what is your worst football memory?

[X_box_X]

- 2000 v Bulldogs at Colonial Stadium leading by 5 odd goals at 3/4 then lose by a kick, could make a grown man cry

It literally did make a grown man cry. I felt sorry for the Saints that night, even though I was over the moon that we had won. The win turned our season around.

 

[GoSarge]

2nd half free kick count of 15 to the Dons & 0 to the Crows.

Are you for real ?

 

[pazza]

Two of my worst come from matches against Fitzroy.

The first was 1992. Our first game as a new tenants at the MCG. Osborne gave us a bath that day.

The second was 2 years later out at Carlton. It was Timmy's 300th game...and those bastards pinched it by 2 points.

 

[X_box_X]

Two of my worst come from matches against Fitzroy.

The first was 1992. Our first game as a new tenants at the MCG. Osborne gave us a bath that day.

The second was 2 years later out at Carlton. It was Timmy's 300th game...and those bastards pinched it by 2 points.

I would have thought you'd include a certain Hawthorn game in there. I'm pretty sure it was in 1992.

 

[NICK THE PIE MAN]

Easy...

2003 GF vs Brisbane.
We are having our second bad season in a row since 2003 and THAT GF is the reason why. We, the club, are still recovering from that spineless display. It pretty much set us back a decade. It hit the whole club so hard; the players, the coaching staff, the supporters, the boot studder - everyone.

2002 GF on the siren
I won't list the whole day because we were sensational and gallant for four quarters against a more talented opponent. I never seen us so seemingly possessed. I never forget our tackling that day. We ended up doubling the Lions' tackle count - our physicality and hardness at the ball and the man were amazing. We made them earnt every damn stat. Our players deserved a premiership for their efforts. So when the siren went and I was sitting there freezing at the bottom of the ponsford stand...I can honestly say that's the lowest I have ever felt in football. 9 points - so close yet so far.

 

[Souup]

1998 Grand Final

 

[Magpiespower]

I feel your pain. I have never tried to watch the replay. If I see a highlight from that game (usually that mark by Thomas (or was it Jenkins?) against Brenton Owens, I change channels.

Keith Thomas.

Had a chat to Max James about it at a sportsman's night several years ago.

Russ, oh Russ...

 

[pazza]

I would have thought you'd include a certain Hawthorn game in there. I'm pretty sure it was in 1992.

I wasn't there for that one!!!!

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Keith Thomas.

Had a chat to Max James about it at a sportsman's night several years ago.

Russ, oh Russ...

That was one of the more bizarre selection decisions I have ever witnessed.

 

[TimN]

Well, there are some harsh moments for Freo, but I remember vividly the season of 1997. What a season we had played, won some great matches especially the one against Hawthorn at Waverly. the match against the Saints at WACA, and we thrashed Essendon by 98 points at Subi.

...

So we lose to the Saints and then Geelong (a match I will never get over). It was okay though, because we still had a slight chance on making the finals, but only if Carlton, Port and Lions all lost their matches. They did, which meant all we had to do was beat cellar dwellers, Melbourne, at the MCG. How could we lose?

...

Final score time rolled around, and I sat infront of the TV wth much anticipation. This was it, surely we had comeback to beat the bottom of the ladder of the team to make our first ever finals. With that M People song, 'Moving on up' playing, the TV told me:
Melbourne 18.11.119
Fremantle 11.13.79

I was heartbroken.

There are plenty to choose from, but this one was also the first one that sprang to mind for me. If Freo won and all the other results fell into place, we could make the finals. Sitting at the G in the hazy drizzle watching Farmer pop through 6 and then take himself off for a rest, I could at least console myself with the thought that Carlton were going to win, which would have made Freo's result irrelevant. But no, my weekend just when from bad to worse as every single other result went eaxctly the way we needed it to.

Another personal lowlight was Round 1 of 1997, when Freo beat Footscray at Princes Park. That was disappointing because the Optus Oval people were still working out charging for the new stand there, and wouldn't do general admission. They wanted me to pay well over the odds to get in and see the game, and I was morally opposed to giving my money to John Elliot, so I walked away. The game turned out to be a thriller and a win that I listened to on the radio.

 

[sirjames]

99 prelim

I cried like a saints captain that day...

 

[sirjames]

83 GF was terrible
99 prelim was unbearable

I cried like a saints captain that day...

 

[Stumpy Pete]

2003 GF.

and strangely enough a game involving Bulldogs and Swans at SCG where Tony Libberatore was booed off the ground (with associated non-verbal gesture as well). Nothing wrong with that you may say except that he was on a stretcher at the courtesy of a knee injury. Still remember feeling that it was more than a little poor taste from the SCG faithful.

Regards

S. Pete

 

[thewhippersnapper]

1999 Preliminary Final.

 

[Tiger Survivor]

Danny Frawley

 

[jonny f muleus]

For most Port Adelaide supporters the 97 & 98 GFs are painful memories.
The first semi final against Sydney in 2003 killed me…
and being an ex Collingwood supporter the passing of Darren Milane was a very sad day…

 

[Ford Fairlane]

For most Port Adelaide supporters the 97 & 98 GFs are painful memories.

97 wasn't good getting hammered by Norwood, but they were pretty good that year.

98 was ok, we won the flag beating Sturt...

... they were the only Grand Finals played those years weren't they ...

 

[tdubfleet]

1. 87 Prelim, sitting behind the goals with my Grandfather wondering WTF happened.

2. 88 GF, road kill.

3. 2000 GF.

4. 1971 to 1986 seasons.

5. John Hopawhatever digital penitration. Ouch.

 

[Croat tiger]

helen da'mico! grrrr!!!!!!!!!

 

[Sundog]

Easy. 1975 took my nephew to a Coll-Fitzroy match at Vic park. Fitzroy lost by a couple of kicks after leading and my nephew was pretty dejected as we walked around to get out. It so happened we walked past a stand full of the Magpie faithful. My nephew was almost in tears from the loss and clutching his scarf and these 10 or so very brave Pies supporters were telling me and him to f*&@ off and serves us right for supporting a s*@# team.

Great stuff from the Magpie army. My nephew cried most of the way home. I've detested Collingwood ever since and at their last game there I danced a jig in the goal square after the match and spat on that stand.

30 years later I'm over it now ... and having a ball this year laughing at the rabble called Collingwood.

 

[windyhill]

79 elim, 81 elim,82 elim ,83 g.f , 90 g.f 99 prelim. Mick Long`s knees

 

[Macca19]

2001 Semi Final v Hawthorn is right up there. Our first home final, a game we should have won. 15 points up at 3/4 time, 9 points up with 5 minutes left and to lose...devastating watching us scare our way to a loss. Just about every goal Hawthorn kicked was in the same way - either unopposed in the goalsquare or with a player 10 metres in front of his defender. Our defence that night was terrible. Was in tears after the game. Definately the most dejected ive felt to that point. Oh how things could have been different had we won that game. Even goes back to the Qualifying Final before that....to be 4 goals up at half time and not give a yelp in the second half...

I wasnt too dissapointed after the Collingwood Final the next year. I was pretty annoyed and dumbfounded at how bad we played but I was happy for the Collingwood friends I had that they won.

The 2003 Sydney Final took the cake tho. To hear all year that this was our year, things were different, we would take our chances this year....to finish 3 games clear on top, Sydney come here without 4 of their best players....and for the entire season to be over in the space of 40 minutes as Sydney piled on 7 goals to 1 in that second quarter....thats the worst ive felt at a game. Never have I had tears before the end of a game but knowing our season was worth nothing and that our players had not learnt from mistakes for the third year in a row brought me to tears as Sydney ran out to a 7 goal half time lead. Very dissapointing.

 

[gadj1976]

Seeing Richard Osborne's knee bend backward. Garry Lyon's broken leg. Snell's broken leg/ankle.

 

[Lovett-Murray]

Nothing comes close to the feelings I had after Australia-Iran at the MCG. To be in such a frenzy, then to see the Iranian photographers running around the ground in delight after Azizi's 2nd goal. Just the worst feeling I have ever ever had at any sporting match. The Raiders losing in 1991 (a year where where I had my coming out as well as my HSC) was probably the lowest i have ever felt after a sporting match. But again, I was coming out at the time.

Here are some Swans matches that have had me leaving the stadium in or near tears of dispair.

-1994. The Lockett-Caven match. I spent all match talking with St Kilda supporters agreeing about how I had so much to look forward to as Sydney fans.Burst in tears at the end of the match. To the St Kilda fans' credit, they left me alone. They knew how distraught i was, and have probably been down that road themselves over the years.

2002. I think we managed to lose 8 matches by under 10 points that year. In all of those matches we were leading at either 3/4 time or into the final quarter. If it wasn't giving up a 27 point lead against Geelong, or letting a feeble Collingwood overun us at the Dome, it was the Jarrod Poulton kick against Port that left me so disconsolate that I turned around and started bawling into the Bay 22 sign behind my seat. Just couldn't stop. It had been a week-in week-out torture sentance, but that kick took the cake. Paralowie Power again knew how I was feeling. His one word SMS when he got back to Adelaide said it all; "Sorry".

Also that year when we played Adelaide at Footy Park I went to the extent of chucking a sickie on the Friday, bolting to the SCG in the bus, making the banner in a frenzied 1 hour stint, getting all the flags I could humanly hope to carry, lugging them to the first waiting cab, paying $20 to sit in a traffic jam on the way home, getting changed, paying another $20 to get to the airport, flying to Adelaide, paying another $25 to get to my apartment. Lugging everything ON THE BUS the next morning to Football Park, after lugging them on my back all the way from North Adelaide to town. Watching the Swans put in a effort so insipid that I was unable to speak when I had to bear the gauntlet of gaffawing South Australians and go and de-pole the banner at half time. Then having the Melbourne-based CS bugger off in the last quarter leaving me to pack up and lug the flags back on the bus to town. I felt so goddam alone. And was wondering why I had spent near on $600 for a 'holiday' that was only giving me such pain.

Other matches that have left me mega depressed
-vs Carlton 1998.
It would have to be the coldest and wettest I have ever been at a footbal match. I had come down on the Firefly the day before and still had wet clothes when I headed home on the Sunday. We did not kick a goal until half time. And I was saturated cold and depressed beyond belief. I shed a couple of tears as I stood there at half time.But nobody could see them because of the rain. I just knew that the boys' season was over. Weirdly they kicked 5 goals in the 3rd quarter to take the lead, then ended up capitulating in the last quarter again.

-vs Saints 2002. Football had slipped to its lowest ebb. I don't think I have seen a worse game of football in my life. I wanted to kill those Swans for the effort they put in that day.

-vs Brisbane 2001 It hadn't rained in 3 months in Brisbane. The game had been moved from the Sunday because of the Goodwill Games marathon thhat day. It was bright and sunny that day. It was NOT on match night. Again I lugged all the flags I could up to Brisbane. I heard that Hawthorn had lost a crucial match that night. The Swans lost by 3 odd goals in the pelting rain. I was so drenched by the end of the game that I couldn't walk 5 metres without my sodden jeans falling. I didn't have a change of clothes either. I went out later that night in sopping wet clothes, adding insult to injury. It was the stress of lugging every flag and stick interstate myself which led to me going to the extent of buying flag sticks that I kept in both Brisbane Adelaide and Perth.

-vs St Kilda 2004. The only game I missed all season. Because my work called Qantas and found out I was lying about a doctor's appointment on the day of the game. To see a team that was favourite capitulate so horribly against an emotionally brittle opponent was just heartbreaking. You questioned why you were doing this to yourself, yet again.

JF

I'd hate to see you when there's a death in the family.

 

[scmods]

1991 Final against Hawthorn at Subi... I remember nothing at all about the game, all I remember is several hours standing in the rain and we lost.

And the game in 2001 or 2002 where Carlton beat us by 100+.

Other than those, only Ken Judge.