I was only 7 when we made the GF for the second time, and you know the boys wanted this one after the heartbreak in '91 against the Hawks. I was surprised with tickets to the game by my mum, which for a kid of 7, was like my birthday, Easter and Christmas coming all on the same day, loved every minute of the day, the noise was deafening, the atmosphere was electric, and the party afterwards. Since then we've won 2 more, I really hope there are many more to come. GO YOU EAGLES!!
I don’t know about being a minority sport in NSW and QLD, have u checked out Sydney and Brisbane fan base ? Rugby is the biggest sport in those two states ! Soccer is really big in very poor countries as you don’t need much equipment or space ! It will definitely grow as Australia has a huge ethnic population! But not to the heights you envisage ! To each his own is the saying and I for one will always be an AFL fan , it’s our game !Who knows what 2050 will bring ? I would say cricket has a lot of followers as well ! America has NFL and Baseball and Canada has ice hockey and those sports will always be huge there !
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In my humble opinion....At 1:48, when Chris Mainwaring gets the ball and plays on , until the goal is scored, is the best passage of controlled good play, ever...Chris Lewis rules too, but Sumich's flip to Matera, is the best ploy ever. No one was ready, no one was even watching.
Tony Evan’s most underrated player in that game. Materia was a god in the game but Evan’s saved the eagles 3 times when the eagles hadn’t found there momentum yet, he in my opinion is the MVP on this day.
@user-vk2wp4ot8hare u serious. It's the biggest sport in Australia by far. Why can't u just let us have it regardless if soccer is the biggest sport in the world. This guy was just appreciating a fond moment he had when he was a child and you had to ruin it. Soccer fans are always the same
I remember watching this as a boy.. to hear Dennis call this game live then, and now thanks to youtube and uploader.. and to hear him call his last game today in the 2016 GF... great memories :)
I really liked the Cat Attack song, it had a real punch to it. Sadly they only played that song between 1991 to 1993 but I first started going to the Geelong matches around that time and that song is in my early memories of watching the cats.
A quirk of the final six system in 1992 saw West Coast, by virtue of Collingwood losing to St Kilda, progress to the second-semi final against Geelong, instead of the first-semi final against Footscray. Had Collingwood won their week-one match, the Grand Final match up would likely still have been the same (West Coast & Geelong were clearly the best two teams of 1992), but Geelong would have been the team coming off a week's rest. It might have made a difference after half time in this game.
He kicked 3 goals in this game one was a 60 metre gem I'm sure you couldn't kick and the Eagles were the best defence for a decade, so you're being quite rude.
Ablett deliberately elbows Pike in the jaw right at the start of the game [good slow-mo replay @15:05]. Loved Gary Ablett Sr, my favourite ever player. But JESUS he was a sniper. He could fill a highlights reel with his low acts. Raised elbow man-on-man work was his specialty. That's as bad as it gets, Magro on Jesaulenko is the only one I can think of that's worse. Can't believe it hasn't become known as "the infamous" hit on Don Pyke. There was no post-match outrage, I can't even remember it being dwelt on much at all.
You must have 50 different personalities in you. One minute you rave on how fantastic Gary Ablett Snr was then you call him a sniper. Do you remember Leigh Matthews?
I remember these years well. When gelong finally threw away the supper snipper manual & became a team of foot ballers instead, then they started to win grand finals. Trouble is loopy Lloyd found that manual and became the biggest supper snipper the game ever saw.
2022 cant believe this is 30 years ago you've heard it before but its bloody true ...life goes fast..the game now is too much like basket ball up and down the court no hip and shoulders fucked up the grit of the game
All credit to the Eagles a great Australian Football Club. But Western Australia's best sporting achievement happened 3 years before the Club existed in a New York harbour.
Cats were still the best team of the year (‘92). West coast should have won in ‘91 and Geelong in ‘92. The cats should have won at least one premiership in the 90’s.
The Geelong teams of this era had plenty of stars (Ablett, Hocking, Couch, Hinkley, Stoneham, etc.) but not enough depth. Typically the last 6-8 players picked would be journeymen at best, and not up to the heat of a grand final. West Coast had a few quiet players on the day too - but everyone made a contribution at some point. That - and Matera - proved the difference.
l went to Windy Hill with my Bomber mate late in the 88 Season. Cats were unfavoured and won by ten goals, winning me a healthy bet in the process as l knew what was coming with guys like Ablett, Stoneham, Couchy etc. l put loads more bets on pre-89 including one of "Making the GF" That Hawks side has to be best ever so to push them to kick, and as Dawson above said, with basically half a side... Not sure that Eagles were quite ready in 91 to beat Hawthorn, tho in saying that,...if Sumich kicks that goal at Waverley against Collingwood....hmmm. Cats just never quite had enough to beat Eagles....just so unlucky to run into yet another all-time Great Side. 93 was really the season that got away for Cats....we thrashed ALL of the other finalists over the last six weeks of the season but lost too many games earlier to even make the finals....we'd have won the Flag easily in 93, l have no doubt.
@@hanajinks1044 and to think in 1993 we only finished one and a half games from top spot, yet still finished seventh and missed the final six - and just the following year they changed it to a final eight! If only Malcolm Blight did not try and go defensive in the first half of ‘93 and let the cats play their true game style like they did in the back half, 1993 could have been the year. Gary Ablett could have kicked 10 in the grand final that year, ah - what might have been…
@@jasonvandermeer9854 I hadn't realized we'd finished so close to Top and had to go and have another look at the season... I went to the Rd 3 game against Nth at KP full of confidence and Carey played the whole game down at the Wind end and heat us of his own boot. Just a Colossus. I went to the Rd 6 game where Gazza kicked 14 in a losing side and also the Rd 9 game at KP when Eagles overcame a three-quarter time deficit to out-tough us. Just not quite there,...in all three games. Blew them all away late in the season tho...typical Geelong. I vaguely remember knowing that if we'd thrashed the Eagles in Perth in the last round then we'd get in and then just hoping for the Four Points once it was clear it'd be close.
Telecom Government owned until 1992. Hab a 100% monopoly over communications but advertised as all sporting and arts events so that "fat cat" public servants would get reserved seats and top catering. What a rort against the taxpayers.
@@CursoryMercenary sorry mate I uploaded it last night and its has already been removed due to copyright. Not sure why some are allowed and some get blocked. Sorry mate
Great performance by the west coast eagles. They were basically the west Australian state of origin team minus a few players. Still they had to win in Melbourne and they did. Too many passengers for Geelong. The Geelond sides 2007 and onwards were made of sterner stuff even if they maybe didn't have the individual brilliance of the early 90s side.
I haven't seen this since I was a kid. Great win by the Eagles. I'd forgotten what a dirty bunch of pricks the Victorians were in those days. Elbows into the head etc. Especially guys like Ablett and Billy Brainless... check out the knees into the head by Brownless on McIntosh well after the mark had been taken, 26:15 on the video. Utterly disgraceful.
+hardtobeat84 Absolute rubbish. The Eagles didn't get concessions... they were actually given restrictions. Ability to only draft players from WA in their first season and that was after the VFL raped the WAFL of 19 players in 4 weeks before the Eagles were allowed to touch them... so the Eagles were left with the dregs. The Eagles were the only AFL team to only have a list of 35 when the rest of the competition had 52. Had to play their home finals they'd earned... in Melbourne in the early years... and had to fight to get home finals played at Subiaco. The reason the Eagles were successful is because AFL teams had not taken recruiting seriously in the early 90s. They paid literally NO attention to scouting young players... and as a result the Eagles were able to pick up players that other AFL clubs ignored. Peter Matera was drafted at #4... behind 3 guys that barely played a game in the AFL in their careers.
West Coast were better on the day, but Geelong had their chances too: 27:30 Riccardi hits the post, would have ben 24-5 28:45 Hocking misses from 20 metres, would have been 25-5 48:00 Brownless misses from a tight angle, would have been 47-18 1:23:15 Ablett doesn't spot Stoneham free inside 50, a goal makes it 68-45 1:53:30 Bairstow on target but touched on the line, would have cut the margin to 11 points The Geelong teams of 2007-2011 would have taken these critical chances. Just saying.
I am just saying when he was needed, 3/4 of the time, he went missing. I would rate Dunstall, Carey, Williams, etc, in front of him as far as being the best I ever saw.
nah he was a kickass big game player, 67 goals in 16 finals, 43 in 11 state games, norm smith medallist, his gf in 94 and 95 weren't good but he was still a gun on the big stage
+Great White7 Gary Ablett Sr was an absolute genius. He was hard, freakish, could kick a ball 50m either side of his body, punch a torp 60m into the breeze on the run (and it is rumoured he did this on the left, but I never saw that), leap higher than any ruckman of any era, outmuscle the strongest full backs and take one-arm speccies, run into a congested pack and come out with the ball, deliver a bump so hard that it could puncture the lungs of bearded giants, outsprint (in the 1980s at least) 90% of the competition, snap a goal from over his shoulder (again either side) from any pocket.... what else, need I go on? There is evidence of all of this.... look at the highlights. The guy simply was the most talented player going around, he was a footballing superman! This does not mean he was the best full forward, or the best wing, or the greatest half forward.... he transcended positions to a great extent and that in itself is his greatest attribute. To argue that any other player had these abilities is fruitless. I haven't seen 150 years of football, so sure I don't know, and yes there are better players in individual aspects.... but simply put: Ablett Sr was the package. Add to this, he played in a fairly tough era where umpire intervention was minimal - eg. defenders were allowed to scrag and chop - and you may come to an appreciation of the guy's abilities. If you really want to compare him to modern day stars, well then there is no comparison. Franklin can't take a pack mark nor use the other side of his body and to tell the truth doesn't put his head over it that much, Riewoldt has no distance on his kicks and just doesn't have awareness, Brown is bloody good at his best but again although having the courage and Careyesque stature, the freakish side of his game is not there. Pavlich at the very top of his game can do some pretty special things, and is actually quite similar to Ablett Sr as a package - it's just that he is about 80% of that full package! Comparing to stars of yesteryear, Mr Football was a tough as guts CHB but rarely went elsewhere, Leigh Matthews was just round ball tough, but certainly didn't have the skills of Ablett Sr (although he more than made up for it with his tenacity), Coleman didn't play the game long enough. I won't go on too long.... never really saw these players anyways. Ablett Sr without a doubt is the most talented footballer, certainly that I have seen. Again, he just had the whole package, abilities in every conceivable area. It does not mean he was the most valuable player to a team, but Captain Farking Obvious would have to agree that there has not been another player since who consistently displays these all-round abilities.
geelong now have made up for the dissapointment of those years, west coast were agreat team but premierships are harder to win now so geelong are right up there with the best and are not done with yet.
Its a very strange system the 2nd Final 6. West Coast and Geelong became the "highest ranked winning teams" as Collingwood was knocked out. Im a Crows supporter and in 93 we finished 5th, and West Coast 6th. Because we knocked out 3rd and 4th Adelaide became the second highest ranked winning team and played off for a Grand Final spot in the 2nd Semi Final! (we were technically ranked above Essendon who finished 1st)
No more Geelong, the crappest team of all No more Geelong, who's never on the ball They lose the game as it should be lost At home or far away Our banner's ripped in half, from dawn to dark Down at Kardinia Park
Got to love the bias of Victorian commentators,( except for the legend Dennis Commetti). Ablett and numerous other Geelong players elbow west coast players in the head, they say nothing. Wilson fair front on hip and shoulder, commentators say he needs to stop carrying on with silly stuff. Lol worst thing hasn't changed much in 32 years. Up the eagles, we will be champs again.
I was only 7 when we made the GF for the second time, and you know the boys wanted this one after the heartbreak in '91 against the Hawks. I was surprised with tickets to the game by my mum, which for a kid of 7, was like my birthday, Easter and Christmas coming all on the same day, loved every minute of the day, the noise was deafening, the atmosphere was electric, and the party afterwards. Since then we've won 2 more, I really hope there are many more to come. GO YOU EAGLES!!
@M Seriously dude, I love football just as much as I love Footy, but don't go shooting ur mouth off on an AFL video about Footballs popularity.
I don’t know about being a minority sport in NSW and QLD, have u checked out Sydney and Brisbane fan base ? Rugby is the biggest sport in those two states ! Soccer is really big in very poor countries as you don’t need much equipment or space ! It will definitely grow as Australia has a huge ethnic population! But not to the heights you envisage ! To each his own is the saying and I for one will always be an AFL fan , it’s our game !Who knows what 2050 will bring ? I would say cricket has a lot of followers as well ! America has NFL and Baseball and Canada has ice hockey and those sports will always be huge there !
In my humble opinion....At 1:48, when Chris Mainwaring gets the ball and plays on , until the goal is scored, is the best passage of controlled good play, ever...Chris Lewis rules too, but Sumich's flip to Matera, is the best ploy ever. No one was ready, no one was even watching.
Tony Evan’s most underrated player in that game. Materia was a god in the game but Evan’s saved the eagles 3 times when the eagles hadn’t found there momentum yet, he in my opinion is the MVP on this day.
Absolutely true 👍
I watched this as a boy and loved it.. watching it now.. still the same!.. The day the AFL truly became the AFL
@user-vk2wp4ot8hare u serious. It's the biggest sport in Australia by far. Why can't u just let us have it regardless if soccer is the biggest sport in the world. This guy was just appreciating a fond moment he had when he was a child and you had to ruin it. Soccer fans are always the same
Still have this recorded on vhs! With the front page of the newspaper in the sleeve of the vhs box!
Throw it in the fire .
I'll never forget that day back in 1992
I remember watching this as a boy.. to hear Dennis call this game live then, and now thanks to youtube and uploader.. and to hear him call his last game today in the 2016 GF... great memories :)
Its a wonder Ablett did not get a free kick after Pike smashed his head into Abletts elbow in the first quarter
Perth stood still for this match. The streets were practically empty.
how old were you back then?
primary school. I remember driving home with my parents just before the match started and the streets were pretty much empty.
JJ M probably all at the pubs lol
I've heard similar stories, it was similar in 2018 as well
@@jordanklingsporn763 no offence but it wasn't. I was around in 92 it literally stopped Perth
Watching this after the Eagles fourth premiership in 2018.
1:27:13 - Iconic Dennis Cometti commentary.
indeed, thats the line I always remember when i think about this grand final
1:28:08 “Matera sets sail for home and the Eagles hit the front!!!”
This is going to all happen again tomorrow.
Marlin Rabid dingo it did
And you were right 💙💛🦅🏉
sure did mate!
Love how Bruce hosted 1992 and 2018. Would’ve loved to see him commentate cuz and Judd in their prime.
Woulda been better than Robert Walls
Yeah the 2006 commentary was heavily pro-Swans.@@wce05308
I really liked the Cat Attack song, it had a real punch to it.
Sadly they only played that song between 1991 to 1993 but I first started going to the Geelong matches around that time and that song is in my early memories of watching the cats.
@JG-bw6luYou are probably a paedophile.
I was a kid at Adventure World for this game. Never did a kid less want to be at Adventure World. Perth kids will get it. :)
Wow i watched this when i was 7!
Bruce's youthful face made me feel so bloody old.....
Greatest day in history. Never in doubt.
I’m no eagles supporter but I’d love to see a documentary about this. Being the first time it went interstate
Same.❤
A quirk of the final six system in 1992 saw West Coast, by virtue of Collingwood losing to St Kilda, progress to the second-semi final against Geelong, instead of the first-semi final against Footscray. Had Collingwood won their week-one match, the Grand Final match up would likely still have been the same (West Coast & Geelong were clearly the best two teams of 1992), but Geelong would have been the team coming off a week's rest. It might have made a difference after half time in this game.
Amazing to see Brett Heady took pretty much all marks on his chest. I vaguely remember it had something to do with previous shoulder dislocations ??
Apart from the 1989 one, Ablett stunk in grand finals
Yeah but he played more than you
@@wevans1400 yeah but I won a premiership
He kicked 3 goals in this game one was a 60 metre gem I'm sure you couldn't kick and the Eagles were the best defence for a decade, so you're being quite rude.
Ablett deliberately elbows Pike in the jaw right at the start of the game [good slow-mo replay @15:05].
Loved Gary Ablett Sr, my favourite ever player. But JESUS he was a sniper. He could fill a highlights reel with his low acts. Raised elbow man-on-man work was his specialty. That's as bad as it gets, Magro on Jesaulenko is the only one I can think of that's worse. Can't believe it hasn't become known as "the infamous" hit on Don Pyke. There was no post-match outrage, I can't even remember it being dwelt on much at all.
that's was how footy was played back then, you just got up and played on (if you could), If you couldn't you just squared up next game.
He stunk in grand finals except 1989
Obviously you have overlooked what Leigh Matthews did his entire career.
BigRamifications not to mention he was the recipient of the most bullshit played mark in 1994
You must have 50 different personalities in you. One minute you rave on how fantastic Gary Ablett Snr was then you call him a sniper. Do you remember Leigh Matthews?
26 years later, they are back. #AFLGF
the first Grand Final to be played with the then new Great Southern Stand
0:26 *premiership number 7, nice going channel Seven haha
Suma was an awesome Goal Kicker
highest eagle for goals in a grand final
Apparently when he missed that shot in the 2nd qtr. an angry eagles fan rang his mum at half time and said that Suma was going to cost them the game.
26yrs on and the commentary is still as one sided as ever
I remember these years well. When gelong finally threw away the supper snipper manual & became a team of foot ballers instead, then they started to win grand finals. Trouble is loopy Lloyd found that manual and became the biggest supper snipper the game ever saw.
Guy at 135.52 is definitely a time traveler
just shows you how much the rules have changed!
2022 cant believe this is 30 years ago you've heard it before but its bloody true ...life goes fast..the game now is too much like basket ball up and down the court no hip and shoulders fucked up the grit of the game
Introduction of the Interchange has turned it from a game of skill into one of endurance.
In 95 years the cup had never left Victoria, then Malcolm Blight loses 2 GFs as Geelong coach and wins 2 as Adelaide coach in 7 years.
All credit to the Eagles a great Australian Football Club.
But Western Australia's best sporting
achievement happened 3 years before the Club existed in a New York harbour.
This grand final was exactly 9 years to the day since the Perth yacht club won the americas cup ❤
West Coast Eagles Deserved the Premiership without doubt ironically 1992 was the year i was born
Collingwood is the best
syph look up the colliwobbles song, it will prove they aren’t the best
I was conceived pretty must bang on this day in 1992 and born 9months later I was all ways Distant to be an eagle
Actually Geelong were going for their 7th premiership Craig.
The Eagles are the second most successful club of the AFL era(1990 to present) with 4 premierships to Hawthorns 5. Hopefully we match this in 2019
@user-vk2wp4ot8hThere are only 195 countries in the world, you kid toucher.
Interesting to hear Commetti's comments at the 11:00 minute mark of the video...
"Macintosh goes down on Brownless"... lucky Billy.
+Anthony Wasley I call him the Drug Den.
+Anthony Wasley ps: Great pickup.
What... no one is kneeling for the National Anthem?? Oh that's right... this is Australia, a country that is very proud of their flag. Good on them!
Our anthem is crap
"Like a cork in the ocean" Classic quote Den😊
Cats were still the best team of the year (‘92). West coast should have won in ‘91 and Geelong in ‘92. The cats should have won at least one premiership in the 90’s.
The Geelong teams of this era had plenty of stars (Ablett, Hocking, Couch, Hinkley, Stoneham, etc.) but not enough depth. Typically the last 6-8 players picked would be journeymen at best, and not up to the heat of a grand final. West Coast had a few quiet players on the day too - but everyone made a contribution at some point. That - and Matera - proved the difference.
l went to Windy Hill with my Bomber mate late in the 88 Season. Cats were unfavoured and won by ten goals, winning me a healthy bet in the process as l knew what was coming with guys like Ablett, Stoneham, Couchy etc. l put loads more bets on pre-89 including one of "Making the GF" That Hawks side has to be best ever so to push them to kick, and as Dawson above said, with basically half a side...
Not sure that Eagles were quite ready in 91 to beat Hawthorn, tho in saying that,...if Sumich kicks that goal at Waverley against Collingwood....hmmm. Cats just never quite had enough to beat Eagles....just so unlucky to run into yet another all-time Great Side. 93 was really the season that got away for Cats....we thrashed ALL of the other finalists over the last six weeks of the season but lost too many games earlier to even make the finals....we'd have won the Flag easily in 93, l have no doubt.
@@hanajinks1044 and to think in 1993 we only finished one and a half games from top spot, yet still finished seventh and missed the final six - and just the following year they changed it to a final eight! If only Malcolm Blight did not try and go defensive in the first half of ‘93 and let the cats play their true game style like they did in the back half, 1993 could have been the year. Gary Ablett could have kicked 10 in the grand final that year, ah - what might have been…
@@jasonvandermeer9854
I hadn't realized we'd finished so close to Top and had to go and have another look at the season...
I went to the Rd 3 game against Nth at KP full of confidence and Carey played the whole game down at the Wind end and heat us of his own boot. Just a Colossus. I went to the Rd 6 game where Gazza kicked 14 in a losing side and also the Rd 9 game at KP when Eagles overcame a three-quarter time deficit to out-tough us. Just not quite there,...in all three games. Blew them all away late in the season tho...typical Geelong. I vaguely remember knowing that if we'd thrashed the Eagles in Perth in the last round then we'd get in and then just hoping for the Four Points once it was clear it'd be close.
Telecom Australia billboard in 1992. How cruelly ironic. The year the 'opening to competition' was announced.
Telecom Government owned until 1992. Hab a 100% monopoly over communications but advertised as all sporting and arts events so that "fat cat" public servants would get reserved seats and top catering. What a rort against the taxpayers.
Geelong were not even using their traditional anthem. That also explains why they got smacked.
10:58 "Macintosh goes down on Brownless" Really? Save it for after the game lads.
hahaha
Turning point in game 1:23:17 Ablett's dreadful torp attempt
Sumich with the freak snap on half time :)
THIS IS WHEN A.F.L WAS FOOTBALL.NOT LIKE SHOWPONIES THESE DAYS
who was that in the rooms at the end? he was 7 foot? was it burton?
What's with all the paper rubbish/ debris all over the field?
What a day for footy😃
Hey WCEagleRock do you have the 94' one in dvd quality?
I do. I will try to upload it in the next few days for you
Appreciate it mate thanks
@@CursoryMercenary sorry mate I uploaded it last night and its has already been removed due to copyright. Not sure why some are allowed and some get blocked. Sorry mate
No worries mate thanks, I really don't get this nonsense of theirs seriously :)
Great performance by the west coast eagles. They were basically the west Australian state of origin team minus a few players. Still they had to win in Melbourne and they did. Too many passengers for Geelong. The Geelond sides 2007 and onwards were made of sterner stuff even if they maybe didn't have the individual brilliance of the early 90s side.
I haven't seen this since I was a kid. Great win by the Eagles. I'd forgotten what a dirty bunch of pricks the Victorians were in those days. Elbows into the head etc. Especially guys like Ablett and Billy Brainless... check out the knees into the head by Brownless on McIntosh well after the mark had been taken, 26:15 on the video. Utterly disgraceful.
As a cats fan - sad to see the tactics they (the cats) employed to win - well done wc - the team of the 90s - along with the kangaroos
+hardtobeat84 Absolute rubbish. The Eagles didn't get concessions... they were actually given restrictions. Ability to only draft players from WA in their first season and that was after the VFL raped the WAFL of 19 players in 4 weeks before the Eagles were allowed to touch them... so the Eagles were left with the dregs. The Eagles were the only AFL team to only have a list of 35 when the rest of the competition had 52. Had to play their home finals they'd earned... in Melbourne in the early years... and had to fight to get home finals played at Subiaco.
The reason the Eagles were successful is because AFL teams had not taken recruiting seriously in the early 90s. They paid literally NO attention to scouting young players... and as a result the Eagles were able to pick up players that other AFL clubs ignored. Peter Matera was drafted at #4... behind 3 guys that barely played a game in the AFL in their careers.
Billy "Brainless" is not a Victorian but OK sure lets go with that...... #factsarenotimportant
Yeh cos Woosha Worsfold was a total boy scout
Old time love ❤ it 🏉🏉🏉🏉🏉💯💖⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
it looks like hocking got ko'd at 1:12:06 for about 1 second. does anyone know how many missed marks Brownless had?..
only 2 interchange players and 25 minute quarters (with only time on for injuries)
why did they have to change it?
EDIT but a great day
+no comment Because Kevin Sheedy pushed for more...
Because they caved in to the selfish players and coaches.
I remember this as a boy - This is where the AFL was Truly Born. Decade's later and I watch the VFL do everything they can to protect themselves :(
Like give 2 new interstate franchises piles and piles of top draft picks?
West Coast were better on the day, but Geelong had their chances too:
27:30 Riccardi hits the post, would have ben 24-5
28:45 Hocking misses from 20 metres, would have been 25-5
48:00 Brownless misses from a tight angle, would have been 47-18
1:23:15 Ablett doesn't spot Stoneham free inside 50, a goal makes it 68-45
1:53:30 Bairstow on target but touched on the line, would have cut the margin to 11 points
The Geelong teams of 2007-2011 would have taken these critical chances. Just saying.
The start....going home from work with eagles colours on the tc Cortina antenna....cans were waiting
where is the garannys vs the swannies?? what happened to youtube???? please someone put it up
At the end of this clip spot Eddie Macguire very young looking then.
number is the means by which we distinguish greater from lesser
Gary Ablett, AKA God, kicked 4 goals in 3 losing Grand Finals in the 90s, but was the greatest player of all time? Makes sense.
Hey Gummy Shark enough of the Ablett bashing, why r u so butthurt? Lol
Great White7 then there was the time he kicked 9 goals in 1989
I am just saying when he was needed, 3/4 of the time, he went missing. I would rate Dunstall, Carey, Williams, etc, in front of him as far as being the best I ever saw.
nah he was a kickass big game player, 67 goals in 16 finals, 43 in 11 state games, norm smith medallist, his gf in 94 and 95 weren't good but he was still a gun on the big stage
+Great White7 Gary Ablett Sr was an absolute genius. He was hard, freakish, could kick a ball 50m either side of his body, punch a torp 60m into the breeze on the run (and it is rumoured he did this on the left, but I never saw that), leap higher than any ruckman of any era, outmuscle the strongest full backs and take one-arm speccies, run into a congested pack and come out with the ball, deliver a bump so hard that it could puncture the lungs of bearded giants, outsprint (in the 1980s at least) 90% of the competition, snap a goal from over his shoulder (again either side) from any pocket.... what else, need I go on? There is evidence of all of this.... look at the highlights. The guy simply was the most talented player going around, he was a footballing superman! This does not mean he was the best full forward, or the best wing, or the greatest half forward.... he transcended positions to a great extent and that in itself is his greatest attribute. To argue that any other player had these abilities is fruitless. I haven't seen 150 years of football, so sure I don't know, and yes there are better players in individual aspects.... but simply put: Ablett Sr was the package. Add to this, he played in a fairly tough era where umpire intervention was minimal - eg. defenders were allowed to scrag and chop - and you may come to an appreciation of the guy's abilities. If you really want to compare him to modern day stars, well then there is no comparison. Franklin can't take a pack mark nor use the other side of his body and to tell the truth doesn't put his head over it that much, Riewoldt has no distance on his kicks and just doesn't have awareness, Brown is bloody good at his best but again although having the courage and Careyesque stature, the freakish side of his game is not there. Pavlich at the very top of his game can do some pretty special things, and is actually quite similar to Ablett Sr as a package - it's just that he is about 80% of that full package! Comparing to stars of yesteryear, Mr Football was a tough as guts CHB but rarely went elsewhere, Leigh Matthews was just round ball tough, but certainly didn't have the skills of Ablett Sr (although he more than made up for it with his tenacity), Coleman didn't play the game long enough. I won't go on too long.... never really saw these players anyways. Ablett Sr without a doubt is the most talented footballer, certainly that I have seen. Again, he just had the whole package, abilities in every conceivable area. It does not mean he was the most valuable player to a team, but Captain Farking Obvious would have to agree that there has not been another player since who consistently displays these all-round abilities.
geelong now have made up for the dissapointment of those years, west coast were agreat team but premierships are harder to win now so geelong are right up there with the best and are not done with yet.
The true birth of the AFL!
Can someone add 1994 and 2006 afl grand final
I have uploaded both multiple times. They both get taken down for copyright reasons. I dont understand why some are allowed and some get blocked.
i watched this game while listening to acdc cmmon the eagles
It only took them 6 seasons, it took the crows 7 Seasons, and Port 8 Seasons, yet Brisbane Lions won their first in only their 5th season.
2:14:20 for the kick to make it official
This was Geelong's best (and only legitimate) chance to snare a flag in this era, but unfortunately the Eagles were just too good.
..had a chance in 89 but blew it by going to sleep just before half-time and conceding three goals
they really gotta bring back that song
2:18:36 The moment.
GO EAGLES!!!!!
Its a very strange system the 2nd Final 6. West Coast and Geelong became the "highest ranked winning teams" as Collingwood was knocked out. Im a Crows supporter and in 93 we finished 5th, and West Coast 6th. Because we knocked out 3rd and 4th Adelaide became the second highest ranked winning team and played off for a Grand Final spot in the 2nd Semi Final! (we were technically ranked above Essendon who finished 1st)
Nice one Gary.
Never be another side like that ❤
West coast 1992 1994 2006 2018 West coast
If west coast don’t win an odd number year premiership then it’s a failure.
46:44
1:28:06
can you please remove the description. it was a spoiler for me and ruined the result of the match.
2019 is geelongs year
Jason Sefton lol looks like the tigers took it
1:41:20 - She had the last laugh
Shanghai Expo, 2010, 250k-1m/day
☘️
Up tha Eagles way out west were the Eagles fly,s
❤️❤️❤️❤️
We are Chokelong....
No more Geelong, the crappest team of all
No more Geelong, who's never on the ball
They lose the game as it should be lost
At home or far away
Our banner's ripped in half, from dawn to dark
Down at Kardinia Park
Cameron Aiello *crappiest
Their banners. Banned from Kardinia Park.
😂😂😂
Then Collingwoods banner was ripped in half in 2018...
Go eagles
back in the day when aaaaaaalllllll of the eagles were on the gear
Fuck off
Wasn't that 2006 that they were on the gear.
Jesus! Gablett Snr was 30 here!!? He looks late 40s haha
Aren't white shorts worn by the away team?
How shit was the condition of the turf.
O.K. here we go, I'm pressing start '...
best hair in the game was Peter Riccardi's.
Gary Ayres mullet beats it ;)
Rick ardi with a silent P
Got to love the bias of Victorian commentators,( except for the legend Dennis Commetti). Ablett and numerous other Geelong players elbow west coast players in the head, they say nothing. Wilson fair front on hip and shoulder, commentators say he needs to stop carrying on with silly stuff. Lol worst thing hasn't changed much in 32 years. Up the eagles, we will be champs again.
Eagles were a gun team. Except Langdon , he was always ordinary
1:59:48, Well done Chris..
rest up, now
West Coast Eagles rock
West cost are poop
Prime Matera vs prime Judd
How good would that be