The nerves were there as the Crows led early, but after quarter-time the Tigers roared, with winners across the ground, including the unstoppable Dustin Martin, spearhead Jack Riewoldt, star defender Alex Rance and the run of Bachar Houli. For years the infamous "Colliwobbles" were enough to strike fear in the hearts of long-suffering Collingwood supporters, who saw their side lose eight grand finals between and The tough days for the Black and White Army included a lost replay against North Melbourne after a drawn decider in — and we won't mention Wayne Harmes's punch of the ball from deep in the pocket two years later that set up the winner for Carlton.
After a nervous opening term, the Magpies kicked six goals to one to blow the game open by half-time. To quote a certain song, the second half was pretty much a premiership cakewalk, as Collingwood ran out the winners by 48 points. Of the others, we have three categories: the very new, the very successful and the very recent winners.
Carlton's wait has reached 26 years, which is not huge in the scheme of things — but when you have won 16 flags, you get used to success. The Crows won two in a hurry, going back-to-back in and — since then, however, their only grand final was a wipe-out against the Tigers in The Lions have gone close in recent years under Chris Fagan, but their drought extends to 18 years, since the end of their brilliant three-in-a-row under Leigh Matthews.
Port Adelaide has not made the grand final since the nightmare loss to Geelong in , and their one and only flag came against Brisbane in Then you have West Coast, who have been so successful four flags in 34 years in the league that the Eagles' longest time between premierships has been just 12 years.
Then, of course, there are the four teams for whom the drought has never broken, including one for whom it never will.
University lasted just seven short years in the early years of the 20th century. Fremantle and GWS have each had one crack at the grand final in their 26 and year histories, respectively.
Unfortunately for them, they ran into peak Hawthorn and Richmond. And for the Suns, there have been no finals, let alone a grand final, in their 11 years in the league.
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Half an hour before game time, the people took up vantage points between the fence and the boundary line. During the game the ball and players quite often ended up over the boundary line and among the spectators. Melbourne were coached by the legendary Norm Smith and captained by Geoff Collins. A young Ronald Dale Barassi was in the side and intent on making a name for himself.
Charlie Sutton captain-coached the Bulldogs with Wally Donald his vice-captain. Footscray had a young champ by the name of Ted Whitten, who would stamp his authority on that game and was later to become renowned as one of the greatest players of all time. The Bulldogs game plan was simple — use pace and handball to break up play, then go long and direct to Jack Collins up forward and afford him space to utilise his skills.
Footscray had four emergencies for the Grand Final. The unluckiest was Lionel Ryan age 19 who had played remarkably well in the Semi-final victory although injuring a knee. Jack McMurray was the sole field umpire in charge of the game. It was 11 minutes in when Melbourne secured the first goal of the match through their full forward, Noel Clarke. The Bulldogs, however showed no signs of Grand Final nerves and responded within two minutes when Box found Jack Collins for Footscray's first goal.
Collins' skill in the air was already apparent when he scored with his second goal after out-marking Melbourne full back, Lance Arnold. John Kerr kicked the Bulldogs' third goal with a snapshot from a boundary throw in and Harvey Stevens followed suit with Footscray's fourth major. Collins again goaled, with his third, from a Kerr handball and then Roger Duffy scored the Bulldogs' sixth and last goal for the term just before the siren, to give Footscray a point lead at quarter time.
Footscray had received great drive through Stevens and Edwards in the rucks, with Ross and Kerr relieving, and through Box in the key forward post and McCarthy on a wing. Footscray Melbourne For the remainder of the quarter, Melbourne repeatedly attacked scoring goals through Barassi, Spencer and Mithen to whittle the margin back to 17 points. The Bulldog backline of Whitten, Bryden and Henderson held steadfast under enormous pressure.
Just before the half-time siren, Charlie Sutton chased down Lance Arnold and was awarded a free kick within range. Arnold had endeavoured to play on after taking a mark and, in a crucial piece of play, Sutton was able to convert the free kick into a goal and give the Dogs a point lead at the long break. This blew the Dogs' lead out to a comfortable 35 points. Melbourne replied with two of their own through McLean and Johnson, but goals to Jack Collins and captain Charlie Sutton saw the Dogs' lead extend out to 38 points at the last change.
Lane beaten by Reynolds on a wing, went to half forward. The winner Richmond completed the greatest month turnaround in AFL history, after finishing 13th on the ladder in , the Tigers won their first premiership in 37 years in In , they again won the grand final. Share: Facebook Twitter. Commenting is closed on this page, though you can read some previous comments below which may answer some of your questions.
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