Your clubs best ever premiership season?

[Ian Dunross]

I liked 2008/2014

Both years beat sides rated amongst the all time best lists

No one with any credibility rated Fremantle 2014 as an "all time best list"

Literally never heard that Fremantle team rated as an "all time" anything

In any event, had Fremantle kicked straight, playing on a ground they play at once in a blue moon, the Hawks lose, so I don't get the bragging rights here at all

 

[Fadge]

So many to choose from, but 1930 for me.

No better feeling than a 4peat.

 

[Corn Cobbers]

So many to choose from, but 1930 for me.

No better feeling than a 4peat.

I'm still tingling over 1929, what a season

 

[Randall Stevens]

No one with any credibility rated Fremantle 2014 as an "all time best list"

Literally never heard that Fremantle team rated as an "all time" anything

In any event, had Fremantle kicked straight, playing on a ground they play at once in a blue moon, the Hawks lose, so I don't get the bragging rights here at all

These would be strong points if Hawthorn had played Fremantle in the 2014 GF.

 

[Ian Dunross]

These would be strong points if Hawthorn had played Fremantle in the 2014 GF.

My bad

That was a good thrashing by the Hawks of that Swans team

 

[joe444]

They were all pretty good, but 2007 is still the one. Coming off the disappointment of '06, that sinking sense that we were not quite good enough and mentally fragile (as always) took hold.

I was at that game at KP in round 5 when North embarrassed us. Very lippy young Kangas fan next to us, basking in the reflected glory of the Carey/Pagan era. Just mouthing off. As we left I remember the taunt, "It's never going to happen. It's never going to happen!". It had been 43 looong years since a flag.

I suspect every premiership team needs a Paul Chapman

Paul Chapman

Age

44

Ht

179cm

Wt

87kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.7

5star

K

12.8

5star

HB

6.9

4star

M

4.7

4star

T

3.5

5star

G

1.3

5star

No current season stats available

D

6.6

2star

K

4.0

2star

HB

2.6

3star

M

1.0

1star

T

1.8

4star

G

0.2

3star

; not for the last time he made the boys take a vow: "never again".

(edited as corrected by NetworkNerd: Round 5 was our last second-last loss for the season.)

 

[dean33]

So many to choose from, but 1930 for me.

No better feeling than a 4peat.

How did you celebrate Fadge? Maybe a bit of 2up or a horse and cart ride around Vic Park with the darl?

 

[dean33]

Nothing beats 2017, coming from 13th the previous season, losing our last game by over 100pts, to losing 3 games in a row by less than a kick and then turning it all around to become the dominate team was the stuff of dreams.
Having not beaten the cats for about a decade and blowing them away in the QF to the noise at the prelim v the giants.
The grand final just capped it all off. Watching peak dusty each week was very special.
The greatest season in most tiger fans lives no doubt.

 

[joe444]

Nothing beats 2017, coming from 13th the previous season, losing our last game by over 100pts, to losing 3 games in a row by less than a kick and then turning it all around to become the dominate team was the stuff of dreams.
Having not beaten the cats for about a decade and blowing them away in the QF to the noise at the prelim v the giants.
The grand final just capped it all off. Watching peak dusty each week was very special.
The greatest season in most tiger fans lives no doubt.

Tainted only by umpiring boss Wayne Campbell banning the third man up rule to start the season after seeing Geelong use it so effectively and concluding it was the only way to beat them. Clearly targetted at Blicavs - he even admitted it. Amidoingitright?

Seriously, though, it was fairytale stuff. The team running out to that line of drummers was a perfect mix of community, fun and intimidation. Just brilliant stuff.

 

[NetworkNerd]

They were all pretty good, but 2007 is still the one. Coming off the disappointment of '06, that sinking sense that we were not quite good enough and mentally fragile (as always) took hold.

I was at that game at KP in round 5 when North embarrassed us. Very lippy young Kangas fan next to us, basking in the reflected glory of the Carey/Pagan era. Just mouthing off. As we left I remember the taunt, "It's never going to happen. It's never going to happen!". It had been 43 looong years since a flag.

I suspect every premiership team needs a Paul Chapman; not for the last time he made the boys take a vow: "never again".

Round 5 was our last loss for the season.

Amazing season. But you might be mixing up with 2022 when you went on a long winning streak for the flag. Cats lost again in Round 21 2007 to Port at GMHBA

 

[Leeda]

Tarn bark…heaven helps those who play the game..

 

[SC_Power]

For my club?
1977, the “Drought Breaker”
Had lost 6 Grand Finals in 11 seasons since the previous flag.

 

[BigVic]

So many to choose from, but 1930 for me.

No better feeling than a 4peat.

1927-30 will never be matched

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

I'm still tingling over 1929, what a season

The Great Depression started at around this time. That is not coincidence.

 

[SC_Power]

1927-30 will never be matched

In the VFL / AFL comp, agreed.

 

[JackFlash]

2008 was Geelong's best season in their history, but they failed in the big one, so i guess it's 2011.

 

[Deelighted]

Enjoyed 2021 but it has to be the AFLX premiership of 2018. Legends such as Josh Wagner, Tom Bugg & Corey Maynard

Corey Maynard

Age

34

Ht

185cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.5

4star

K

5.0

2star

HB

11.5

5star

M

0.0

1star

T

7.0

5star

CL

4.0

5star

No current season stats available

D

16.5

4star

K

5.0

2star

HB

11.5

5star

M

0.0

1star

T

7.0

5star

CL

4.0

5star

putting in a shift. Phenomenal stuff.

 

[PCORF]

Not a premiership year, as Richmond handled the moment much better, but I thought the Adelaide Crows played much better and far more consistent footy in 2017 over the 1997 or 1998 years.

So 2017 was a better year, but wasn’t a premiership year.

We were a centre clearance from stealing that preliminary final in 2012 and I reckon we would have upset Sydney in the GF. That was the one that got away. A Hawthorn dynasty was born the year after and Adelaide have been very ordinary for most years since.

We got complacent and stuffed it up in 2017, that silly power stance. Richmond's defensive gameplan shut us down. They smothered us left right and centre. I knew all week that was going to happen if we were not on our A game, the way they shut down Geelong and the Giants in the games leading up.

1997 was the best premiership year, it was so unexpected and surprising and in 1998 they had so much confidence in the finals (vs Sydney, Bulldogs and North) despite the struggles at times thoughout that season and the first final vs Melbourne. It may never happen again in our lifetimes.

 

[PCORF]

In 1993, the Crows kicked 8.20, but Grand Final days are very funny and strange things can happen.

Win or loss, who knows. It was 32 years ago.

And 10 rushed behinds for Adelaide. Then we messed it up in the preliminary final at the MCG a week later, thankfully we didn't have to wait too long as the reverse happened in 1997.

 

[BrodeeKF]

Has to be 2018.
- End of 2017 we had a bunch of senior players retire and I think most people saw it as the beginning of a rebuild.
(2017 list average age was 4.8 (ranked #1 oldest in AFL) vs 2018 average 23.9 (ranked #11)

- Had a journo infamously predict that we'd win the wooden spoon

- Had 8 AFL debutants throughout the year (+1 club debutant who had previously played AFL elsewhere)

- The 10 consecutive wins

- Injuries/suspensions to key players all year (Josh Kennedy only played 14 out of 25 games, Jack Darling

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Jack Darling

Age

33

Ht

191cm

Wt

95kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.1

3star

K

7.9

3star

HB

4.2

3star

M

5.0

5star

T

3.0

5star

G

1.9

5star

D

8.0

2star

K

4.3

2star

HB

3.7

3star

M

2.7

3star

T

2.4

3star

G

1.3

5star

D

14.6

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

7.0

5star

M

6.0

5star

T

4.0

5star

G

1.4

5star

21/25, Nic Nat 15/25, the Gaff suspension, Brad Sheppard's hamstring in the Qualifying Final)

- Then just the finals themselves; Tony chomp chomp Jones saying we'd be a waste of a spot in the Grand Final if we made it. Then a close Qualifying final win vs Collingwood, belting Melbourne in the Prelim..

And then arguably the greatest Grand Final of all time. Sheed from the boundary..

 

[Partridge]

Amazing season. But you might be mixing up with 2022 when you went on a long winning streak for the flag. Cats lost again in Round 21 2007 to Port at GMHBA

Not quite. Yes we lost in Round 21 but we'd won 15 straight before that.

Plus we sort of atoned for the Round 5 loss to North by obliterating them by 106 points in the Qualifying Final.

Be a fair effort for any team to win two finals by more than 100 points. Not to mention the monumental baggage that we were carrying.

So it's still 2007 easily.

 

[Nugett]

So many to choose from. 1976 “doing it for the little “fella” although I was barely alive and had no comprehension of the emotional sentiment. 86, after the disappointment of 84 and 85, was my first real memory of my team achieving a premiership. 88 for the utter devastation of Melbourne. 89 for overcoming the thuggery of Geelong, where they nearly stole it. 91, being toled that the Hawks were too old and too slow, but ended up being too good. 2008, the dismantling of Geelong, and being huge underdogs.

If I were too chose one of the one’s I mentioned, it would be 2008. It was an absolute master class, in overcoming adversity.

 

[steviewonder36]

1990 the drought breaker.

Having lived through all our losses since the 1970 GF.

 

[timokane]

As a kid 1990 felt like i was in a candy shop
Grown up has to be 2023.
Sweet 16.

 

[GingerDocker]