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When will Melbourne break these embarrassing records?

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6 hours ago, Mickey said:

Has been discussed in the 'still no BOJ sponsor thread'. Apparently we fell out badly when they were our sponsor last and they won't come near us

... and now that tyre company has not only lost lots of customers among Dee fans but also has the longest losing streak in Melbourne/ St Kilda games - 15. Losers!!!

 
On 16/04/2015 at 9:32 AM, praha said:

Having won in Round 1 this year, we broke a decade-long record of having not won in the first week of the season.

What other records are in dire need of being broken?

Win in Round 1 - BROKEN Round 1, 2015

- Last win: Round 1, 2005 (9-year losing streak)

Win in Adelaide - BROKEN Round 7, 2014

- Last win: Round 2, 2001 (16-game losing streak)

- Since 1991: 32 games, 6 wins, 26 losses

Home game losing streak - BROKEN Round 1, 2015

- Last home game win: Round 14, 2013 (15-game losing streak)

Score 100 points - BROKEN Round 1, 2015

- Last 100-point game: Round 14, 2013 (31 matches)

Win on a Friday night - BROKEN Round 4, 2015

- Last win: Round 11, 2011 vs Essendon

Beat Geelong - BROKEN Round 12, 2015

- Last win: Round 6, 2006 (12 games, 11 losses, 1 draw)

- Since 1994: 7 wins, 26 losses, 1 draw

Win in Geelong - BROKEN Round 12, 2015

- Last win: Round 20, 2005 (7 games, 6 losses, 1 draw)

- Since 1988: 2 wins, 17 losses, 1 draw

Beat Brisbane - BROKEN Round 16, 2015

- Last win: Round 3, 2011 (4-game losing streaking)

Win at Etihad BROKEN Round 23, 2015

Last win: Round 19, 2007 (22-game losing streak)

Beat Collingwood - BROKEN Round 18, 2015

- Last win: Round 11, 2007 (10 games, 9 losses, 1 draw)

Beat Fremantle - BROKEN Round 16, 2016

- Last win: Round 13, 2011 (6-game losing streak)

Win two games in a row - BROKEN Rounds 4-5, 2016

- Last time: Rounds 13 and 14, 2011 (20 game losing streak)

Beat a Ross Lyon-coached team - BROKEN Round 16, 2016

- Last win: Never (12-game losing streak)

Beat Hawthorn - BROKEN Round 20, 2016

- Last win: Round 8, 2006 (11-game losing streak)

- Since 1980: 59 games, 14 wins, 45 losses

Beat Port Adelaide in Adelaide - BROKEN Round 21, 2016

- Last win: Round 8, 2000 (11-game losing streak)

Win 3 in a row - BROKEN Rounds 19-21, 2016

Beat St Kilda - BROKEN Round 1, 2017

- Last win: Elimination Final, 2006 (14-game losing streak)

Win in Perth

- Last win: Round 1, 2004 (12-game losing streak)

Beat North Melbourne

- Last win: Round 5, 2006 (14-game losing streak)

Play a final

- Last time: Second Semi-Final vs Fremantle, 2006 (8-year drought)

Win a final

- Last win: Elimination Final v St Kilda, 2006 (8-year drought)

Win the minor premiership

- Last time: 1964 (50 years and counting)

Win a final outside of Victoria

- Last win: Never (2 games, 2 losses)

@praha can we add 'win round 2'. Haven't won in 10 years.

also, can we add the ultimate goal... 'win premiership'? 

Get through the season without losing to a bottom 3 side.

I'd like to see that happen this year which also makes finals more likely.

 

Shows how much we improved under Roos. 

Won R1 3 years in a row now. 

2017 - buried 2 big bogies in R1. Hope can complete the lot this year. 

Love your work Praha but the Freo win needs formatting in red. Thx?

Until I saw the stat, I didn't realise we have lost 9 of the past 10 vs the Blues....  :o

 


Only just noticed, we should add the two 'season long' results -

Finish with a % greater than 100

Finish with more wins than losses.

 

An odd one we knocked over last year thanks to Clayton Oliver is 'have any player experience more wins than losses in a season', last held by Lynden Dunn in 2006.

 

Something I would love to see (and definitely counts as an embarrasing record) is removing our set of three players (Jones, McDonald and Watts) from the list of 'worst winning percentage' of current players. They are between 27% (Jones) and 29% (Watts), and would need to push to over 30% at least, to clear the list. For Jones than would need maybe half a dozen wins without a loss. Coincidentally, Jones is also the individual current player who has played in the most losses (162), despite being as much as 100 total games short of close rivals Robert Murphy (161), Kade Simpson (160) and Nick Riewoldt (157). This can be easily corrected in just a few games.

Taking Watts, McDonald and Jetta off the current list of 'most games without ever playing a final'. Watts currently tops the list, and we MUST break the run this season, Watts moves onto the all-time list as well as onto the all-time list of most games prior to playing a final, even if we do make it next year.

 

Did Nathan Jones play in the St Kilda or Freo finals games?

 
Just now, radar said:

Did Nathan Jones play in the St Kilda or Freo finals games?

He did.  The only player left on our list from that period.

2 minutes ago, radar said:

Did Nathan Jones play in the St Kilda or Freo finals games?

Yes, he played in both. They were his 7th and 8th game.


Thx, what years then did Jack Watts and T Mac debut?

suspect a few years gap between them and N Jones

5 minutes ago, Nasher said:

Watts 2009, McDonald 2011.

Jetta also started in 2009.

1 hour ago, america de cali said:

Jetta also started in 2009.

And then re-started in 2014 when Roos turned him into one of those Sydney Defender Robots that just do everything right and don't get beaten.

1 hour ago, rpfc said:

And then re-started in 2014 when Roos turned him into one of those Sydney Defender Robots that just do everything right and don't get beaten.

I think if I wanted to create a list of "players who improved the most under Roos", Jetta would have to top the list. The more I think about it, the more extraordinary the change has been which reinforces my belief that the only thing worse than our drafting in the 5 years pre-Roos was our player development.


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15 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

I think if I wanted to create a list of "players who improved the most under Roos", Jetta would have to top the list. The more I think about it, the more extraordinary the change has been which reinforces my belief that the only thing worse than our drafting in the 5 years pre-Roos was our player development.

We didn't get in the way of players developing themselves - Jones, McDonald, Garland, et al.

So that in itself makes it better than our drafting - we were terrible. I don't want to start a 'drafting' vs 'development' argument because you need both but the raw materials are delivered through the draft and we didn't get them in to even experience our poor development...

  • 1 month later...

Last win vs the kangaroos - Round 20, 2006

The most embarrassing and frustrating hoodoo of them all.  They are such a  mediocre club and team and we haven't beat them in 11 seasons.  It surely has to end this Sunday.

Edited by Petraccattack

14 minutes ago, Petraccattack said:

Last win vs the kangaroos - Round 20, 2016

The most embarrassing and frustrating hoodoo of them all.  They are such a  mediocre club and team and we haven't beat them in 11 seasons.  It surely has to end this Sunday.

Don't like to think about this one too much, but actually 2006. 15 in a row, mostly big losses. Closing in on the 16 in a row in the 70s/80s.

There, I've dealt with it and will move on....


48 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Our record at the MCG is becoming a mini-embarrassment. We've lost three on the trot there this year (all of them very winnable) after beating Carlton in Round 2.

Time to knock that one on the head along with the big hoodoo against North 

We learned how to win at the Dome but forgot how to do it at the G, I really hope we break that mini one this weekend when we break the Norf one.

I reckon we smashed some hoodoos on the weekend:

The first time we beat Adelaide on a Saturday night since round 2 2001 (when Leoncelli kicked that goal on the siren)

The first time we've won a round 8 game since 2006 (Vs Hawthorn)

 

We've never beaten North in a home and away game on a Sunday as the home side....EVER! Infact we're 0-9.

We played them on a Sunday as the home side in 1997, 1999, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014 and 2015 and lost them all.

 

 
12 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

We've never beaten North in a home and away game on a Sunday as the home side....EVER! Infact we're 0-9.

We played them on a Sunday as the home side in 1997, 1999, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014 and 2015 and lost them all.

 

Now there is a dose of reality  Just wow! We must make the G ours this week.

 


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