The Decade 2000-2009

[The Coon Dog]

Happened at precisely the same time my little bloke was going bananas - missed the whole bloody thing.

Just for you Sockeye.



And Granty v Essendon.



And Johnno's 300th.

[Remi Moses]

Highlight- Grant' goal and the subsequent victory against the Bombres

Lowlight - The Rohde debacle

lowlight- Still waiting for the elusive flag

[Remi Moses]

I still think that the win against Carlton two weeks before at Optus was my most enjoyable win of the decade.


Great thread TCD

Think you might find that game is on Channel 7 digital tommorow morning around 7am. Great win with an undermanned side against a red hot Carlton

[The Coon Dog]

Think you might find that game is on Channel 7 digital tommorow morning around 7am. Great win with an undermanned side against a red hot Carlton

Bob Murphy's first game. Garlick has a day out. Always nice to beat that cheating mob!

[Remi Moses]

Bob Murphy's first game. Garlick has a day out. Always nice to beat that cheating mob!

Murphy Looked like a melnourished [spelling]? teenager! Funny thing is he still looks melnourished

[AndrewP6]

Murphy Looked like a melnourished [spelling]? teenager! Funny thing is he still looks melnourished

malnourished...

And, yes, he sure does!

[GVGjr]

Think you might find that game is on Channel 7 digital tommorow morning around 7am. Great win with an undermanned side against a red hot Carlton

Just finished watching it and it was a great contest.

[The Underdog]

Lowlights-
God 03 and 04 were bad. That 50th anniversary of 1954 game at the MCG against Melbourne was just embarrassing at the time.
The Veale deal draft manipulation was uncomfortable at the time and karmically we paid the price in the long run.
Missing the win against undefeated Essendon to go to a mate's gig at the Hi-Fi. Hey we were no chance, right?
Scott West's retirement was badly reported in the press (and possibly not dealt with perfectly by the club & to a lesser extent player) for what should have been a really special moment of tribute for a club great.
Not getting West, Smith and grant the Premiership they deserved.

Highlights-
The 2005 win against Brisbane at Docklands. A really exciting game, Robbins screamer, Cooney's coming out party. It felt like we were back. In fact the 2nd half of 2005 was pretty exciting aside from the Jeff White free.
2006 final win against Collingwood - enough said.
Cooney's Brownlow - lucky as it was.
Westy's 3 straight b&f's.
Plenty more but they will/have been covered.

[LostDoggy]

My personal favourite highlight is R21 vs Esssendon 2000. Partly because we had practiced the gameplan in the 2nd half the week before against Carlton(I think).

[Sedat]

I still think that the win against Carlton two weeks before at Optus was my most enjoyable win of the decade.

There were 3 wins within 5 weeks in 2000 that were all sensational, the Essendon super-flood and Carlton Bartlett-gate matches that have already been mentioned, and a match against a red-hot North at Docklands where we came back from 42 points down in the 3rd qtr to somehow over-run North and win by a couple of points. Crofty beat Carey hands down in a couple of crucial one-on-ones that helped keep our noses in front at the death. Actually in 2000-2001 we had quite a few memorable come-from-behind victories - I recall a couple down at the Cattery (in one of them we were 8 goals down and then Scott West decided to bring his own football along) as well as one of the games up in Sydney.

Another H&A highlight was when we beat the top-of-the-ladder Crows in 2006 late in the season off the back of Cooney's explosive 5 goals performance and Westy getting a lazy 45 possessions. But nothing beats winning finals so the decade highlights for me have been the wins against the filth in 2006 (probably the best day I've ever had at the football in 30-odd years), Sydney in 2008 and Brisbane in 2009. And conversely nothing matches the desolation of losing against St Kilda in the PF this season for the reasons that TCD has already alluded to. I was also pretty shattered when we did not beat Geelong in the 2008 PF despite what the scribes were calling a mismatch before the start of the game - we certainly put in a massive effort and generated enough opportunities to get over the line. The other massive lowlight for me was our rabbit-in-the-headlights performance in the 2008 QF against Hawthorn - it was a truly inept display by the whole team up in the bright lights of September with the footy world watching. Thankfully we have not plummeted those depths since. As for the Rohde years, the less said the better.

[azabob]

For me two games that really stand out for me are:

Brad Johnsons 300th game and how good of a game it was.

The second game also was against the Crows at the docklands on a Saturday night.

Round 5, 2005.

Down by 3 goals at half time.

Enter Luke Darcy.

After half time Darcy was played from the goal square and took the Crows apart, he ended up with 6 goals we won by 5 odd goals.

However our new forward hero was short lived as he did his knee either the next week or a week or so after that.

[The Coon Dog]

The second game also was against the Crows at the docklands on a Saturday night.

Round 5, 2005.

Down by 3 goals at half time.

Enter Luke Darcy.

After half time Darcy was played from the goal square and took the Crows apart, he ended up with 6 goals we won by 5 odd goals.

However our new forward hero was short lived as he did his knee either the next week or a week or so after that.

Was that also a milestone game? Chris Grant's 300th?

[azabob]

Was that also a milestone game? Chris Grant's 300th?

Think you may be right.
Thinking back now, was also Dale Morris first game and didn't he tag McLeod out of the game?

[The Coon Dog]

A list of all player who played during the decade.

Not a bad effort from Johnno, only missing 4 games in the whole 10 years!

Brad JOHNSON 225
Nathan EAGLETON 205
Scott WEST 177
Daniel GIANSIRACUSA 168
Robert MURPHY 167
Ryan HARGRAVE 164
Lindsay GILBEE 163
Mitchell HAHN 162
Rohan SMITH 153
Brian LAKE (HARRIS) 147
Matthew BOYD 140
Adam COONEY 135
Daniel CROSS 133
Luke DARCY 131
Chris GRANT 128
Matthew ROBBINS 126
Jordan McMAHON 114
Dale MORRIS 112
Ryan GRIFFEN 97
Will MINSON 91
Simon GARLICK 90
Nathan G BROWN 89
Ben HARRISON 85
Sam POWER 84
Matthew CROFT 76
Farren RAY 75
Jason AKERMANIS 68
Paul DIMATTINA 65
Peter STREET 61
Kingsley HUNTER 56
Tony LIBERATORE 56
Steven KRETIUK 55
Shaun HIGGINS 52
Shane BIRSS 51
Patrick BOWDEN 50
Jarrod HARBROW 48
Ben HUDSON 47
Daniel BANDY 45
Wayde SKIPPER 45
Paul HUDSON 43
Trent BARTLETT 42
Dylan ADDISON 42
Josh HILL 42
Mark ALVEY 41
Scott WELSH 40
Todd CURLEY 39
Cameron WIGHT 36
Luke PENNY 35
Craig ELLIS 33
Tom WILLIAMS 33
Simon COX 31
Jose ROMERO 29
Jade RAWLINGS 29
Adam CONTESSA 28
Callan WARD 28
Kieran McGUINNESS 26
Andrejs EVERITT 24
Liam PICKEN 23
Scott WYND 22
Stephen TILLER 21
Cameron FAULKNER 18
Brett MONTGOMERY 18
Tim CALLAN 18
Scott BASSETT 15
Adam MORGAN 14
Paul DOOLEY 13
Steve KOLYNUIK 12
Patrick WIGGINS 12
Steven KOOPS 11
Andrew WILLS 10
Nathan SAUNDERS 10
Jim PLUNKETT 8
Danny SOUTHERN 7
Brad MURPHY 7
Matthew DENT 6
Andrew McDOUGALL 5
Sam REID 5
Josh MAHONEY 4
Damien McCORMACK 4
Travis BAIRD 3
Brennan STACK 3
Christin MACRI 2
Nicholas BRUTON 2
Malcolm LYNCH 2
Easton WOOD 2
Aaron JAMES 1
Tim WALSH 1
Jarrad GRANT 1

[comrade]

Awesome list, TCD.

Anyone prepared to take a stab at our best and worst player of the decade?

PS: Who the hell is Christian Macri?