Who will be the last team to be beaten by GC and GWS?

[radiojake]

You didn't have that many out, and it wasnt that close

yeah - admittedly haven't ever watched the replay since but I don't remember thinking we lost to GWS in a 'tight one' , as such

 

[Bokonon_]

yeah - admittedly haven't ever watched the replay since but I don't remember thinking we lost to GWS in a 'tight one' , as such

It was early 2015 when a number of clubs underestimated I think. Shiel played a blinder with lots of space, with all the defensive effort focussed on Griffen.
Your guys came home hard but we had a pretty big buffer.
Not at all like this year. I do wish we had a return match, but it is what it is.

 

[Gydafud]

So is that it? There is no one left for the expansion clubs to beat? Or was West Coast the final one?

 

[Hobbes]

So is that it? There is no one left for the expansion clubs to beat? Or was West Coast the final one?

GC still hasn't beaten Adelaide or Sydney.

 

[parano1a]

GC still hasn't beaten Adelaide or Sydney.

Also, University has never beaten Collingwood.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Also, University has never beaten Collingwood.

Nor have they beaten West Coast, Brisbane, Adelaide, Freo, Port Adelaide, Gold Coast or GWS.

Come to think of it, Fitzroy haven't beaten Port Adelaide, Gold Coast or GWS and vice versa.

 

[kickazz]

Nor have they beaten West Coast, Brisbane, Adelaide, Freo, Port Adelaide, Gold Coast or GWS.

You forgot the other expansion sides - North, Bulldogs and Hawthorn

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Ten days ago we hadn't lost to either GWS or GC... Nekminnit...

 

[kranky al]

Ten days ago we hadn't lost to either GWS or GC... Nekminnit...

I feel ill, annoyed and did not see that coming

 

[radiojake]

well atleast we don't have to worry about that pesky * for the Gold Coast / West Coast draw the other season clouding anything up

 

[Major Colvin]

I remember the Bears didn't beat West Coast until their final season before they merged with Fitzroy, 1996. Before then they'd only managed a draw (similar to GC), in 1992, courtesy of a goal after the siren. Take into account GC only just breaking the duck against them, and GWS only just did last round, it took Freo about 10 games to beat them as well, WCE are notoriously hard to beat for newcomers of the comp.

 

[vide0n]

I remember the Bears didn't beat West Coast until their final season before they merged with Fitzroy, 1996. Before then they'd only managed a draw (similar to GC), in 1992, courtesy of a goal after the siren. Take into account GC only just breaking the duck against them, and GWS only just did last round, it took Freo about 10 games to beat them as well, WCE are notoriously hard to beat for newcomers of the comp.

Matchu you'd get a kick out of this.

 

[Red Crow]

Gold Coast finally knock off Sydney for the first time. Adelaide now the last team standing.

 

[crazywildhorse]

Gold Coast finally knock off Sydney for the first time. Adelaide now the last team standing.

It only occurred to me that Gold Coast might have won when I got the alert for a thread I hadn’t seen for years

 

[Dirty Bird]

Last ones standing

What’s the record for longest to beat a team in games? (Had to add that last part, don’t want Collingwood bragging about never losing to university)

 

[radiojake]

What’s the record for longest to beat a team in games?

I think Hawthorn and North Melbourne took over 10 seasons to beat a few of the established teams so atleast 20 games

 

[jim boy]

Last ones standing

What’s the record for longest to beat a team in games? (Had to add that last part, don’t want Collingwood bragging about never losing to university)

sounds like a question for Ron

 

[Quinz]

Last ones standing

What’s the record for longest to beat a team in games? (Had to add that last part, don’t want Collingwood bragging about never losing to university)

It took Hawthorn 17 years and 30 games to get their first win against Collingwood. I think that's the longest.

They were 3-57 in their first 35 years against the Pies

 

[Tarkyn_24]

It took Hawthorn 17 years and 30 games to get their first win against Collingwood. I think that's the longest.

They were 3-57 in their first 35 years against the Pies

Wish they’d have another similar streak. We can’t beat them now

 

[Hobbes]

Yes, Collingwood had a 29-game winning streak against Hawthorn, from Hawthorn's inception in 1925, to 1941.

Carlton managed a similar streak against Hawthorn, but it was only 25 games and ended in 1938. Richmond managed 21 games, until 1936.

Carlton also had a 24-game winning streak against Richmond, from Richmond's inception in 1908, until 1917.

Geelong lost their first game to North Melbourne (actually, North's first game), but then took 14 years of revenge - 23 matches until 1939.

 

[Geoffa32]

Do we get a trophy? We can put it next to our AFLX one.

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[mianfei]

Yes, Collingwood had a 29-game winning streak against Hawthorn, from Hawthorn's inception in 1925, to 1941.

One should be aware that Hawthorn only broke it at all due to two factors:

1. Collingwood losing so many players to war service during World War II
   • Only four of their 1939 Grand Final nineteen (one reserve then) played in their first loss to Hawthorn just over two years later in early 1942, and only five (Jack Regan, Jack Murphy, Alan Williams, Don Balfour and Jack Green) in their other pre-1955 loss to Hawthorn in Round 11, 1943
2. The VFL introduced finals pooling to counter Hawthorn’s total lack of wealthy supporters to compete for top country and unzoned outer suburban recruits
   • The effects of this were very slow, but from 1954 onwards Hawthorn finally had the money to gain minimal competitiveness in recruiting unzoned players.
   • Thus, after winning only 111 and drawing three of 522 games to the end of 1953 – and having just two winning seasons out of 68 in all grades – Hawthorn could finally get the players it needed to compete
   • Hawthorn’s first “peacetime” win over Collingwood – first win when the Magpies actually had something like a full team – was in Round 4, 1955, in Hawthorn’s 52nd game with Collingwood
   • At the end of 1954, Hawthorn had a “peacetime” (excluding the 1942 to 1945 seasons when many players were in New Guinea or similar localities) record of 0—44 against the wealthy Magpies
   • Hawthorn’s 0—44 “peacetime” record against Collingwood possessed zero element of bad luck: before their 44th defeat by four points, the closest Hawthorn had come to a “peacetime” defeat of the Magpies had been eight points in Round 2, 1930 and Round 17, 1939

0—44 is a worse record than any team has gained for a season in any top-level team sport. Few sports have seen a team suffer so bad a record as 0—44 for any continuous period. The majority of cases are at the college level in the US, although there are several in the early days of football in Australia, and a couple in rugby league. Worse records than 0—44 have been seen in English county cricket, but these include large numbers of unfinished matches.

Hawthorn’s 1925 to 1954 record against Collingwood does speak much about the nature of Australian football – a pure-skill sport to an extent no other team sport is – and the extreme hostility of most of the Hawthorn district’s population towards anything bar rigidly amateur sport. This hostility and the lack of local industry prevented any of the patronage needed for Hawthorn to compete for player talent, and left the club – alongside St. Kilda – as clearly the poorest and weakest in the VFL.

 

[Del165198]

reckon this could be the week. crows were abysmal last week

 

[Milux]

Crows have gone to shit.

 

[The Joker]

reckon this could be the week. crows were abysmal last week

GCS paying $5 to get the W. Or give The Crows a 5 goal lead for a $2 return.