Opinion What is your favourite mark of all time?

[Woolly Mammoth]

Pretty sure because it was a final it was NOT Mark of the Year either. Absolute madness, that's one of the great marks.

100%, extremely underrated mark and they really should have changed the rules and had that as mark of the year, it was a guy from the Dees who won from memory

 

[sdfc]

Liam Ryan

1

Liam Ryan

Age

27

Ht

181cm

Wt

76kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.3

3star

K

8.6

3star

HB

2.7

2star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.0

4star

G

1.3

5star

D

9.9

3star

K

8.0

3star

HB

1.9

1star

M

3.3

3star

T

1.6

3star

G

1.3

5star

D

11.4

3star

K

9.0

4star

HB

2.4

3star

M

3.8

4star

T

1.8

4star

G

1.6

5star

's mark over Gawn a couple of years back is underappreciated. Passes it off up around the centre square and then sprints to the goals to take the mark off the kick of the guy he passed it to.

 

[Struggle]

 

[sdfc]

That's a ridiculous mark.

 

[Cursed Cat]

I think my personal favourite Ablett one was in 1985 versus North at Geelong. In the goal square. The one against Collingwood in 1987 at Waverley over Cloke was great as well.

Saw that one live I think - if I'm remembering correctly it was an important stage of the last quarter; one of many games which Ablett genuinely won off his own boot.

My favourite ‘with the flight’ one is actually Bartel’s. And I don’t like Geelong.

Steve johnsons in the flight mark was better then bartels.

No way Seeds; I know you're Steve J's all-time biggest fanboy but Bartel's with-the-Flight-er was superior.

Johnson's had crazy velocity, I'll grant you, but Bartel's had that slow-motion car-crash action that somehow ended up with the dummy prevailing.

Y'know what: 2011 GF, many years later, and I had time, as Bartel sat under a high ball late in the 3Q with an oncoming Chris Tarrant and Tom Hawkins bearing down, to reflect upon the bravery of that mark. Bartel taking that lesser GF mark in 2011 was a given to me, given what I had seen years earlier. One of those rare moments in sport where a fan knew exactly how it would play out.

 

[Silencer83]

This one from Hayden Crozier

9

Hayden Crozier

Age

30

Ht

187cm

Wt

81kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.2

4star

K

9.6

4star

HB

4.6

3star

M

4.4

4star

T

2.8

4star

MG

322.8

4star

D

15.4

4star

K

11.3

4star

HB

4.1

3star

M

3.3

3star

T

2.9

4star

MG

322.8

5star

D

10.4

3star

K

6.2

3star

HB

4.2

4star

M

2.0

3star

T

1.6

4star

in Under 18s had me so excited when he drafted him later that year.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Getting back to the OP and marks that were the most meaningful rather than ones from the highlight reel, it's hard to top this one for a Geelong supporter.

 

[Chadwiko]

I was living overseas and watching the '07 semi in an ex-pat pub, nearly hit the roof for this one

Came here to post Aaron Edwards mark in the 2007 Semi Final, glad to see it's already here.

He jumped over Drew Petrie! He elevated and kept going!

Criminally under-rated mark!

 

[Partridge]

Came here to post Aaron Edwards mark in the 2007 Semi Final, glad to see it's already here.

He jumped over Drew Petrie! He elevated and kept going!

Criminally under-rated mark!

I could put that in my top ten all time quite easily. Top 5 perhaps.

Once you get to a certain level, it's impossible to pick one, and that Edwards mark is most definitely in that category.

 

[dean33]

Brett Allison Mark of the Year, 1991. My first ever North game in person.

That was a ripper! Anytime you stand on a opponent like Allison, smith and Mitchell did… awesome.

 

[Crow till I die]

Nick Riewoldt V Sydney. He ran a long way to get to the contest and then had to fly at full tilt with players running at him. All courage and spectacular at the same time

 

[Gordon Farkas]

This thread has been going for five pages, yet still no mention of...



“The Mark of the Universe” is how the man himself described it.

 

[Partridge]

This thread has been going for five pages, yet still no mention of...

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“The Mark of the Universe” is how the man himself described it.

Personally, the one he took against Fitzroy was to me better.

 

[Sully90]

Assume it's been mentioned here already but Gary Moorcroft

Gary Moorcroft

Age

48

Ht

173cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.3

3star

K

7.9

3star

HB

3.4

3star

M

3.3

3star

T

1.5

3star

G

1.1

4star

No current season stats available

D

12.4

4star

K

8.2

4star

HB

4.2

4star

M

2.6

3star

T

1.6

4star

G

0.0

1star

.

 

[Shane Heard]

The Shaun Smith one in Brisbane was pretty damn good. Riewoldt's is a good nom too.

I’ll keep saying it until the day I die

The Smith mark is the most elevation of all time

A glorious grab

 

[Shane Heard]

Assume it's been mentioned here already but Gary Moorcroft.

Little guy over the top of another lithe guy


Regulation stuff

 

[Kramer1]

The Fraser Brown tackle in the 99 Prelim was my favourite mark of all time.

 

[Mootsy]

This one from Hayden Crozier in Under 18s had me so excited when he drafted him later that year.

Wow!! That was high in the sky.

 

[Freofalcon]

Had this picture of West Perth’s Corry Bewick (brother of Darren) on my wall as a kid.

 

[bmaurizio]

Jezza’s mark during the 1970 Grand Final, just memorising and an all time favorite, stirring the roar of 121,000 plus spectators, just like thunder.

 

[sdfc]

Getting back to the OP and marks that were the most meaningful rather than ones from the highlight reel, it's hard to top this one for a Geelong supporter.

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Hate that guy. Fkd up the margin for me in the 2009 GF. Cost me $150.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Hate that guy. Fkd up the margin for me in the 2009 GF. Cost me $150.

A speculative first goalkicker windfall for me there. I'm not much of a gambler so that's possibly my second greatest punting story, behind putting a fiver on Brian Lake at 200/1 for the Norm Smith in 2013.

 

[sdfc]

A speculative first goalkicker windfall for me there. I'm not much of a gambler so that's possibly my second greatest punting story, behind putting a fiver on Brian Lake at 200/1 for the Norm Smith in 2013.

I still hate him. You can thank Ross Lyon for the kick it to Lake strategy. Cost us a premiership.

 

[Moonatic77]

Has to be Moorcroft.

yep after many years of watching this great game I keep coming back to THAT mark.

 

[Boppo]

I remember watching this as a kid it, was just spectacular.