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Round 16, 1990 - Essendon vs Melb at Windy Hill

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Thought you were going to remind me of that infamous game in the mid 80's against the Pies where after leading by 60 points half way through the third quarter... we lost.

I still remember it to the extent that I rarely believe we have for certain won a game until we are 50-60 points up at the end of the third quarter,

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8 minutes ago, Big Carl said:

 

Bombers were up by over 30 points early in the last quarter and we came back and got up by 8 points!   One of my favourite wins.

Jackson, Lyon, Bennett among the best. 

 
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1 minute ago, Big Carl said:

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I was there, standing amongst a sea of red and black with one of my brothers, shouting DB deliriously!! Had 19 on my back soon after (replacing 17). What a win!

 

There as well and surrounded by the biggest bunch of ferals. Always came away with a strained back as that hill sloped down viciously. Had to keep a straight face back to the car and hid our scarves as the druggies were looking to fight anyone. 

I remember the year well.

1990 was a real lost opportunity. We finished with the best record I have witnessed as a Melbourne supporter (16-6) but if anything, this year would prepare me for what was to lie ahead.

We would beat Essendon twice that year, the Eagles twice (and comfortably in Perth) and sent the Hawks packing one year before another flag. Any other year we would have finished top 3 at the end of the H&A season.

However, it was also the year we got pantsed by 20 goals by a middle of the road North (with Horse Longmire kicking 14) and proceeded to shite the bed against West Coast to bomb out of the finals. I didn't realize it then but it showed me a lot of the flakiness I would come to expect down the road.


27 minutes ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

I remember the year well.

1990 was a real lost opportunity. We finished with the best record I have witnessed as a Melbourne supporter (16-6) but if anything, this year would prepare me for what was to lie ahead.

We would beat Essendon twice that year, the Eagles twice (and comfortably in Perth) and sent the Hawks packing one year before another flag. Any other year we would have finished top 3 at the end of the H&A season.

However, it was also the year we got pantsed by 20 goals by a middle of the road North (with Horse Longmire kicking 14) and proceeded to shite the bed against West Coast to bomb out of the finals. I didn't realize it then but it showed me a lot of the flakiness I would come to expect down the road.

To me, it was our biggest missed opportunity since 1964

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Agree. There was no real standout team that year. We had the benefit of West Coast and Collingwood playing a draw in the finals and playing a Replay match. Then we couldn’t beat the Eagles who had to travel to Melbourne 3 weeks in a row.

Collingwoid pinched a flag in a year of no standouts.

I remember at this game one of the blokes that stood with us each was about to leave early in the last quarter, proclaiming he'd seen enough. We convinced him to stay it out for at least the next goal, which we got, boy he was glad he stayed! Tremendous win this one.

1990 was a real missed opportunity. No standout team but the extra week's inactivity due to the draw caused us to lose form after we had beaten Dorks two weeks in a row (rnd 22 and first final) and we were easily beaten by WC in Perth.

Note how quickly the umpires intervened to stop scrums and mauls from developing. Blow the whistle as soon as the ball is trapped and ball up straight away.

It has worked for generations to keep the game open until the AFL and the rules committee screwed it up. Shame shame shame.

Magic commentary by Ian Robertson:   "....what...they say umpires don't influence games......"


18 hours ago, John Demonic said:

Hah, you don't see anyone kicking like Darren Bennett anymore. Casually strolls in and boots the proverbial out of it into the car park from 30-40m out.

 Against the wind.

14 hours ago, MT64 said:

There as well and surrounded by the biggest bunch of ferals. Always came away with a strained back as that hill sloped down viciously. Had to keep a straight face back to the car and hid our scarves as the druggies were looking to fight anyone. 

I feared for my life that day as well , lol.

 

13 hours ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

I remember the year well.

1990 was a real lost opportunity. We finished with the best record I have witnessed as a Melbourne supporter (16-6) but if anything, this year would prepare me for what was to lie ahead.

We would beat Essendon twice that year, the Eagles twice (and comfortably in Perth) and sent the Hawks packing one year before another flag. Any other year we would have finished top 3 at the end of the H&A season.

However, it was also the year we got pantsed by 20 goals by a middle of the road North (with Horse Longmire kicking 14) and proceeded to shite the bed against West Coast to bomb out of the finals. I didn't realize it then but it showed me a lot of the flakiness I would come to expect down the road.

I remember 1990 well, I took the year off from work, in the days when you could take long service leave plus extended leave without pay and still have a job when you got back. Backpacking across Asia I could only check in on the footy by finding an Australian Embassy where they always had a reading area and a catalogue of daily papers. So I would catch up on 7 or 8 weeks of match results at a time. These were days before email, the web, WiFi and smart phones. Just letters and newspapers back then. 

Didn’t we win the first 6 or 7? Then had our usual losses in the middle before regaining form toward the end. I remember I made it to London in time to be able to watch Drew Morphett compering The ABC Winners on my hotel TV showing the first final where we beat the Hawks and  Dermot Brereton lamenting that he could not believe they could lose to us two weeks in a row! Great stuff but then I was travelling again and found out we lost to the Weagles at least a week after the fact. And yes I thought at the time we have stuffed up a great opportunity because this was a gap year in between great teams, so was 1991 by the way and guess who snatched that one? 

 One bonus was being out of the country and therefore missing the Collingwood celebrations. 

My Filth supporting father took me to this game as an 8 year old. I still remember it like yesterday , we were standing at the last q Dees scoring end with the handful of Dees supporters. He’d oblige my support of the Dees by occasionally taking me to non-Filth Dees games. 

My old man would disappear for most of the quarters to sink beers and leave me to my own devices. But even he was glued to the contest in the last q and jumped around like crazy with the other Dees fans when we got up. 

He even got me to hang my scarf out the window as we made our escape down Mt Alexander road! 

Thanks dad, that one game made up for the years of childhood trauma of being dragged to Victoria Park every other weekend! 

 

On 5/31/2018 at 9:08 PM, Big Carl said:

 

Terrific comeback, great to see the stars. Bennett, Jackson, Stinger, O'Dwyer, Rhode, Hughes, Eishold just terrific in that last quarter. Heaver - a forgotten asset in close. Great days, great beer, great meat pies, great team as unpopular as all get out. 


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