Worst match ups ever

[Lidge]

What's the worst match ups you've seen your team/coach use - where it's all gone pear shaped, the Thursday selection brain wave has back fired and your boy has taken an absolute towelling?

 

[Wojee]

Fevola on Gehrig, although that was more to do with teaching Fev a lesson than anything else.

 

[The Fireman]

over the years, anyone on Robert Harvey

 

[SCRAY72]

Thats easy.
Rohan Smith on Robran and Liberatore on McLeod in 1998.
Curley on Jarman in 1997.
Terry Wallace's coaching in finals was embarrassing.

 

[Palace03]

Ryan Hargrave on Matthew Llyod in 2003 didnt quite work out the way it was ment to.

 

[afc9798]

Western Bulldogs

 

[HighReeve]

Daniher sending Rivers to the square against Doyle...

 

[lozstar]

in the final adelaide played against brisbane at the gabba in '03, i think.. ayres kept saying it was a must win, and how important stopping lynch was.

the week before that, in the first final against west coast, ayres had made perrie play in defence.. he didn't work as a defender at all.

so.. in 'the must win game' against one of the players who needed to be stopped, ayres put perrie on lynch. did NOT work at all.

 

[iameviljez]

Bairstow on Matera, 1992 GF. That one probably cost us the Premiership.
Closely followed by Smith on Robran. Here, Matthew, would you like to mark the football?

 

[Yze_Magic]

few years ago, maybe 2001 or 2002

Cameron Bruce on Matthew Richardson

This was when Bruce was mega skinny. Richo kicked 5 i think

Mind you, we were without our tall backs due to injury. Nicho and Craig Ellis


So it must have been 2002. In that same game, Chris Lamb gave BRad Ottens a bath

 

[JeffDunne]

That bloke that played on Jarman in the '97 GF.

Can't remember his name . . .

 

[RodgerFox]

One of the worst I've seen was this year when St.Kilda beat Collingwood at Docklands.

Malthouse had his best and almost most creative defender (James Clement) on Gehrig who was then immediately directed not to leave the goal square. He was obviously to strong and finished up with 5.

Kosi and Reiwoldt both had big influences on the game, Clement would have been the best matchup for either of them.

All this while Shane Wakelin sat on the bench.

I think the media let Malthouse off a bit lightly with that one. As per usual.

 

[ExTasDeeMan]

when Grant Thomas put Brett Voss on Ben Holland earlier this year, giving away lots of cm and kgs (and actually making Holland look like a good player!!)

 

[RodgerFox]

when Grant Thomas put Brett Voss on Ben Holland earlier this year, giving away lots of cm and kgs (and actually making Holland look like a good player!!)

I don't think he had much choice that day.

 

[Falchoon]

Jason Cripps played on Barry Hall in the famous flood draw.

 

[Portia]

Nick Stevens in the forward pocket against Sydney in 2003.

Chad Cornes on Nick Riewoldt in the prelim this year.

 

[mocaholic]

Thats easy.
Rohan Smith on Robran and Liberatore on McLeod in 1998.
Curley on Jarman in 1997.
Terry Wallace's coaching in finals was embarrassing.

Harsh - Bubba smith on Dunkley in the EF 1997 worked OK though!

 

[sog35]

Adam Kingsley in a back pocket against anyone.

 

[hotpie]

Not matchups, but selection/positional errors at Collingwood recently:

2002 GF selection of out-of form Jarrod Molloy instead of mudlark McGough
2003 GF selection of Tristan Walker instead of Steve McKee who at least had finals form
2003 GF J Cloke in the forward line.

 

[bluechampion]

Pagan played Teague on Tredrea this year.

Funny, but it didn't work.

 

[nicho_magic]

it was a school aps 3rds game (i don't play for em) and some bloke kicked 15 goals from chf and the chb remained on him for the whole game... good coaching and a good match up

 

[SaintsRadio]

Mark Bolton vs Reiwoldt/Gehrig Round 17 2004
The poor bloke had 6 kicked on him to quarter time.
The G finished with 8, Reiwoldt 7.

 

[mocaholic]

Timmy Watson played Nathan Burke on Magic O'Loughlin for the first game at the dome. This was after Burke had been dominating in the middle and O'Loughlin hadn't got a touch. O'Loughlin then turned it around.
Tiges played D. Kellaway on Plugger, 1998 I think it was, when the big man tonned up. I remember him holding DK off with one hand and taking one-handers. In all fairness, they had nobody else to play on him at the time.

 

[SaintsRadio]

Tim Elliot vs Luke Darcy in that final quarter when the bulldogs came back from 6 goals down to steal a win. The night Max cried. The most pathetic, insipid display of attempted rucking ever seen on a football field. Particularly when Spider was standing at full forward. I think it was 2000. That night effectively ended the careers of two men - Elliot and his coach, the newsreader who shouldn't have been there in the first place.

 

[raskolnikov]

Collingwood on Brisbane in the 2003 Grand Final