Your Clubs Finest Hour

[Franc de Borges]

Looking for the greatest moment in the history of your club. For some it will be obvious, for others, not so.

For mine (and it's a tough choice for the Blues), Carlton's greatest moment was the premiership in 1995. The best season in our history, all but written off before the year began. After 99 years of league football we had more premierships than any other, no wooden spoons and a positive win/loss record against every single team.

No one could claim supremacy over us then, hence it being our finest hour.

Thoughts?

 

[invinciBlues]

Season 95

 

[Murraj1966]

66'

Nothing comes close.

 

[Beckers]

Surviving the 1996 merger with Melbourne

 

[Franc de Borges]

Surviving the 1996 merger with Melbourne

I like that.

Dosen't have to be on-field. Footscray fans probably rate '89 as highly as '54.

 

[Pessimistic]

Surviving the 1996 merger with Melbourne

Yes. Strange but true

 

[UpForGrabs]

I'll throw in a seemingly odd one.

Round 1, 2007.

Cousins indefinitely suspended. No Cox. No Embley. No chance.

Flying into Sydney with Robert Walls' "evil empire" comments and massive drug allegations hanging over our head.

Beat Sydney by 1 point in front of over 60,000 people to continue the amazing string of matches between the sides.

Of course, all of it topped of by Daniel Kerr's tackle on Jarrad McVeigh in the dying moments. Kerr was a monster that night, I think he had well over 20 contested possessions.

I've been a member for all their premierships, but I've never been a prouder supporter than on that night.

 

[lyfsux]

The spelling on the club5 jumper

 

[On the Boyle]

Last 6 minutes of the 1961 Grand Final;
Last 6 minutes of the 1971 Grand Final;
Last 6 minutes of the 1976 Grand Final;
Last 6 minutes of the 1978 Grand Final;
Last 6 minutes of the 1983 Grand Final;
Last 6 minutes of the 1986 Grand Final;
Last 6 minutes of the 1988 Grand Final;
Last 6 minutes of the 1989 Grand Final;
Last 6 minutes of the 1991 Grand Final; and
Last 6 minutes of the 2008 Grand Final.

 

[kaysee]

1914
PAFC - Champions of Australia

Port Adelaide 9 16 70 defeated Carlton 5 6 36 (Adelaide Oval)

Just a good, solid win over some upstart club from Victoria.

 

[Jimmyeow]

Aside from the very many grand finals, I'd rate the hour in which we turned a 69 point deficit into a small lead which we held onto up there.

 

[Franc de Borges]

To make it more interesting post your clubs darkest hour as well.

Us: the whole 2002 season was bad, but the salary cap cheating being exposed and the consquent fines and draft restrictions were worse.

On-field, the last game of 2003 was as bad as I've ever seen an AFL team play, slaughtered by North by 124 points. We genuinely didn't even try that day, I've never been more disspirited in all my life.

 

[Jimmyeow]

No dark hours since losing the 1933 wooden spoon.

 

[Franc de Borges]

No dark hours since losing the 1933 wooden spoon.

Sure about that? You lost a Grand Final to Collingwood.

 

[Brewster_]

I'll throw in a seemingly odd one.

Round 1, 2007.

Cousins indefinitely suspended. No Cox. No Embley. No chance.

Flying into Sydney with Robert Walls' "evil empire" comments and massive drug allegations hanging over our head.

Beat Sydney by 1 point in front of over 60,000 people to continue the amazing string of matches between the sides.

Of course, all of it topped of by Daniel Kerr's tackle on Jarrad McVeigh in the dying moments. Kerr was a monster that night, I think he had well over 20 contested possessions.

I've been a member for all their premierships, but I've never been a prouder supporter than on that night.

Agree 100%. Quite possibly our greatest victory, aside from our GF wins, I love to watch that match. I'm pretty sure Judd wasn't playing that night either, he pulled out with injury just before the match IIRC.
It was great watching that tosser Walls having to try to think of something positive to say about us after the hammering he gave us in that pathetic article. He thought the swannies were home and hosed.

 

[Hawk Since Birth]

Winning the 1976 Grand Final for "the little feller", Peter Crimmins.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

1914
PAFC - Champions of Australia

Port Adelaide 9 16 70 defeated Carlton 5 6 36 (Adelaide Oval)

Just a good, solid win over some upstart club from Victoria.

For Port it is probably the 6 in a row in the 50's.

Otherwise the Australian championships, entering the AFL in 1997 and our AFL flag in 2004.

Yes I know the 6 in a row was in the SANFL but it was a strong comp back then and 6 in a row in any comp is no mean feat.

 

[WhyAlwaysMe]

Port Adelaides first AFL game, round 1 MCG 1997. We'd finally made it.

Or 2004.

 

[kaysee]

Are we including our SANFL clubs as well? I could add Glenelg in.

Meh... OP didn't say but PAFC qualify for both SANFL and AFL

 

[Grey Smith Bar]

I got more enjoyment out of the 93 Premiership than the 2000 to be honest, but surely back-to-back 84/85, over Hawthorn, after the 83 humiliation, that has to be the best in my lifetime.

Had a ticket for 84 GF but couldn't go as I had chickenpox, but went to 85 - it was awesome.

Lowest points - 1990 & 1999 PF

 

[The Dice Man]

Finest: Probably the record hammering we gave Collingwood in the 1980GF and what loomed as a new football dynasty with an incredibly strong club about to dominate the next decade.

Worst: Every hour since.

 

[Alberton Oval]

1884 flag and 2004 flag

 

[Enviable Tradition]

Port Adelaides first AFL game, round 1 MCG 1997. We'd finally made it.

Or 2004.

It was probably the proudest I have been as a Port supporter watching the boys run out on the G live to face Collingwood in that first AFL game. It just seemed wrong though to pick that moment given the fact we got flogged that day and we have had so many other more triumphant days.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

The Power or the Magpies?

Don't waste your breath Kaysee.

 

[Josh Wineduck]

Worst: Losing Fitzroy

Best: The threepeat