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Amazing coincidences in football
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You are the oracle!
- Sep 7, 2009
- 6,688
- 7,242
- AFL Club
- Collingwood
- Other Teams
- Real Madrid, Man City, GS Warriors
Did this almost 4 years ago which of course happened. We lost a GF by under a goal in 2018 then the Dees won the GF 5 years later other than the Olympics were postponed by a year in 2020
The cabinet at Freo and the Sun's.
- Apr 9, 2019
- 666
- 777
- AFL Club
- Sydney
- Other Teams
- Melbourne, Golden State Warriors
????
This is just a random collection of numbers. And what does the Hindenburg have to do with any of this?
- Sep 7, 2009
- 6,688
- 7,242
- AFL Club
- Collingwood
- Other Teams
- Real Madrid, Man City, GS Warriors
1990 Collingwood drew a final vs West Coast, draw in finals scrapped
2010 Collingwood drew a grand final vs St Kilda, draw in grand finals scrapped
2024 Collingwood drew a regular season game vs Essendon.
2010 Collingwood drew a grand final vs St Kilda, draw in grand finals scrapped
2024 Collingwood drew a regular season game vs Essendon.
- Sep 21, 2004
- 39,924
- 30,071
- AFL Club
- West Coast
- Other Teams
- Norwood & Liverpool.
hmmmm.... interesting ay?
Personally I enjoy a drawn game in H & A season.
Adds something different
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- Sep 7, 2009
- 6,688
- 7,242
- AFL Club
- Collingwood
- Other Teams
- Real Madrid, Man City, GS Warriors
I do like a drawn game. Disagree with Nick saying bin the draw. It has been a staple and draws are rare in footy
Draw in grand finals wasn't scrapped until 2016, though.
Amazing? Probably not, but kind of a fun fact.
On each day from April 25-27 2024 there was a game in which both clubs were coached by former Lions teammates.
Brad Scott vs Craig McRae
Ken Hinkley vs Ross Lyon
Chris Scott vs Michael Voss
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Also Ross Lyon, Chris Scott, Michael Voss and Craig McRae all played together in R1 1995 for the Brisbane Bears against Hawthorn. Brad Scott was also listed with Hawthorn at the time but didn’t get selected in that game, or indeed any game in 1995, and was delisted at season’s end and was then relisted at the end of 1996 after having spent that year on the HFC supplementary list then getting traded to the Brisbane Lions for John Barker at the end of 1997.
On each day from April 25-27 2024 there was a game in which both clubs were coached by former Lions teammates.
Brad Scott vs Craig McRae
Ken Hinkley vs Ross Lyon
Chris Scott vs Michael Voss
—————
Also Ross Lyon, Chris Scott, Michael Voss and Craig McRae all played together in R1 1995 for the Brisbane Bears against Hawthorn. Brad Scott was also listed with Hawthorn at the time but didn’t get selected in that game, or indeed any game in 1995, and was delisted at season’s end and was then relisted at the end of 1996 after having spent that year on the HFC supplementary list then getting traded to the Brisbane Lions for John Barker at the end of 1997.
- Sep 7, 2009
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A pattern evolving since we won the flag each time in the last 35 years
1989: Hawthorn; 1990:Collingwood 1991:Hawthorn
2009:Geelong; 2010:Collingwood; 2011:Geelong
2022:Geelong; 2023:Collingwood; 2024:Geelong?
1989: Hawthorn; 1990:Collingwood 1991:Hawthorn
2009:Geelong; 2010:Collingwood; 2011:Geelong
2022:Geelong; 2023:Collingwood; 2024:Geelong?
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- Dec 17, 2006
- 4,842
- 5,316
- AFL Club
- Collingwood
- Other Teams
- South Fremantle, Sturt
Odd series of final round wooden spoon 'grand finals' separated by exactly 30 years for each of Fitzroy, the Brisbane Bears and Brisbane Lions:
1957 - Bottom-placed Fitzroy play Geelong with the loser to finish last. Lions beat inaccurate Cats, consigning Geelong to last.
1987 - Brisbane Bears play Richmond at the MCG, level on wins with the Bears last, Richmond second last. Bears beat the Tigers easily sending Richmond to the bottom of the ladder.
2017 - A strangely even year around the bottom of the ladder sees a final round match between the Brisbane Lions and North Melbourne unexpectedly turn out to be the battle of the wooden spoon, with the loser to go to the bottom of the ladder for 2017. This time the Brisbane Lions can't emulate their predecessors and lose to the Kangaroos and Brisbane finish last, despite overall much better performances than in 2015 and 2016 (when the Lions didn't finish bottom).
1957 - Bottom-placed Fitzroy play Geelong with the loser to finish last. Lions beat inaccurate Cats, consigning Geelong to last.
1987 - Brisbane Bears play Richmond at the MCG, level on wins with the Bears last, Richmond second last. Bears beat the Tigers easily sending Richmond to the bottom of the ladder.
2017 - A strangely even year around the bottom of the ladder sees a final round match between the Brisbane Lions and North Melbourne unexpectedly turn out to be the battle of the wooden spoon, with the loser to go to the bottom of the ladder for 2017. This time the Brisbane Lions can't emulate their predecessors and lose to the Kangaroos and Brisbane finish last, despite overall much better performances than in 2015 and 2016 (when the Lions didn't finish bottom).
What?
He is saying that all of the Collingwood AFL era flags have happened in-between the same team winning the premiership in the season before them and in the season after them. Thus meaning that history tells us that Geelong will win it this year.
FWIW if Collingwood had won their very close GF losses in 2002 and 2018 they would also have been the meat in the sandwich of the Brisbane and Richmond premiership runs.
WCE played in two in 2003.
Normally I always think of the draw as crappy as you don’t get 4 points but gives your team unlimited % but that benefit doesn’t hold true for the 2003 Eagles or if the other team your club drew with finishes with the same W-L as yours.
- Sep 7, 2009
- 6,688
- 7,242
- AFL Club
- Collingwood
- Other Teams
- Real Madrid, Man City, GS Warriors
The 2003 Eagles had 2 draws which is rare to have two drawn games in a season. We had two draws in 2010 on Queen's Birthday Vs Melbourne and the Grand Final
Hardly an ‘amazing coincidence’.
We went from Richmond and Hawthorn never in the history of the AFL (think Hawthorn joined the comp in 1925 so basically 100 years) playing each other in a final to this.
- Sep 21, 2004
- 39,924
- 30,071
- AFL Club
- West Coast
- Other Teams
- Norwood & Liverpool.
- Sep 21, 2004
- 39,924
- 30,071
- AFL Club
- West Coast
- Other Teams
- Norwood & Liverpool.
The 2 WCE draws in 2003 felt like wins coz Dogs dominated us that day and winning down in Geelong is extremely foreign to us (although at the time our record there was reasonable)
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Both teams finished below us on the ladder. The Dogs won the spoon easily. They both cost us top four that year too. Win one of them and we would've finished fourth.
- Sep 21, 2004
- 39,924
- 30,071
- AFL Club
- West Coast
- Other Teams
- Norwood & Liverpool.
- Sep 7, 2009
- 6,688
- 7,242
- AFL Club
- Collingwood
- Other Teams
- Real Madrid, Man City, GS Warriors
1948-1977 - 29 years between drawn grand finals
1995-2024 - 29 years between drawn Anzac Day matches
1977-2010 was 33 years between drawn grand finals so it's roughly every 3 decades a significant draw occurs
1995-2024 - 29 years between drawn Anzac Day matches
1977-2010 was 33 years between drawn grand finals so it's roughly every 3 decades a significant draw occurs
- Sep 7, 2009
- 6,688
- 7,242
- AFL Club
- Collingwood
- Other Teams
- Real Madrid, Man City, GS Warriors
In 1992 and 2012 the year after Hawthorn's and Geelong's last flag, West Coast and Sydney won the flag those years who are ironically the most recent non-Victorian teams to win it
