Worst Performance in AFL history.

[Cyber_punk]

Port circa 2011-12 had a few quite insipid performances

losses of 165 and 138 points in successive weeks iirc

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Um no coach would be able to do much with a team with that many injuries. Simmo may not be the right coach for them right now but this situation would be very difficult for any coach.

Rubbish.

They have 23 professional footballers run out there each week.

You can be competitive.

You can put in effort.

You can play a basic defensive gameplan, all of these players have been doing that since they were elite juniors.

They have just lost to the 17th team by OVER 100 POINTS.

They've won 3 of the last 36 games. I'd be surprised if any coach in league history has survived that.

Simpson and his coaches clearly have no longer have any ability to impact on how the player perform.

 

[WCE_phil]

The 186 pt loss by Melb to Geelong is the worst performance of a team in modern times

Except Melbourne were shit, likely tanking and Geelong won the premiership that year.

 

[BigVic]

186 Melbourne 2011 and 138 followed by 165 to Port were bad.

Weagles lost to Geelong who were reigning premiers in '08 by 135 at Subi.

 

[sharp450]

Except Melbourne were s**t, likely tanking and Geelong won the premiership that year.

Melbourne were one win outside the eight before that Geelong debacle

 

[sharp450]

That Melbourne massive loss to Geelong was last vs first. Today it was last vs second last, just some perspective

Melbourne were fighting for a finals spot before that Geelong game, St Kilda were in 8th spot with 34 points, Melbourne were in 11th spot with 30 points

 

[PAFCsince1870]

I don't think it's a stretch to suggest the current North Melbourne and Hawthorn teams are two of the worst to take the field in the AFL era.

To somehow lose to one of them by 20 goals truly boggles the mind and I'm not sure what it infers about West Coast, but it sure as hell isn't good.

 

[raskolnikov]

And yet they'll probably still beat us next weekend.

 

[Defabs]

Melbourne were fighting for a finals spot before that Geelong game, St Kilda were in 8th spot with 34 points, Melbourne were in 11th spot with 30 points

Technically the week before that debacle, Adelaide’s performance was worse. It could only score 24 points against StKilda’s 127… StKilda outscored Adelaide 5.3 to 1, Geelong only outscored 4.95 to 1.

StKilda had also passed their peak by that stage and had fallen way behind Geelong.

 

[I Dont Care]

losses of 165 and 138 points in successive weeks iirc

Yes, something like that

 

[Daka]

I don't think Hawthorn are that bad it boggles mind how there on the bottom of the ladder over North & the Eagles.

 

[Rustin Cohle]

This is right up there. Doesn't seem so bad (great team vs. shit team) until you notice the entire game was played in torrential rain in Adelaide.

They didn't score a goal until the last 30 seconds of the second quarter and only kicked three for the match, despite it being club legend Chad Cornes' final game.

Never seen a more pathetic effort. If it was dry it would've been a 200+ thrashing.

 

[Vintage]

Squiggle 2025

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You know you're bad when the Squiggle scale expands to accommodate how far away you are from the rest of the teams. West Coast are having the season from Hell when it comes to injuries.

Squiggle says under 6 goal loss this week, so things are looking up!

 

[Plugger35]

When I think of bad AFL games I think of this game between St Kilda and the Swans back in 2002 which ended in a draw when Daniel Wulf

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hit the post.

I remember it being a terrible game but when I looked for it up on youtube the last 5 minutes was quite exciting, the commentary was better back then.

 

[Madas]

West Coast are worse than us this season but I'd still strongly argue that the 2022 version of North were worse than West Coast are now.

Far out that’s a tough one
North last year were the worst team I think I’ve seen in my 50 odd years on the planet
But I don’t think they would have lost to the second bottom side by 20 goals

That’s a new bar that’s been set right there surely?

 

[Madas]

now i wonder. is 2023 West Coast the worst team in the AFL era??

Yes

 

[joe444]

This is becoming a litany of self-harm

When I think of bad AFL games I think of this game between St Kilda and the Swans back in 2002 which ended in a draw when Daniel Wulf hit the post.

I remember it being a terrible game but when I looked for it up on youtube the last 5 minutes was quite exciting, the commentary was better back then.

Quartermain is an underrated caller. 5 minute warning, too. Listen to the audio; Channel 10 knew how to pump up the crowd effects.

There will probably never be another Pete, Lou and Bob in the popular imagination.

I don't think people will get nostalgic and teary-eyed about the coincidence of Hamish McLachlan being the brother of the AFL CEO.

 

[PetterdHoisted]

North last year were the first team in history to lose 10 games in a row by 40+ points. Even more incredible they were only 1 game off losing 10 in a row by 50+

This is all post 6-6-6, STAND etc. which guarantees annihilation of clubs at the bottom of the cycle.

There is no comparative history because the rules of the game are completely different- history starts at 2021.

But yesterday…jeepers, inexplicable!

 

[Macca_1870]

A couple of the Port Adelaide results in 2011 were right up (down?) there

Yep- we lost to your lot and Hawthorn in consecutive weeks, by a collective 300 points IIRC.

 

[Joffaboy]

Melbourne @ Geelong 186 point loss

Watched that. OMFG, as a Saints fans, have seen some drubbings (145 point defeat on a wet MCG v Hawks comes to mind) but that was the worst loss I have seen.
It took a decade but Melbourne came good. WCE will be back, but can't say when.



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[Plugger35]

This is becoming a litany of self-harm

Quartermain is an underrated caller. 5 minute warning, too. Listen to the audio; Channel 10 knew how to pump up the crowd effects.

There will probably never be another Pete, Lou and Bob in the popular imagination.

I don't think people will get nostalgic and teary-eyed about the coincidence of Hamish McLachlan being the brother of the AFL CEO.

Yeah Ch10 did a great job with their AFL coverage back then, their commentators like Quartermain, Huddo, Tim Lane and Robert Walls were much better than the commentary teams we have today and their crowd effect mics were better too, they could make even a small crowd sound like it was a sell out.

There was an article a couple of years ago about how much better the Ch10 commentators were than the Ch7 commentators now and it's all very true.

Ten years on: Why Ten's AFL commentary still reigns supreme

It's been ten years since Australian rules football was broadcast on Channel Ten. The 2011 season was the network's last of a ten-year run…

www.theroar.com.au

 

[StillAtLarge]

I don't think Hawthorn are that bad it boggles mind how there on the bottom of the ladder over North & the Eagles.

Take Mitch Lewis out of our side and we look pretty impotent. He makes an enormous difference

 

[Hojuman]

Yeah Ch10 did a great job with their AFL coverage back then, their commentators like Quartermain, Huddo, Tim Lane and Robert Walls were much better than the commentary teams we have today and their crowd effect mics were better too, they could make even a small crowd sound like it was a sell out.

There was an article a couple of years ago about how much better the Ch10 commentators were than the Ch7 commentators now and it's all very true.

Ten years on: Why Ten's AFL commentary still reigns supreme

It's been ten years since Australian rules football was broadcast on Channel Ten. The 2011 season was the network's last of a ten-year run…

www.theroar.com.au

Chuck in Blighty too.

 

[Plugger35]

Chuck in Blighty too.

I couldn't give a rat's tossbag about Blighty after what happened with him coaching at St Kilda.




In all seriousness he was another good commentator at Ch10, he provided some interesting left field takes even if they could be a bit weird at times.

 

[Jim Prideaux]

I don't think it's a stretch to suggest the current North Melbourne and Hawthorn teams are two of the worst to take the field in the AFL era.

To somehow lose to one of them by 20 goals truly boggles the mind and I'm not sure what it infers about West Coast, but it sure as hell isn't good.

I reckon it’s a bit of a stretch to include Hawthorn in that.

North
Dees
Port
GWS
GC
West Coast
Fitzroy

All worse, and mostly downright uncompetitive. We’re far from the finished article, and we’ll have some bad weeks, but we’ll be mostly competitive, and I’m fairly confident that we’ll snag a few more wins.