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1964 was interesting - bottom team Fitzroy were winless 0-18 while second last South Melbourne was 2-16, the Swans only two wins over the Lions.

He looks like he was born in 1824 not 1924.

And in 1963 - Geelong's last senior premiership prior to 2007 - the Fitzroy Lions finished last.

I think it's finals or bust for Matthew Nicks at Adelaide and Justin Longmuir at Fremantle.

I also posted this on the weird scores thread - in Round 13 (which seems apt) in 1976 and 1977 Melbourne and the Bulldogs took turns at doubling each other's scores on each other's home ground. Round 13 in 1976 saw Melbourne trounce Footscray 14.20-104 to 7.10-52 at the Western Oval. A year...

Nobody who is currently a teenager was born when Essendon last won a final. Let that sink in. President Jimmy Carter, who today turns 100, was not even an octogenarian at the time. Veteran Australian actor Ray Meagher who plays the iconic Alf Stewart in Home and Away had just experienced his...

Add to this 1980 - Richmond Tigers premiers, Fitzroy Lions wooden spoon. And in all three seasons - 1980, 2017 and 2024 - the Geelong Cats were beaten preliminary finalists. Another feline coincidence was in 2020, which saw Richmond beat Geelong in the Grand Final, with Brisbane a beaten...

Port Melbourne played every VFA Grand Final from 1950 to 1957 inclusive but won only one of them, in 1953 over the Yarraville Eagles.

Red and White teams seem to do badly in Grand Finals. The Sydney Swans yesterday lost their fourth Grand Final post 2012, three of these by big margins, with this adding to a generally poor GF by the Sydney Swans prior to this with the Swans in their South Melbourne days losing many more grand...

Attn President Jimmy Carter - Prince Phillip the Duke of Edinburgh, Bob Barker, Betty White, Joyce Randolph, Zsa Zsa Gabor, William Russell, David Graham, Billy Graham, Hugh Downs and Homer (the Greek poet and philosopher, not Homer Simpson) just called to remind you that you have only two days...

Gerard Neesham, the inaugural coach of the Fremantle Dockers and himself a Sydney Swans player for one season in 1992 had an astonishing WAFL Grand Final record as follows: Playing for Swan Districts, Neesham would play in Grand Final victories over Claremont in 1983 and his former team East...

Yes, and none of them men. The world's oldest living man currently was born later in 1912, in the Titanic's home port of Liverpool.

With the conclusion of the 2024 AFL season today, we are now halfway through the 2020s and so far in this decade 3 of the 18 clubs have failed to make a finals appearance - the Adelaide Crows, Gold Coast Suns and North Melbourne Kangaroos. The Crows have recently undergone a rebuild which...

Today reminded me of 2017 Richmond vs. Adelaide - although today's game was much higher standard - in the way that after a close start the Lions seemed to get into the Swans heads and not only out-played them physically but mentally too, taking the initiative in the second term and never...

Agree there. It was easy to tell the Swans and Lions apart, it wasn't like we were watching Essendon and Melbourne on a sunny day, Geelong and North Melbourne in the wet or Hawthorn against the Brisbane Lions wearing their Bears-style jumper.

When I was looking at the Wikipedia deaths list this morning and I saw the name 'Muriel' I assumed this would be an older woman, so was shocked to see that this was 18-year-old Muriel Furrer of Switzerland - a champion road cyclist who died in a collision during a race. By chance I remember the...

Si, Que, What?

There's a tenuous link, but I'll go with it. 1924 - Essendon are minor premiers but put in a shockingly inept performance against a big cat opponent - in this case the Richmond Tigers - in the last final of the year. However under the controversial round robin system used that year Essendon...

Interesting one with the three feline teams: 1944: Richmond Tigers runners-up, Fitzroy Lions premiers (but the last they would win prior to the 1996 merger with the Brisbane Bears), Geelong Cats wooden spoon 1980: Richmond Tigers premiers for the last time for 37 years, Fitzroy Lions wooden...

Dayne Zorko in Brisbane's winning premiership team today became only the second player with a surname starting with Z to play in a premiership team, and the first in 90 years after Richmond's Eric Zschech, a dual premiership player with the Tigers in 1932 and 1934. With Isaac Quaynor a member...

Congratulations Brisbane Lions, a magnificent performance and deserving win. So glad they won after being so close last year and in the finals every year since 2019.

Blakey - too many errors.

Melbourne and Geelong were both very strong teams in the mid 1920s, late 1930s, mid 1950s, early 1960s and way more recently in the early 2020s, both the Demons and Cats consistently making the finals in these eras and winning premierships, but no finals series has ever resulted in a Dees and...

West Coast vs. Adelaide and Geelong vs. Melbourne all could have happened given these teams were all strong around the same time in a number of different decades but things just never fell the right way in the finals to allow this.

After the fate of the ocean liner the Titan in Morgan Robertson's early science fiction novel 'Futility', the Titanic in 1912, a freighter called the Titanian scraping an iceberg off Cape Race but managing to avoid sinking in the North Atlantic in the 1930s and the Titan submersible, clearly...

In 2000 Home and Away gained five new characters when the Sutherland family moved to Summer Bay, these being the father Rhys (Michael Beckley), mother Shelley (Paula Forrest) and their three teenage daughters who were Dani (played by Tammin Sursok) and her younger twin sisters Kirsty (Christie...

I remember hearing an interesting fan theory about Bottom - that the characters are The Young Ones only they have been in witness protection and have had their identities changed. Richie (Rik Mayall) is obviously Rick and Eddie (Adrian Edmonson) is Vyvian, while of their two friends who are...

The Bonfire of the Vanities also contains one of my all time favorite pieces of movie trivia. In this 1990 movie Tom Hanks and Kirsten Dunst played the roles of father and daughter, then 11 years later in the 2001 teen comedy 'Get Over It' Colin Hanks and Kirsten Dunst played the roles of...

The number of child actors who have died young is tragically quite a long list, and in 2014 the name Skye McCole Bartusiak was added to the list. While not as big a star as the Fanning sisters Dakote and Elle, Abigail Breslin or Anna Sophia Robb in the same era she was in some well-known...

The Werribee Tigers finally ended a premiership drought of 31 years by beating the Southport Sharks in the VFL Grand Final in a thriller. It was a good day for the Tigers in the state leagues, with Glenelg coming back from a seemingly beaten position against Norwood to win the SANFL Grand Final...