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All examples above are great. Too many...test cricket is the real game. Two left of field examples not meant to beat GOAT contenders and both won after the third test, but very absorbing series for other reasons... For a great story, I submit the 1984-85 Aus v WI series. Aussies belted in...

If you haven't seen it, and even better don't know the result, watch the South v Longford game from yesterday on YT from the 24 minute mark of the last quarter...

Thanks mate, this is great. Unknown was there simply because the team list in the paper only had 17 players. Would love to know your source - I do intend to do this in every carnival Tassie was involved with, which means more Qld sides...

Thanks for this, brilliant.

Gold. Thanks for this.

I specifically made a trip to Brisbane from the pointy bit of Qld in 2018, when the Hawks played there after a Gabba absence of a decade, just to see Luke Hodge for one last time. They beat us, and I sat there watching him right in front of me in the back pocket, as he mentored his juniors to a...

At the start, the new coach needs to create the club, not just work the list... This was the entire point of Sheedy at GWS, and more recently we've seen what Scott Roth did with a brand new franchise in Tasmania...both were spectacular successes, one in a hostile environment, the other...

A footy story. Chris Gibbins was described by the local footy scribe as "fast and aggressive, a great runner", when the 1981 King Island TOTY was chosen after the season. Chris saw his beloved VFL Tigers belt the f### out of Collingwood the year before, and they were still reigning premiers...

That's good stuff, thanks mate. Eric Smith, ayyyy....so my list might be finished already...?

Just above are my notes on the 1924 Carnival...I did this a year ago and I think I signed off on it, so to speak, aside from three things - that WA question mark, the Smiths representing Tasmania, and the Tas origin clubs for their players (might have stalled on that because of the Smiths...

Tom Hawkins match. Comebacks tend to hide weakness, which is why I'm not on the bandwagon for the 2001 Essendon v North game (shit defence throughout) but this game was an exception. No one would have been good enough to handle that Cats first quarter, but it took an exceptional team, proving...

Good retort, I knew you were cool. Launceston born and bred, and if you replace narky old New Norfick log cutter with narky old mainland grudging (youse are all c###s) three-armed (my chair has no back) sister luvin' (course she's hot...she's related to me) two head (no scar, it's...

What's this "you" shit? I don't barrack for Richmond, I hate their guts when I'm wearing a "fan's hat" and not a "wanky footy analyst's hat". I've been a Hawk for nearly fifty years, and now I get to support a home state that has far more rights to grudges against the entire f###ing mainland...

Richmond 2018 would have done it. One bad half in the PF against a side who could play both badly and brilliantly that season cost them completely. Doesn't matter what happened at Subi that year, Richmond minds on the big day at the MCG, when it counted, would have been insurmountable for all...

So you're virtually saying that moving say a Cats final from the MCG to Kardinia, is exactly the same as moving a WC final from the MCG to Perth...?

Yes, 2008 was a weird one. It looks like a season of utter domination with a massive let down at the end, and that's true. I still call them the greatest side not to win the big one. But if you go into each match situation, you see a pattern where the Cats really did keep winning the lottery...

The unique thing about any WC season is that when they win a flag it's done on the back of a superb travelling record - it has to be, because with the given dominance they have in WA, to get top shelf and all the ensuing advantages they need to take more than a fair share of the tough road...

Let's test that theory out. Make your own conclusions, fellas, I've already worked hard enough. The six below are the three 2018 teams in the conversation, and then three great sides - Carlton in 1995 with the acclaimed best season of all time up to that point, Geelong in 2008 which was...

The Eagles would have walked into the 2018 GF, after a couple of finals bound but impotent seasons, knowing they couldn't repeat the utter debacle that was their pissweak 2015 GF effort. Everything, absolutely everything going for them that day - form, rest, hot weather, track record v...

Did you watch any of the actual footy?

14-16...a 30 game season...48 and 4 weeks of finals is the dream...

And I've got three of them. Superb work and they get a regular read, even though I've never been any further west than Whyalla and have no idea where most of the teams are based outside looking in an atlas...the thing that grabs me with all of this is reading between the lines and in the...

You're one of them, those that equate a single player's inclusion or absence with the fate of the season and possibly the universe. WC were the next generation of good teams after an extended era of Hawk dominance built on a principle everyone subsequently followed (including WC's ex-Clarkson...

I'd back 2005-06 as bigger slip ups than 2017. As a neutral in 2017, I was thinking "hang on, these guys can take this" months before Richmond won the GF, and the next three years are etched in stone. Adelaide lost to a dynasty. 20 years ago though, Adelaide just couldn't get past WC home or...

Doesn't matter. A trip to Subi, everyone loses those. The best team that year by a street was Richmond and they screwed it up - there is no other interpretation...!

John Platten in his autobiography is filthy that the Hawks didn't take out 1990, but to be blunt they weren't consistent enough. They beat Collingwood twice, but they were smashed both times by Essendon and were 9 goals down v Melbourne in the last round...comebacks hide weakness...some huge...

After 2006, I could see all the signs that Geelong needed urgent repairs and would go into a few years of decline while they sorted it out, and that Melbourne was the best placed Victorian team to wrest dominance from the interstaters...

I've liked the Suns jumper since day 1. I might be one of its few fans, but the sublimated logo just works for me...looks great under lights or in the wet. They look like a real footy side now, and while it does help that they actually are these days result-wise, I didn't think this way after...

I remember the game. The team arrived late and had a very short and inadequate preparation, but I'm fairly sure there was no allowance made for the start time. I recall watching as the Hawks couldn't bridge the gap trailing all day, and it didn't finish in darkness, which would have happened...