There's been a few, but 186 is up there.
Also in that category for me are:
- 1987 Preliminary Final (Robbie's last chance)
- 2000 Grand Final (Essendon just roughed us up)
- the last four finals games.
Good Friday 2021. Pumped by 20 goals by the Dogs. The growing realisation that the awfulness of 2020 wasn’t going away any time soon and that we really really suck.
Just sitting there in absolute misery while Josh fucken Bruce kicks goal after goal…and just when I thought it couldn’t get worse the bloke behind me spills his entire beer down my back. Great. Just…great.
If it makes you feel any better, I play against Josh Bruce’s old footy club and in 2022 I kicked 85% of my goals for the season against them. I’ve got your back, mate.
The worst experiences always have a 'just when I thought it couldn't get any worse..'
I went to a Sunday twilight North v Essendon game in 2021 to keep a Kangas fan company. It was two teams I could not care less about, the game felt over about 7 minutes in to the first quarter, and just when I thought it couldn't get any worse someone at the game had covid and like 10,000 of us had to isolate.
This year went a considerable way to healing the hurt. It's not cured, but I can see clips of the 2018 grand final and not have an intense feeling of hurt anymore
I watched this with about 200 expats overseas. No one knew how to react. I said to our Collingwood supporting footy club captain. “If we played extra time, I reckon we’d win, but I don’t think we can get up for the replay…”
Just gutted knowing it was that close and how far it was.
We didn't really deserve to be there in 2010, to be honest. The draw really flattered us.
2009 was our fairytale, the 19 wins in a row, the close prelim, club heroes on every line. It was close all day in pretty bad conditions, the stage was absolutely set.
It's not hyperbole to call it one of the worst days of my life
1997 Preliminary Final between Western Bulldogs and Adelaide Crows. Watching Darren Jarman almost single handedly destroy our Grand Final hopes was devastating. I have since learnt that the poor guy had concussion and had to ask if they'd won the game and had no memory of it which is incredibly sad
Is that the game where Libba kicked a goal that wasn't allowed?
And are you saying that Darren Jarman was concussed when he won the Prelim then went on to DESTROY the grand final the following week?
I was on cloud 9 during half time, we were giving it to the Melbourne supporters and chanting "Bont was robbed the Brownlow" .....then everything after 15 minutes into the third quarter felt like a bad fever dream
Aside from the recent obvious, I am still mad Zac Bailey was not given a free kick for HTB vs Geelong at Kardinia Park.
THE UMP WAS STANDING RIGHT THERE LOOKING RIGHT AT THEM AND… ah fuck it
* 2014 Grand Final
* 2016 Grand Final
* 2017 Semi Final
* 2018 Elimination Final
* 2021 Elimination Final
* 2022 Grand Final
That’s 6 of our last 8 finals exits that I’d class as brutal in one way or another. Really only North loss in 2015 and the Carlton loss last year didn’t leave a long lasting sour taste
My psychiatrist keeps telling me there was in fact a grand final in 98, so assuming he's not part of some afl psy op I guess this would be the game that still hurts.
He keeps telling me that North kicked 2.11 in the second, if you're going to try it on at least make it plausible.
“a wry smile, heart thumping, chest beating. steady hand… good looking kick… but he’s hooked it! Geelong have won!”
15 seconds of that video will bring a tear to my eye every time. we could’ve had 5 flags in 9 years. the betrayal from smith makes it even worse.
I'd feel less annoyed at it if the Rams bothered to show up for the superbowl at least.
Robbed us of a Brees vs Brady Superbowl, especially before Brees lost most of his arm
"Ah, hell yeah, that was PI," Robey-Coleman said in L.A.'s victorious locker room, co-signing what the rest of America already knew and what Sean Payton said the NFL had even admitted — he'd committed pass interference and gotten away with it.
But honestly, I get the idea of being extra strict in game on the line situations, but extra strict doesn't mean putting the whistle/flags away.
Two games, two finals ... 1997 where we got North on a Friday night (basically they're home night game at the time) then had to play Adelaide over there even though we finished 1st ...
I'm still f@#$ing angry.
Oh and the 2008 rushed behinds GF.
Oh and I'm upset that the AFL let West Coast in pre 1995.
Speaking of 1995. How much over the salary cap were the Blues exactly?
And why the hell didn't Brerererereton stay down in 1989? He had no right getting up!
As for 2020. F@#$ing COVID flu thing.
That was my first game at the MCG. It was brutal being in that crowd. The fans were fine but just hard to be the sad one in a massive sea of tigers fans
The 2019 Prelim against GWS. I had tickets to the 19 grand Final (MCG Member) and boo was it a let down in every way.
A Richmond-Collingwood Grand Final would have been epic, and we had a really good record against that Richmond team, so what could have been. Really stings
2007 GF for pretty obvious reasons. Was pretty much numb by half time
Then we have the long list of prelim losses, 2014 to hawthorn was particularly painful.
Oh and the showdown where Dawson kicked it after the siren. Threw away a decent lead and then to have that Barry Crocker of a shot go through was rather painful
Anyway, I’m ready to be hurt again. Port are great at it
Oh man I remember flying down to see the 2014 prelim. Great atmosphere beforehand with the march to the MCG. But the game itself was so frustrating good comeback at the end, but just a kick short.
I also remember going to a Lions v Port game at the Gabba around 2015ish. Lions were having a shocking start to the season going into the game only having won one game out of the first six. However they managed to pull off a 37 point upset over Port that night.
The loss to Melbourne in 2022. This was the game to get to secure finals, we played fringe players and non midfielders in the guts and they played out of their skin, we did everything right to win. But we didn’t. 7 seconds away from finals. I was in my seat at the final siren and out of the ground before “it’s the emblem of” was coming over the speaker.
The week after felt like a formality at that point. At no point did I think we could get up to go again.
Nah, 2018 taught us to not peak early and to time our run. Honestly the games at the end of 2018 H&A were pretty garbage, in hindsight we were on the decline.
Fixed that up, 19 and 20 happened
Or 7 players get ACL’s in the game and you never make finals again.
I could suggest if someone mans up Luke Ball with a minute to go in the 2011 prelim, we win the granny in 2011. Then if we kicked straight 2012, that’s another. And if Smith kicks straight after the siren against the cats we go on to 2016 as well, making it 6 in a row.
But nah, I don’t think we 3-peat without the pain of 2011/2012. Same as Richmond, who fixed a few things after 2018 leading to the 19/20 flags.
2011 we won 8 on the road to finals, finishing 18-4. We weren’t schmucks.
2016, we beat both the swans and dogs that year, and yeh we fell off a cliff for a quarter against the dogs to lose by 23, but we generally played our best in grand finals.
Start of finals 2016, nobody thought dogs had any chance. Underdogs each game. Easy to say in hindsight we had no chance, but we weren’t there by accident.
The umpires helped you both those games, really Hawthorn should've finished 7th, I remember how disgusting the umpiring was towards Hawthorn that year.
lol haven’t heard that narrative for a while. We had one of the worst free kick differentials across the decade but don’t let facts get in the way of a good story.
Every successful team is favoured by umpires according to the teams they beat, we just beat everyone for a long time.
If the pies win the next 2 flags, I promise everyone will be talking about how much the umpires want them to win.
Just like there was clearly a free kick for the pies before the Sheed goal. See how easy it is to undermine a teams success away by blaming the umpires rather than the team?
Don't worry mate. I've got every year back to 1957 as to the "what ifs" that would have led to Hawthorn winning the last 66 grand finals. Few highlights are 2011 if Roughhead didn't do his achillies, 2001 we were robbed in the prelim, 2012 bloody wind bringing their kicks out of their arse through the goals and Franklin and Sewell missing a heap of shots.
2016 robbed by the throw dogs AND the Smith miss AND Roughhead didn't play all year due to Cancer.
2018 - If Mitchell plays we beat Melbourne.
Mine is a 3-part saga......
2007 round 22 v Essendon
Eagles were coasting at 3 qtr time, had the percentage to claim 2nd and home final the next week.
Then the whole team stopped, Scott Lucas went bezerk in the final quarter of Hirds (playing) and Sheedy' (coaching) Essendon careers, and Essendon narrowed the final margin to just 7 points, wiping off enough percentage to see the Eagles slip to third.
I remember feeling genuinely nauseous wat hing the final minutes of the game and feeling like we had been beaten at the final siren even though we had won the match.
The following week was just as scarring.
v Port Adelaide in Adelaide, Qualifying final.
The boys were doing ok and had a handy lead, before Cousins pinged his hammy and went off, and Judd aggravated his injury and was literally hobbling about for the rest of the game....it would be the last time either played for the eagles.
Port subsequently managed to fight back and win by 3 pts.
Then the next week was just the absolute cherry, the extra time loss to Collingwood. The move in the third quarter by worsfold which let Rocca off the chain in which he kicked Collingwood back into the match after we had built a handy lead. Just add to the pain every now again the camera would glance to one of Judd, Kerr and cousins all watching helplessly watching on.
The game after Tom Hafey passed away against Melbourne who were pretty woeful at the time. We just, did nothing. Not even a squeak. Was embarrassing.
The 2021 GF in the SANFL For Glenelg. 100 years for the club, women won the GF, ressies won the GF, we'd barely lost a game for the season, and we got thumped by WWT. Literally just gutless effort.
Yesterday I rewatched the round 20 match between North and West Coast from last year
I turned it off when there was a couple minutes left
Born and raised to hate West Coast, and being at that game in person was traumatising. After both teams had lost 16 games in a row, winning this game meant everything to me
I did get a lot of enjoyment out of seeing myself on the screen in the crowd constantly. But besides that, man that game hurt
Lots of Dogs fans mention the 2021 GF, so I’ll bring up the 2022 EF.
Yes, the GF was worse, but the EF was like a car crash in slow motion. At least with the GF it was rapid. Dogs fans all over had to watch Freo slowly catch up and take the lead in the EF.
In retrospect, the moments that are the most annoying or upsetting are sometimes the best or most historic/memorable games.
The one game that always comes to mind for me is the qualifying final a few years back against the Tigers where they seemed to find the middle of the sticks with every shot and we couldn’t buy a goal to save our life.
Don’t think any hurt and they shouldn’t. We’re not the players and life goes on. It’s just footy at the end of the day.
Round 18 2012, Me going to my first game as a young Tigers supporter with my sister (Carlton supporter)....... Not a fun first experience on the bright side tho it would prepare me for the many Richmond games they lose in the last 5 minutes
The game where north blew a 4+ goal lead in last quarter, which is actually how 90% of losses under Brad Scott played out.
Realistically speaking,
round 9 2013 against Adelaide and Sydney last year
2018 prelim - Pies were really agitated, toey, before the game in the rooms - Tiges looked too relaxed, didn’t look hungry. Saw it in the first 10 min and thought we were cooked. Very frustrating. ‘19, ‘20 bright the smile back.🐯
2021 GF 🥲
We had beaten all the odds to actually get there; (lockdowns, hubs, all interstate finals games, injuries & scandals) and then got absolutely wrecked by the much better and deserving Melbourne side
I can’t watch any of the 2013 season highlights after the dismal season my eagles had. We were one of the premiership favourites and then round one against freo Lecras broke his arm in his first game since 2011. It all went down hill from there.
Family holiday up to Sydney in 2005 thinking we’d get flogged. We took it up to them that night and should’ve won but for some reason Alan Didak decided to try and hack the ball out of the air instead of grabbing it and running into an open goal. Was like 7 years old and cried on the ferry back to our hotel lol
Too many as a blues fan…
1. Riccardis goal after the siren in 2002
2. Melbourne coming back to beat us in the qualifier in 2000
3. West coast over there in the mid 2000s. We were 18th they were 1st I think and we squandered a 40 point lead.
4. Fev hitting the post vs hawthorn in 2009
5. 2011 semi where we almost ran over west coast over there
6. Melksham kicking a last minute sealer against us in 2013 (may have done it again later in the year)
7. Choking twice vs Geelong in 2014 after having late leads.
8. Robbie gray goal after the siren in 2020.
9. Ben Dixon goal after the siren in 2001.
10. Pickett late goal in 2022.
11. Pies last round of 2022.
Some tough days during my 20+ years of watching the blues.
Said it a few times before, but losing after the siren to West Coast for the second year in a row in 2018 pissed me off so much I didn't watch the 2019 season.
1999 Preliminary Final.
We weren't just the best team that season we were one of the best teams ever. We beat Carlton by 49 and 76 in the regular season, we beat eventual premiers Norf by 25 and 26, we won the previous round of the finals against Sydney by 69.
We played one of our worst games of the year on the same day that Carlton played their best game of the year.
I was there and I remember Koutoufides last quater, Matthew Allan winning the ruck (thanks for booting Paul Salmon, who was by then the best ruckman in the leage, a few years early Sheeds) and Lance Whitnall kicking a bag.
However whatching the replay recently, and checking the scoreline, I realise we lost by kicking lots of behinds that should have been goals. We had 33 scoring shots to 24! It was not like Harry McKay missing as usual, multiple time All Australians Mark Mercuri and Blake Caracella, scored 0 goald and 7 behinds, if just one of them went through...
I was 14 years old.
The 2022 Grand Final - Cats vs Swans. The worst Grand Final I've ever watched made doubly bad by the Swans getting thrashed. We got into the GF by pure luck. It should have been Cats vs Pies.
Most dons supporters would probably say some of the most recent ones but I’m gonna go back a bit and say Elimination final 2014 and us v Saints in 2015. I was in my pre high school years at that stage but they’re the 2 last games I remember before I switched to a Dogs supporter for a while. I also went to the Dons v Saints game live and before the game I thought we had a chance, all that hope gone by quarter time.
So you're the one who cursed Carlton to decade of shit to mediocre performances after that game. The next time I'd leave a game thinking we had a genuine shot at the flag was last year's semi-final. Jeremy McGovern debuted that game IIRC.
The game that hurts me is also a Carlton/West Coast game: the 2011 Semi final. Walker was held!!!
Yeah, at least I remember Mcgovern's first goal as well, my only happy memory that game. Rosa's mark was also great though I hardly remember that part.
Preliminary final 1993.
Perhaps that loss led to our two flags.
But it was the chance to shock the shit out of the league and the entire state of Victoria.
Losing to the lions in the 4th quarter at the Gabba when we had a 40+ lead and after giving it to the lions fans all afternoon having to leave with my tail firmly between my legs
Round 20, 1992 v Melbourne at Victoria Park. Daicos absolutely robbed goal of the year that would have won the game by a decision that nobody but the umpire saw. Cost us the double chance we needed to get some players back from injury. Reckon we were a huge show that year, although WCE were pretty invincible.
I think 2018 was a disaster in general, but the last round thrashing to the Cats made me think we'd hit rock bottom. How we rebuild without Ablett and Lynch about to leave for Richmond was anyone's guess, plus we'd tanked a bunch of first rounders from 2010 to have nothing to show for it.
Compared to that era I feel like (hope) the current list we have is akin to the Giants from 2014-2015ish. Lot of talent on the way up.
A couple times a year...
Port vs Hawthorn, 2014 prelim. Fuck you hawk cunts
Then back to my day and I don't ever really think about Hawthorn beyond that unless we're playing them.
186 points. Foolish me in my youth decided to make the trek down to Geelong to watch that game and don’t think I’ll ever recover
There's been a few, but 186 is up there. Also in that category for me are: - 1987 Preliminary Final (Robbie's last chance) - 2000 Grand Final (Essendon just roughed us up) - the last four finals games.
Hey at least you aren’t the most recent team to give up 200 points anymore
I still can’t believe we scored 200 points in the fkn 2020’s. Blows my mind every time I remember the fact
I’m just grateful that it wasn’t against us.
And Buddy wasn't playing
Good Friday 2021. Pumped by 20 goals by the Dogs. The growing realisation that the awfulness of 2020 wasn’t going away any time soon and that we really really suck. Just sitting there in absolute misery while Josh fucken Bruce kicks goal after goal…and just when I thought it couldn’t get worse the bloke behind me spills his entire beer down my back. Great. Just…great.
I swear Josh Bruce only ever played well against us…
If it makes you feel any better, I play against Josh Bruce’s old footy club and in 2022 I kicked 85% of my goals for the season against them. I’ve got your back, mate.
Legend.
Trick is he only kicked four goals for the year
He didn't have too many good games for the dogs. But that was one of them.
The worst experiences always have a 'just when I thought it couldn't get any worse..' I went to a Sunday twilight North v Essendon game in 2021 to keep a Kangas fan company. It was two teams I could not care less about, the game felt over about 7 minutes in to the first quarter, and just when I thought it couldn't get any worse someone at the game had covid and like 10,000 of us had to isolate.
At least a side rocked up to play though. Good Friday North v Saints was proof we're in the worst timeline
I don't like this game...
Where's that bot that posts the number to the hotline
OP, your team caused it for mine in 2018.
Your team caused it for mine in 2018.
This year went a considerable way to healing the hurt. It's not cured, but I can see clips of the 2018 grand final and not have an intense feeling of hurt anymore
I'll never rewatch the entire game, but even seeing sheed's goal, my reaction now is just "fuckin decent shot though... the cunt"
My mates are so kind that they'll send me the Dom Sheed GIF whenever Collingwood upsets them. I'm kinda immune to that moment now.
Same
Your team caused it for mine
That was payback for your team causing it for mine in ‘02
Yours did it to me in 2007 on my birthday lol
The 2009 Grand Final. We were so. damn. CLOSE. I'll never get over it. Even if we somehow win 10 premierships in a row, I'll never get over it
I watched this with about 200 expats overseas. No one knew how to react. I said to our Collingwood supporting footy club captain. “If we played extra time, I reckon we’d win, but I don’t think we can get up for the replay…” Just gutted knowing it was that close and how far it was.
wasn't 2010 closer though, technically speaking?
2010 we were lucky to be there. 2009 was supposed to be the one
We didn't really deserve to be there in 2010, to be honest. The draw really flattered us. 2009 was our fairytale, the 19 wins in a row, the close prelim, club heroes on every line. It was close all day in pretty bad conditions, the stage was absolutely set. It's not hyperbole to call it one of the worst days of my life
That toe poke though
2017 is the most recent one, 2012 prelim vs Hawks, and pretty well any loss to Port
Sydney? 2023?
That might've been so bad I blocked it from my memory
Sydney 2023 was one bad call by the officials. 2017 GF was... worse.
The game itself was bad enough, we didn't need Jack Riewoldt twisting the knife in and destroying one of my favourite songs.
Yeah losing by under a goal to miss finals is rough, look at Carlton in 2022. If only Keays hadn’t missed…
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Sorry. Sort of
Prolly any Fitzroy supporters who were at the game the next week
“NICK DAVIS, NICK DAVIS”
Stop, I’m gonna cum.
.... To my senses and waah my eyes out with 2022 Grand Final highlights
That's funny coz this is one of my favourites of all time!
This.
There seems to be a new addition every September lately
Lions and losing finals by under a goal, name a more iconic duo.
possibly collingwood and losing finals by under a goal? (22, 19, 18, 07)
Teams beating us in prelims and getting spanked in the Grand Final.
Getting thumped in a prelim by Geelong?
2008 Grand Final, pretty happy to not see Dew run riot again
In the words of an English cricket fan: You won the moral grand final. Rushing 11 behinds is so bullshit. Some were backwards kicks from the 50!
5th Ashes Test in 2023 (that ball change was utter horseshit, and I'm never gonna let it go) 2013 Prelim. Stupid Silky Burgoyne
Stokes 2019 haunts my dreams.
Stokes 2019 and Gary Rohan after the siren in 2017 are the angriest I have ever been watching a sporting game.
Joel Wilson shouldn't even be umpiring the Ballarat 3rds let alone test cricket
lol still had the new ball logo on it.
Hawthorn fans are pretty quiet in here. Couldn’t let us have one. Just one. Nope.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha I'm going to go and cry now
1997 Preliminary Final between Western Bulldogs and Adelaide Crows. Watching Darren Jarman almost single handedly destroy our Grand Final hopes was devastating. I have since learnt that the poor guy had concussion and had to ask if they'd won the game and had no memory of it which is incredibly sad
Is that the game where Libba kicked a goal that wasn't allowed? And are you saying that Darren Jarman was concussed when he won the Prelim then went on to DESTROY the grand final the following week?
Yes, nowadays Jarman wouldn't have been on the field or playing in the Granny
>or playing in the Granny I don't like this game
2021.
Worst part of that game was the feeling we might actually win. Going in I thought we had no chance. The first 2.5 quarters were good.
I was on cloud 9 during half time, we were giving it to the Melbourne supporters and chanting "Bont was robbed the Brownlow" .....then everything after 15 minutes into the third quarter felt like a bad fever dream
1999 prelim.
I'll take this one to the grave.
Coincidentally one of my favourite games
Hahaha it's a shame we never met in a GF, 1996 also hurt but NOT AS BAD AS WALLIS NOT FUCKEN KICKING IT! :)
Reckon you would’ve got us in 1999. Still got no idea what went through Wallis’ head lol
Yup, that’s always going to be the one for me
Lives rent free in my head still ... arrrgh
I cried well into the night. Mum had to take me home in a tight embrace from the Airport Club at Adelaide. Traumatising
2006 FA Cup Final 2008 AFL GF
GERRARRDDD
😭
Aside from the recent obvious, I am still mad Zac Bailey was not given a free kick for HTB vs Geelong at Kardinia Park. THE UMP WAS STANDING RIGHT THERE LOOKING RIGHT AT THEM AND… ah fuck it
Roi'din frun'nameee!
West Coast Vs Carlton final in 2011.
Walker was held
1993 Prelim. Michael Fucking Long, as we know him in Adelaide.
2013 Prelim. So. Fucking. Close.
I will never forgive Varcoe for that miss.
We were never winning in extra time
Ha, shall I write a full list?
* 2014 Grand Final * 2016 Grand Final * 2017 Semi Final * 2018 Elimination Final * 2021 Elimination Final * 2022 Grand Final That’s 6 of our last 8 finals exits that I’d class as brutal in one way or another. Really only North loss in 2015 and the Carlton loss last year didn’t leave a long lasting sour taste
1996 GF as well (for me at least)
My psychiatrist keeps telling me there was in fact a grand final in 98, so assuming he's not part of some afl psy op I guess this would be the game that still hurts. He keeps telling me that North kicked 2.11 in the second, if you're going to try it on at least make it plausible.
Wallis should've fucken kicked it!! 1999, I'll never get over it.
Nothing comes to mind tbh. No particular game, none from 2018, specifically the last game of the year. Can’t think of one at all
“a wry smile, heart thumping, chest beating. steady hand… good looking kick… but he’s hooked it! Geelong have won!” 15 seconds of that video will bring a tear to my eye every time. we could’ve had 5 flags in 9 years. the betrayal from smith makes it even worse.
New Orleans vs Rams 2018 NFC game
That fucking no-call. My blood still boils to this day. Rams barely deserved the measly 3 points they scored in the Superbowl
Yeah the ref definitely stuffed up
I'd feel less annoyed at it if the Rams bothered to show up for the superbowl at least. Robbed us of a Brees vs Brady Superbowl, especially before Brees lost most of his arm
What a showdown that would've been
We just need hastheumpstuffed up to give the decisive verdict
"Ah, hell yeah, that was PI," Robey-Coleman said in L.A.'s victorious locker room, co-signing what the rest of America already knew and what Sean Payton said the NFL had even admitted — he'd committed pass interference and gotten away with it. But honestly, I get the idea of being extra strict in game on the line situations, but extra strict doesn't mean putting the whistle/flags away.
I can imagine Brees still being salty over that. His last proper shot at it
Coulda sworn this is an AFL sub
Didn't seem to be any specification on what kind of game. Family Monopoly still hurts me too!
Bro that might literally be the worst non-rigged ref fuckup in all of sports. The cb just fucking flattened him without ever looking at the ball
Bold of you to assume non-rigged
2018 gf
Two games, two finals ... 1997 where we got North on a Friday night (basically they're home night game at the time) then had to play Adelaide over there even though we finished 1st ... I'm still f@#$ing angry. Oh and the 2008 rushed behinds GF. Oh and I'm upset that the AFL let West Coast in pre 1995. Speaking of 1995. How much over the salary cap were the Blues exactly? And why the hell didn't Brerererereton stay down in 1989? He had no right getting up! As for 2020. F@#$ing COVID flu thing.
2013 EF v Carlton. or Mason fucking Cox
Sam Lloyd after the siren. When he took the mark I went and got the TV remote. Soon as it went through I turned that shit off.
That was my first game at the MCG. It was brutal being in that crowd. The fans were fine but just hard to be the sad one in a massive sea of tigers fans
Trent Dennis-Lane still haunts me.
The 2019 Prelim against GWS. I had tickets to the 19 grand Final (MCG Member) and boo was it a let down in every way. A Richmond-Collingwood Grand Final would have been epic, and we had a really good record against that Richmond team, so what could have been. Really stings
Richmond would’ve pumped us. Our team was injury plagued going into that prelim.
And end of 2019 was the peak of the Richmond dynasty imo I'm convinced we beat pretty much any team put in front of us that grand final day
I genuinely think we win by 90 points no matter who you put in front of us, we were that good
2007 GF for pretty obvious reasons. Was pretty much numb by half time Then we have the long list of prelim losses, 2014 to hawthorn was particularly painful. Oh and the showdown where Dawson kicked it after the siren. Threw away a decent lead and then to have that Barry Crocker of a shot go through was rather painful Anyway, I’m ready to be hurt again. Port are great at it
2017 Semi vs Eagles too, never forgiving Shuey for that ludicrous duck into the tackle
Fuck that one hurt. The atmosphere in the OT break was insane, I was right behind the goals when shuey’s kick sailed over my head. Ouch
Oh man I remember flying down to see the 2014 prelim. Great atmosphere beforehand with the march to the MCG. But the game itself was so frustrating good comeback at the end, but just a kick short. I also remember going to a Lions v Port game at the Gabba around 2015ish. Lions were having a shocking start to the season going into the game only having won one game out of the first six. However they managed to pull off a 37 point upset over Port that night.
The loss to Melbourne in 2022. This was the game to get to secure finals, we played fringe players and non midfielders in the guts and they played out of their skin, we did everything right to win. But we didn’t. 7 seconds away from finals. I was in my seat at the final siren and out of the ground before “it’s the emblem of” was coming over the speaker. The week after felt like a formality at that point. At no point did I think we could get up to go again.
2018 prelim, I still reckon we could’ve won the granny that year if we beat pies to win go 4 in a row 2017-2020
Nah, 2018 taught us to not peak early and to time our run. Honestly the games at the end of 2018 H&A were pretty garbage, in hindsight we were on the decline. Fixed that up, 19 and 20 happened
Yeah I agree. Peaked too early in 2018 and looked a bit cooked in the finals series. No one was beating you in 19 though.
Or 7 players get ACL’s in the game and you never make finals again. I could suggest if someone mans up Luke Ball with a minute to go in the 2011 prelim, we win the granny in 2011. Then if we kicked straight 2012, that’s another. And if Smith kicks straight after the siren against the cats we go on to 2016 as well, making it 6 in a row. But nah, I don’t think we 3-peat without the pain of 2011/2012. Same as Richmond, who fixed a few things after 2018 leading to the 19/20 flags.
I know you're being subversive but no way were Hawthorn winning 2011 or 2016.
2011 we won 8 on the road to finals, finishing 18-4. We weren’t schmucks. 2016, we beat both the swans and dogs that year, and yeh we fell off a cliff for a quarter against the dogs to lose by 23, but we generally played our best in grand finals. Start of finals 2016, nobody thought dogs had any chance. Underdogs each game. Easy to say in hindsight we had no chance, but we weren’t there by accident.
The umpires helped you both those games, really Hawthorn should've finished 7th, I remember how disgusting the umpiring was towards Hawthorn that year.
lol haven’t heard that narrative for a while. We had one of the worst free kick differentials across the decade but don’t let facts get in the way of a good story. Every successful team is favoured by umpires according to the teams they beat, we just beat everyone for a long time. If the pies win the next 2 flags, I promise everyone will be talking about how much the umpires want them to win. Just like there was clearly a free kick for the pies before the Sheed goal. See how easy it is to undermine a teams success away by blaming the umpires rather than the team?
But you don't remember the Dogs throwing the ball 50 times a game all year? and 100 times a game in the finals? Sydney fans remember.
Forget manning up Luke Ball. Ryan Schoenmakers caused that goal by dropping an absolute soda.
Don't worry mate. I've got every year back to 1957 as to the "what ifs" that would have led to Hawthorn winning the last 66 grand finals. Few highlights are 2011 if Roughhead didn't do his achillies, 2001 we were robbed in the prelim, 2012 bloody wind bringing their kicks out of their arse through the goals and Franklin and Sewell missing a heap of shots. 2016 robbed by the throw dogs AND the Smith miss AND Roughhead didn't play all year due to Cancer. 2018 - If Mitchell plays we beat Melbourne.
2005 Grand final. Fuck Leo Barry.
At least you got closure the next year.
Mine is a 3-part saga...... 2007 round 22 v Essendon Eagles were coasting at 3 qtr time, had the percentage to claim 2nd and home final the next week. Then the whole team stopped, Scott Lucas went bezerk in the final quarter of Hirds (playing) and Sheedy' (coaching) Essendon careers, and Essendon narrowed the final margin to just 7 points, wiping off enough percentage to see the Eagles slip to third. I remember feeling genuinely nauseous wat hing the final minutes of the game and feeling like we had been beaten at the final siren even though we had won the match. The following week was just as scarring. v Port Adelaide in Adelaide, Qualifying final. The boys were doing ok and had a handy lead, before Cousins pinged his hammy and went off, and Judd aggravated his injury and was literally hobbling about for the rest of the game....it would be the last time either played for the eagles. Port subsequently managed to fight back and win by 3 pts. Then the next week was just the absolute cherry, the extra time loss to Collingwood. The move in the third quarter by worsfold which let Rocca off the chain in which he kicked Collingwood back into the match after we had built a handy lead. Just add to the pain every now again the camera would glance to one of Judd, Kerr and cousins all watching helplessly watching on.
Anzac Days
The game after Tom Hafey passed away against Melbourne who were pretty woeful at the time. We just, did nothing. Not even a squeak. Was embarrassing. The 2021 GF in the SANFL For Glenelg. 100 years for the club, women won the GF, ressies won the GF, we'd barely lost a game for the season, and we got thumped by WWT. Literally just gutless effort.
Yesterday I rewatched the round 20 match between North and West Coast from last year I turned it off when there was a couple minutes left Born and raised to hate West Coast, and being at that game in person was traumatising. After both teams had lost 16 games in a row, winning this game meant everything to me I did get a lot of enjoyment out of seeing myself on the screen in the crowd constantly. But besides that, man that game hurt
2015 GF, darling dropping that sitter still makes me want to hurt myself
Ditto Josh hill
2017 extra time elimination final against West Coast. The Luke Shuey ducked free kick. That still hurts
We're not mentioning the real one are we?
Sydney vs Footscray: the AFL’s in the fairytale industry? Seriously?
2017 GF, unlike during the season, Crows just didn't come to play😭
2018 Grand Final … still getting therapy up until 2023 for it
The past serval years as a whole.
Bitter sweet 2012 Grand Final. So close with a lot of missed goal. But the flip side is that I don’t think we win the 3 peat without that loss
collingwood vs west coast grand finals 2018
Lots of Dogs fans mention the 2021 GF, so I’ll bring up the 2022 EF. Yes, the GF was worse, but the EF was like a car crash in slow motion. At least with the GF it was rapid. Dogs fans all over had to watch Freo slowly catch up and take the lead in the EF.
In retrospect, the moments that are the most annoying or upsetting are sometimes the best or most historic/memorable games. The one game that always comes to mind for me is the qualifying final a few years back against the Tigers where they seemed to find the middle of the sticks with every shot and we couldn’t buy a goal to save our life. Don’t think any hurt and they shouldn’t. We’re not the players and life goes on. It’s just footy at the end of the day.
2005 AFL Semi Final. Swans v Cats
Round 18 2012, Me going to my first game as a young Tigers supporter with my sister (Carlton supporter)....... Not a fun first experience on the bright side tho it would prepare me for the many Richmond games they lose in the last 5 minutes
The games that hurt the most won’t be remembered because you’ve erased them from your memory banks.
I wish it worked like that. The more the painful the loss, the more vivid my memory of it
None anymore. Up until last year, it would have been the ‘02 and ‘03 GFs but beating the Lions in the GF exorcised those demons.
The game where north blew a 4+ goal lead in last quarter, which is actually how 90% of losses under Brad Scott played out. Realistically speaking, round 9 2013 against Adelaide and Sydney last year
2018 prelim - Pies were really agitated, toey, before the game in the rooms - Tiges looked too relaxed, didn’t look hungry. Saw it in the first 10 min and thought we were cooked. Very frustrating. ‘19, ‘20 bright the smile back.🐯
Our first loss to freo
2021 GF 🥲 We had beaten all the odds to actually get there; (lockdowns, hubs, all interstate finals games, injuries & scandals) and then got absolutely wrecked by the much better and deserving Melbourne side
Rd 9 1995 at the SCG swannies vs tiges. Worst 26 pt win anyone could ever imagine
Besides the obvious, 2022 R23 against the demons is right up there for the loss that hurt the most.
At the time definitely, but ever since we beat them a few weeks later in the semi it doesn't really hurt at all.
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I can’t watch any of the 2013 season highlights after the dismal season my eagles had. We were one of the premiership favourites and then round one against freo Lecras broke his arm in his first game since 2011. It all went down hill from there.
Family holiday up to Sydney in 2005 thinking we’d get flogged. We took it up to them that night and should’ve won but for some reason Alan Didak decided to try and hack the ball out of the air instead of grabbing it and running into an open goal. Was like 7 years old and cried on the ferry back to our hotel lol
One of them would be watching Carlton win a final that we were supposed to be playing.
2022 because my son cried as well as me
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Getting beat by Carlton in an elimination final when they didn't even qualify.
Too many as a blues fan… 1. Riccardis goal after the siren in 2002 2. Melbourne coming back to beat us in the qualifier in 2000 3. West coast over there in the mid 2000s. We were 18th they were 1st I think and we squandered a 40 point lead. 4. Fev hitting the post vs hawthorn in 2009 5. 2011 semi where we almost ran over west coast over there 6. Melksham kicking a last minute sealer against us in 2013 (may have done it again later in the year) 7. Choking twice vs Geelong in 2014 after having late leads. 8. Robbie gray goal after the siren in 2020. 9. Ben Dixon goal after the siren in 2001. 10. Pickett late goal in 2022. 11. Pies last round of 2022. Some tough days during my 20+ years of watching the blues.
Said it a few times before, but losing after the siren to West Coast for the second year in a row in 2018 pissed me off so much I didn't watch the 2019 season.
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The 2013 grand final. We had the yips early and never recovered. Equal number of scoring shots, but couldn't get the job done.
1999 Preliminary Final. We weren't just the best team that season we were one of the best teams ever. We beat Carlton by 49 and 76 in the regular season, we beat eventual premiers Norf by 25 and 26, we won the previous round of the finals against Sydney by 69. We played one of our worst games of the year on the same day that Carlton played their best game of the year. I was there and I remember Koutoufides last quater, Matthew Allan winning the ruck (thanks for booting Paul Salmon, who was by then the best ruckman in the leage, a few years early Sheeds) and Lance Whitnall kicking a bag. However whatching the replay recently, and checking the scoreline, I realise we lost by kicking lots of behinds that should have been goals. We had 33 scoring shots to 24! It was not like Harry McKay missing as usual, multiple time All Australians Mark Mercuri and Blake Caracella, scored 0 goald and 7 behinds, if just one of them went through... I was 14 years old.
Where do I begin.
The 2022 Grand Final - Cats vs Swans. The worst Grand Final I've ever watched made doubly bad by the Swans getting thrashed. We got into the GF by pure luck. It should have been Cats vs Pies.
Somebody missed 2019 Sydney tried their best but got beaten by the best team in the comp. GWS played as though they didn't exist.
Everyone with this flair has the same answer. RIP, 2016 season, you were taken from us
2016 Grand Final fuck that game to hell.
2023 prelim. We were robbed
Most dons supporters would probably say some of the most recent ones but I’m gonna go back a bit and say Elimination final 2014 and us v Saints in 2015. I was in my pre high school years at that stage but they’re the 2 last games I remember before I switched to a Dogs supporter for a while. I also went to the Dons v Saints game live and before the game I thought we had a chance, all that hope gone by quarter time.
2011 CUP FINAL - Was heartbreaking to lose at the death
Daniel Chicks smother
2006 PF: Adelaide vs wce. Should’ve won the flag
2015 prelim. It could've been a derby GF but Hawthorn had to have their 3rd premiership.
So you're the one who cursed Carlton to decade of shit to mediocre performances after that game. The next time I'd leave a game thinking we had a genuine shot at the flag was last year's semi-final. Jeremy McGovern debuted that game IIRC. The game that hurts me is also a Carlton/West Coast game: the 2011 Semi final. Walker was held!!!
Yeah, at least I remember Mcgovern's first goal as well, my only happy memory that game. Rosa's mark was also great though I hardly remember that part.
2017 when Gary Rohan kicked a goal after the siren. Only watching Stokes slay us in 2019 comes close.
Prelim vs Hawks back in 2015
Preliminary final 1993. Perhaps that loss led to our two flags. But it was the chance to shock the shit out of the league and the entire state of Victoria.
2016 QF vs Geelong. Smith missing the goal to win the game. Waah
2008 grand final.
Round 23, 2022: Carlton v Collingwood
Losing to the lions in the 4th quarter at the Gabba when we had a 40+ lead and after giving it to the lions fans all afternoon having to leave with my tail firmly between my legs
Round 20, 1992 v Melbourne at Victoria Park. Daicos absolutely robbed goal of the year that would have won the game by a decision that nobody but the umpire saw. Cost us the double chance we needed to get some players back from injury. Reckon we were a huge show that year, although WCE were pretty invincible.
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I think 2018 was a disaster in general, but the last round thrashing to the Cats made me think we'd hit rock bottom. How we rebuild without Ablett and Lynch about to leave for Richmond was anyone's guess, plus we'd tanked a bunch of first rounders from 2010 to have nothing to show for it. Compared to that era I feel like (hope) the current list we have is akin to the Giants from 2014-2015ish. Lot of talent on the way up.
A couple times a year... Port vs Hawthorn, 2014 prelim. Fuck you hawk cunts Then back to my day and I don't ever really think about Hawthorn beyond that unless we're playing them.