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1990 Elimination Final

Sir Why You Little
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This was a tough game. It was also after we had already beaten Whorethorn the week before. 
We had nothing left after this brutal 2 hours

We were a dam good side

 

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    Still carry some disappointed about 1990. Beating the hawks two weeks in a row just didn’t happen back then. Having done that we’d set ourselves up fr a real crack at a flag in a very even top 6. Odwyer knocks out gary Lyon at training at Thursday eve training, the eagles come out breathing fire and we play on a Waverley ground that doesn’t suit our game. From memory we never even show up...12 goals down half way through the third, come back a bit and lose by 5 goals.  like the 2018 prelim we were never even  in the game, except in this one we were unbackable favourites. 
    I think we won 16 games in 1990 and missed the top on percentage after inexplicably losing big to north (by 25 goals!)  near the end of the year. It was a year of big things being so so possible but just a CM out of reach. The ultimate tease. 
    That elimination final v the hawks though  was def   a highlight. The rise before the fall. 

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    What a fantastic afternoon at the footy that was. My first ever final sitting in the old southern stand (just before it was demolished) in the beautiful September sunshine.

    A fantastic, gritty win although the Hawks came back hard. I was a bit young to remember but I assume the MFC faithful went home that day with genuine premiership hopes given that we'd beaten the raining champs twice in two weeks. 

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    3 hours ago, Wells 11 said:

    I think we won 16 games in 1990 and missed the top on percentage after inexplicably losing big to north (by 25 goals!)  near the end of the year. It was a year of big things being so so possible but just a CM out of reach. The ultimate tease. 
    That elimination final v the hawks though  was def   a highlight. The rise before the fall. 

    We did win 16 games that year without even getting a double chance.

    An underrated sliding doors moment occurred in the last round IMO. Geelong were leading West Coast all day at Kardinia Park and all they had to do was hang on and 3rd place/double chance was ours. Unfortunately WC kicked a couple of late ones to snatch the win and hence pushing us back to an elimination final.

    Had we finished third we would've played Collingwood at Waverley, the team we had an excellent finals record against in the late 80's.

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    39 minutes ago, Waltham33 said:

    played our GF 2 weeks in a row V Hawthorn

    Yep. 8 quarters of really tough football

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    We were stiff to finish 4th in 1990 given our record. Still, we couldn't get near WCE the next (next) week, so we weren't the best side in it.

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    5 minutes ago, Fat Tony said:

    We were stiff to finish 4th in 1990 given our record. Still, we couldn't get near WCE the next (next) week, so we weren't the best side in it.

    we were better than that... it was sadly an awful off day. one i think everyone at the club would still have trouble living with. 

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    6 hours ago, Wells 11 said:

    Still carry some disappointed about 1990. Beating the hawks two weeks in a row just didn’t happen back then. Having done that we’d set ourselves up fr a real crack at a flag in a very even top 6. Odwyer knocks out gary Lyon at training at Thursday eve training, the eagles come out breathing fire and we play on a Waverley ground that doesn’t suit our game. From memory we never even show up...12 goals down half way through the third, come back a bit and lose by 5 goals.  like the 2018 prelim we were never even  in the game, except in this one we were unbackable favourites. 
    I think we won 16 games in 1990 and missed the top on percentage after inexplicably losing big to north (by 25 goals!)  near the end of the year. It was a year of big things being so so possible but just a CM out of reach. The ultimate tease. 
    That elimination final v the hawks though  was def   a highlight. The rise before the fall. 

    Worst part about the eagles loss was that we belted them in Perth only a few weeks earlier and gave the crowd a huge spray on exiting the field. Malthouse openly admitted using that as part of his address before we played them in the 1st Semi and we turned up expecting to win by 10 goals without trying because everyone said we would. The 25 goal loss was mid year to North. Like every year we had a [censored] patch I think we went from 7-1 to 9-6 before winning the last 7 (including Essendon Windy Hill, Eagles at Subi and Hawthorn when Tuck broke the games record and they were fired up for it). Geelong losing from 6 goals up to W.C was one part of the round 22 and the other was we were 10 goals up early- mid 3rd qrt and won by 12 points. Even if we won by 10 goals or more we would most likely have made up the percentage to finish 3rd.

    In my mind that and 1998 are the 2 real chances we have had of winning.

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    Our back line was phenomenal.   Grinter, Rohde, Yeats, Campbell gave the Hawks an absolute bath.

    Dunstall had 8 possessions and kicked 2 goals, Brereton 13 and 2.   Both had zero impact.

    Yeats absolutely destroyed Platten.

    1990 a real missed opportunity.

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    The only trouble was that by by eliminating Hawthorn, we opened it up for Collingwood.

    Coll. had a rotten record against Hawthorn at that time. I hate them both, but would marginally prefer a Hawthorn flag ahead of Collingwood.

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    9 minutes ago, jumbo returns said:

    Goodonya, SWYL...surfacing my residual trauma again

    It’s a good game for the younger landers to watch. Lots of big hits and shows how tough Sugar Healy could be

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    1 hour ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    It’s a good game for the younger landers to watch. Lots of big hits and shows how tough Sugar Healy could be

    How long are we going to be [censored] for?

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    4 hours ago, Spud said:

     and Hawthorn when Tuck broke the games record and they were fired up for it). Geelong losing from 6 goals up to W.C was one part of the round 22 and the other was we were 10 goals up early- mid 3rd qrt and won by 12 points. Even if we won by 10 goals or more we would most likely have made up the percentage to finish 3rd.

    That's also an underrated fact that we blew a massive lead against Hawthorn in rd 22 to only fall over the line and cost ourselves valuable percentage. Good pick up.

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    1 hour ago, jumbo returns said:

    How long are we going to be [censored] for?

    We may be long gone JR, befre the Club reignites that long lost MoJo

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    2 hours ago, Jumping Jack Clennett said:

    The only trouble was that by by eliminating Hawthorn, we opened it up for Collingwood.

    Coll. had a rotten record against Hawthorn at that time. I hate them both, but would marginally prefer a Hawthorn flag ahead of Collingwood.

    My Collingwood supporting mate forever thanks me for the Dees beating Hawthorn in the 1990 finals as that was the only side Collingwood feared.

    Hawthorn swept Collingwood in the 1990 H&A season, including a late season 83 point flogging.

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