Result Reversal.

[joeyavalanche]

This thread is going to break my heart...

H/A Game Round 22 2007, Fremantle Vs Port at Subi (I think).

Fremantle were absolutely spanked by Port in this game and we ended up loosing second place on the ladder by .2 (I believe) of a percent to Port. Costing us a crucial home advantage final against Port in the first round of the finals that year. If they had of kept the game close Port would of finished third and we would of played them at Subi instead of Adelaide. I would back us v Port at home any day of the week, and a win there would of meant Cosuins and Judd get an extra week off to freshen up after niggling injuries ready to rock a prelim final. We lost that final against Port by a very close margin too....

Same year.. Collingwood v West Coast Semi Final

The game went into overtime!! From memory Worsfold took Glass off the ground as Malthouse put Rocca on. Rocca goes on to kick the goal which tied the scores, Collingwood had an extra player as Cousins ham string went ping earlier and we may have lost another guy also??? so they were able to run away with it in the end. If I could change history Id keep Cousins hammies from pulling and that would of been enough to get us over the line. We were missing Kerr that week as he had a finger problem but he would of been available the week after if we won.

Sydney v West Coast 2005 Grand Final.

Winning the 2006 makes it hurt less, but it still hurts.

oh perfect examples!
the collingwood game not so much, if we won that we would have had to fly to melbourne to play geelong and no doubt would have got smacked.

but to lose that home advantage to port just killed us,
we were really walking wounded at that time.

and that grand final... well.
the team selections?
staker in front of goal?
barry's mark?

first place im going back to when i get a time machine

 

[Norfolk Nadia]

"H/A Game Round 22 2007, Fremantle Vs Port at Subi (I think).

Fremantle were absolutely spanked by Port in this game and we ended up loosing second place on the ladder by .2 (I believe) of a percent to Port. Costing us a crucial home advantage final against Port in the first round of the finals that year. If they had of kept the game close Port would of finished third and we would of played them at Subi instead of Adelaide. I would back us v Port at home any day of the week, and a win there would of meant Cosuins and Judd get an extra week off to freshen up after niggling injuries ready to rock a prelim final. We lost that final against Port by a very close margin too...."


Freo got done by 32 points at AAMI ...not a bad result for Freo at AAMI on Saturday Night

West Coast let Lucas kick a heap in the last quarter and the Bombers lose by a couple of points rather than 8 goals ...at Subiaco on Saturday afternoon

The lost percentage may have not been all Freo's fault ...

 

[irukandji]

H&A - nothing springs to mind

Final - 1990 Semi v West Coast @ Waverley
After beating Hawthorn in successive weeks and having a week off due to the Collingwood-West Coast Sumich shank draw, to not win that game and at least take a shot at a shaky Essendon and then Collingwood has hurt.

GF - Have to say 1958 which would've made 6 in a row
Can't really justify any wish for a reversal in 1988 or 2000. A reversal of 1990 would be amusing - sat thru Melbourne losing the U19s and Reserves and then the Pies flag.

 

[Franc de Borges]

Home & Away: Round 22 1994 Vs Essendon. All we had to do was beat a fairly poor Essendon team to finish top, but we stuffed it. Lost to them earlier that year by a point at Waverley. We really should have won the flag in 1994.

Final: 1994 Qualifying Final Vs Melbourne. Thought we had the team to go all the way but this loss ruined it. Fell apart against Geelong the next week and it was all over. Marginally worse than losing to Melbourne in the same circumstances in 2000, because at least that saved us losing the Grand Final to Essendon, which without Kouta, would have happened.

Grand Final: 1993 Vs Essendon. Worst moment of my childhood. Inexplicably poor on the day and I'm still not over it, despite the '99 Prelim. Losing to Essendon as well as them equalling our record 15 premierships, it just dosen't get any worse. As I said, at least we were saved from the same fate in 2000.

 

[Kapow!!!]

I'd probably go with:


Round 22, 2003: Melbourne vs Sydney. Had Melbourne actually held on and won, we would've had fourth spot in our first finals series against the then 'chokers' tagged Port Adelaide side at AAMI. A preliminary final against Brisbane would've been interesting. Against Port at AAMI, less pressure on us, more pressure on them...I'm not saying anything definitely but it could very well have ended in our favour.

Qualifying Final 2006: West Coast vs Sydney. West Coast win, we play them in the preliminary final. What a match that would've been and I would've been confident of winning that one.

Those are the only two that involve Fremantle but for the sake of continuity:

2004 Grand Final. Would've liked to have seen Brisbane win 4 straight.

 

[Salopek31]

H/A Game Round 22 2007, Fremantle Vs Port at Subi (I think).

Fremantle were absolutely spanked by Port in this game and we ended up loosing second place on the ladder by .2 (I believe) of a percent to Port. Costing us a crucial home advantage final against Port in the first round of the finals that year. If they had of kept the game close Port would of finished third and we would of played them at Subi instead of Adelaide. I would back us v Port at home any day of the week, and a win there would of meant Cosuins and Judd get an extra week off to freshen up after niggling injuries ready to rock a prelim final. We lost that final against Port by a very close margin too....

That's not entirely true. At the beginning of the round Port held a marginal percentage lead. West Coast played first and were cruising to a big win against Essendon before Scott Lucas went crazy and kicked 6 or 7 in the last quarter to nearly win the game for the Bombers. By the time we played Freo any win would have been enough to hand us second spot. So in summary you only had yourselves to blame.

As for reversals ...

H&A - Any game that Port lost in 1997 - No home and away game really stands out for me but it would have been nice to win one more game and play finals in our first season in the AFL.

Finals - 2001 SF v Hawthorn - Far, far too many to choose from in this category but the 2001 semi stands out because we were in top form and would have been a huge chance to beat Essendon the following week and then an even money chance at Brisbane in the GF. In those circumstances to lose by less than a goal after having the game in the bag half way through the last quarter really does hurt.

GF - 2007 GF v Geelong -

 

[Vader]

H&A - hard to say.
Maybe Rnd22 2005, the loss to Adelaide at subiaco by 8pts, where a season of dominance, slighted by poor away performances in the closing weeks, stripped us of the minor premiership. Remember being very annoyed at that. Winning the flag suddenly seemed a bit more difficult.
We have never really just missed finals, except for inaugral 1987, so we have never hurt in that regard. And being an interstater, the derby losses arent as serious to me.

Interesting that you chose this game. The Weagles & Crows had 1st & 2nd sewn up before the game even began, effectively making it a dead rubber. With a high probability that the teams would meet again in the finals, neither team were overly keen to reveal any special tactics. As a result, both sides played well within themselves and Adelaide just happened to come out winners. Unfortunately, the result was reversed in the Preliminary Final replay a month later. I really didn't think that the Weagles lost any momentum as a result of this game - both teams really had nothing to play for and played accordingly.

As for Adelaide's result reversals...

We've never lost a Grand Final, so I'll have to take 2 finals matches instead - the 2005 & 2006 Preliminary Finals, both against the Weagles. A win in either (or both) would have set us up for a Grand Final against our bunnies in the Sydney Swans, thus we'd almost certainly have 3 or 4 premiership cups in the cabinet by now. Cest La Vie.

The only H&A game which springs to mind is the R8 2001 vs Fremantle at Subiaco. Adelaide became the first (and one of only two) team to lose to the Shockers in arguably their worst ever season. I can't say it had any implications for our finals campaign later in the year - but we'll never live down the disgrace..

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

H&A - probably Round 22 vs Adelaide 2009 as we would have earned a home final against Essendon for the first final and Juddy would not have been suspended. Maybe it works better if I just point to either game against Essendon as we stop their winning streak against us, keep them out of finals and get a home final against Hawthorn.

Finals - vs Brisbane 2009, just to get our first finals win in a long long time and allow supporters at home to see us play a final in week two.

GF - Two come to mind. 1910 to give us a clean sweep against the Pies in GF's, but more likely 1993 to beat the Bombers and potentially have 17 flags to 15 right now. Although, 93 and 94 motivated us for 95 and that might not have happened with a different result.

 

[LiterallyNobody]

Interesting that you chose this game. The Weagles & Crows had 1st & 2nd sewn up before the game even began, effectively making it a dead rubber. With a high probability that the teams would meet again in the finals, neither team were overly keen to reveal any special tactics. As a result, both sides played well within themselves and Adelaide just happened to come out winners. Unfortunately, the result was reversed in the Preliminary Final replay a month later. I really didn't think that the Weagles lost any momentum as a result of this game - both teams really had nothing to play for and played accordingly.

As for Adelaide's result reversals...

We've never lost a Grand Final, so I'll have to take 2 finals matches instead - the 2005 & 2006 Preliminary Finals, both against the Weagles. A win in either (or both) would have set us up for a Grand Final against our bunnies in the Sydney Swans, thus we'd almost certainly have 3 or 4 premiership cups in the cabinet by now. Cest La Vie.

The only H&A game which springs to mind is the R8 2001 vs Fremantle at Subiaco. Adelaide became the first (and one of only two) team to lose to the Shockers in arguably their worst ever season. I can't say it had any implications for our finals campaign later in the year - but we'll never live down the disgrace..

Not quite right there, actually you played Freo and lost to them in round 22, it was hawthorn who became the first team to lose to Freo in round 17 or 18 at Docklands and then Adelaide dropped the final match of the year against them.

 

[Jimmyeow]

Round 22 2007: We were outclassed by a very strong West Coast side all day, Sheedy was leaving, Hird was leaving and the game wasn't even played in Melbourne. After Lucas played the most amazing quarter of football I've ever seen we went down by 8 points. It showed what the club also meant to Scott Lucas, but getting up would have been the ultimate send off for two club legends.

Preliminary Final 1996: It had to be out of this and the '99 prelim. But I'd rather swing this result around as Carlton lost the '99 grand final anyway. Sydney tore my heart out that night, in extra time after the siren was almost unbearable. Particularly as the bears beat us by the same margin two weeks earlier.

Grand Final 2001: Possibly the greatest team over 3 seasons to win one flag. The 2001 reversal would better show the force we were.

 

[LiterallyNobody]

Grand Final 2001: Possibly the greatest team over 3 seasons to win one flag. The 2001 reversal would better show the force we were.

the floor is yours, Dan26...

 

[Jezzitizle]

We're yet to lose a grand final (I don't count NAB Cups)

Neither have we

 

[Toriola]

Home and away: Round 18 2006 Vs Carlton - This match was just horrible. Carlton were sitting last on two wins (one was against Melbourne in Rnd 1), and Melbourne were sitting outright 3rd. Going into this match Melbourne had won 12 of the last 14 matches including a 51 point win against the Bulldogs the week before. Carlton get out to an early lead and hold on for a 7 point win in an ugly, sloppy match. So Carlton win 3 games for the year... 2 of which are against Melbourne. Melbourne finish 7th and get knocked out in the semi-final in Perth. Had we won just ONE of those games against Carlton, just one, we would have finished in the top 4 in a relatively open year. Grrr....

Final: 2002 Semi Final Vs Adelaide - What a match. Down by 40 points at quarter time, Travis Johnstone almost single-handedly lifts Melbourne to a 22 point 3/4 time lead. It was majestic viewing and I begin to salivate over the prospect of playing Collingwood in the prelim in front of 90,000+ the following week. Beginning of the 4th quarter and a Russell Robertson, Adem Yze head clash appears to be the spark for an Adelaide revival. Melbourne begin to tire (i.e. Travis Johnstone begins to tire), Brett Burton kicks a couple of arsey goals and Adelaide win by 12 points. Such an incredible roller-coaster of emotions this match and I still think back to it regularly.

Grand Final: Meh, 2 grand finals that I can remember and we came up against 2 of the most dominant sides in recent memory and got spanked both times. The idea that either of these 2 could be reversed hurts my head too much to even think about.

 

[Vader]

Not quite right there, actually you played Freo and lost to them in round 22, it was hawthorn who became the first team to lose to Freo in round 17 or 18 at Docklands and then Adelaide dropped the final match of the year against them.

Quite right. I mis-read the page on "allthestats" website. We were 8th on the ladder, not round 8. Doesn't change the disgrace of losing to that particular Freo side though...

 

[LiterallyNobody]

Quite right. I mis-read the page on "allthestats" website. We were 8th on the ladder, not round 8. Doesn't change the disgrace of losing to that particular Freo side though...

I must admit, I really thought we would be the first. We only won by ten points against them but if I remember rightly, it took us until well into the final quarter to even look like we might be able to win. I don't think we kicked a goal in the first quarter and we struggled all the way through, had we lost that match, we would've only had two wins for the season and Freo would've been just one game behind us after that or something.

not sure.

 

[MrNatural]

H&A
I cant think of too many games that really hurt.
So ill just go with ANZAC Day 09


Final
Definantly PF vs Cats in 07
I honestly think if we got past the cats that we wouldve beaten the Power


GF
02 and 03 equally hurt
Id personally wouldve like to have a couple of umpiring decisions reversed in 02.
03 well id like to have a 10 goal turnaround

 

[the_big_sav]

final: 97 prelim

just a random sort of one. probably not really ever considered (even by north fans)

had we won we would have gone on to play adelaide in the grand final.

the main change for the gf would have been mckernan out and archer in (im pritty sure schwass was out for the whole finals, where as arch would have been back in had we made the gf)

we had won the match in rnd 12 in adelaide and had won 5 of the last 6 games.

modra would have missed and had kicked 6 against us in the rnd 12 clash, jarmen was held goaless in the rnd 12 game and we were carey-less in rnd 12 who at the time was coming off 7 goals against geelong in the qualifying final 2 weeks before.

would have been an interesting final seeing both teams coming off 3 finals. had we won then, adelaide might not have had the confidence to go again in 98 and have that belief to come back during the 98 finals series

p.s we had no right to win this final or were robbed or anything like that, its just a bit of fun

 

[SunKing]

Only one matters
2004 GF to make four in a row.
Three in a row is still amazing in this era but four would have been awesome.

 

[spookism]

H/A - Round 22, 1997 - A 33 Point loss to St. Kilda and a reversal would of had us in the finals in our first AFL season in which everyone (including the Prime Minister) had us finishing last with about 2 wins!

Finals - Prelim Final, 2003 - The loss in 2002 was bad, but that hurt - especially against the Magpies

Grand Final - 2007 - Self explanatory really

 

[mianfei]

Home and away: The contending seasons I can think of are 1987 and 1993 where we finished half a game and percentage out of the finals respectively. The obvious choices are round 22 in 1987 against Hawthorn or Round 6 in 1993 against Essendon (the Salmon/Ablett game).

The 1987 one is interesting for what Geelong would have done in the finals. With Sydney declining since Carlton’s super display — best I’ve ever seen watching football bar none — in Round 19 and North exhausted trying to beat the invincible Blues in the last round to get the double chance, Geelong would probably have had an easy run to the preliminary final unless they had a bad off-day like they did against the Bears twice and Fitzroy during the home-and-away season. I don’t see that changing anything except perhaps Geelong’s future finals experience, but that really only had an effect on the 1989 Qualifying Final.

Maybe with a last round win Geelong would have been able to do well enough to defeat Hawthorn in the preliminary, but I cannot see them defeating or even being competitive against Carlton in the Grand Final — the nearest parallel I am able to imagine to the likely outcome for Melbourne had they won the preliminary is what happened to North Adelaide against a brutal Port defence in the 1989 SANFL Grand Final, where they could easily have finished with a goalless match.

Geelong, even with a different style from the Demons, might not have done much better given that Carlton were impossible to stop after their super effort against the Swans, and hot, dry, windy weather is perfect for hard man-on-man football as Carlton perfected against the Swans in that Round 19 game. Still, if they had been thrashed by the Blues as I imagine they would have had they beaten Hawthorn in the last round and the preliminary, it’s interesting to speculate whether Geelong might have learned anything for future seasons that would have prevented further losses in Grand Finals??

 

[telsor]

And people say the bump is dead...

 

[Dr Mephesto]

Round 18 2009: If Jordan McMahon hadn't kicked that goal, we wouldn't have eventually had to pay a $500,000 fine for tanking 3.5 years down the track.

 

[telsor]

Round 18 2009: If Jordan McMahon hadn't kicked that goal, we wouldn't have eventually had to pay a $500,000 fine for tanking 3.5 years down the track.

God no...If he hadn't done that we would have got Scully or Trengove rather than Dusty!

 

[Murraj1966]

Well this is a blast from the past.

I'd like to change my Grand Final answer, considering I was at the damn replay!

 

[Gibbke]

1984 GF. This one sucked, after being in control and then failing to adapt to a bit of Hail Mary from supercoach Sheedy. In the broader historical context, we ended up 1-2 v Essendon in that GF stretch, instead of claiming that little bragging right. Very hard to watch, and I rate it as worse than 2012...at least in that game, Sydney had demonstrated right throughout that they had our measure, and we were fortunate to be in a winning position with minutes to go...

2009 last round. Essendon again, in a virtual knockout final - whoever won got eighth. We failed badly, and gave plenty of ammunition for the next couple of years to anyone who wanted to badmouth the team and the 2008 success...at least with a finals appearance, we would have avoided that unfortunate "premiers one year, out the next" stat...

Finals...a few...1990, 1992, and believe it or not 2001, were three games which, if the Hawks won, could have seen them in with a real flag shot. 1992 was a narrow Subiaco loss to WC, 1990 a second consecutive loss to Melbourne, both of whom stood in our way against opponents who the team could have taken - especially 1992, because we would have played a second semi the week after against Geelong. In 1990, we would have been up against plucky but still unproven West Coast, declining Essendon, and Collingwood, who we'd beaten by 15 goals a few weeks before...long shot, but I recall conversations where many of us thought it could be the first ever season where the flag was won from the EF. In 2001, I thought we matched up well on Brisbane, simple as that, despite the Gabba thrashing that season, and we were only a straight Trent Croad kick and one more bit of luck from knocking off Essendon in the PF - an inconsistent season, wouldn't have deserved a flag, but in that month we were doing really well and had the whole team on the park. We wouldn't have run out of legs in the GF as Essendon did, let's put it that way, and Brisbane at half time had showed nothing to prove they would win the game...who knows...