Fact Sides to Win & Lose by 100 points in the Same Year

[emuboy]

This is actually quite rare, and I could only find the following examples from 1990 onwards:

1992: In Round 8 1992, Geelong defeated Adelaide by 123 points at Kardinia Park. Later in the season, the Adelaide Crows crushed the hapless Richmond by 110 points at the MCG.

1993: The young Brisbane Bears started 1993 with a great deal of enthusiasm, this peaking in Round 8 with a 162-point demolition of the Sydney Swans at the GABBA. But injuries and inexperience kicked in after this, and the Bears found the going tough, especially in the cold Melbourne winter, where they were thumped by 116 points by Essendon in Round 14 and 110 points by Fitzroy in Round 21.

2005: After getting a 117 point thrashing from the West Coast Eagles at Subiaco Oval in Round 10, Port Adelaide crushed Hawthorn by the same margin under lights in Round 13. At the time, these were Port's greatest winning and losing margins since entering the AFL in 1997 - the same margin and just three weeks apart!

Can anyone find any other examples that escaped my attention, or from before 1990?

 

[UpForGrabs]

This is actually quite rare, and I could only find the following examples from 1990 onwards:

1992: In Round 8 1992, Geelong defeated Adelaide by 123 points at Kardinia Park. Later in the season, the Adelaide Crows crushed the hapless Richmond by 110 points at the MCG.

Geelong and Adelaide's 2nd meeting for 1992 ended in a 91 point victory for the Crows - almost a case of one team beating a team by over 100 points only to turn around and then lose by 100 points or more.

 

[Mr Ripper]

North in 1983 springs to mind.

 

[langers1971]

North in 1983 springs to mind.

yes, indeed.

r3 1983 North thrash Sydney in Sydney by 140 points, then in r13, are defeated by Fitzroy at Junction Oval by a massive 150 points!!!

 

[langers1971]

here are some more:

1985: Carlton r2 defeated St Kilda by 140 pts, and lost r6 to Essendon by 109 pts

1983: Carlton r10 lost to North by 111 pts, but won r19 v st kilda by 107 pts

1981: north melb won r8 v St Kilda by 104 pts, won r10 v Melbourne by 129 pts, and lost r13 v geelong by 114 pts

1977: Carlton won r3 v St Kilda by 107 pts, but lost r6 v Collingwood by 102 pts.

i have gone back to 1960 but cannot find any more cases from that time.

 

[Frothies Mcveigh]

Interesting to see Carlton featureing on several occasions.

 

[langers1971]

one more:

1998 Sydney r3 v Geelong in Sydney won by 103 pts, but in r10 at scg lost to St Kilda by 101 pts

 

[mianfei]

here are some more:

1985: Carlton r2 defeated St. Kilda by 140 pts, and lost r6 to Essendon by 109 pts

1983: Carlton r10 lost to North by 111 pts, but won r19 v St. kilda by 107 pts

1981: North Melbourne won r8 v St. Kilda by 104 pts, won r10 v Melbourne by 129 pts, and lost r13 v Geelong by 114 pts

1977: Carlton won r3 v St Kilda by 107 pts, but lost r6 v Collingwood by 102 pts.

i have gone back to 1960 but cannot find any more cases from that time.

Before 1977, there was only one previous case in eighty years of VFL history:

• Geelong in 1933:
  • won by 104 points versus Fitzroy in Round 5
    • 18.15 (123) to Fitzroy's 2.7 (19)
  • won by 109 points versus Hawthorn in Round 9
    • 18.25 (133) to 3.6 (24)
  • lost by 109 points to South Melbourne in Round 18
    • 6.10 (46) to 23.17 (155)

What is more noteworthy, and stands quite absolutely as the only parallel to the kind of events observed with North Melbourne in 1983 and to a lesser extent quite a few other sides from the 1980s, is that Geelong, with twelve wins and six losses, were very close to both South Melbourne and Fitzroy on the final 1933 ladder. They were half a game ahead of Fitzroy, who were a chopping block for most of the 1930s but this year had a short-lived revival, and a game behind both South Melbourne and Carlton.

What is more astonishing is that Geelong, in addition to these very lopsided games with Fitzroy and South, recorded their biggest win over Carlton until 2007 in Round 14:

• Geelong 17.15 (117) beat Carlton 5.14 (44)
• what is more remarkable is that Geelong led 12.8 (80) to 2.8 (20) at half-time on a heavy ground!

Their holding of Fitzroy to 2.7 (19) on a perfectly fine day must rank as one of the most outstanding defensive feats in football history. Fitzroy, even with such players as Bunton and Jack Moriarty, were held to a score that nobody equalled afterwards until they themselves were held by a champion Footscray defence on a waterlogged Western Oval to the lowest score of the twentieth century; viz. 1.0 (6).

In their thrashing by a then-invincible South Melbourne side, Pratt and Reville both kicked seven goals against a Geelong team weakened by the absence of Reg Hickey, their top defender. It was surprising how Geelong maintained the wood on Carlton in the first semi immediately after such a thrashing, but Richmond in a grim struggle knocked them out in the preliminary.

 

[PonsfordMagpie]

Geelong (1933) = R5 vs Fitz (+104) and R9 vs Haw (+109); R18 vs SM (-109)

Carlton (1977) = R3 vs StK (+107); R6 vs Coll (-102)

North Melbourne (1981) = R8 vs StK (+104) and R10 vs Melb (+129); R13 vs Geel (-114)

Carlton (1983) = R19 vs StK (+107); R10 vs NM (-111)
North Melbourne (1983) = R3 vs Syd (+140), R8 vs WB (+115) and R10 vs Carl (+111); R13 vs Fitz (-150)

Carlton (1985) = R2 vs StK (+140); R6 vs Ess (-109)

Adelaide (1992) = R20 vs Rich (+110); R8 vs Geel (-123)

Brisbane Bears (1993) = R8 vs Syd (+162); R14 vs Ess (-116) and R21 vs Fitz (-104)

Sydney (1998) = R3 vs Geel (+103); R10 vs StK (-101)

Port Adelaide (2005) = R13 vs Haw (+117); R10 vs WC (-117)

North Melbourne (2012) = R2 vs GWS (+129); R10 vs Haw (-115)