Finals that have really upset me

caulfieldrover · **Joined:** Sat Sep 17, 2005 12:24 am **Posts:** 336

1985 Elimination Final
2009 Elimination Final

Most years when we have made finals and were eliminated we didn't show much, but Fade out are something that Collingwood does, not Carlton.

ScottSaunders · **Posted:** Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:07 am

it was pretty dissappointing, and left me very flat last night.

simply put, we shouldnt ahve lost it last night, 5 goals up, all we needed was one goal in that run of goals they got and it would have changed the result.

they had the momentum and it continued to gather, a goal would have halted it completly, but we couldnt make it happen.

very dissappointing but after reading and seeing rattens interview, they know this, the players know this.

the tragedy out of it all, will be if they dont learn from it, rahter than letting it happen last night.

caulfieldrover · **Joined:** Sat Sep 17, 2005 12:24 am **Posts:** 336

If you go back and look at the 85 team, only 8 players went on to play in the 87 GF.

It will not be possible to get the influx of players, like Bradley, Kernahan, Naley.

But there will be roon for the likes of Robbinson.

Jez1966 · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:42 pm **Posts:** 2833

Last nights game was a mirror image of the 2000 qualifying final against Melbourne, when we were 30 points up at 3/4 time.

Oh well, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

camel · **Posted:** Sun Sep 06, 2009 11:39 am

Jez1966 wrote:

Last nights game was a mirror image of the 2000 qualifying final against Melbourne, when we were 30 points up at 3/4 time.

Yeah, that's the game that comes to my mind as well.

HELLAS BLUE · **Posted:** Sun Sep 06, 2009 11:39 am

Jez1966 wrote:

Last nights game was a mirror image of the 2000 qualifying final against Melbourne, when we were 30 points up at 3/4 time.

Oh well, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

I think we were more like 21 points up but had had all the play and butchered the ball. Aaron Hamill went off in the third quarter with concussion and had been dominating up till then. The match swung the Dees way and they got up. I still remember walking out of the G with those frickin Melbourne fans singing their pathetic song, I still haven't forgiven them. Don't forget we'd won 13 straight that year and were clearly the second best side in the competition and with Kouta in the side we were the best IMO. I don't think last night was as bad as that for mine but it still cuts deep.

chubbyruss · **Joined:** Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:59 am **Posts:** 8631

HELLAS BLUE wrote:

Jez1966 wrote:

Last nights game was a mirror image of the 2000 qualifying final against Melbourne, when we were 30 points up at 3/4 time.

Oh well, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

I think we were more like 21 points up but had had all the play and butchered the ball. Aaron Hamill went off in the third quarter with concussion and had been dominating up till then. The match swung the Dees way and they got up. I still remember walking out of the G with those frickin Melbourne fans singing their pathetic song, I still haven't forgiven them. Don't forget we'd won 13 straight that year and were clearly the second best side in the competition and with Kouta in the side we were the best IMO. I don't think last night was as bad as that for mine but it still cuts deep.

This game was a heatbreaker :sad:

I recall our current forward coach missing a sitter from 15m out

Jez1966 · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:42 pm **Posts:** 2833

HELLAS BLUE wrote:

Jez1966 wrote:

Last nights game was a mirror image of the 2000 qualifying final against Melbourne, when we were 30 points up at 3/4 time.

Oh well, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

I think we were more like 21 points up but had had all the play and butchered the ball. Aaron Hamill went off in the third quarter with concussion and had been dominating up till then. The match swung the Dees way and they got up. I still remember walking out of the G with those frickin Melbourne fans singing their pathetic song, I still haven't forgiven them. Don't forget we'd won 13 straight that year and were clearly the second best side in the competition and with Kouta in the side we were the best IMO. I don't think last night was as bad as that for mine but it still cuts deep.

HB I remember the 30 points because at the 3rd quarter they had a Carlton supporter on the big screen and had the fat lady singing.

Donstuie · **Posted:** Sun Sep 06, 2009 3:33 pm

1986 GF: Seeing Doull get pantsed in his last game was heartbreaking

1993 GF: Has scarred me for life

1994 Straight sets
1988 Prelim
2000 QF (especially given the season we had before Kouta, Braddles and SOS went down)
2001: The end of Kouta as we knew and loved him

Crusader · **Posted:** Sun Sep 06, 2009 5:40 pm

HELLAS BLUE wrote:

Jez1966 wrote:

Last nights game was a mirror image of the 2000 qualifying final against Melbourne, when we were 30 points up at 3/4 time.

Oh well, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

I think we were more like 21 points up but had had all the play and butchered the ball. Aaron Hamill went off in the third quarter with concussion and had been dominating up till then. The match swung the Dees way and they got up. I still remember walking out of the G with those frickin Melbourne fans singing their pathetic song, I still haven't forgiven them. Don't forget we'd won 13 straight that year and were clearly the second best side in the competition and with Kouta in the side we were the best IMO. I don't think last night was as bad as that for mine but it still cuts deep.

Can I get that on DVD somewhere?

da dada da dah · **Posted:** Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:36 pm

This one is right up there with the really bad ones that I remember.

dannyboy · **Posted:** Sun Sep 06, 2009 7:06 pm

that @#$%&! 69 GF

and that other @#$%&! GF against Tigers

and that final against the demons - we're winning and then we're not

and ..well actually any flower final we lost come to think of it.

moshe25 · **Joined:** Wed May 11, 2005 1:23 am **Posts:** 11671

Absolute worst was the 1973 GF.

&@@$#%$ Balme!!!!
&^%#%^@ Fowler

verbs · **Posted:** Sun Sep 06, 2009 7:11 pm

Dipshits in the media up here reckon it's one of the best finals comebacks of all time. Are they serious? For the Brisbane Bears perhaps, but if they seriously reckon that's one of the all time best finals comebacks the hacks up here know less about AFL then I thought, and I wasn't working from a very high platform to begin with.

Morons! :roll:

HELLAS BLUE · **Posted:** Sun Sep 06, 2009 7:11 pm

Crusader wrote:

HELLAS BLUE wrote:

Jez1966 wrote:

Last nights game was a mirror image of the 2000 qualifying final against Melbourne, when we were 30 points up at 3/4 time.

Oh well, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

I think we were more like 21 points up but had had all the play and butchered the ball. Aaron Hamill went off in the third quarter with concussion and had been dominating up till then. The match swung the Dees way and they got up. I still remember walking out of the G with those frickin Melbourne fans singing their pathetic song, I still haven't forgiven them. Don't forget we'd won 13 straight that year and were clearly the second best side in the competition and with Kouta in the side we were the best IMO. I don't think last night was as bad as that for mine but it still cuts deep.

Can I get that on DVD somewhere?

Name a game will have all the games.

You know we didn't just win 13 straight, we won them with authority. I think we averaged a winning margin of around 50 points whilst the unbeaten Bummers were averaging 4 goal margins. The injury of Kouta derailed our season when we were looking at absolute minimum a GF appearance.

AGRO · **Posted:** Sun Sep 06, 2009 7:20 pm

1976 Preliminary Final is the killer for me.

dannyboy · **Posted:** Sun Sep 06, 2009 7:21 pm

I was pissed by half time - what happened after that?

chubbyruss · **Joined:** Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:59 am **Posts:** 8631

1957 first semi against the Dawks.

We were 2nd for most of the year & slipped to 3rd or 4th. It was the first final I ever went to & was the Dawks first final ever in the VFL.

I was sitting on the top deck of the Olympic stand & it hailed like hell.

The Dawks killed us :sad:

I think I cried after the game & refused to eat my dinner.

I had to then wait until 1962 before I witnessed us win a final & until 1968 befoe a GF win.

So be paitient :thumbsup:

4thchicken · **Joined:** Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:44 am **Posts:** 3136

players missing from the 22 in the final due to injury related issues - jamison, waite, warnock, robinson, hadley, austin

That's 6 players that would otherwise have been part of the 22 including our the 2 key backs that we would have pencilled in at the start of 2009 (and would have played on brown/bradshaw).

Joseph was also hampered by an ankle injury that was picked up earlyish in the match.

Yet despite all that and having to travel interstate (where the lions have never lost a final), we lost by just under 2 goals.

Yes, we lost and thats disappointing however its not the end of the world as some of you have implied in various other threads

4thchicken · **Joined:** Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:44 am **Posts:** 3136

4thchicken wrote:

players missing from the 22 in the final due to injury related issues - jamison, waite, warnock, robinson, hadley, austin

That's 6 players that would otherwise have been part of the 22 including our the 2 key backs that we would have pencilled in at the start of 2009 (and would have played on brown/bradshaw).

Joseph was also hampered by an ankle injury that was picked up earlyish in the match.

Yet despite all that and having to travel interstate (where the lions have never lost a final), we lost by just under 2 goals.

Yes, we lost and thats disappointing however its not the end of the world as some of you have implied in various other threads

add to the above list setanta as well as a player who was missing due to injury related issues (leg)

Finals that have really upset me

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