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Would have been more fight than they showed on the ground after the first 15 minutesI've always heard from older fans that the team literally had a fistfight among themselves on the bus to the ground that day, but no idea how true it really is.
Haven't heard that but there were some frosty characters in there. One B Goggin comes to mindI've always heard from older fans that the team literally had a fistfight among themselves on the bus to the ground that day, but no idea how true it really is.
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We had reasons for that performance- would have been surprised if we were not smashed that dayFrom recent times 2021 prelim would be up there for the worst too…
"there is no justice in football, that is the look on the face of Michael Martyn. The master all day and this game will be remembered for this kick" - Dennis Cometti.Ablett hand of god 94 Prelim
If it was 1969, then it was the 1st Semi Final against the Tigers.Worst?
I think it was my first live game.
1969 PF vs Tiggers.
Standing room 14yo by myself.
Wadey got 5 (out of 7), we lost 25.17 to 7.7.
I think someone pissed on me, but the Gods certainly pissed on the Cats that day.
Best? 22 GF would go close.
That was the game I was going to nominate. For some reason the feeling leaving that day was really horrible.
Of course in hindsight it wasn't nearly so bad - we finished top 4 that year.
Best? Excluding finals, I reckon smashing Collingwood in 1989 at the MCG when Ablett ripped them apart (all match, but especially the last quarter). In that era it was a real 'big' game, and to see the entire footy world realise one player was just miles ahead of everyone else was something very special to witness.
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Did you go to many Geelong games in the mid 90s?So many great nominations, a few garbage games of course and the general excitement of seeing so many Geelong thumpings of sides over my 45-odd years of following the Cats. I think of all our 100-point wins, all bar about 8 or so happened before i was alive.
Best game I have been to for excitement was the 1994 PF, Gary Sr's mark and kick with a couple of seconds left, coming home on the train was a glorious feeling...obviously expunged a week later with Geelong's thrashing by West Coast in the GF.
Plenty of horrid H & A games, i reckon my worst was Rd 7 1990, Geelong were killed by the Hawks in Rd 1, but recovered to be 4-2 and we'd just beaten North and Essendon the previous two games, and had the juicy Tigers at KP who were hopeless in that era.
But Geelong conspired to kick 9.28.82 at home, beaten by the Bartlett-coached Tiggers 13.18.96. Think it was also the game Bews did a knee in as well, and Gary Sr missed that match. Took the wind out of our sails for sure.
Losses at K.P to the likes of Freo and GWS rankle, walking out of the QF at home in 2013 a defeated Cats fan was like a funeral procession, everyone was just in shocked silence. And the limp effort for Enright's 300th to the Dees, when Gawn decided to become Gary Dempsey and Dean Cox combined....left a horrid taste in the mouth.
Also Rd 15 1983, Cats are 3.3.21 to the awful St.Kilda 0.4.4 at quarter time, yet at K.P we wind up losing by over 50 points to a side that had won maybe a single game for the season at the time. Terrible years was '83, we lost seven of nine at home. But i kind of consider it the year 1 B.A...Before Ablett. We can't complain about the glorious impact Gary Ablett(s) had on our club over the coming decades that's for sure.
Not really. Have watched the 89 grand final a dozen times. Have not rewatched the disaster of the last couple of Ayers coaching years ever.This surely is the only answer.
I’m not sure. Going 21-1 with a percentage of 168 in the regular home and away and 23-1 into a Grand Final and not taking the chocolates imo cannot be matched.Not really. Have watched the 89 grand final a dozen times. Have not rewatched the disaster of the last couple of Ayers coaching years ever.
Grand final loses are also better then the constant finals choking that occurred between 2012 and 2019.
Indeed I did, those matches were a reason for my Hawk torment rant, it was like Ayers was actually a Hawks plant, four losses by the Cats to Hawthorn at K.P by a goal or less in 5 seasons under his coaching, and then to add insult to injury Hawthorn beat Geelong in the EF in 2000. Blokes like Shannon Gibson used to give me nightmares.Did you go to many Geelong games in the mid 90s?
Back to back awful losses at Kardinia Park against Hawthorn in 1996 and 1997. The first by 2 points with them kicking 5 goals to 2 in the final quarter. Feral Hawk fans behind me.
Then they repeated the dose a year later with a 1 goal win. These were not incredibly strong Hawthorn sides but we could be frustratingly inconsistent around this period.
I remember sitting behind the goals at the city end (Joel Selwood stand ) in 2001 in absolutely attrocious conditions with a bunch of mates playing against the Roos.That West Coast game was a shocker.
There were some bad ones v North and Freo as well, in horrible weather