Biggest choke by a team

[vast]

Essendon last year losing their last 7 after storming out if the blocks early in the season.

Why are you repeating yourself? Also get rid of that avatar ffs, its disturbing.

 

[Groupie_]

Why are you repeating yourself? Also get rid of that avatar ffs, its disturbing.

Stop raging brah

 

[Rod Stroker]

Can I submit this game?

http://stats.rleague.com/afl/stats/games/1995/021019950723.html

At that point Brisbane were third last and the Hawks were half a game out of the 8. Hawks went into the last quarter 45 points up.

Brisbane won by 7 points and went on to make finals.

Good get, I still remember that game.
The week after on The Footy Show was when Sam Newman came out with an umbrella for Dunstall because the Hawks had said that the heat was a reason why they fell away.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

Sydney v North, 2004.

Sydney up by 40 at 3/4 time.

North win by 6.

 

[worthy]

What's the difference between a massive choke and a great come back?

Winning and losing.

Hawks V Richmond, must have been 8 to 10 years ago, Tiges came back and won from 40 - 50pts down at 3qtr time.

 

[chelseagle]

Good get, I still remember that game.
The week after on The Footy Show was when Sam Newman came out with an umbrella for Dunstall because the Hawks had said that the heat was a reason why they fell away.

I remember watching it too and thinking that there was an emerging power up there. Took them a while, but some of the core of their eventual dominant side were massive in that last quarter - Voss, Hart, White, Scott.

 

[BLPC08]

Essendon last year losing their last 7 after storming out if the blocks early in the season.

They choked against Melbourne, but towards the end of the year they could barely field a team due to injuries. Shocking call imo.

The Tigers started 2005 with a 7-2 record, yet somehow found a way to miss the finals again. I can recall a loss against cellar dweller Carlton which nailed the door shut late in the season. THAT was a choke.

 

[hawker19]

Without doubt the greatest choke of all time is by Melbourne in the '87 prelim final. Everyone bagged Jim Stynes for his stuff up (running across the mark) but that only overshadowed all the other easy chances the Demons had to stitch up the game. From memory Simon Eishold missed a sitter from 5m out, Graeme Yeats and Tony Campbell also missed sitters. Melbourne should have won that game by five goals, not lost it after the siren.

 

[Groupie_]

They choked against Melbourne, but towards the end of the year they could barely field a team due to injuries. Shocking call imo.

The Tigers started 2005 with a 7-2 record, yet somehow found a way to miss the finals again. I can recall a loss against cellar dweller Carlton which nailed the door shut late in the season. THAT was a choke.

I was after a more recent choke that didn't involve the Tigers

 

[Tatts22]

Round 10 2006 - West Coast v Cats

Cats up by 54 points midway through 3rd qtr at Kardinia to end up losing by 3pts

 

[RU486]

Geelong vs WCE

Skilled Stadium in 06. Geelong lost.

 

[RU486]

Round 10 2006 - West Coast v Cats

Cats up by 54 points midway through 3rd qtr at Kardinia to end up losing by 3pts

Wizard, best comeback I can remember watching.

 

[SaintsManMat]

1997 prelim, Dogs V Crows /thread.

Was that the game where Libba was being held by one of his team mates pumping fists like they had won the game??

 

[Rushed_Behind]

Hawthorn vs Stkilda 1999 at Waverley Park

Hawthorn down by 63 5 minutes into second term and 44 points at half time.

Kick 13g 3b to 3g 6b after halftime.

 

[Rushed_Behind]

Collingwood 1979 GF:

 

[De Iulio2Wiggins]

Round 3, 2007. Essendon have 16 scoring shots to Carlton's 3 by quarter time to lead by 38 points.

Then they fall asleep at the switch and lose to a team featuring Cain Ackland, Adam Bentick, Cameron Cloke, Brad Fisher, Ryan Houlihan, Setanta O'Hailpin, Jordan Russell, Bret Thornton and Simon Wiggins.

 

[Rushed_Behind]

Round 3, 2007. Essendon have 16 scoring shots to Carlton's 3 by quarter time to lead by 38 points.

Then they fall asleep at the switch and lose to a team featuring Cain Ackland, Adam Bentick, Cameron Cloke, Brad Fisher, Ryan Houlihan, Setanta O'Hailpin, Jordan Russell, Bret Thornton and Simon Wiggins.

Putting it this way we have a winner

 

[Kermit D]

The biggest choke in all sports that I've seen.
NBA - 1995 Eastern Conference Semi Finals.
Knicks v Pacers
Knicks up 105-99 with 18.7 seconds left, neither team had any timeouts left. Pacers with the in-bound.
Took 2 secs for Reggie Miller to drain a three. Knicks still up by 3.
Full-court press on the inbound. Knicks throw the ball in, the clock starts, in only 3.5 secs Reggie Miller intercepts the pass, steps back behind the line, drains another 3.
Still 13.2 secs remaining, scores now tied.
Knicks inbound, the Knicks' John Starks is fouled 4 secs later. Has two free throws to rebuild the lead, but as a 75% career free-throw shooter, amazingly misses both. Patrick Ewing has the putback from the second miss, and misses as well. Miller recovers the loose ball, and is then fouled by Starks. There is still 7.5 seconds on the clock.
Miller makes both free-throws (making it 8 points in less than 9 seconds). Knicks take the ball down the court, and the ball-carrier trips over on the final drive and fails to get a shot off.

This flow of mistakes by the Knicks puts the Richmond choke v GC last year in the shade. You don't even have to like basketball to understand how big this was.

What about T-Macs 13 points in 30 seconds?

Reggie Miller was just a freak when it came to this sort of thing, especially against the Knicks. I suppose you're right though, McGrady's was better but not the bigger choke.

 

[Inferno]

Not quite chokes, but Geelong 2002 put in some really good efforts at almost chokes.

Vs Carlton. Cats were a young, middle of the ladder team at this point pushing for finals, Carlton were 1-9, been somewhere between bad and awful the whole season and were well on the way to a wooden spoon. Cats led by 37 at 3/4 time, required a goal after the siren to win.



Vs St Kilda. St Kilda are 15th and playing for pride while the Cats are pushing for a top 4 spot. Geelong led by 36 at 3/4 time, proceed to not score in the 4th qtr and hold on by a point.



Actually the whole season was a choke for us. We were 10-6 with most of our games remaining being against mediocre sides. Finished 11-11 and missed out by percentage with that St Kilda game being the only win in that stretch

 

[Kermit D]

Essendon last year losing their last 7 after storming out if the blocks early in the season.

How is continually losing players to injury choking? Did you expect us to continue our round 1-9 form with 1/4 of the team out and another 1/4 just back from leg injuries.

 

[Kermit D]

Richmond 1981 - present.

You need to be in a position of potential success to choke, what did they choke up?

 

[Oneiros]

massive choke was when we lost to Gold Coast to give them their first ever win
leading by 7 goals coming into the last lost with Westhoff missing an easy goal after the siren to snatch the game back

Wasn't that the game that spawned the Bay's Thread of the Year winner?

 

[Handsome.B.Wonderful]

Collingwood didn't choke, they tanked.

The players tanked?

Why did they bother getting 4 goals up then?

 

[the_slurpee_man]

HAWTHORN 2012 grand final.

One of the best

The other mob deserves a bit credit in all honestly...

 

[Super Hans]

Geelong in 2008. Couldn't be more dominate in almost every game that year, except the grand final.