Amazing coincidences in football

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In R7 2023 Tom Hawkins kicks his seventh goal just as there are seven minutes remaining in the third quarter.

He then kicks his eighth goal which causes the countdown clock to pause with exactly eight minutes and eight seconds remaining in the game.
 

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From 1987 to 1994, the eventual premier lost their first H&A match of the season:

1987: Carlton lost to Hawthorn
1988: Hawthorn lost to Carlton
1989: Hawthorn lost to Collingwood
1990: Collingwood lost to West Coast
1991: Hawthorn lost to Adelaide
1992: West Coast had a bye in Round 1 but lost to Sydney in Round 2
1993: Essendon lost to West Coast
1994: West Coast lost to Essendon

Carlton broke the drought in 1995.
 
From the Hawthorn website today:

“Luke Breust’s absence last weekend meant that Hawthorn went into a game without an existing Hawthorn Premiership player for the first time since the 2008 Grand Final. What we do not yet know is whether the team which lost to Fremantle last Saturday contained any future Hawthorn Premiership players.

Since the start of the 1955 season only once has Hawthorn had a team which has had no past or future Hawthorn Premiership players. That once instance was in Round 21 2000.

The 2000 season saw three future Premiership players - Shane Crawford, Trent Croad and Chance Bateman – in action for the Hawks, but they all missed Round 21, and thus it was a Hawthorn team without a past, or future, Hawthorn Premiership player which defeated Adelaide by 31 points at the MCG.”

By the way, at the opening bounce of the 08 GF there was a premiership player wearing brown and gold, Stewie Dew, but with Port not Hawthorn. Interestingly when I typed in “Port” just then auto correct tried to change it to “Pork”…quite so.

 
Every team Port Adelaide played in the finals during Ken Hinkley's tenure starting from 2013 made a Grand Final appearance except Port.

:GF Appearances 2013-2022, Hinkley era

Teams vs Port in finals from 2013 aka Hinkley era

2013
Collingwood: 2018
Geelong: 2020, 2022

2014
Richmond: 2017, 2019, 2020
Fremantle: 2013
Hawthorn: 2013, 2014, 2015

2017
West Coast: 2015, 2018

2020
Geelong: 2020, 2022
Richmond: 2017, 2019, 2020

2021
Geelong: 2020, 2022
Western Bulldogs: 2016, 2021

Port Adelaide: No GF appearance
 
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GoldbergsGold said:
Every team Port Adelaide played in the finals during Ken Hinkley's tenure starting from 2013 made a Grand Final appearance except Port.

:GF Appearances 2013-2022, Hinkley era

Teams vs Port in finals from 2013 aka Hinkley era

2013
Collingwood: 2018
Geelong: 2020, 2022

2014
Richmond: 2017, 2019, 2020
Fremantle: 2013
Hawthorn: 2013, 2014, 2015

2017
West Coast: 2015, 2018

2020
Geelong: 2020, 2022
Richmond: 2017, 2019, 2020

2021
Geelong: 2020, 2022
Western Bulldogs: 2016, 2021

Port Adelaide: No GF appearance
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Incredible. And Each team bar Freo and Collingwood have won at least one premiership. And Melbourne is the only team not to face Ken Hinkley's Port Adelaide in a Finals and went on to win a premiership.
 
BigVic said:
Incredible. And Each team bar Freo and Collingwood have won at least one premiership. And Melbourne is the only team not to face Ken Hinkley's Port Adelaide in a Finals and went on to win a premiership.
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Sydney, Adelaide, and GWS didn't play Port in a final during Hinkley's era, but made Grand Finals during it. Meaning 11 teams have played in a Grand Final except Port during Hinkley's tenure.
 
Today is the third time at a third club that Brett Ratten has become a caretaker coach mid-season. The first time was at Carlton in 2007 from Dennis Pagan, in 2018 at St Kilda from Alan Richardson and now at North Melbourne as Alistair Clarkson has stood aside indefinitely as Kangaroos coach.

At both Carlton and St Kilda Ratten was appointed to the senior position and had a 50% winning record at both the Blues and the Saints (120 games for Carlton, 60 wins, 59 losses and 1 draw, and 68 coached games at St Kilda for a 34-34-0 record). His tenure ended at both teams when first Carlton in 2012 finished tenth with an 11-11 record, and then St Kilda in 2022 when the Saints finished tenth with an 11-11 record.
 
emuboy said:
Today is the third time at a third club that Brett Ratten has become a caretaker coach mid-season. The first time was at Carlton in 2007 from Dennis Pagan, in 2018 at St Kilda from Alan Richardson and now at North Melbourne as Alistair Clarkson has stood aside indefinitely as Kangaroos coach.

At both Carlton and St Kilda Ratten was appointed to the senior position and had a 50% winning record at both the Blues and the Saints (120 games for Carlton, 60 wins, 59 losses and 1 draw, and 68 coached games at St Kilda for a 34-34-0 record). His tenure ended at both teams when first Carlton in 2012 finished tenth with an 11-11 record, and then St Kilda in 2022 when the Saints finished tenth with an 11-11 record.
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The current North supporters would just about kill for a 50/50 win loss over the next 3 years
 

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Good news Dons fans. In 2017 when Richmond won the flag, they lost 4 in a row in rounds 6, 7, 8 and 9 by a combined total of 86 points and then won Dreamtime by 15 points

Essendon have lost their last 4 in rounds 6, 7, 8 and 9 by a combined total of 86 points leading into Saturday's Dreamtime.
 
emuboy said:
Today is the third time at a third club that Brett Ratten has become a caretaker coach mid-season. The first time was at Carlton in 2007 from Dennis Pagan, in 2018 at St Kilda from Alan Richardson and now at North Melbourne as Alistair Clarkson has stood aside indefinitely as Kangaroos coach.

At both Carlton and St Kilda Ratten was appointed to the senior position and had a 50% winning record at both the Blues and the Saints (120 games for Carlton, 60 wins, 59 losses and 1 draw, and 68 coached games at St Kilda for a 34-34-0 record). His tenure ended at both teams when first Carlton in 2012 finished tenth with an 11-11 record, and then St Kilda in 2022 when the Saints finished tenth with an 11-11 record.
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It could have been the fourth if Ratten was handed the reins when Clarko was off for four weeks due to his Guillain Barre syndrome. Instead, Bolton got the job.
 
BigVic said:
Good news Dons fans. In 2017 when Richmond won the flag, they lost 4 in a row in rounds 6, 7, 8 and 9 by a combined total of 86 points and then won Dreamtime by 15 points

Essendon have lost their last 4 in rounds 6, 7, 8 and 9 by a combined total of 86 points leading into Saturday's Dreamtime
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They won it but by just one point
 
TheRealComptroller said:
Doug Wade and Lance Franklin.

Both wore 23 and have kicked almost the same amount of goals and if Sydney wins tomorrow they will be the only players in history (?) to have beaten the same club in a GF as players in different teams.

Wade vs Hawks in 1963 as a Cat and in 1975 at NMFC.

Buddy as a Hawk against Geelong in 2008 and as a Swan in 2022?

CORRECTION. Just looked it up. Wade was only in #23 as a Cat. He wore #2 as a Kangaroo.
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As of 21-5-2023 Franklin and Wade are on the same goal tally - 1,057.

FYI Buddy kicked the goal to make the two players equal in a game against North Melbourne. Which is the team Wade was playing for when he kicked his 1,057th goal.

Mildly interesting - Buddy joined the thousand goal club against Geelong; Wade’s other team.

Also Wade kicked his 1,057th goal in his final game which was the 1975 GF which was against Buddy’s previous team Hawthorn.
 
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As of 21-5-2023 Franklin and Wade are on the same goal tally - 1,057.

FYI Buddy kicked the goal to make the two players equal in a game against North Melbourne. Which is the team Wade was playing for when he kicked his 1,057th goal.

Mildly interesting - Buddy joined the thousand goal club against Geelong; Wade’s other team.

Also Wade kicked his 1,057th goal in his final game which was the 1975 GF which was against Buddy’s previous team Hawthorn.
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As an aside, hasn't Lance now gone past the previous record for most instances of kicking multiple goals in a game?
 
The two most infamous modern era games regarding interchange issues have been in daytime North Melbourne vs Sydney encounters at Docklands Stadium.

R6 2008 North v Sydney involved the Swans having played 19 men on the ground very briefly and bringing about the end of the “head count” rule and the in-season rule changes around monitoring of the interchange.

R10 2023 North v Sydney saw the Kangaroos be the first team to ever be penalised for exceeding the maximum number of player substitutions allowed in a game.
 
As Tiger coach Damian Hardwick’s last win was against Geelong and last loss was to Essendon. Both teams were coached by a Scott twin.

There are also a few other Scott brothers and/or Brisbane connections for Dimma in his playing and coaching career.

His last game as an Essendon player was the 2001 GF against Brisbane and the Scotts.

The last game he ever played in was with Port in the 2004 GF against Brisbane and the Scotts.

The last final he lost before being a premiership coach was to Brad Scott’s Kangaroos in the 2015 EF.

The first final he ever won as a coach was against Chris Scott in the 2017 QF.

The last final he ever won as coach was against Chris Scott in the 2020 GF in Brisbane.

The last final he ever coached in was the 2022 EF against Brisbane in Brisbane.
 
Richmond won their first game under Damien Hardwick in an away game at Football Park in the last week of May 2010
Richmond will play their first game without Damien Hardwick in a home game at the MCG in the last week of May 2023

Both are against Port Adelaide, after losing to Essendon the previous week, the teams in which Hardwick won premierships as a player. Geelong on each occasion are the reigning premiers.
 
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