheed never replaces him and kicks the winning goal in the GF.

Best Wooden Spoon ever, obviously.

 

[ABSOLUTE MADMAN]

West Coast 2010 were a side that really just had a crap year but there was still definitely quality on that list which they showed the following year.

They got the tank running that season once the writing was on the wall.

 

[Lsta062]

If we are talking about list, it would be Essendon 2016 due to the unavailable players being on their list but if we are talking performance, then it is between West Coast 2010 and Brisbane 2017.

 

[MCG-Unit]

WCE 2010
Esso 2016, BL 2017

Saints 2014

 

[Captain_Bender]

WCE 2010, Saints 2014, Esso 2016, BL 2017

lol

 

[Freomaniac]

Brisbane of 1998 and Wet coast of 2010 were scarily similar.

Brisbane of 1998 just had a bad year. A bulk of those Brisbane players in 1998 played finals from 1995-1997. They made the finals next year easily.

West coast in 2010 still had players from their 2002-7 finals run. 2008-10 was bad for them but they made the 2011-12 finals off the back of those veterans.

 

[threesixpio]

My favourite was Essendon 2016. Enjoyed watching every game

 

[threesixpio]

PS: Nuts how Magies turned it around from 1999. GFs soon after

 

[Pessimistic]

Pretty emphatic result but Brisbane 1998 would romp in if included

How did they manage to be so crap?

 

[Freomaniac]

Pretty emphatic result but Brisbane 1998 would romp in if included

How did they manage to be so crap?

They just had a horrible season. Possibly crippled by injuries. Lost a few games by under 3 goals or less too. They stumbled into finals in 1997 with 10 wins and 12 defeats. Then Again, 1997 was a tight season.

They got 5 wins and a draw to finish bottom. Freo were 15th with 7 wins and had a % of 76, Collingwood had 7 wins in 14th but a % of 90. Strange to think back then a team could of got 7 wins and got the spoon.

Back then, I don't think the word tanking was ever mentioned.

 

[RobRocket]

West coast 2010,
Essendon 2013 ( technically weren’t wooden spooners).


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[Ambrose Burnside]

I was furious when the 2010 Eagles lost to Brisbane to lock in the spoon. Bloody Mitch Brown. Still furious when I realised Gold Coast would get all the good draft picks.

Then this happened:

Pick 4: Andrew Gaff
Pick 26: Jack Darling
Pick 29: Scott Lycett

Rookie Pick 44 (!!!): Jeremy McGovern

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

Ironically on numbers GWS are the worst team on the list, but probably the strongest list to win a spoon (if you look at where they were just three years later).

 

[Freomaniac]

Ironically on numbers GWS are the worst team on the list, but probably the strongest list to win a spoon (if you look at where they were just three years later).

that's mainly because they had a lot of 1st round picks and used most of them wisely

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

that's mainly because they had a lot of 1st round picks and used most of them wisely

Duh

 

[Nugett]

that's mainly because they had a lot of 1st round picks and used most of them wisely

As well as wisely trading out their duds to Carlton.

 

[PapaJ]

Was listening to a podcast talking about how sport can inspire to greatness a couple of days ago ... then I cam across this thread, LOL.

Anyway, Dons 2016 is a unique and basically abnormal case so I'm not sure how to rate them, same with GWS. With all that, sill go WC 2010 as others have said. 2009, they had a meh kind of year, but when they got their s**t together they looked solid and finished the year fairly well. They then spluttered a bit at the start of 2010, picked up some key injuries and then decided quite early to go full tank, but they were never as bad as their record suggested.

Lock in West Coast 2010.

 

[Blue1980]

We should have a wooden spoon ranking thread like the premiership one, that ranks every wooden spooner ever

 

[HTT]

West coast 2010,
Essendon 2013 ( technically weren’t wooden spooners).


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Essendon 13 got relegated to 9th, not last.

 

[Dry Rot]

PS: Nuts how Magies turned it around from 1999. GFs soon after

My recollection is that 1999 Pies side played some really good footy and plucked defeat from the jaws of victory.

There were some bad blowouts, but very close losses to pretty good teams. eg vs PF finalist Essendon, Crows in Adelaide, Port, Cats and Premiers North.


https://forever.collingwoodfc.com.au/list-by-year/1999/?post_type=cf_match

 

[Power Raid]

I was furious when the 2010 Eagles lost to Brisbane to lock in the spoon. Bloody Mitch Brown. Still furious when I realised Gold Coast would get all the good draft picks.

Then this happened:

Pick 4: Andrew Gaff
Pick 26: Jack Darling
Pick 29: Scott Lycett

Rookie Pick 44 (!!!): Jeremy McGovern

F me!

I didn’t know McGovern was a rookie!

What a coup

 

[PT Bar None]

Agree with the Eagles 2010 consensus and understand the polling of Essendon depending on how you interpret the asterix.
Thought Pies in 1999 would've gotten more love.

I was furious when the 2010 Eagles lost to Brisbane to lock in the spoon. Bloody Mitch Brown. Still furious when I realised Gold Coast would get all the good draft picks.

Then this happened:

Pick 4: Andrew Gaff
Pick 26: Jack Darling
Pick 29: Scott Lycett

Rookie Pick 44 (!!!): Jeremy McGovern

Plenty of clubs have whiffed on draft picks (Hi Mitch Thorp), but when a club nails all their pointy end picks in a draft it can change them for a generation.

 

[Black Stripe]

Plenty of clubs have whiffed on draft picks (Hi Mitch Thorp), but when a club nails all their pointy end picks in a draft it can change them for a generation.

Mitch Thorp over Jack Riewoldt is a blunder that never gets talked about for some reason.

Both were highly rated key forwards from Tasmania and Hawthorn got it wrong.

 

[radiojake]

How did West Coast even finish last? How many games at Subiaco did they lose that year?

 

[calyam]

The answer is pretty clearly Collingwood in 1999. They had a percentage of almost 84, which is almost 8 percentage points higher than the next best (Richmond in 2007). Their average losing margin that year was just 16 points, which is 8 points better than the next best (West Coast in 2010).