what is your worst football memory?

[Croat tiger]

what is your worst football memory?.

ex:losing a game by a point or getting smashed,your favourite player retiring/leaving,wooden spoon,etc.............

 

[SouthSwans]

the climax of 1996, the climax of tony lockett

 

[Planck]

Prelim Final 1997

 

[Tormented Tiger]

1982 Grandfinal. Still turn off the radio whenever they play "Eye of the Tiger". Will never listen to that song again.

 

[Croat tiger]

1982 Grandfinal. Still turn off the radio whenever they play "Eye of the Tiger". Will never listen to that song again.

i can relate to that one.

 

[Strawberry Pancakes]

Paying $5.60 for beer.

 

[flamethrower]

Prelim Final 1997

Snap!

Also, Round 1 2003....Chris Grant ruptures his ACL and misses the entire season. (Only positive was that the 16th place finish allowed us to draft Adam Cooney).

 

[raskolnikov]

1999 preliminary final. For some reason 1996 just didn't have the same sting to it.

Also the trip to Adelaide for the semi-final in 2003. Not just for the fact that we lost but also for the feral Port supporters. I felt lucky to get out there alive. Also, what a crap stadium.

 

[SaintsSupporter]

The glumness after losing the Port final. Most recent bad football memory, anyway.

 

[ExTasDeeMan]

1987 watching a tall irishman chase a pot of gold through the mark.

was stunned, angry, threw things at the TV - had to leave the room (was 8 though).

 

[LongBomb]

Having seen my team lose 4 grand finals in 7 years I really don't know where to start.

95 was probably the worst though because of the **************** carlton supporter sitting next to me.

 

[84disaster]

1984 Grand Final...that 9 goal last quarter burst destroyed me.
ev en though I was only 11, the sight of leon baker's blind turn, Paul Weston (a backman) kicking goals, and Duckworth grabbing everything up forward. I didn't see it coming.

still haunts me to this day.....

 

[tigerdan]

I took it rather badly when Geoff Raines left Richmond... That affected me worse than losing the 1982 GF to Carlton!

 

[iameviljez]

Having seen my team lose 4 grand finals in 7 years I really don't know where to start.

95 was probably the worst though because of the **************** carlton supporter sitting next to me.

92 was the worst. You don't lead at half time in a Granny only to lose, and then just forget it.
You remember 1993, vs StKilda down at Waverley? Last-years runners-up vs the then-nohopers and we got SPANKED. Shocking day. Almost as bad as the first round of 1994.

 

[Macpie]

Seeing someone give Rioli a wedgie on Friday Night Football. Horrifying sight!

 

[Leon]

Prelim Final 1997

Yep, what he said.

 

[fishbowl]

Round 3, 2005

 

[demonworshipper]

The 2002 Semi Final v the Crows. One of the best finals I've seen, yet I left feeling deflated and heartbroken. What might have been.

 

[SouthSwans]

1999 preliminary final. For some reason 1996 just didn't have the same sting to it.

Also the trip to Adelaide for the semi-final in 2003. Not just for the fact that we lost but also for the feral Port supporters. I felt lucky to get out there alive. Also, what a crap stadium.

hehehe if only dean wallis had've passed to dustin fletcher on his own 55 from goal

 

[LongBomb]

You remember 1993, vs StKilda down at Waverley? Last-years runners-up vs the then-nohopers and we got SPANKED. Shocking day.

I remember that one. An absolute shocker. We lost by 12 goals.

 

[OneEyedHawk]

1984 Grand Final...that 9 goal last quarter burst destroyed me.
ev en though I was only 11, the sight of leon baker's blind turn, Paul Weston (a backman) kicking goals, and Duckworth grabbing everything up forward. I didn't see it coming.

still haunts me to this day.....

That's my nomination too. Should never have lost that one.
Closely followed by the "highway robbery" incident/s on the 2nd last weekend in September, 2001.

 

[Schneiderman]

the climax of 1996, the climax of tony lockett

That was a toughie for sure. Especially with the start we got.

However I think 2003 was more heart-breaking. Not the least of which because everyone had written us off at the beginning of the year. And because I was certain we had the momentum and we were going to outlast the Lions in that last quarter. And instead we got smashed

 

[Atreyu]

The 2002 Semi Final v the Crows. One of the best finals I've seen, yet I left feeling deflated and heartbroken. What might have been.

Agree 100% with that one.

A terrible 1st quarter, followed by two quarters of pure magic. I thought that we had it won by 3quarter time. The feeling at the end of the match was horrible.

 

[JF_Bay_22_SCG]

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

 

[keepzitreal]

definitely the prelim finals in 96 and 99. Wasnt happy dropping the game to the doggies in 2000 or losing the granny in 90 and 01