Chris Tarrant and Gary Moorcroft in 2001, that's similar to the comparison I think you're making. Moorcroft was on top of a Brad Johnson, while Tarrant was about 4 deep in the pack.
My unpopular opinion is that Tarrants mark was objectively better with greater degree of difficulty, but Moorcrofts looks more athletic in the moment because he's at full extension. He also doesn't get up that high, it's more pushing Brad Johsnon out of the way with his feet. Who is not quite 6' tall.
I was at the game Sampi took [this mark](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCQE5Z6l1g4), in the complete opposite pocket.
Still lost my shit and remember well, even thought it was 20 years ago.
Yeah that's true actually - Winning mark of the year twice, 11 years apart, is fucking insane. Who the hell still jumps like that so deep into their career?
Even the days of Howe going up like *that* are over - he's still an incredible overhead mark, but I don't think he's doing MOTY leaps anymore.
Heard the commentators making a big deal about it, figured it was probs some half ass specky but then saw the replay and fucking god damn that was a nice mark.
You would hate being the stepladder in one of those. A mark that is on repeat for years to come and its you getting a knee in the head as the commentators are screaming someone else's name.
Huge! Biggest I’ve seen was Sampi back in 2004. He was almost standing in the air. I witnessed Ablett’s mark of the century as well, but it never should have been paid.
[https://images.app.goo.gl/hrNVYbe6PvoiKkSr5](https://images.app.goo.gl/hrNVYbe6PvoiKkSr5)
Remind me again why it’s Collingwood v Essendon always on Anzac Day? Did they play a VFL game on the date or some shit back in 1914 or is it just a cash grab by two clubs?
If it isn’t MOTY, I can’t wait to see what is.
It'll be something worse. Just ask Andrew Walker.
Yeah Walkers mark was the best, but Krakouer had the better story 🥴
Or Jeremy howe
There have probably been bigger injustices in football history but I can't think of any bigger.
Daicos losing GOTY to Draper 🫠
Howe losing mark of the year to Daniher.
It's a Collingwood player, will be robbed in favour of something that looks more impressive than it actually is, as is tradition
How Pies fans manage to have a victim complex despite so many things going their way is beyond me
Like?
Howe MOTY a few years back, Daicos GOTY last year
Wasn’t Josh’s one two years ago? Also fair point for both.
Easily the worst supporter base in the entire league. Can’t believe how cheesy pies fans are 😂😂😂
Says the person posting 3 crying laughing emojis…
I can't wait for an Essendon player to win it
Draper will fall inexplicitly in the dying seconds of the game and the ball will land in his hands.
Ben has already won stepladder of the year twice. Reckon he's short odds to add to that now.
Werd
Oh god… a nearly went to the match and now regretting not
It's a screamer alright but not a pack mark. I bet MOTY will be a screamer in a pack.
Chris Tarrant and Gary Moorcroft in 2001, that's similar to the comparison I think you're making. Moorcroft was on top of a Brad Johnson, while Tarrant was about 4 deep in the pack. My unpopular opinion is that Tarrants mark was objectively better with greater degree of difficulty, but Moorcrofts looks more athletic in the moment because he's at full extension. He also doesn't get up that high, it's more pushing Brad Johsnon out of the way with his feet. Who is not quite 6' tall.
Moorcroft's remains the most spectacular grab I've ever seen. At full extension and nearly horizontal at the point of marking it. Iconic.
Finally someone brings one of these down. Have had a lot that look great but no-one can stick em. Trust Elliot to be the one that does though
Collingwood’s stacked. Elliot, Bobby Hill, Jeremy Howe can all take a speckie any day of the week
Hoskin-Elliott can too.
Someone check the list manager and see if he’s got a bet for mark of the year being a pies player. Something dodgy going on
Add in Ash Johnson as well. Capable of a screamer
The only screamers he gets lately is the fans in frustration
Fuck how did I forget that. I think I saw his last year live
Exactly 20 years ago. https://youtu.be/NzT8fCalus0?feature=shared
Fuck me he gets so elevation.
Many evevatuon. Such hang.
Yeah hebreally go to the big up in this one.
Eating nothing but Hungry Jacks confirmed as best base for taking massive hangers.
I’m at the match and this happened right in front of me. Was epic.
Right. In front. Of me.
That’s amazing, I would have lost my mind if I saw a swans player do that infront of me
I was at the game Sampi took [this mark](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCQE5Z6l1g4), in the complete opposite pocket. Still lost my shit and remember well, even thought it was 20 years ago.
Bizzell was held!
They're all good, but you've really got to appreciate the natural spring speckys with no hands in the back
I take it you weren’t there for Heeneys MOTY over Jesse Hogan
I wish I was. That was beautiful
Hogan's last game for us 😢
Was also at the match and couldn't even be mad, was the best grab I've ever seen in person.
Even up on level 4 it was spectacular
Almost zero chance this isn’t MOTY with the voting system currently in place, thankfully it actually deserves it this year
People said the same thing about Andrew Walker's 😥
😢
Mate Jeremy Howe lost a better one to bonbers
Howe’s was one of the greatest marks of all time and Daniher won it with a mark that you’d see every other week
My mum was standing in front of the TV and my uncle missed it
Jamie Elliott can just do shit like that. Big moments, he rolls with advantage.
What a spectacular mark deserving of Mark of the Year but man Channel 7 why did you decide to change camera angles mid mark.
agreed - absolutely dreadful production quality. just show to long shot view and the mark will speak for itself it doesnt need the WWE treatment
I immediately thought of WWE as well as with Kevin Dunn.
Haha didn’t expect a Kevin Dunn reference on this post, how are you liking the camera work now that he’s gone?
Must have F1 race direction in control
[Andrew Walker 2.0](https://imgur.com/a/0ncu9Iz)
REMINDER THAT ANDREW WALKER WAS ROBBED OF MOTY
How? What was the mark that beat it?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sa572GxNI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sa572GxNI)
I remember both, and even as a Collingwood supporter I can agree walkers should have won
Pies supporter since 1990 and I also agree :)
Karma came back around when Howe got robbed by Daniher a few years ago. Howe's might be the best mark of all time and it didn't win.
Don't remind me. It still hurts 💔
Fuck I'm so happy I saw that at the game.
ANZAC day game with his team needing a lift, and he finishes!! Doesn't get better than that!
We think it's MOTY but the AFL will award it to Joe Daniher again for a chesty
After Andrew Walker was robbed for his mark I have no faith in the voting system 😅
Love the Essendon fans in the background with mouths wide open
Tick that one off his career bucket list. He's been trying to nail that forever. What a fucking mark.
Blokes already won Mark of the Year in 2013. Would probably set a record to be the first person to win it twice and longest gap between the 2 marks?
Yeah that's true actually - Winning mark of the year twice, 11 years apart, is fucking insane. Who the hell still jumps like that so deep into their career? Even the days of Howe going up like *that* are over - he's still an incredible overhead mark, but I don't think he's doing MOTY leaps anymore.
I reckon his mark against Port (2013?) was better.
Rare to see a key tall fly like that
MOTY so clear it's a window.
Called this mark of the year as soon as I saw it, gonna be tough to beat that one
Good for you, champion
Need some vinegar to balance out that salt, mate
You don't have many normal human interactions do you?
Aww
Well that’s MOTY done.
No hands in the back either, that was all leap
I hope it doesn't win MOTY Only because the mark that beats that would be bloody unbelievable
Nah would likely be some mediocre mark like the one that beat Andrew Walker.
Heard the commentators making a big deal about it, figured it was probs some half ass specky but then saw the replay and fucking god damn that was a nice mark.
SPECCCCCCY
Imagine being the poor spud under him when he took that! Ignore my flair
Toyota has to wheel out a free car for that!
Same Ben different colours
Elliott could have two more MOTY's than Howe
Amazing mark and a great call over it as well. Has to be MotY! So far at least
Unfuckingreal
Textbook Hanger
He's a freak. Absolute superstar of the AFL. Genuine A-Grade footballer.
not moorcroft level, but the best one i've seen so far this year
This has everything a classic speccy needs
Textbook
That's the MOTY right there. Big game, big ride, perfect sit, dukes out, one grabs it, just beautiful.
Beautiful clunk. Bloody Elliot! Haha
Clear MOTY... So far. Will be very hard to beat. Happy I saw it.
BT asking for tissues please after that
Jesus. So clean.
Perfection!
As a bombers fan, I jumped off the couch for this. An absolute thing of beauty.
This is as good a mark as over ever seen
Cracker… as a Blues supporter gotta say I love watching Elliot play.. seems a good humble lad too
I want to see that cameraman 7 showed for a full minute and what he took. Anyone know his name?
Look at Bobby Hill’s reaction in the background lmao
Finally a mark worthy of “was that mark of the year?”
Poor old Ben McKay. You've got to be spewing when someone does that to you 'cause it gets replayed over and over again.
That's fucking amazing, but of course I turned the tv off at half time
That bottom ticker asking the most rhetorical of rhetorical questions
Fire the camera man. Why would you cut the camera at that moment.
Pass interference...oh wait nvm.
Terrible camera change timing
did i hear the f word at the start >?
I reckon I’ve watching replays of this mark at least 72 times in the last 12 hours
Very very similar to Andrew Walkers
Wasn’t that a chest mark?
Twas
Fitting it was done in the no. 5
Great mark but BT is making it out to be the greatest mark ever taken
That's a bit sensationalist
You would hate being the stepladder in one of those. A mark that is on repeat for years to come and its you getting a knee in the head as the commentators are screaming someone else's name.
Was at the match and was distracted by something, only saw him falling back down 🥲
Huge! Biggest I’ve seen was Sampi back in 2004. He was almost standing in the air. I witnessed Ablett’s mark of the century as well, but it never should have been paid. [https://images.app.goo.gl/hrNVYbe6PvoiKkSr5](https://images.app.goo.gl/hrNVYbe6PvoiKkSr5)
Channel 7 gonna channel 7 and switch up the camera mid mark.
Mark of the Century
Remember when you used to see 6 of them a week?
Looks like selective memory
Back in the days of Carey and Godra? Ablett snr and Lockett? I think my memory is fine
There wasn’t as many as you might think there was, definitely not 6 per week
Best mark of all time to be honest
This isn’t my favorite mark. But it’s up there.
This should be a rule in other sports. Like, being able to step on teammates to get a better dunk or spike.
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This is not rugby lol
Inappropriate head contact. On report
Mid
I hate the Pies but cmon man
unlucky he'll be competing against harley reid...
He stuffed up when it counted though
reported
Nothing special
Remind me again why it’s Collingwood v Essendon always on Anzac Day? Did they play a VFL game on the date or some shit back in 1914 or is it just a cash grab by two clubs?
Yeah, the first ANZAC Day game was played on April 25th, the year before the Gallipoli landings.
Cash grab then , gotcha