In Your Opinion: Our Worst Loss

[Remi Moses]

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We were a lot of fun to watch in 2006 when things were going our way. We were a lot of fun to watch in the next four years when things were going our way.

Shame we weren't a lot of fun to watch when things weren't during that time.

Bingo! We have a winner.

[SonofScray]

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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.

Agree. That loss really stung. It was short lived but I can remember thinking we'd given everything up for nothing.

[ratsmac]

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Sorry but this thread is depressing me

[Happy Days]

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Not a super devastating loss but one that really stuck with me was round 22 in 2003 against Brisbane. For whatever reason I wasn't really watching the scoreboard and thought we were playing okay. Looked up at the end of the game to see we got belted by 83 (ish) points.

That's right, I accepted mediocrity. Dispicable.

[Bornadog]

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Not a super devastating loss but one that really stuck with me was round 22 in 2003 against Brisbane. For whatever reason I wasn't really watching the scoreboard and thought we were playing okay. Looked up at the end of the game to see we got belted by 83 (ish) points.

That's right, I accepted mediocrity. Dispicable.

That is funny, how did you miss the scores, especially with a belting like that.

[jeemak]

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That is funny, how did you miss the scores, especially with a belting like that.

Space Cadets can't be questioned. They're just awesome.

[Twodogs]

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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.

Yep this one. We'd been looking forward to playing our first final on the MCG since 1961, the pro-Footscray crowd were building up to a frenzy for 15 minutes leading up to the appereance of the teams on the ground and the place just exploded when the players ran out on the ground. I'd never heard a Footscray crowd make so much noise before a game.

Then Hawthorn just blew us away. The match was over 15 minutes into the first quarter. It was devestating.

[Twodogs]

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I was at that game and it would have to be one of the worst games to attend, not so much the flogging on the ground but the beating the fans took in the stands. I have had such a loathing for bomber fans ever since. They would just not let up.

We got them back in 2000. I've never seen or heard Bulldog supporters pay out on opposition supporters the way they did when the siren blew that night.

[Bornadog]

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Yep this one. We'd been looking forward to playing our first final on the MCG since 1961, the pro-Footscray crowd were building up to a frenzy for 15 minutes leading up to the appereance of the teams on the ground and the place just exploded when the players ran out on the ground. I'd never heard a Footscray crowd make so much noise before a game.

Then Hawthorn just blew us away. The match was over 15 minutes into the first quarter. It was devastating.

I would say that was one of my most disappointing days at the footy. As you say, the anticipation, being in the finals, and knowing we beat Hawthorn only a few weeks before.

[KT31]

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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.

Always looked back at this game and remember it was the game that gave me hope.
From memory we were got to five or six goals behind ( a fair bit in those days) and got back into the game and nearly stole it.
Lost in the end by a flukey goal.
I turned to SS and said in the last quarter "I can see a bit of hope in this side and think they will be the ones to break our drought."
He mocked me and we went on to beat Sydney the next week, and another win the next couple.
Also from memory this was the only round we were not in the top eight for the season.
By the seasons end, sadly I was only a kick away from being right.
One good thing did come out of not winning "97 was I didn't have to give SS a big smooch on the lips.

[Bornadog]

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One good thing did come out of not winning "97 was I didn't have to give SS a big smooch on the lips.

Now that would be disgusting