On a side note can anyone tell me about North that year? They were one of the few to beat us in the back half of the season and looking at the results on wiki now they should have finished on top. They lost to Footscray who ended up 9th as a result of that win but would have finished 12th. Also Carlton only won against the wooden spooner, Sydney, by 1 point in the last round.
So tell me about the North side please. Obviously Carey was a young man. Did anyone, other than Old Skool, rate them as a big chance come finals?
i seem to recall nth were on top when we played them..it was a pivotal time of the year for us, we were just in the 6 and a loss would put us out... we led them into half time and a little bit of the third.. it may have been one of symons first games and he was marking everything!.. then in the last carey and archer did us in and we lost.. but lost no friends at all.. then the week later we played wce.... if we lost it was curtains.... and that was the game that salmon kicked a bag of points but kicked the winner late on... was harveys 150th or 200th for memory? kickett kicked one of the biggest torps ive ever seen from inside the centre square for a goal, cleared the fence... bring on the jacket wave sheeds!
i do rememebr carlton winning or losing by a point in the last game.... i kinda remember we had a bye last round.. is this possible? were there byes that year? i thought we played geelong at kardinia and got beat cause we had 5 injuries that game, then we had to sit and watch the last round... and sydney nearly beat carlton to give us top. all that may be wrong but it kind of rings a bell in my mind.