Scoreless Quarters!!!

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Scoreless quarters have happened heaps throughout the years.

When was the last time a team was outscored 10.7.67 to nil during a match?

The Doggies did something like that to Port at AAMI on Mother's Day last season, but I doubt it was that lopsided.

Scoreless halves are rare. Fitzroy were scoreless against Essendon at the Western Oval in the 1990s.

Scoreless for 3 quarters. Again Fitzroy against Footscray at the Western Oval in a flood in 1953. The Lions scored only 1.0.6 for the entire game to the Dogs 10.6.66.

Another game at the Western Oval saw the West Coast Eagles not kick a goal until late in the final quarter against the Bulldogs, before they snagged 3 in a row. Final score Footscray 7.11.53 WCE 3.5.23 in 1992.

And as already mentioned there was the game between Footscray and Carlton when the Blues were goalless until less than a minute left when a dubious free kick was paid against Steve "Super" MacPherson that allowed Mark Arceri to kick Carlton's only goal in 1991.

1.10.16 is very embarrassing. :p
 
In a wet, cold day at Kardinia Park in 1980, North Melbourne with Blight, Dempsey, Grieg etc had scored 4.3.27 by midway through the 2nd quarter. It proved to be their score at the end of the game, 13.6.84 to 4.3 27 I'd say that would be the longest time without a score of the last 35 years or so, although i think back in the 50's or early 60's a team scored a single goal for the day only, 1.0.6!!
 
kevieyang said:
I know back in the early-mid 90s, Adelaide vs Hawthorn had 2 scoreless quarters.

Crows failed to score in quarters 1 and 3. Can't remember what season it was.
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1994, we didn't score at 1 end of the ground
 
The game that was in 1999 was round 6.
West Coast v Bulldogs
Bulldogs kicked 8 first term goals to none (3 behinds I think to 8.3)
West Coast kicked 8 in the second term and kept the bulldogs scoreless.
 
Geelong kicked 3 goals in the first quarter against Carlton in 2001 and did not kick a goal for the rest of the game. Most Carlton supporters have forgotten it though and only remember Milburn knocking out Silvagni ;)
 
Collingwood and Fitzroy played a scoreless quarter (the final quarter) in 1901. The first quarter had only 1 point per team.

5 Fitzroy 0.1 1.4 2.7 2.7 (19)
2 Collingwood 0.1 1.4 3.6 3.6 (24)
Crowd: TBA at Brunswick St

http://afl.allthestats.com/statistics/rdscores.php?rdfm=13&yrfm=1901

PS: I doubt the crowd will be announced considering the game was over 100 years ago.
 
Inferno said:
Geelong kicked 3 goals in the first quarter against Carlton in 2001 and did not kick a goal for the rest of the game. Most Carlton supporters have forgotten it though and only remember Milburn knocking out Silvagni ;)
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I remember that game, a wet slog in Round 22 at Optus. Milburn was smiling and clapping himself off the field while the Carlton supporters prepared to jump the fence. Justin Murphy for Geelong was most unimpressed by his teammate.
 
This statistic comes from Bruce Kennedy's Season Analysis on
http://footystats.freeservers.com/Daily/Diary.html

Finally to a little gem. Almost. In every season since it all started in 1897, at least one team has had a scoreless quarter at some stage. It looked as though 2007 would be the first season where there wasn’t one. Incredibly, in game no 175 of 176, the Kangaroos held the Bulldogs to nothing in the second quarter. Almost but not quite
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Inferno said:
Geelong kicked 3 goals in the first quarter against Carlton in 2001 and did not kick a goal for the rest of the game. Most Carlton supporters have forgotten it though and only remember Milburn knocking out Silvagni ;)
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What a great day :)
 
jesterwester said:
The game that was in 1999 was round 6.
West Coast v Bulldogs
Bulldogs kicked 8 first term goals to none (3 behinds I think to 8.3)
West Coast kicked 8 in the second term and kept the bulldogs scoreless.
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that game was definitely 1998. Remember listening to it on the radio as I was shuttling about Launceston in my little security car.

Also, I saw West Coast play live twice in 2004, once at Optus Oval and once at Stade de Oz in a final. All up they went goalless for four out of the eight quarters.
 
Mr_Smooth said:
north adelaide 1989 sanfl grand final board :(
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Probably a bit inappropriate, insofar as North Adelaide kicking only one goal reflected an utterly perfect Port Adelaide defence rather than terrible weather. They were as tough as the huge defensive lines of gridiron and even the feared Geelong or Hawthorn attacks would never have managed more than two or three goals: Port just played in front literally one hundred percent of the time in such a way that even one lead from Dunstall would have seemed out of the question, and put so much pressure on from start to finish that the one clean possession by North’s key forwards went straight out on the full! Upfield North had as much of the ball as Port, but not one of their kicks was easy and a quite incredible number were simply smothered.

Compare that with the way Geelong smashed a Footscray defence that looked unbreachable on a Western Oval lake against a weakened West Coast attack. The Eagles did not score into the wind in either the first or third quarter, but if you buy the game you would guess that if Peter Sumich had been playing they would probably have kicked two or three goals in that third quarter before Matthew Mansfield kicked one at the seventeen minute mark for the Bulldogs. At least twice the Dogs’ backline simply pushed aside the slightly built Matt Clape, Ashley McIntosh and Chris Lewis: if they had been replaced by the more solid Sumich and Stevan Jackson (traded to Richmond that year) who knows what would have happened, but more than likely the Eagles would have done something.

The only times anyone in the AFL could potentially have rivalled Port’s perfect display would have been:

  • Carlton against Sydney in Round 19 of 1987 (for three quarters only)
  • West Coast against Melbourne in Round 1 of 1991
  • West Coast against Essendon in Round 4 of 1999, where the Bombers did not score for almost two quarters in perfect conditions.
 
Catsace said:
In a wet, cold day at Kardinia Park in 1980, North Melbourne with Blight, Dempsey, Grieg etc had scored 4.3.27 by midway through the 2nd quarter. It proved to be their score at the end of the game, 13.6.84 to 4.3 27 I'd say that would be the longest time without a score of the last 35 years or so!
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from memory, the north score was at quarter time, so last 3 quarters went scoreless. i will look it up later.
 
vjknight said:
from memory, the north score was at quarter time, so last 3 quarters went scoreless. i will look it up later.
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North were actually 3.2 at quarter time (here) but failed to score after the 12-minute mark of the second quarter.

Richmond last year failed to score in the second and third quarters against St. Kilda, and Fitzroy in 1995 did not score until the seventeen-minute mark of the third quarter against Essendon, but not since 1953 has a team failed to score for three quarters. (In the WAFL on a wet day at Lathlain Park in July 1967, East Fremantle did not score between the ten-minute mark of the opening quarter and the eighteen-minute mark of the last).
 
In the TFL grand final in 1960, the margin was just 4 points at three quarter time ... and neither team scored in the last quarter. Must have been a bit tense!
 
The Saints kept Geelong scoreless in the third quarter of round 13 this year.

When was the last time prior to that evening that the reigning Premier had been kept to a scoreless quarter?
 
Zagg said:
The Saints kept Geelong scoreless in the third quarter of round 13 this year.

When was the last time prior to that evening that the reigning Premier had been kept to a scoreless quarter?
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Previous 4 times:

Round 13 2000 - Nth. Melbourne scoreless in the 1st quarter v Essendon.
Round 20 1999 - Adelaide scoreless in the 3rd quarter v Sydney
Round 18 1995 - West Coast scoreless in the last quarter v Nth. Melbourne
Round 13 1995 - West Coast scoreless in the 3rd quarter v Geelong

RogersResults
 
mianfei said:
Probably a bit inappropriate, insofar as North Adelaide kicking only one goal reflected an utterly perfect Port Adelaide defence rather than terrible weather. They were as tough as the huge defensive lines of gridiron and even the feared Geelong or Hawthorn attacks would never have managed more than two or three goals: Port just played in front literally one hundred percent of the time in such a way that even one lead from Dunstall would have seemed out of the question, and put so much pressure on from start to finish that the one clean possession by North’s key forwards went straight out on the full! Upfield North had as much of the ball as Port, but not one of their kicks was easy and a quite incredible number were simply smothered
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any sanfl team by 1989 would have been completely destroyed by any good vfl team, let alone the vfl grand finalists

sanfl was the minor league after the 70s
 

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