In Your Opinion: Our Worst Loss

[bulldogtragic]

With all the Geelong who-ha it got my thinking about or worst loss. Not necessarily the biggest loss, as that thread last 2 posts. But in your personal estimation our worst loss. To keep it interesting, it can't be Grand Finals or Preliminary Finals. It might be goals after the siren, a loss when we needed to win, a loss that embarrassed us, a loss which hurt you in your formative years, and so on and so on...

- For me, the Hawks in the semi in 2008 where Buddy tore Brian a new one. That devastated me so much, and I had worked it out of memory until a post a months back. A clear top loss for mine.

- Losing to Freo (I think it was) the week of Teddy's death, I just wanted so much for us to win

[G-Mo77]

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Ha, was thinking about this last night.

In recent times the trip to West Coast and beaten by 1000 points.

[Bulldog Joe]

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With all the Geelong who-ha it got my thinking about or worst loss. Not necessarily the biggest loss, as that thread last 2 posts. But in your personal estimation our worst loss. To keep it interesting, it can't be Grand Finals or Preliminary Finals. It might be goals after the siren, a loss when we needed to win, a loss that embarrassed us, a loss which hurt you in your formative years, and so on and so on...

- For me, the Hawks in the semi in 2008 where Buddy tore Brian a new one. That devastated me so much, and I had worked it out of memory until a post a months back. A clear top loss for mine.- Losing to Freo (I think it was) the week of Teddy's death, I just wanted so much for us to win

Sorry to be pedantic but it was Morris that got the Buddy trouncing. Lake went to him after half time when the damage was done and acquitted himself well to start a run of having the better of Buddy.

For me the most devastating was Mothers Day 2003 when we got smashed by Freo and I had to realise that we were wooden spoon material.

[Sedat]

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Easy to answer this one. The 2009 QF against Geelong, closely followed by the afore-mentioned 2008 QF against Hawthorn. The Geelong game in particular was bitterly disappointing because they were physically shot, we had beaten them 2 weeks ago and our list was at its prime to win a flag. And yet we curled our toes in that first half, finally woke up late in the match but by then the damage was done. That loss made us play an extra week and then put us into the horror side of the draw against St Kilda in the PF. And no matter how heroic we were against the Saints (and we bloody well were), we should never have given ourselves such a difficult run to the GF.

[Remi Moses]

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I'd go with The norf game Easter 96. We were nearly 100 pts down at half time.
Left in complete disgust. Couple of trips down to Geelong weren't enjoyable( wheeler's last game as coach)
One from about 82 ( few that year) Hawthorn at Waverley ( remember it being warm and about 150 pt loss)
Think there's a difference between a heartbreaker and a pantsing loss

[jeemak]

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First one that came to mind was like Sedat, the 2009 QF. Considering we pulled the same BS in the QF the year before it's unforgivable that our playing list could possibly repeat the error.

Funnily, the Norf game in 1996 was front of mind as well. I remember my Dad giving me a dose of reality early in the 2nd, when he sternly told me we wouldn't be coming back and we were in for an absolute hiding.

[Bornadog]

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Qualifying final 1985, Hawks beat us by a then record margin in a final. Other than kicking the first goal, we were never in it.

[LostDoggy]

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Sorry to be pedantic but it was Morris that got the Buddy trouncing. Lake went to him after half time when the damage was done and acquitted himself well to start a run of having the better of Buddy.

Felt so sorry for Morris that night. It was Morris and Franklin one out in 70 metres of space in Hawthorns forward half. It was never going to end well. Would never see a team allow that for a whole half in todays footy.

[The Bulldogs Bite]

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09 QF for the reasons already listed above.

The loss v Carlton in 2012 when they basically had their seconds side in was poor too.

Let's be honest - we have a lot of games to choose from.

[Greystache]

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Pretty much every final we've played against a decent team.

QF 2008
QF 2009
QF 2010
Prelim- 1998
QF- 1995

Most of them insipid efforts just when you thought we might for once lift for the big occasion.

[Missing-Dog]

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Round 1 1997

New Name
New Home Ground
Same Result

Loss to Freo, in Melbourne. Winston Abraham kicked the sealer from further out than Malcolm Blight although it bounced, turned, rolled and then bounced some more IIRC.

[1eyedog]

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1994 Qualifying final when Brownless kicked a goal after the siren. I was listening on the radio with about 15 Geelong fans. Makes me sick to this day.

[LostDoggy]

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I find it pretty hard to go past the loss against West Coast in 2011, just a staggeringly poor performance.
Similarly the 100 point loss to Geelong in 2010, we'd won 5 in a row previously and everyone was giving us a chance, and Geelong made us look like a joke. No one in the football world considered us a contender after that.

[Bornadog]

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I find it pretty hard to go past the loss against West Coast in 2011, just a staggeringly poor performance.
Similarly the 100 point loss to Geelong in 2010, we'd won 5 in a row previously and everyone was giving us a chance, and Geelong made us look like a joke. No one in the football world considered us a contender after that.

Played with injuries and players playing with flu (as I recall)

[I'm Not Bitter Anymore!]

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1994 Qualifying final when Brownless kicked a goal after the siren. I was listening on the radio with about 15 Geelong fans. Makes me sick to this day.

That was horrible I felt like I'd been shot. Still having therapy for the 1997 prelim worst feeling ever