Most Heartbreaking Loss

[Mr Meow]

Agree totally.
Only thing against it being a total heartbreak in retrospect was that it was over at 3QT from where I sat, and we got 09.
BUT, it was my birthday, and a family dinner was on the cards as a double celebration, which was promptly cancelled, and all the things you said about us- it still cuts me up today. For me 09 did quite not erase the misery.

Happy (belated) birthday Dubs.

 

[Vdubs]

Happy (belated) birthday Dubs.

It wasn't. Strangely, we have rarely if ever been in a GF on my birthday (Sep 27)apart from 08. That was definitely the one that got away.

 

[Mr Meow]

It wasn't. Strangely, we have rarely if ever been in a GF on my birthday (Sep 27)apart from 08. That was definitely the one that got away.

Somewhat rare for mine too.

It would have fallen on the day of the 2011 GF, but they stopped the run of late-mid September 20s and placed the game a week later on October 1st (which has happened a few times).

2022 the GF did fall on my birthday, which was pretty neat.

 

[The Unforgiven]

2013 Prelim Final.

2005 Semi Final.

But 2008 Grand Final has no peer. That was dead set fuçķed.

 

[iameviljez]

I offered different answers as different discussion points because it would be a boring thread with 50x single word "2008" answers.

And to think you were accused at one point of being "deliberately contrarian"

 

[Mr Meow]

And to think you were accused at one point of being "deliberately contrarian"

Don't quite understand. I agree with the ones posted and added some new ones to further the discussion.

"Anyone who says the 2008 GF, is an idiot" would be deliberately contrarian.

 

[iameviljez]

And i laugh at these posters who bag Blight , in the 70s and 80s apart from 2 very strong years ( 80/81 ) under Billy Goggin - the rest of that period Geel were utter garbage

I've not seen a single BF poster bagging Malcolm Blight in the 20 years I have been on this board, I think now there is a solid realisation that (a) Geelong never quite had the cattle in the 90s, and (b) he was pretty clearly an excellent September coach.

 

[patience]

I offered different answers as different discussion points because it would be a boring thread with 50x single word "2008" answers.

We've had a lot of heart breaking losses, to the point where most people could put together interesting and varied top 10s. Heart breaking doesn't always mean a close loss or losing as favourites either.

Of course many incredible wins too, but that's a different thread.

Even the 2010 prelim was a stinger to be at live but because we beat them in a GF the next year, it erased it. But at the time, being live at that game to see a champion team absolutely massacred in a final was brutal. Ablett's last games and so on, it felt like we could be in for tough times.

Then 2011 somehow happened.

You having a go at me? I can barely think the numbers '08 let alone discuss.

 

[Mr Meow]

You having a go at me? I can barely think the numbers '08 let alone discuss.

Not at all, we've already dissected the Hell out of that one anyway.

I think I replied to iameviljez when he said anyone who didn't nominate 2008 was as dumb as a bag of rocks (paraphrasing).

There's so many other painful games that can get a bit of love!

 

[iameviljez]

Not at all, we've already dissected the Hell out of that one anyway.

I think I replied to iameviljez when he said anyone who didn't nominate 2008 was as dumb as a bag of rocks (paraphrasing).

There's so many other painful games that can get a bit of love!

Bahahaha, might be using some poetic licence there

 

[Mr Meow]

Bahahaha, might be using some poetic licence there

I thought you'd enjoy that one.

 

[standupand]

Not the most heartbreaking but one of the early ones that I remember as a kid was a game circa 1988, cats at home v swans.

We were favourites I think but the swans kicked away in the 3rd only for the cats to make a comeback late to get within a kick with seconds left.

Enter a young Robert Scott who marks and ends up with the kick after the siren from 30 out on a difficult angle.

It comes off the boot nicely and it dead set looks like it's sailing through for a goal... But hold on, what's that? The goalpost is shaking. It's called a behind! Cats lose! What the? Could the ball really have hit the post that hard to make it shake like that, what seems like half a second after the ball crossed the goal line? Was there some tactics going on in the goal square from the swans players?

No goalline tech so this remains to me one of life's great mysteries. All I know is that, at the time I was as shattered as any under 10 year old can be, which is pretty darn embarrassingly shattered.