Amazing coincidences in football

[Grockadoc]

Despite playing in 8 grand finals between them from 1971-1980, Richmond have never played Hawthorn in a final, let alone a grand final.

 

[seysearles]

Hawthorn won back-to-back premierships in 1988-1989 and exactly 25yrs later in 2013-2014 they repeated the achievement and this pattern continued on indefinitely.

Spoiler alert: I am from the future.

 

[piesnz]

31st of August, 1996 -
Andrew & Darren Jarman play their last AFL game together against St Kilda

31st of August, 2014 -
Matt & Brad Crouch play their first AFL game together against St Kilda

The only sets of brothers to play for Adelaide, and there is exactly 18 years to the day between the two occurences, and St Kilda being the opponents each time

Considering it's the last weekend of the season, it's not really a coincidence to have people retiring on the same day.

 

[Mero]

1900 Melbourne win premiership..... 100 years later (2000) Melbourne lose Grand Final
1901 Essendon win premiership....... 100 years later (2001) Essendon lose Grand Final
1902 Collingwood win premiership....... 100 years later (2002) Collingwood lose Grand Final
1903 Collingwood win premiership....... 100 years later (2003) Collingwood lose Grand Final
1904 Fitzroy win premiership....... 100 years later (2004) Brisbane Lions lose Grand Final

So get on Carlton to make the GF and lose.

 

[Kakkle]

Orazio Fantasia is the first ever player to play in all 3 possible results with his first 3 games.

Orazio is a multifunctional robotic vacuum cleaner manufactured by the Italian Zucchetti Group, which both vacuums, cleans and polishes floors. The group had been established for 3 years before they released the Orazio.

 

[AliceCat]

Geelong's victory over Port Adelaide in the 2007 grand final with the score 163 to 44.

1963 was the last Geelong flag...44yrs previous.

 

[Marmozet]

Geelong's victory over Port Adelaide in the 2007 grand final with the score 163 to 44.

1963 was the last Geelong flag...44yrs previous.

Was there any chance the scoreline could have rather been 144-63

 

[BallaratBulldog]

Andrew Gaze will be all over this thread.

 

[benji2]

Posted before but it belongs here:
1971 Hawthorn won the flag
1972 Affected by injuries, Hawthorn missed the finals by one spot
1973 Hawthorn finish 7th
1974 Hawthorn narrowly lost the prelim final (to the team that lost the GF)
1975 Hawthorn lost the grand final
1976 Hawthorn won the flag

2008 Hawthorn won the flag
2009 Affected by injuries, Hawthorn missed the finals by one spot
2010 Hawthorn finish 7th
2011 Hawthorn narrowly lost the prelim final (to the team that lost the GF)
2012 Hawthorn lost the grand final
2013 Hawthorn won the flag

(edit: Hawthorn finished 3rd in 1977 but won in 1978)

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

No ones mentioned the biggest coincidence of all yet.

 

[Despair]

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Allow me to rehash one of my old posts.

This post was done in 2012.

Some Melbourne parallels from last year.
When Dean Bailey was sacked last year, he was replaced by Todd Viney who had played 233 games for Melbourne which was also the coach killing score kicked by Geelong against Melbourne.

Melbourne's score of 47 equalled the time in years since Melbourne last won a flag.

In Todd Viney's 233 games, he kicked 92 goals.
Dean Bailey was delisted by Essendon in 1992.

Tom Scully played 31 games in the No. 31 guernsey.

Dean Bailey played 53 games for Essendon, 53 - 31 = 22.
Melbourne's Best and Fairest last year was No. 22 Brent Moloney.

Dean Bailey made his VFL/AFL debut in 1986.
Geelong killed Dean Bailey's Melbourne coaching career in a 186 pointer.

Going back to Todd Viney's career re 233 games and 92 goals, the difference between the two numbers is 141, Neil Craig (Mark Neeld's right hand man) first experienced a 100 point loss in Round 17 2004 when it was Adelaide vs Brisbane.

Brisbane won that game by 141 points.

Another parellel with Brent Moloney's No. 22.

Tom Scully, who wore No. 31 with Melbourne now takes the No. 9 guernsey at GWS and as we all know from prep and Grade one, 31 - 9 = 22.

 

[Hens Hall]

Ben Rutten kicking 3 goals with his first 3 kicks, and kicking a goal with his last ever kick. Amazing considering he played his whole career at full back

That's a fair kick from the other end of the ground

 

[Seppo]

Round 5, 2013 - FRE VS RICH
Fyfe is unjustly given 2 weeks suspension for kicking a Richmond player while on his back
His return game in round 8 was against Sydney

Round 2, 2014 - FRE VS GC
Fyfe cops the wrath of the Tribunal with the new head clash rule and misses 2 weeks
He came back into the side in round 5 against Sydney

Round 21, 2014 - FRE VS HAW
Fyfe tried to sheppard Lewis off the ball, hit him high and the Tribunal slapped him with 2 weeks on the sidelines.
Have a guess who we are playing this Saturday...

 

[radiojake]

Considering it's the last weekend of the season, it's not really a coincidence to have people retiring on the same day.

Well considering my post only mentioned one person who retired out of four, your response doesn't really make sense...

 

[Bender571]

Posted before but it belongs here:
1971 Hawthorn won the flag
1972 Affected by injuries, Hawthorn missed the finals by one spot
1973 Hawthorn finish 7th
1974 Hawthorn narrowly lost the prelim final (to the team that lost the GF)
1975 Hawthorn lost the grand final
1976 Hawthorn won the flag

2008 Hawthorn won the flag
2009 Affected by injuries, Hawthorn missed the finals by one spot
2010 Hawthorn finish 7th
2011 Hawthorn narrowly lost the prelim final (to the team that lost the GF)
2012 Hawthorn lost the grand final
2013 Hawthorn won the flag

*quickly looks up 1977 season*

lost prelim to premiers for those wondering

 

[Ron The Bear]

Daniel Healy and Peter Everitt each kicked 6 goals v West Coast on their 24th birthday.

http://afltables.com/afl/stats/games/1998/151819980503.html

 

[tangolikelama]

2007 Grand final - Geelong defeated Port Adelaide by 119 points

2014 Grand Final - Port Adelaide defeated Geelong by 119 points

 

[Richard Pryor]

Fitzroys last win was against Fremantle
Fitzroys last loss was at the hands of Fremantle
Fitzroys last game was against Fremantle
Fremantles first ever AFL win was against Fitzroy
Fremantles last two games of 1996 were against Brisbane and Fitzroy respectively - keeping them each to 10.11.71 (We also scored 10.11.71 ourselves in R20)

No Fremantle premiership the Curse of Fitzroy's Revenge?

 

[X_box_X]

Brilliant thread.

 

[Mr Ripper]

I met both Dan26 and X_box_X at the BigFooty match way back in early 2002 and here they both are posting in the same thread!

 

[grimlock]

Round 5, 2013 - FRE VS RICH
Fyfe is unjustly given 2 weeks suspension for kicking a Richmond player while on his back
His return game in round 8 was against Sydney

Round 2, 2014 - FRE VS GC
Fyfe cops the wrath of the Tribunal with the new head clash rule and misses 2 weeks
He came back into the side in round 5 against Sydney

Round 21, 2014 - FRE VS HAW
Fyfe tried to sheppard Lewis off the ball, hit him high and the Tribunal slapped him with 2 weeks on the sidelines.
Have a guess who we are playing this Saturday...

So assuming you guys make the GF via the hard way, he's going to get suspended for something on Saturday.

 

[Lucky Star]

St Kilda had two players... who were identical twins!

 

[benji2]

In 1941 the premiers from each of the VFL, SANFL, WAFL and VFA all wore red and blue

 

[Martin#4]

The last time Richmond made consecutive finals appearances was in 1974 and 1975, one of the players who played in those teams was #38, Kevin Morris.

The next time Richmond make consecutive finals appearances is in 2013 and 2014, one of the players who played/(will play) in those sides is #38, Steve Morris, Kevin's son.