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Greatest upsets of all time
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I didn't mind these selection shenanigans in the old SOO games. It made them like an All-Star game with all the champions included from NT, Qld, NSW, ACT and Tassie. I don't think it detracted from the full-on state rivalry. Maurice Rioli may have been from the Northern Territory, but to us Vics he was South Fremantle's aboriginal wizard and an honorary Sandgroper.
The Victoria B vs Tasmania games were secondary to the big matches played against WA or SA on the same weekend, so as a Hawk fan, I was stoked when Tasmanian Darrin Pritchard was selected on the wing for Victoria in the main game. Same deal, he became an honorary Victorian.
It was all simply a matter of which major comp you played your first game of senior football: VFL, SANFL or WAFL
Don't think you quite got the thread. Yes the Crows fans were greatly upset, but as Port were clear favourites going in to the game, the result wasn't an upset.
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Bookies aren't blind. they don't claim to be able to read the future. the job of the bookies is to anticipate what the punters want to bet on and adjust odds accordingly. ie If carlton were 1.02 favourite, it's because the gambling public was 100% convinced that carlton would destroy the gold coast. the bookies are just covering their spread.
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There was a bloke called John Longmire who was on fire that year and kicked a bag that night. I'm pretty sure Gerard
Healy played for NSW instead of Victoria that night too.
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If you want to talk about State game upsets, surely ACT rolling the Vics in 1980 would head the list. Sure, it was one of three Vic sides that went around that weekend, but the game wasn't subject to SOO rules, so they had a pretty decent side in.
Essendon vs ASADA - 2013/2014
Everyone thought we'd get infractions. We didn't/won't.
Incredible game. Would watch again.
Everyone thought we'd get infractions. We didn't/won't.
Incredible game. Would watch again.
Think most people would call getting booted from finals a pretty big infraction.
Your club is a disgrace, regardless of the outcome of the ASADA findings, joking/being smug about it doesn't change that.
Think most people would call getting booted from finals the work of the 'AFL' not 'ASADA'. Comprehension much?
Besides, would have just been making up the numbers in the finals last year - like Port.
That's true, AFL kicking Essendon out of the finals had nothing to do with ASADA.
And I'll take an elimination final win over the disgrace of being banned from finals any day.
Yes ... Essendon is a disgrace.
Injecting a substance that isn't even proven to be;
a) Detrimental to one's longterm health
b) Performance enhancing
is so much worse than employing criminals, thugs and gang-related figures.
Richmond is filth.
Most people in WA stopped caring and assumed they wont get any last year, its a Vic story thing that we have to put up with in snippets. We got Naitanui and Fyfe to care about
Riccardo11
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I remember that game! Nobody gave us a chance in hell and we pulled it off despite not scoring a goal in the last quarter!
Riccardo11
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I think that WA game was the famous Ted Whitten "stuck it right up them" interview, as well!
Your denial is amusing.
Riccardo11
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Wasn't really considered as upset as such. St Kilda was in the middle of a (then) record-breaking 10 game winning streak.
I remember it being billed as the old stager vs the fresh faced upstart, and we were actually given a good chance of knocking them off.
Riccardo11
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Half time scores don't count.
Mate - this match is so old that it is being played on "Footy Flashbacks"
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Haven't read it all so apologies if this has been posted.
1970 at the MCG, Premiers Richmond v easybeats Fitzroy in front of the Queen.
Richmond 14.12.96 Fitzroy 16.20.116
1970 at the MCG, Premiers Richmond v easybeats Fitzroy in front of the Queen.
Richmond 14.12.96 Fitzroy 16.20.116
Actually, history, if you look back as far as I am willing to, suggests that Hawthorn were suffering a bad reaction from their thrilling win over Carlton the previous weekend and this led to a huge let-down, along with a number of injuries that left Hawthorn with fewer that eighteen fit men by match’s end.
In the eighteenth round of 1975, Hawthorn were on 16–1 and had just won a thriller in unusually hot conditions against second-placed Carlton, which left the Hawks two games clear on top. Against Fitzroy, who were tenth with five wins and twelve losses, and were coming off a bad fade-out at Moorabbin, the Hawks were never in the game, and apart from an easy win over Geelong never recaptured their early-season form, losing four of their last five matches and being thrashed by a much faster North Melbourne in the Grand Final. I also like to compare the case in the 1922 County Cricket Championship of Somerset (a mid-table club) losing to a Glamorgan team that had lost fifteen games out of sixteen – almost all by huge margins – the game after Somerset recorded a thrilling win over powerful Middlesex.
Hawthorn’s loss was certainly a surprise, though under Feltham the Bears were playing better than at any stage of their first seven or eight seasons, convincingly defeating North Melbourne, Fitzroy and Carlton.
One game that’s just a little too far back for people today to recall, but is certainly one of the greatest upsets in League history was St. Kilda against Footscray in the last round of 1985. The Saints had won just two games for the entire season and had a percentage of only 63.2 – lower even than Melbourne in 1981 – going into the match, whilst Footscray had won eleven of their past twelve matches and were coming off a comfortable win over Collingwood at Victoria Park. Yet, the Bulldogs, kicking with a strong wind, were unable to break clear of the Saints in the first quarter, leading only 3-8 (26) to 1-3 (9), and kicking into the wind in the second quarter the Bulldogs against struggled to convert, leading 5-11 (41) to 5-3 (33) at half-time. The third quarter, however, saw St. Kilda defend very well according to The Age into the breeze, so that despite not goalling for the quarter the Saints were only behind 5-7 (37) to 7-16 (58) at three-quarter time with a strong wind to finish with, and in the final quarter St. Kilda added 7.5 (47) to 1-2 (8) for a shock win by three goals. St. Kilda 12-12 (84) [Goals: Lockett 4, Odgers 3, Manning, Grant, Mace, Cronan, Buckey] defeated Footscray 8-18 (66) [Goals: Hardie 3, Beasley, Seweel, Edmond, Steven MacPherson, Buhagiar].
I wonder if there is anyone in 2014 who remembers this game at all well – I have no recollections yet for twenty-five years it has fascinated me a great deal.
Carlton beating Westcoast in 1991 with Minton-Connell goaling from the boundary line. Eagles had won 13 straight, and was only a couple of games after the Blues had only kicked 1 goal against the Dogs
My best footy memory as a kid
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