Amazing coincidences in football

[TheRealComptroller]

Geelong 1994/95 and Sydney 2022 & 2024.

Cats lost their two GFs by 80 and 61. Sydney by 81 and 60; same 141 point combined deficits.

Lost the second GF to the other most recent GF loser.

Lost by exactly 58 more points than in their previous encounter at the winning team’s venue - Cats lost to Blues by 3 points at Princes Park in R12 and then lost the GF by 61. Swans lost to Lions at the Gabba by 2 in R20 before losing the GF by 60.

2024 was the fourth straight GF loss for Sydney.

1995 was the fourth straight 14+ team “modern era” Cat GF loss.

First loss for both in the sequence was to Hawthorn - 1989 and 2014.

Hawks were also the last team these clubs won the flag against (2012 and 1963) before going on their four* GF losing streaks.




*Cats also lost the 1967 GF to Richmond but this is not relevant to the 1989-95 era GFs when you consider the four players who participated in all of these losses were at most five years old (Gary Snr.) and one of them was still over a year away from birth (G. Hocking) when this game occurred.

 

[Cuzz09]

Every 17 years in the AFL era, Hawthorn has won the GF

1991 - Hawthorn win AFL Grand Final
2008 - Hawthorn win AFL Grand Final
2025 - Hawthorn to win AFL Grand Final?

if we get their F1 then you can lock it in lol

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[Borussia Teeth]

Every 17 years in the AFL era, Hawthorn has won the GF

1991 - Hawthorn win AFL Grand Final
2008 - Hawthorn win AFL Grand Final
2025 - Hawthorn to win AFL Grand Final?

No, you dickhead.

 

[BigVic]

2007/08 Border-Gavaskar Trophy: Australia wins series, Hawthorn win premiership over Geelong, first in 17 years
2014/15 Border-Gavskar Trophy: Australia win series, Hawthorn win premiership over West Coast, 3-peat
2024/25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy: Australia win?, Hawthorn win premiership?

2018/19 and 2020/21 Australia lost those series.

 

[Borussia Teeth]

2007/08 Border-Gavaskar Trophy: Australia wins series, Hawthorn win premiership over Geelong, first in 17 years
2014/15 Border-Gavskar Trophy: Australia win series, Hawthorn win premiership over West Coast, 3-peat
2024/25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy: Australia win?, Hawthorn win premiership?

2018/19 and 2020/21 Australia lost those series.

Shut the **** up with this crap.

 

[ioppolo]

You know he's going to do it. You see the notification that he's posted in here. Why bother reading it or replying? It won't change a thing mate.

 

[TheRealComptroller]

Tom Hawkins

26

Tom Hawkins

Age

36

Ht

197cm

Wt

105kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.2

3star

K

7.9

3star

HB

4.4

3star

M

5.5

5star

T

1.9

4star

G

2.1

5star

D

12.7

3star

K

8.6

3star

HB

4.1

3star

M

5.1

5star

T

2.1

3star

G

1.6

5star

D

7.8

2star

K

5.6

3star

HB

2.2

2star

M

4.2

4star

T

1.0

3star

G

2.2

5star

.

In his first and last game he played against Carlton at night whilst being guarded by a player whose surname starts with a W and I & T are the third and fourth letters: Lance Whitnall and Jacob Weitering

23

Jacob Weitering

Age

26

Ht

195cm

Wt

102kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.8

4star

K

9.1

4star

HB

4.7

3star

M

5.6

5star

T

1.3

3star

MG

189.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

16.8

4star

K

10.8

4star

HB

6.0

4star

M

6.0

5star

T

0.8

3star

MG

263.4

4star

.

PS I think we pronounce Weitering incorrectly when said as wheat-a-ring. Surely it should be pronounced with an initial V sound (see Riewoldt) followed by a Y sound, as “ei” is in Heidelberg and Heisenberg? Vyt-a-ring?

 

[TheRealComptroller]

Geelong’s last premiership in the 12 team competition, in 1963, was against the Hawks with a coach, Bob Davis, who grew up a Swans fan (also the captain Fred Wooller was a South Melbourne supporter as a kid).

Then the inverse happened with Geelong’s last/only premiership in the 18 team competition, in 2022, being against the Swans with a coach, Chris Scott

Chris Scott

Age

48

Ht

182cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.6

4star

K

11.2

4star

HB

5.4

4star

M

5.1

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

0.4

3star

No current season stats available

D

13.2

4star

K

10.2

4star

HB

3.0

3star

M

2.2

3star

T

2.8

5star

G

0.4

3star

, who grew up a Hawks fan.

Both coaches had also won back-to-back premierships as players in the second and third years of a decade: Davis in 1951/52 and Scott in 2001/02. The victories were also against the same teams in the same order: Essendon then Collingwood.