It’s possible. Anything is possible.
We lost to FC by a similar margin the week before or the week after too.
Yeah, that one probably only missed my list since it was competitive until a dreadful last quarter. That and I already had so many Carlton games and quite a few from the “Knights is getting sacked” era.
Worst Loss Since 2000 No. 26
Round 14 2010
| Adelaide | 7.1.43 | 12.5.77 | 15.7.97 | 19.10.124 |
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| Essendon | 1.3.9 | 2.4.16 | 4.8.32 | 5.10.40 |
Notes
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Essendon never reached Adelaide’s QT score.
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Adelaide finished 11th, only 2 wins ahead of Essendon in 14th.
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Tyson Slattery played his first and only game for Essendon.
Click here to go to worst loss #25.
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I remember staying up until some ridiculous hour to watch this game at a hotel bar in Vietnam only to call it quits about 5 min into the second quarter.
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I don’t even fkg know how I dealt with 2010. I don’t even remember most of these miserable shellackings, they’ve all blurred together in my brain and melted into one big lake of ‘here we go again…’
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Oh god, i forgot about this one.
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This seem like a support group thread… pretty depressing.
Can I join.
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There’s 25 worse losses yet to come in this thread…
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I’ve got absolutely no memory of this one.
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Somehow, yes. I’m pretty confident they all belong too.
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Thankfully, neither do I. I was pretty checked out during the second half of 2010.
I was in Adelaide for this one.
My dad had got very ill while on a caravanning trip in central Australia, and had been airlifted to Adelaide. So mum and i headed over to Adelaide to be with him. When we realised we were going to be in town at the same time as Essendon, we figured we might as well go to the game, maybe get our mind off things. At the last minute, we decided to not go and just watched the game in our hotel.
What a great decision that was. Later on after the game, I went out the front of the hotel for a smoke, wearing my Essendon polo shirt. Some crows fans who’d come back from the game saw me, and gave me an absolute roasting. I can only imagine what that would have been like had we been at the ground.
Also, TSlatts could have been a player.
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The big wins under Matty Knights were epic and memorable. Some of our best wins of the last 20 years.
But man, the bad losses… oof. They were something else. And they was often against average-to-poor teams, too.
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Fifteen disposals and a goal, and I think he also got reported for belting a Crows player. In a horrible shellacking, I thought he did pretty well. I remember watching that game and thinking he was just about the only positive, he got a big tick in our house for showing a bit of fight.
Any answer that isn’t the 2014 finals loss to North Melbourne is incorrect.
Yes, he should be proud of effort that night. He deserved more than just the one game.
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Worst Loss Since 2000 No. 25
Round 1 2004
| Port Adelaide | 2.6.18 | 7.13.55 | 15.16.106 | 23.20.158 |
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| Essendon | 1.5.11 | 2.6.18 | 6.12.48 | 8.14.62 |
Notes
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First round of the season after losing to Port Adelaide in a semi-final for the second time in 2 seasons.
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Port won the disposal count 366-276.
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Brent Stanton, Nathan Lovett-Murray and Keplar Bradley all (career) debuted for Essendon.
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Matthew Allan and Justin Murphy played their first games in the red-and-black after moving across from Carlton.
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Fun fact: Stuart Dew kicked 6 goals on 5 occasions. 3 of these were against Essendon, and one of those was this game.
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Essendon would have a respectable season, bowing out in a semi-final to Geelong by 10 points. Port finished as premiers for the first and only time in their AFL history.
Click here to go to worst loss #24.
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Was this at Docklands, at night? If so, I have a vague memory of being there.
Edit: nope, it was at football park. I must be thinking of a different flogging from the Power.
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This one was actually in Adelaide on a sunny Sunday afternooon.