1987 Preliminary Final-Hawthorn vs Melbourne-The worst kick in AFL/VFL finals FootySH

[Procrastinator35]

WOW Jones for Carlton in 1981....Half a meter out all on his own & proceeds to kick the ball against the goal-post!

Malcolm Blight,,,,1978....15 meters out right in front of goal in a glue pot at Arden street against Hawthorn. Had sprayed a point to draw the match but was pushed in the back in doing so & received a free just before the siren to cancel the point out....Proceeded to kick it out of bounds on the full!

WOW Jones again, runs into an open goal & kicks the ball a mile thru the goals & celebrates wildly, only to then realise that he'd kicked it thru the wrong posts!

 

[footyfan1978]

6 pathetic misses from Melbourne players.

Don't forget the Paul Dear disasters in the last quarter too.

The amazing thing about the Hawthorn Melbourne prelim is that with 50secs to go Hawthorn is 9 points down with the ball in dispute on the wing.

Yet in those final seconds, bucky kicks two goals and campbell misses another for the Dees.

Pity about the commentary. The ABC had the rights in 1987 and the commentary they had during that last quarter was excellent.

87 ABC did not have the rights I think Broadcom or Sportsplay did. Go check highlights of 87 Grand Final. Sportsplay everywhere...
It was some cable company or something similar had the rights. Then I think they allow channel 2 to show footage for a fee. I may be wrong but think that is how it worked.
It was just for one season. I remember it was so weird to get used to.
It was always on channel 7 to that year. I actually found the preview of 1987 grand final for Sportsplay on youtube.
Never seen it before until this year even though as Carlton fan I remember watching the grand final on home live on tv.
Must have not been on free to air coverage, the preview I mean done by Sportsplay commentators.
Actually, just found this too. About to watch it and thought I edit and put link in here too.

 

[footyfan1978]

WOW Jones for Carlton in 1981....Half a meter out all on his own & proceeds to kick the ball against the goal-post!

Malcolm Blight,,,,1978....15 meters out right in front of goal in a glue pot at Arden street against Hawthorn. Had sprayed a point to draw the match but was pushed in the back in doing so & received a free just before the siren to cancel the point out....Proceeded to kick it out of bounds on the full!

WOW Jones again, runs into an open goal & kicks the ball a mile thru the goals & celebrates wildly, only to then realise that he'd kicked it thru the wrong posts!

You are confused. That was never WOW Jones. It was Peter "Percy" Jones.
It was a Sunday game live on 7 from Lakeside Oval. He was out of senior team and trying to get back. Pretty funny. He was a bit of a clown, old Perc.

Look on Malcom Blight face when he thought he kicked a goal and realized he kicked it between wrong posts was priceless.

 

[MightyHawks]

87 ABC did not have the rights I think Broadcom or Sportsplay did. Go check highlights of 87 Grand Final. Sportsplay everywhere...
It was some cable company or something similar had the rights. Then I think they allow channel 2 to show footage for a fee. I may be wrong but think that is how it worked.
It was just for one season. I remember it was so weird to get used to.
It was always on channel 7 to that year. I actually found the preview of 1987 grand final for Sportsplay on youtube.
Never seen it before until this year even though as Carlton fan I remember watching the grand final on home live on tv.
Must have not been on free to air coverage, the preview I mean done by Sportsplay commentators.

You are right with Broadcom/Sportsplay having the rights and then they sold them to the ABC

The VFL were trying to get a better deal for the rights and Channel 7 didn't want to pay

 

[Procrastinator35]

You are confused. That was never WOW Jones. It was Peter "Percy" Jones.
It was a Sunday game live on 7 from Lakeside Oval. He was out of senior team and trying to get back. Pretty funny. He was a bit of a clown, old Perc.

Look on Malcom Blight face when he thought he kicked a goal and realized he kicked it between wrong posts was priceless.

My mistake...You are correct. Was confusing him with Warren 'Wow' Jones who also played in the ruck for your mob!

Blighty made up for that error by kicking his booming 75 meter torpedo through the sticks at Princess Park against your nob that very same year, to win the game for North after the siren....Swings & roundabouts I guess.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

It was a very bad kick, no doubt. Eishold could have snapped easily enough if he had any skill, and sealed the result.

It is in a sense fortunate that Hawthorn won – had Melbourne won I imagine Carlton’s tough defence would have held the Demons to a score akin to what West Coast did in the first round of 1991 or Port Adelaide did to North Adelaide in the 1989 SANFL Grand Final. The Demons would have taken the field without Robert Flower and they showed in 1988 and 1989 that their attack was anything but premiership material without him – and the way Carlton were playing it would have taken an amazing effort to beat them. The “Summer Day” favoured the Blues’ tough man-on-man style and I cannot imagine Northey having anything up his sleeve to fight them even as well as Hawthorn did. In April of 1988 Carlton were just as magnificent as in late 1987, and the way they played when near full-strength suggested at the end of that month that a 24-and-0 season record was not out of the question. It was the break-up of the weather in May 1988 that ended the Blues’ invincibility, little differently from what happened to West Coast in 1991, whilst the greatest wet-weather football team in history took over.

One thing to remember. Dunstall was injured in 1987 and Brereton was about 20% fit.