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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 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.
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.
I am fairly certain that Sydney/SM are not the reigning premiers in 2024.Reigning Premiers that lost by 80 points or more. (LP=Ladder position at time of match)
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It was the first out of bounds on the full season, but the record high scoring with 97 points per team per game and no goal tally less than six was mostly due to a very dry and warm winter — the driest in Melbourne since 1950 when Essendon scored 1,942 points. In the more normal (before runaway climate change due to Australian and petrostate greenhouse gas emissions) 1970 season, he average score was ten points fewer than 1969, although five points higher than 1968 and eleven higher than 1966.Was 1969 the first season of 'Out of bounds on the full' as a free kick to the opposition? 60 scoring shots seems a staggering amount to have particularly when the 50's and 60's had generally low scoring. Then again 1969 began to herald the arrival of many great full forwards, in Wade (127 in '69) and them Mckenna, Hudson, Jesaulenko and even Geoff Blethyn who all kicked tons in the early 70's.
Also, this season was Richmond's lowest average points scored per match since 1964.Richmond has now collected this year's wooden spoon, just 4 years after their 2020 premiership triumph.
The 4 year fall from premiers to wooden spooners is not the fastest fall in history, but is the fastest in the 18-team era.
The fastest fall is 3 years. After winning the 1948 premiership, Melbourne fell to 12th and last in 1951 (before rebounding to win the 1955 premiership).
Technically, Fitzroy went from premiers in 1913 to wooden spooners in 1916. However, 1916 was the strange and unique year where only 4 teams competed. This allowed Fitzroy to play finals, where it struck form and went on to win the 1916 premiership (as well as collect the wooden spoon).
Richmond's 4 year fall from premiers to the wooden spoon puts it into equal second place, alongside South Melbourne (1918-1922), Hawthorn (1961-1965) and West Coast (2006-2010).
In the 18-team era, only one team has previously won both the premiership and wooden spoon. It took West Coast 5 years to go from 2018 premiers to 2023 wooden spooners. Richmond has now done it 1 year faster.
Richmond has now collected this year's wooden spoon, just 4 years after their 2020 premiership triumph.
The 4 year fall from premiers to wooden spooners is not the fastest fall in history, but is the fastest in the 18-team era.
The fastest fall is 3 years. After winning the 1948 premiership, Melbourne fell to 12th and last in 1951 (before rebounding to win the 1955 premiership).
Technically, Fitzroy went from premiers in 1913 to wooden spooners in 1916. However, 1916 was the strange and unique year where only 4 teams competed. This allowed Fitzroy to play finals, where it struck form and went on to win the 1916 premiership (as well as collect the wooden spoon).
Richmond's 4 year fall from premiers to the wooden spoon puts it into equal second place, alongside South Melbourne (1918-1922), Hawthorn (1961-1965) and West Coast (2006-2010).
In the 18-team era, only one team has previously won both the premiership and wooden spoon. It took West Coast 5 years to go from 2018 premiers to 2023 wooden spooners. Richmond has now done it 1 year faster.
I wasn't aware of how fast Geelong's decline was during the 1950s.One of the most astonishing fast declines of a powerful team was that of Geelong in the 1950s. The early-mid 1950s was Geelong's golden era. In 1950 the Cats were fourth on the ladder and lost the preliminary final, and this was followed by four successive minor premierships from 1951-1954, the Cats winning the 1951 and 1952 grand finals and runner-up to Collingwood in 1953. The Cats went out of the finals in straight sets in 1954 but in competitive finals, and they continued to be premiership contenders in 1955 and 1956, the Cats making the preliminary final in 1955 and losing a thrilling 2-point first semi final to the Bulldogs in wet weather in 1956.
But when Geelong's decline as a powerhouse came the next year, it came hard and fast for the Cats. After seven straight seasons as a premiership contender, Geelong's 1957 season wasn't one that saw the team unconvincingly scrape into the finals and be humiliated in the first semi final, or an inconsistent season that saw them in fifth or sixth with an even win-loss record. Instead it fell all the way to last with a 5-12-1 record.
Granted, 1957 was a very even season - minor premier Melbourne was 12-5-1 and the Cats didn't hit the bottom of the ladder until defeat by Fitzroy at the Lions' Brunswick Street Oval in Round 18 - but if the Cats thought this was an aberration for one year they were wrong. Geelong finished last again - this time comprehensively - in 1958 and were well down the ladder again in both 1959 and 1960. It wasn't until 1961 when Geelong finished sixth with ten wins that the Cats began to challenge for a finals spot again, and they returned to the finals in 1962, six years after their last appearance.
I wasn't aware of how fast Geelong's decline was during the 1950s.
The closest comparison is South Melbourne in the 1930s during their 'Foreign Legion' period. The Swans were finalists for 5 straight years (1932-1936) and made the Grand Final in 4 straight years (1933-1936), winning the first and then losing the next three.
They finished as minor premiers in 1935 and 1936 before losing both Grand Finals to Collingwood. South dropped to 9th place in 1937 and then to wooden spooners in both 1938 and 1939.
The fall from minor premiers to wooden spooners in 2 years is the fastest fall recorded. It was equaled by Hawthorn in 1963-1965 but has not been beaten.
Geelong's 3 year fall from minor premiers in 1954 to wooden spooners in 1957 places it equal 2nd fastest, alongside Fitzroy (1913-1916), Collingwood (1973-1976), St. Kilda (1997-2000) and Adelaide (2017-2020).