What is the most famous single kick of all-time?

[FurBall]

Originally posted by Shinboners:
...and kicking with his non-preferred foot too......which also happened to be broken....

Shinboners - Great stuff, please pass on to your great grandchildren that Blight was also unconscious at the time due to the horrific pain in his broken foot. But he was so good the reflexes knew what to do.

Yep, that would have to be the best kick I've seen, but also the look of disbelief on that young face at the time was just as priceless.

Now for the worst kick in your eyes but a joy to a Pussy. Ah, yes that fateful kick by you know who after a mongrel punt found its way into his arms, but that fateful day for you actually instilled a desire like no other for North to make amends. So once again we can be thanked for helping someone else gain a flag.

The almost greatest kick ever, "The Bizz", just imagine if that had made it, it would have almost made up for the last 99 GF losses.

Talking about rivalry, North and Geelong have one, a good one and I thank that man who marked the mongrel punt for probably making sure it remains. More often than not they are always good close games. That can only be a good thing. Lest we forget!

 

[Oldfashioned Supporter]

To Kevin Sooky: The Carlton player was Fred Stafford, a very good half forward flanker. Got three kicks for the day, the last one being the one that won the flag.

Other great kicks, not on video, or long before telly was invented:

Richmond's Colin Austen playing at Windy Hill, grabbed the ball in the back pocket, took a run, bounced it twice and kicked towards goal from the half back flank. The outcoming pack of forwards misjudged it, ran under it, and it bounced 40 yards and went through for six points.

Jack Dyer in 1946 ran into an open goal when his Tigers were two points down. The ball burst and swung through for a point. Footscray took the ball away and scored a goal to win by seven points.

I was watching Fitzroy's full-back John Duckworth kicking off after Richmond scored a point at the Ponsford end. The ground was rock hard, the grass cut very finely like a crewcut, and light rain had fallen. Duckworth's kick passed over the heads of the pack waiting at centre-half-back, bounced 4 times and skidded to a halt 25 yards from the point post and over the boundary line at the Richmond end.

And I think John Ronaldson's goal to put the Tigers in front in the 1967 Grand Final must have travelled 85 yards easily.

Signed - Oldfashioned Supporter

 

[StrengthThroughLoyalty]

Two kicks come to mind as the kicks you dream about as a kid and then an adult.

The first being that kick that won the one and only premiership for the saints in 66. Who as a kid didn't dream about kicking the winning goal (point).

The second being the kick at the Albert oval by a rough overweight collingwood reserves player, sorry the name escapes me (Bourke maybe). Who as an adult hasn't dreamed about kicking those useless, officious, self important, white maggots.

ps.
Doug Booth rates as one of the worst kicks of all time when he kicked that little dog from here to kingdom come. Wily Coyote couldn't have survived.

Beep Beep!!


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[servo]

I gotta go for Dennis Lillees kick on Javed Miandad or maybe Eric Cantona's kick on the spectator.

As far as footy goes you cant go past Blighty's kick. How he kicked that goal while unconcious in the back of the ambulance in the carpark with his broken middle leg and a flat ball escapes me.

And don't forget that it was still going up as it passed the top of the goalposts 160 metres away.

 

[WCE2000]

Speaking of Blight, what about the time where he ran into the goal mouth to kick it through the sticks, only to realize he had kicked it through the behind sticks.
That was one of the funniest things i have ever seen. The look on his face when he found out it was a behind was a classic.

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[Dan26]

Other famous kicks.

* Gary Buckenara. 1987 Prelimianry final

* In the 1960's. Fitzroy only scored 0ne goal for the game in a match at the Western Oval. Their final score was 1.0.6. Their goal came in the dying moments (who was it?) and is famous since it stopped the embarassment of the VFL;'s first scorless team.

* 1964 second last H&A round. Melbourne vs Hawthorn. Hassa Mann kicks a freakish goal in the dying moment to win the game for Melbourne. A week later, at the end of the H&A seaosn, Melbourne finished top, and Hawthorn finished 5th (missed the final 4). If Hassa Mann's kick had missed, Melbourne would have finished 5th and Hawthorn would have finished on top.

* 1967 GF. Richmond vs Geelong. A Geelong player (the name escapes me) has a vital shot for goal in the last quarter which, everyone thought went through for a goal. Fred Swift marked it on the goal line and play continued. Richmond won narrowly. Many thought it cost the Cats the Grand Final.

* John Colemas kick which brought up his 100th goal of his FIRST VFL seaosn in the Grand inal of 1949. This is one of the most "talked" about kicks of all time.

* Mark Mercuris late miss in the 1999 preliminary final agaisnt f*cking Carlton.

* That massive kick Ben Graham did at the Western Oval in 1995, that went about 100 metres. People still talk about that now.

 

[Mr Ripper]

Dan24 took a stab at:
Other famous kicks.

* In the 1960's. Fitzroy only scored 0ne goal for the game in a match at the Western Oval. Their final score was 1.0.6. Their goal came in the dying moments (who was it?) and is famous since it stopped the embarassment of the VFL;'s first scorless team.

1953 was the season and Alan Ruthven booted the solitary score.

 

[Dan26]

I stand corrected.

 

[CJH]

I am shocked that none of the Sainter fans have mention Fehring's goal from the far side of the circle at Waverley.

Also, didn't Winmar let fly from a mile out as well?

 

[karnaby]

CJH
Fehring's goal was at Moorabbin, I believe, be a bloody good kick at Waverley.
I'll leave others with more knowledge than me to comment on Nicky, my befuddled brain has some recollection of a couple of big torps but....

To digress a little I remember a Melbourne 2nds Full Back one Grannie in the late 70s early 80s, Phil Rhonin/Rhodin possibly, who from virtually every kick in got it up near the centre circle. For me to remember a demon from around 20yrs ago means he must have been pretty good.

 

[karnaby]

To get back on track a little, I think it's interesting that with the vast combined knowledge of this forum that there seems so few really outstanding single kicks.

The boys own dream of kicking the winning goal after the siren, especially in a big game, is pretty damn rare.

Not that I especially wish to confer with bumsniffer fans but I wonder whether their two games might in fact have a few more famous single kicks than our game.

For mine I'll go for Twiggy Dunne by a bees' over the Fat Boy.

 

[jod23]

One out of left feild here but what about Chris Grants impossible angle kick to beat the previously unbeaten Dons. Think about it if he missed that the Dons would have gone through an entire season unbeaten!!

Great Goal though.


Oh and of course Blights amazing broken wrong deflated ambulance unconcious 320m still on the up kick that saved the world from 500ft Aleins was a blinder!

 

[Grendel]

Just on another famous Blighty kick. At Arden st in the mid seventies (rooboy,shinners help me out here 77/78?) on an shocking mud heap with hardly any scoring. The siren blew just as Blighty was having a shot to put the Roos up by five (they were a point down) points and he missed from 15m out and instead levelled the scores.

However while taking his kick he had been infringed against and was given the option of another kick after the siren to win it.

Well being a Hawk id started to walk away very disheartend when i got the courage to look up, Blighty was heading in with the shot only to put it OUT ON THE FULL! I couldnt believe it and i dont think Blighty,the Roos or the Hawks could either.

Anyway for all time kicks it has to be Breens, simply for the amount of airplay and history attached to it. Though Cromptons rates here too. (God two flukes that year, Manns at the end of the season and Froggys in the GF!).

On a Hawks only note, BUCKENARA, into a gale,exhausted,the knee injury flared, the weight of the football world against him as everyone wanted the Hawks (excepting Hawks supporters of course) out. And he did it EASY.

 

[Dan26]

Don't forget Kernahans out on the full effort against the Bombers in 1993, which left the game as a draw, when the Blues should have won. He should have at least scored a point.

That has got a tremendous amount of airplay.

 

[Mr Ripper]

Or Kernahan's after-the-siren goal v North at VFL Park in the last round of '87 that, in effect, won Carlton the flag that year.

 

[oh_my_hat]

For me Peter Daicos out at Waverley against the Weagles (I think it was the 1990 Prelim, I stand corrected if wrong). He kicked a right foot banana from the wrong pocket (left) and some how threaded it whilst being pushed off the ball. I'm not a Collingwood fan but for me it is the best goal I have seen (but maybe not as famous as some of the others eg. Blight, Breen, Twiggy Dunne & Fehring).

 

[Shinboners]

FurBall

Yes, I remember that goal in '94 and the irony that it was an ex-North player that delivered the ball to Ablett...and there was another irony in that Martyn had thrashed Ablett that day. The cheer when our Mick picked up his Premiership medal in 1996 was one of the loudest. There have been many fine North Melbourne vs Geelong games over the years and I can't wait to visit your ground next season....our first visit in God knows how long.

Grendel

I think that Blight miss must have been in either '79 or '80...I can't give you an exact year, but I remember it being reported and I only really started following football closely in 1979.

 

[Mr Ripper]

Shinboners believes:
I think that Blight miss must have been in either '79 or '80...I can't give you an exact year, but I remember it being reported and I only really started following football closely in 1979.

Definitely 1977.

 

[kenny_lingers]

What about Kerry Good's kick 12 & 1/2 minutes after the final siren in the night GF in 80's to beat Maggies. Pity it wasn't the real big one...but still it was a GF.

 

[S.Robbo]

Sticks Kernahan's out on the full after the siren against the Dons in 93'. Remember bowing my head as he lined up and only looked up as the ball left his boot, where to my delight all the bomber contingent behind the southern goals just erupted. Was resigned to defeat as any other bomber supporter will tell you he only needed a point for the baggers to win...draw was like a win for us that day!

And we were dancing again 5 months later when we kicked Carlscums arse in the GF.

 

[GoEagles]

Speaking of big kicks, I recall Ashley Macintosh kicking out from full back in a game against Brisbane at the GABBA several years back and the ball landed in the centre square - anyone else remember this?

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[WCE2000]

Go Eagles:

I do remember that kick very well, it was huge, it was something like the third biggest recorded kick in AFL/VFL history or something. It was absolutely massive.

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[Oldfashioned Supporter]

To Mr Ripper:
Your posting regarding Fitzroy's one-goal-only was at Western Oval, Round 5, 1953. The score was 10.6.66 to 1.0.6. The player who kicked the goal was Alan "Baron" Ruthven. With 30 seconds left on the clock he kicked wildly at the ball at a boundary throw-in, the ball hit the deck and skidded through for their only score for the day.

Signed - Oldfashioned Supporter

 

[Shinboners]

Mr. Ripper

Well take your certain year of 1977 over my very uncertain guess for Blight's efforts.

 

[Grendel]

I knew it was around there sometime, but 77 will do the trick, ta very much.