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Clayton Lamb had a long SANFL career with West Adelaide and Glenelg during the 1980s and 1990s, but at AFL level made just one appearance, in a match for the Adelaide Crows against the West Coast Eagles at Subiaco Oval in Round 5 1991, a strange game weather-wise that started off in sunny conditions in the 30s and finished in teeming rain. The Eagles doubled the Crows' score and won by 65 points, 19.16-130 to 9.11-65. Lamb isn't a particularly common surname, so it was quite remarkable that in Clayton Lamb's only AFL game there was another player with the same name in the opposing team, West Coast Eagle Dwayne Lamb.
 
Examples of players whose 2nd best goalkicking haul in a match is at least 4 less than their best (this list is definitely missing a few players):

Joel Amartey - 9 and 4
Lou Armstrong - 8 and 4
Jack Baggott - 12 and 6
Simon Beaumont - 8 and 3 (worth noting Beaumont kicked all his goals in the first half)
Jim Bicknell - 5 and 1
Geoff Blethyn - 11 and 7
Phil Carman - 11 and 7
Horrie Clover - 13 and 8
Martin Cross - 8 and 4
Scott Cummings - 14 and 10
Peter Daicos - 13 and 9
Lou Daily - 10 and 5
Harry Davie - 13 and 9
Allan Davis - 10 and 6
Fred Fanning - 18 and 11
Fred Gallagher - 12 and 6
Vin Gardiner - 10 and 6
Jack Graham - 10 and 5
Ron Grove - 10 and 3
Harry Harker - 10 and 6
Verdun Howell - 9 and 5
Vince Irwin - 10 and 6
Sam Kekovich - 10 and 6
Greg Kennedy - 12 and 8
Mark LeCras - 12 and 6
Mark Lee - 9 and 5
Jim McShane - 11 and 3
Harold Robertson - 14 and 7
Lou Sleeth - 6 and 2
Norm Smith - 12 and 8
Larry Spokes - 9 and 4
Doug Strang - 14 and 10
Kelvin Templeton - 15 and 9
Robert Walls - 10 and 6
 

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Collingwood with yet again a narrow victory, so i had to check out their recent record.

Starting from Rd 11 2022, the Pies have played a rather remarkable 28 matches decided by 12 points or less. Of those, they have won 23 of them, and have had two draws. Of the three defeats, two were in the QF and PF of the 2022 Finals against Geelong and Sydney respectively, and last year in the King's birthday clash with the Dees.

I would venture to say that in any sport worldwide that isn't baseball or soccer, a run of narrow wins like that to such an overwhelming level of success is absolutely unprecedented. It truly is staggering, and beyond luck. I would love to know just what that secret to success is, like Graham Richardson said in the 1996 state election coverage, I don't understand it, but you have to admire it.
 
In 2019, Collingwood and Essendon drew a total of 177,646 spectators across their two games - 92,241 on Anzac Day and 85,405 for their Round 23 clash. This is the record aggregate attendance for two Home & Away games in the same season.

In 1993, Collingwood and Essendon drew a smaller aggregate attendance of 175,211 spectators - 87,638 on Easter Monday in Round 3 and 87,573 on a Friday night in Round 18. However, the 87,573 crowd is the record-high "smallest" attendance for teams that have met more than once in a Home & Away season.

Both of these records could be broken on Friday night.

Collingwood and Essendon drew a crowd of 93,644 spectators on Anzac Day this year, so a crowd of over 84,002 on Friday will break the aggregate attendance over two games. A crowd above 87,573 will beat both records and will be the first time that two clubs have drawn over 180,000 fans across two Home & Away games in the same season.

If these records are broken, they may not last for long.

Carlton and Collingwood drew 88,362 spectators to their Round 9 clash, so a bumper crowd again in Round 21 could set new records.

And while Carlton and Essendon drew 88,510 spectators to their King's Birthday Eve clash, they cannot set a record as they do not meet again this season.
 
Geelong have won 104 games against each of the traditional powerhouses of the VFL/AFL, being Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. Indeed their win tallies over seven clubs all fall between 103 (Fitzroy) and 108 (Tigers and Dogs). Remains to be seen if they can break the deadlock with a win over the Pies this week though.
 
In Round 10, Essendon defeated North Melbourne by 40-points in game that produced final scores like the Norman Conquest - 16.10-106 to 10.6-66.

Today Geelong repeated this distinctive score again in their easy 40-point win over North Melbourne, the Cats beating the Kangaroos 16.10-106 to 10.6-66 in Hobart.
 
emuboy said:
In Round 10, Essendon defeated North Melbourne by 40-points in game that produced final scores like the Norman Conquest - 16.10-106 to 10.6-66.

Today Geelong repeated this distinctive score again in their easy 40-point win over North Melbourne, the Cats beating the Kangaroos 16.10-106 to 10.6-66 in Hobart.
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Not only that, those numbers rang a bell in cricket, by Arthur Mailey in a county game many years ago.

In first-class cricket at Cheltenham during the 1921 tour, he took all ten Gloucestershire wickets for 66 runs in the second innings. His 1958 autobiography was accordingly titled 10 for 66 and All That (an allusion to the humorous book of English history, 1066 and All That).
 
emuboy said:
In Round 10, Essendon defeated North Melbourne by 40-points in game that produced final scores like the Norman Conquest - 16.10-106 to 10.6-66.

Today Geelong repeated this distinctive score again in their easy 40-point win over North Melbourne, the Cats beating the Kangaroos 16.10-106 to 10.6-66 in Hobart.
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Sir Swamp Thing also added the coincidence that this duplicate scoreline occurred in games North Melbourne played against teams coached by the Scott twins - Brad for Essendon and Chris for Geelong.
 

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