Your club's lowest point in history

[PzBlinky]

If that was the lowest point in Collingwood's near 130 year history, which resulted in the Grand total of one season outside the top 8, we're not doing too bad as a footy club.

In my time watching Collingwood, and also in referencing the history books, it had to be 1999 - our 6th consecutive year outside of finals, with the Footy Show doing a weekly count of how many consecutive games Collingwood had lost to start the season.

Then again, our round 9ish win against Fremantle was when I first got together with my now wife, so that game/season has fond memories for me.

Suspect Collingwood supporters are in a pretty good position in comparison to supporters of most other clubs when trying to ascertain when the lowest point in their history was...

Another unforeseen bonus of that year - it was the last time the Pies ever played at the Cattery! (to date)

 

[LeverPuller]

2013 Mothers Day.

MCG.
4:40pm
Melbourne 7.12.54
GOLD COAST 16.18.114.

I was there. Was lower than 186. Club deserved to die that day.

 

[South of the Yarra]

Not when your then president said that Aboriginal players were ok as long as they did what they were told?

That’s not actually what he said. It was far worse than that

 

[TheEscapeClub]

That’s not actually what he said. It was far worse than that

Wasn't it to conduct themselves the same as white man? I remember too that he had the bone pointed at him not long after and he stood there looking like an idiot while it was done.

 

[South of the Yarra]

Wasn't it to conduct themselves the same as white man? I remember too that he had the bone pointed at him not long after and he stood there looking like an idiot while it was done.

''As long as they conduct themselves like white people, well, off the field, everyone will admire and respect … As long as they conduct themselves like human beings, they will be all right. That's the key.''

Horrific

 

[JohnZ]

Hard to say.

The day GAJ left us felt pretty bad, but in all honesty think we were better for it. Shame he didn't come back sooner and tried to save the plastic club.

 

[Todman]

This is striking to me. Correct me if I'm wrong, but to me it seemed like Dunstall went straight into the media after his playing career. What were his qualifications to be the CEO (even on an interim basis) of an organisation the size of Hawthorn?

Like I said, happy to be corrected, but that seems to me like a prime example of how far the league's come in 20 years.

Dunstall was part of a consortium that ran a couple of nightclubs. He ran the Saloon Bar off Toorak Rd South Yarra from the late 1980s..

 

[Todman]

Hawthorn Summer of 1950​

1950 started with the club in turmoil. The club appointed Bob McCaskill as coach, and he wanted Kevin Curran to be captain. Outgoing captain-coach Alec Albiston was angry as he was told by a member of the board that he would remain as captain. Brownlow Medallist Col Austen sided with Albiston and a split occurred. The board sided with the new coach and gave Albiston and Austen open clearances. Without the club's best two players, the team did not win a match in 1950. New captain Kevin Curran was suspended for striking Austen on the first occasion Hawthorn and Austen's new club Richmond played.

The club decided to change its playing jumper to the brown and gold vertical stripes. Two positives were the arrival of John Kennedy and Roy Simmonds. Over the next ten years, Kennedy would play 169 games for Hawthorn, serving as Captain from 1955 until his retirement in 1959, and winning the club's Best and Fairest award four times (in 1950, 51, 52 and 54). Simmonds would play 192 games and win the club's Best and Fairest award in 1955.

Failed merger of 1996​

Falling on-field and off-field fortune saw the club almost merge with Melbourne in 1996. The resulting club was to be known as the "Melbourne Hawks" – a fusion with the Melbourne nickname of "Demons". A groundswell of support led by former champion Don Scott scuttled the proposal, with Hawthorn members voting strongly against it. Melbourne members supported the merger by a small margin. The failure of the merger led to the resignation of the board and its replacement, led by businessman Ian Dicker.

 

[uranium_death]

1999. Broke, crap facilities, bad list, and an old mentality
Club was going nowhere
WWII wasn't an easy time either

 

[CarterS]

In 2016 Lions lost consecutive games by 77, 78, 63, 48, 38, 83, 49, 42, 26, 79 between Rounds 7 and 17.
Then lost by 138 to Adelaide later on that season.

That season we lost 19 games at an average losing margin of 60.
Easy to forget how bad we were.

 

[harper2bastinac]

Nothing will ever top 2020-2022 for north, yes this year was tough losing 20 in a row and losing clarko for half the season, but the whole covid season where the club won the first 2 games and only 1 more without looking like winning any other games, 2021 Good Friday game and anything 2022 minus clarkos appointment was as low as it got. 2022 especially hurt the most by losing by an average of 45 points a game and the whole jhf saga.

 

[Dazb86]

1996 easily. Happened to be caught on camera too

 

[RUNVS]

I felt pretty low in 2010 (I think) when Sydney somehow lost to Melbourne by 90+ points.

 

[Wojcinski]

1999. Broke, crap facilities, bad list, and an old mentality
Club was going nowhere
WWII wasn't an easy time either

Leigh Colbert & Gary Ayres walking out on us as well.

 

[timokane]

as for pies was most 100% the 2012-2019 years more so 2012-2017 was total trash

bucks and ed.

2018-2020 just a screw up/

2023 now we are dynasty material

 

[marcus1232]

Where do i start

 

[Fadge]

as for pies was most 100% the 2012-2019 years more so 2012-2017 was total trash

bucks and ed.

2018-2020 just a screw up/

2023 now we are dynasty material

You're not doing too bad as a Pies supporter if you think the lowest point was a 6 year period that included a Preliminary Final appearance.

Imagine if you were a Carlton, Richmond or Essendon supporter?

 

[Caesarr]

Probably end of 1999.
Realization the team was never going to be good enough to win a flag. Our captain Colbert leaving the previous year and then rumors circulating the club was having financial difficulties. Even a genuine possibility of going under.

Quite amazing looking back. The amount of players we hit the jackpot on in subsequent drafts completely altered the clubs trajectory.
Hunt, Bartel, Ablett, Kelly, Johnson, Mackie, Lonergan, Byrnes.
Also getting in some brilliant business minds.
Not to mention brilliant coaches who nurtured the next generation to bigger and better things.

Our club culture only exists today because of those people.

Aye, in hindsight 1999 ended up being a fabled year at Geelong. That was the year they got Corey, Chapman, Ling and Enright in the draft at picks 8, 31, 38 and 47 respectively. Similar story in 2001, when they added Bartel, Kelly, SJ and GAJ.

 

[Caligo]

1996.

 

[PhatBoy]

Hard to say.

The day GAJ left us felt pretty bad, but in all honesty think we were better for it. Shame he didn't come back sooner and tried to save the plastic club.

Every club is plastic. They didn’t just all exist forever

 

[JohnZ]

Every club is plastic. They didn’t just all exist forever

Thats a poor take. Footy clubs grew naturally from a community need. If southport had been admitted into the AFL they wouldn’t have been a plastic team. Port isnt a plastic team. Sydney and Brisbane aren’t either.

I get what you’re trying to say but there’s a difference between the foundation of Geelong and the foundation of the Suns. And the difference is what makes them plastic.

 

[Irish BlueBagger]

For Carlton it was those years from 2002 until 2007. It was around that time i started supporting the Blues as well!

2002 was Carltons rock bottom year, first wooden spoon in our history and AFL HQ cleaning house with us with a massive fine and loss of draft picks.

It's only now that we're finally starting to recover (although the Brett Ratten

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years were fun) from it. The latter end of the Brendon Bolton era was pretty bad as well!

 

[Freshwater]

2011-2014. After 3 preliminary finals with Rocket and playing attractive football we went into the wilderness. The AFL’s start up team GWS pinched our future captain Callan Ward

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. Then the events of October 2014 when GWS pinch our current captain. The Essendon get our Brownlow medallist, Cooney, North get one of our best young players, Higgins and in the preseason our Best and fairest, Libba, does his knee! Yes that was pretty low time. But it’s always darkest before the dawn.

 

[mr bagcroft]

Heh, really??
Hold my beer !

 

[Rabish Binney]

2011-2014. After 3 preliminary finals with Rocket and playing attractive football we went into the wilderness. The AFL’s start up team GWS pinched our future captain Callan Ward. Then the events of October 2014 when GWS pinch our current captain. The Essendon get our Brownlow medallist, Cooney, North get one of our best young players, Higgins and in the preseason our Best and fairest, Libba, does his knee! Yes that was pretty low time. But it’s always darkest before the dawn.

And yet 2 years later a flag....

Just shows how quickly things can turnaround - or go pear shaped like us after the 2017 GF......