25 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

It was not just an amazing sequence of goals, but an amazing seqence of games. Has Melbourne ever played four more enjoyable games to watch than from Round 23 to the Grand Final? 

I doubt we will ever watch 4 more pivotal games to turn the fortunes of a club in our lifetime.

Those were 4 performances of a club destined to achieve greatness. 

I doubted it, but looking back, it was always meant to be ours! 

43 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

It was an incredible quarter .

When dogs kicked onto a nineteen point lead with Bont having a good day  I really thought we would lose.

True 19 points isn't huge but given we smashed the first quarter we seemed to have totally slowed down.

The one thing that has been different about this club is how many times we have come back from being down. Not just scorewise but also our momentum.

So many games this year Mfc of old would have rolled over.

But to comeback like that and add those three junktime goals I knew we had won.

It was a thing of beauty.

 

Not junktime, Red & Blue time...from the Doggies perspective - Black & Blue time. And I don't mean that to gloat; it seriously must have hurt.

20 minutes ago, TRIGON said:

Not junktime, Red & Blue time...from the Doggies perspective - Black & Blue time. And I don't mean that to gloat; it seriously must have hurt.

So many games ive watched where we have conceded a goal in the dying stages or minute of a quarter. It would have been bad enough to dogs fans to lose their three goal lead. It must have hurt the dogs when Trac kicked that freakish goal. But the two after that would have killed.

4 hours ago, Undeeterred said:

Huge moment too - he misses that and we go in 13 points up, very gettable. I think it was such a big hit that it kind of made the Dogs collapse and give us the next one.

Sparrow is a ripper 

Loved the way TMac monstered the Dogs player on the goal line

2 hours ago, Watson11 said:

What about the bust at the start of the 4th. We had 2 goals by 1 min 53sec due to Brown and Fritz set shots and then Tracc burst out of the centre again and kicked a point.  If you add that to then end of the 3rd we had 5.1 in 2 mins 50s.  Surely that’s a record.

Actually it was 8 goal 1 point.

Edited September 28, 20213 yr by durango

11 hours ago, Bay Riffin said:

if you watch Sparrow, he doesn't over extend himself. He just looks to time it, and hit it sweetly with no running momentum. Was very cool under pressure.

...solo, surrounded at close range by 4 Dogs at the 4 points of the compass. A beautiful tableaux.

11 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

Sparrow’s goal very underrated. Kicks it from 52m off one step. Elite!

He’s got such a powerful kick on him.

Some [censored] here (me) said he shouldn’t be in the team for finals. 

Edited September 28, 20213 yr by Clint Bizkit

It would have to be the eminent example of why the third quarter is referred to as the premiership quarter.

On 9/27/2021 at 8:16 PM, Demon Disciple said:

I believe the only ones to have gone close was us against the cats in the PF. We kicked 3 in quick succession during the third of that game as well.

Nice one DD. Those 3 goals in the 3rd quarter against the Cats in the PF were devastatingly quick too. I went back and checked the timing:

17:04 Fritsch

16:47 Gawn

16:30 McDonald

That's 3 goals in 34 seconds. Amazing! (But still 2 seconds slower than the Dees 3 goals in 32 seconds in the GF).

Incredible. Could be the quickest and the 2nd quickest 3 goals ever respectively!

 

 

On 9/28/2021 at 3:52 AM, Wrecker46 said:

I think we've all watched it enough to know Sparrows goal was awesome and Dogga was brilliant in the ruck. But this was an Oliver and Petracca blitz. Not just their goals but they setup Sparrows.

Not even sure Dogga got a single hitout in the second half of Q3, but his presence - shepherding, run-with and handballing was all excellent. 

1 hour ago, GOLORDIE said:

Not even sure Dogga got a single hitout in the second half of Q3, but his presence - shepherding, run-with and handballing was all excellent. 

Agree. But they were expecting Gawn who they can predict. Jackson competed really well and hunted the ball, like Patracca, Oliver and Viney.

Doggies were criticised for not positioning defensively at the bounce (they were, Libba and Bontempeli for the last 2; both sucked into the contest). Interestingly, Treloar was at all the bounces. Would've tried Dunkley. I reckon the arrival of Treloar messed with their midfield. 

1 hour ago, Paulo said:

I feel for them, we know what they are going through and I’m sure we will go through it again.

1 hour ago, Paulo said:

I've watched that set of goals so many times now I think I've started to develop a crush on the girl on the left. Every time I see her I feel great.

AFL Tables shows goal progression without time for stoppages - this has Petracca-Sparrow-Oliver as 2.29 apart. Even when Essendon kicked 15 in the first quarter against Gold Coast in 2011 (Steven May's debut), they didn't do it that quickly. Same when Hawthorn beat GWS by 162. Nothing quicker in 186 either.

Doesn't mean it hasn't happened at some point, but they're two of the biggest landslides in the last 10 years.

3 minutes ago, Supermercado said:

AFL Tables shows goal progression without time for stoppages - this has Petracca-Sparrow-Oliver as 2.29 apart. Even when Essendon kicked 15 in the first quarter against Gold Coast in 2011 (Steven May's debut), they didn't do it that quickly. Same when Hawthorn beat GWS by 162. Nothing quicker in 186 either.

Doesn't mean it hasn't happened at some point, but they're two of the biggest landslides in the last 10 years.

The Fritsch-Fritsch-Brown goals were just as quick in actual ball movement play if we discount the goal lining up time.

8 hours ago, Clint Bizkit said:

I feel for them, we know what they are going through and I’m sure we will go through it again.

yep.. me too. It didn’t and doesn’t stop the joy of winning but i felt fr them. The doggies in the last 50 years or so have a history v similar to ours. Poor club, threats of extinction, regularly [censored]. I can’t hate them. 

It occurred to me last night how little real pain this season has had . The least in living memory. yes there was 4 losses but none that hurt thaaat much. The loss to the doggies was the only one I can think of that stung me fr days and made me doubt.  Adelaide by a point (with [censored] umpiring) was another one,  but it was our first loss and we were still top of the ladder so it was easy to move on from. 

We’ve all had to eat so much [censored] over so many years it’s totally joyous to have not had to do so much this year,. But,  I am sparing a thought fr them also. 

 

10 hours ago, Paulo said:

Talk about an optical illusion! On my phone anyways. It looks as though the guy in the centre has an unusually round and disproportionately large upper arm. With a pretty ugly tattoo. 😀

On 9/27/2021 at 7:13 PM, AC/DeeC said:

Has been mentioned in a previous thread but are the three successive Demon goals kicked in the last minute of the 3rd quarter:

00:51 Petracca

00:34 Sparrow

00:19 Oliver

Are these the quickest 3 goals in succession ever?

 

Maybe.  But we know Fritsch holds the record set this year for the fastest 3 goals by an individual player - approx 95 seconds against the Crows.

 

 

There was a game at the G in the 80s or early 90s when Richmond conceded a fifty metre penalty before the bounce and we goaled from the free.

Then they did it again as soon as the ball got back to the centre and we scored another goal from the subsequent free..

They were 2 goals down and the ball hadn't been bounced yet! Steve O'Dwyer was in the ruck that day.

15 hours ago, Mono said:

Interestingly, Treloar was at all the bounces. Would've tried Dunkley. I reckon the arrival of Treloar messed with their midfield. 

Treloar was put in the middle in the second and that was the spark for them. It was interesting that he got to the fall of the ball in the forward line after he was put in the midfield and kicked goals, but couldn't kick them or touch the ball when playing mid-forward.


 

Fritsch kicked 3 goals against Adelaide in 90 seconds...

1 hour ago, FritschyBusiness said:

Treloar was put in the middle in the second and that was the spark for them. It was interesting that he got to the fall of the ball in the forward line after he was put in the midfield and kicked goals, but couldn't kick them or touch the ball when playing mid-forward.


 

They got most of their goals from mids....

1 hour ago, jnrmac said:

They got most of their goals from mids....

Yes and Trealor was playing as a mid when he kicked those goals