https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEu3byWjbG0The Knights Era produced some of the best and worst (on field) moments in Essendon history.
Why in the name of God would anyone be proud of that win? We won because the opposition player missed an easy shot for goal. That wasn’t an Essendon win, it was a St Kilda loss.
WTF
I’m betting that he’s a ‘glass half full’ kinda guy!
That Princes Park game was the greatest skill display I’ve ever seen on a wet day (comfortably beating Darren Bewicks’s four bounce goal on a splashy Gabba). And it was serious rain – thanks to blocked drainage, the front row of the top deck of the southern stand filled with water (i.e. it was 20cm deep).
Thanks DJR. I knew that I could rely on you to remember that incident.I remember an opening round match in the late eighties/early nineties out at Waverley where Plugger almost strangled Brad Fox (possibly his debut for the club?) to death.Anyone remember that one?
The ball was at the other end of the ground. The goal ump stood impassively five metres away and did nothing. I was in the pocket at that northern end and used every swear word ever invented, for both Plugger and the ump.Was in 1992. Great article on it at https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2014/jul/16/the-chokehold-a-history-of-violence
“I went to the stage of actually saying goodbye to my family,” recalls Fox, now 44 and long-since retired from a nomadic football career that later took in multiple premierships at Gisborne and Keilor football clubs. “My Dad was a policeman and I remember thinking, ‘Well, he can’t kill me out here in front of 40,000 witnesses. I mean, that just can’t happen. But I got to the stage where I realised it could happen. I actually said goodbye to my family.”
Also thanks for sharing that article, have never seen it before and was quite a good read.
In 1995 at Princess park we smashed the saints in the wet. It wasn’t just wet it was pouring all day,
Would be great to see the tape of this.
An astonishing score line for the conditions
24.10.154 - 5.8.38
Second biggest winning margin against them
I can’t recall anything more than being there. and when they blew the second siren so the fans could run on, the guy who won the sprint to the centre did a full in dive and slid through the mud.
Can’t wait til we kick 20 odd goals again.
I remember an opening round match in the late eighties/early nineties out at Waverley where Plugger almost strangled Brad Fox (possibly his debut for the club?) to death.Anyone remember that one?
Was in 1992. Great article on it at https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2014/jul/16/the-chokehold-a-history-of-violence
“I went to the stage of actually saying goodbye to my family,” recalls Fox, now 44 and long-since retired from a nomadic football career that later took in multiple premierships at Gisborne and Keilor football clubs. “My Dad was a policeman and I remember thinking, ‘Well, he can’t kill me out here in front of 40,000 witnesses. I mean, that just can’t happen. But I got to the stage where I realised it could happen. I actually said goodbye to my family.”
I remember an opening round match in the late eighties/early nineties out at Waverley where Plugger almost strangled Brad Fox (possibly his debut for the club?) to death.
Anyone remember that one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEu3byWjbG0The Knights Era produced some of the best and worst (on field) moments in Essendon history.
Why in the name of God would anyone be proud of that win? We won because the opposition player missed an easy shot for goal. That wasn’t an Essendon win, it was a St Kilda loss.
Because we did what no one else could do for 19 rounds and protected our own record? We had them on a plate in that game after quarter time, and losing it would’ve been unjust
I watched this game from the lobby of a resort in Phuket, streaming some Darwin TV channel with tractor ads, and got sneaky hammered on duty free gin and orange juice. That goal from Fletch really got us going, and I remember McPhee was captain. Round 19 generally means we are struggling to even field a team, this was a huge underdog victory for us.
How about the horseshit one the last round of 2008 when they put the live ladder on the scoreboard so we rolled over to let them make top 4?
The one and only appearance of jumpin’ John Williams. Danny Chartres was elevated to the senior list in order for us to have enough emergencies.
Retirement game for Rama, Pev, JJ, Big Dog.
Hopefully we get closer than last years dismal effort. 22 blokes literally gave up that day and turned into witches hats. The fact Saints got pumped last week is worrying and we are coming off a really strange momentum
How about the horseshit one the last round of 2008 when they put the live ladder on the scoreboard so we rolled over to let them make top 4?
Riewoldt misses an easy fkn shot at goal every week, him scoring that goal would have been undeserved and a fluke that could only occur against Essendon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEu3byWjbG0The Knights Era produced some of the best and worst (on field) moments in Essendon history.
Why in the name of God would anyone be proud of that win? We won because the opposition player missed an easy shot for goal. That wasn’t an Essendon win, it was a St Kilda loss.
I get where you’re coming from. But in an Essendon v St Kilda match an Essendon win and St Kilda loss are pretty highly correlated outcomes.
IIRC, it was Essendon who made all the running that day, got a deserved lead and beat a previously unbeaten team - I was in the excited camp on this one.
Don’t think the game itself was overly memorable but that Fletcher launch for a goal from 75m at the Dome in the late 00’s (07-08 from memory) was a joy to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEu3byWjbG0The Knights Era produced some of the best and worst (on field) moments in Essendon history.
Why in the name of God would anyone be proud of that win? We won because the opposition player missed an easy shot for goal. That wasn’t an Essendon win, it was a St Kilda loss.
Agree to an extent but we lost 3 players during that game (dempsey, hille and one other) so we were running out of gas. We were 40-odd points up late in the 3rd.
Was the story with Atkinson that Hird told him you need to put this much effort in and do that much training and he said thanks but no thanks I'll just retire instead?I really rated him. Knights hated him.
Atko. Lived at Watergardens that guy. Reckon I saw him there every time I went in.
So you also lived at Watergardens Davo?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEu3byWjbG0The Knights Era produced some of the best and worst (on field) moments in Essendon history.
Why in the name of God would anyone be proud of that win? We won because the opposition player missed an easy shot for goal. That wasn’t an Essendon win, it was a St Kilda loss.
Because we did what no one else could do for 19 rounds and protected our own record? We had them on a plate in that game after quarter time, and losing it would’ve been unjust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEu3byWjbG0The Knights Era produced some of the best and worst (on field) moments in Essendon history.
Why in the name of God would anyone be proud of that win? We won because the opposition player missed an easy shot for goal. That wasn’t an Essendon win, it was a St Kilda loss.
Settle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEu3byWjbG0The Knights Era produced some of the best and worst (on field) moments in Essendon history.
Why in the name of God would anyone be proud of that win? We won because the opposition player missed an easy shot for goal. That wasn’t an Essendon win, it was a St Kilda loss.
WTF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEu3byWjbG0The Knights Era produced some of the best and worst (on field) moments in Essendon history.
Why in the name of God would anyone be proud of that win? We won because the opposition player missed an easy shot for goal. That wasn’t an Essendon win, it was a St Kilda loss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEu3byWjbG0The Knights Era produced some of the best and worst (on field) moments in Essendon history.
More bad than good