Biggest choke by a team

[treefingers]

North V Port last year
North V Geelong r2 2013
North V Adelaide r9 2013

 

[Neese]

You got off lightly , I didn't speak to my Carlton best man for 3 months

Ouch, pretty sure she only spoke to me again was that it was her birthday.
At least she got to the MCG to watch her Bombers in 2000

 

[Gizza]

Funnily enough, Footy Flashbacks today had a game I think from 2001 where Essendon came back to win from 69 points down against guess who... North Nelbourne.

 

[DrEvil]

This sort of a game is more of a case of one team turning things around and getting an extended run on to overtake them. I reckon a choke is more a team leading by 4 goals and then giving it up with only 2-3 minutes to go.

it's like you're psychic

 

[SuperSub17]

Lols. Try losing Ben Cousins around that time of the match.

Also imagine WCE 07 without Kerr, Cousins and Judd vs Collingwood (plus CHF Hansen injured out of the game). To call these chokes is a bit wild. Not to mention they won the flag a year beforehand, so the presence of a choke is less likely. Collingwood also held WCE goalless in that 1st quarter, so they had shown an ability to stem WCE scoring in that particular game prior to the last quarter.

Of all the examples, its a rather absurd one.

None of this changes the fact that you led by 4 goals with a quarter to go and lost two weeks in a row, especially in the SF which history has shown is very difficult for the home side to lose.

 

[Bloodstained Bomber]

 

[greennick]

None of this changes the fact that you led by 4 goals with a quarter to go and lost two weeks in a row, especially in the SF which history has shown is very difficult for the home side to lose.

Smashed by injuries though. Hardly a choke, we just weren't good enough with the side we had on the park and the injuries they were carrying.

 

[Page8383]

We are the greatest.
All you other pretenders keep dreaming.
You will never be in our league.

 

[Neese]

ahahahahahahaha ahaha ha

 

[Tarkyn_24]

North Melbourne Rd 1 2013.
North Melbourne Rd 2 2013.
North Melbourne Rd 5 2013.
North Melbourne Rd 8 2013.

West Coast Rd 5 2013.

North Melbourne round 1? The game that they were 34 points behind half way through the last quarter? Really?

 

[Tarkyn_24]

Rd 19, 2005

19 minute mark of the last quarter, Collingwood up by 23 points.

North kick 5 consecutive goals to win by 6 points.

Result: Collingwood draft Scott Pendlebury.

Definitely lost in that one.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Result: Collingwood draft Scott Pendlebury.

Definitely lost in that one.

You might be better suited to barracking for Melbourne.

 

[Tarkyn_24]

You might be better suited to barracking for Melbourne.

Haha fair call.

Still in essence that's what the game came down to. In hindsight, it's not disappointing at all.

 

[Stopher]

* Essendon v Carlton in the '99 Preliminary Final
* Adelaide v Essendon in the '93 Preliminary Final
* Western Bulldogs v Adelaide in the '97 Premininary Final

Not just that they lost but the manner in which they did so.

 

[Slax]

Geelong v Hawthorn R6 1989.

Geelong kicked first goal after half time to be 55 points up and lost by 8 points.

*Game also must be noted for Gavin Excel kicking 9 goals, part of his career purple patch where he kicked 36 goals in 6 weeks, in what was otherwise an unremarkable career.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

In 2008, didn't Port Adelaide lead Brisbane something like 97-50 only to lose 104-124?

 

[Big_Birdy]

Im going to bring up a game that the chokers actually won.

Final round of the 2007 season and West Coast lead Essendon by 44 Points at 3 QT at home. IIRC correctly we also kick the first goal in the last, putting the margin over 50 points and cruising to seal 2nd spot and a home QF.

Essendon then pile on 8 goals to one leaving the margin at the end of the game at 8 points.

Due to the drop in percentage we come 3rd instead of second and play Port at AAMI.

A full strength Eagles was the only team with any chance against the Cats that year (still doubt we would have won).

I don't think there is any doubt that without that last quater the Eagles were playing in a GF that year.

 

[Big_Birdy]

Also, do my eyes deceive me or is the Geelong v Sydney 2005 SF still not mentioned in this thread?

 

[Stopher]

Im going to bring up a game that the chokers actually won.

Final round of the 2007 season and West Coast lead Essendon by 44 Points at 3 QT at home. IIRC correctly we also kick the first goal in the last, putting the margin over 50 points and cruising to seal 2nd spot and a home QF.

Essendon then pile on 8 goals to one leaving the margin at the end of the game at 8 points.

Due to the drop in percentage we come 3rd instead of second and play Port at AAMI.

A full strength Eagles was the only team with any chance against the Cats that year (still doubt we would have won).

I don't think there is any doubt that without that last quater the Eagles were playing in a GF that year.

Hird's final game as a player, Sheedy's as Essendon coach. Scott Lucas kicked 7 of those final quarter goals. Sad day.

If we are talking about near-chokes, then Essendon's 2001 Preliminary Final effort against Hawthorn has to be up there. Very, very lucky that day.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Talk about a reversal.

The ultimate choke is this.

1/4 Time, Foot 1 2 8 STK 7 3 45.

Full Time, Foot 19 11? 125 STK 13 9 87.

What that means is that ST Kilda led at quarter time by 37 points only to lose the game by 38 points.

 

[winty]

Lols. Try losing Ben Cousins around that time of the match.

Also imagine WCE 07 without Kerr, Cousins and Judd vs Collingwood (plus CHF Hansen injured out of the game). To call these chokes is a bit wild. Not to mention they won the flag a year beforehand, so the presence of a choke is less likely. Collingwood also held WCE goalless in that 1st quarter, so they had shown an ability to stem WCE scoring in that particular game prior to the last quarter.

Of all the examples, its a rather absurd one.

Wasn't the bolded the same game where Glass was giving Rocca a bath, and for some reason Worsfold gave Glass a spell for 5 minutes late in the game, and Rocca kicked 2 or 3 goals while Glass was sitting on the pine?

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Hird's final game as a player, Sheedy's as Essendon coach. Scott Lucas kicked 7 of those final quarter goals. Sad day.

If we are talking about near-chokes, then Essendon's 2001 Preliminary Final effort against Hawthorn has to be up there. Very, very lucky that day.

Probably the worst game I'd ever seen us play.

Trent Croad could've knocked us out of the granny if not for errant kicking.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Also, do my eyes deceive me or is the Geelong v Sydney 2005 SF still not mentioned in this thread?

Didn't Geelong lead something like 52-30 during the last quarter?

 

[RedmanWasHere]

3/4 Time, Port Adelaide lead Carlton 60-30 in 2008.

Full Time, Carlton wins 75-63.

Mattie Kreuzer tears the Power apart in the last quarter.

 

[Big_Birdy]

Didn't Geelong lead something like 52-30 during the last quarter?

I think they led by that with perhaps 10min to play in wet conditions. I remember some very choke like errors by Geelong players during the late stages of the game.