Let's not keep propagating channel 7's misleading stats.
The 75 points Sydney scored in that quarter is not in the top 20 single-quarter scores in VFL/AFL history.
On thirteen occasions a team has scored 13 or more goals in a quarter.
If you just look at 3rd quarters, their 75 points is equal 9th (it's the fourth time a team has scored 12.3 (75) in the third quarter).
If you just look at goals and only for the third quarter, then their 12 is equal third (it's been done ten times in Q3, and one team outscored then with 11.10 (76)).
So I guess if you were being extremely generous, you could say that the matchday commentators heard "equal third in third quarter goals" and whoopsie-daisy accidentally said third-highest single quarter score of all time. And since then, every podcaster and radio jibberjabberer has run with it, because it's fun to dunk on Carlton.
Meanwhile, losers like me keep pasting the same link over and over, hoping it'll eventually stick.
https://afltables.com/afl/teams/allteams/qh.htmli don't think semantics matter. 12 goals, 13? ... it's all deplorable. and in a season where i wasn't expecting much, or hoping for anything more than development for the kids. the blues manageged to disappoint me in round zero. and then in round one they go an hour without a goal against the spoon favourite.
we are a terrible skilled team with possibly the only thing worse than our skills, is a coaching.