I’ve got a Final 9 system. They’ll have to change it to 9 or 10 soon.
Hope not.
Don’t forget probably the greatest individual performance ever when Ablett kicked 14.7 for Geelong and Essendon still won by 4 goals. Salmon’s 10 goals helped.
I wish I could get that game somewhere, because I only heard it on the radio.
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Brereton had said there were 3 successive games that would see us finished…West Coast, Collingwood and Carlton…we’d lose them all.
We beat WCE in the scarf-waving game with a late Salmon goal.
Then we thrashed Collingwood in the wet.
Then accounted for FCFC by about 4 goals in a game that saw Calthorpe and C Daniher become viable contenders by blanketing FCFC stars.
You’re welcome.
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Oh boy wow wee, saving this for later tonight, thanks mate.
My stupid cousin decided this would be a good day to get married, I was in church with the old style transistor radio and ear buds in, and my mum cracking the ■■■■■.
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I was in the EXACT same situation (cousin’s wedding) for the Carlton draw in 93. I had a radio watch, was was fancy tech for the time.
Main difference was that my mum grabbed the other ear bud to listen herself.
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I endorse this post.
It’s an excellent podcast that I have relistened to in recent weeks.
Besides the Essendon episode, the Geelong episode with Malcolm Blight and Footscray episodes are well worth a listen. Also the Carlton one purely for the GF loss that season…
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Do they also do one on the collapse of Fitzroy, or am I inventing ■■■■ again?
The Fitzroy episode has Robert Shaw as co-host and it’s also a very interesting look at the club in what turned out to be its last competitive season in the AFL. The Roys had a great 1993 and our Friday night game against them mid-season was a classic game.
Another good episode is the Sydney Swans, who only won 1 game in 1993 and were close to folding. It discusses luring Ron Barassi to Sydney.
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Yeah I remember listening to that. There’s also a really good doco on Kayo about the fall of Fitzroy as well. Morbidly fascinating in a way.
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I was at an event in Ara-bloody-rat. The only station I could pick up there was 3AW and it wasn’t their game, so it was just occasional updates.
Harvs 
Kernahan 
And fark Fark Carlton!
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I remember that well. But I think by that time the players and the fans were really starting to believe that we could beat all of those teams, and we damn well did. I also remember that on the ABC after the FC game Tim Lane was summing things up and he’d referred to various teams, and then he said, “And Essendon, well, Essendon are over the hump!”
We dropped a game against Sydney in Sydney in the run home, but we all regarded it as kind of a week off.
Don’t think that last bit was right.
We played Sydney at the G and won by far less than we should have.
We lost in Geelong when we were 3 goals up late in the 3rd coming home with the wind. Unfortunately with only 15 fit players, and Barnesy killed us in the last. Most of those injured players missed the next 3 weeks.
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Hopefully at The Turf seeing an awesome cover band…
You’re right. I just checked. Just goes to show how fallible even the clearest memory can be.
Dean Wallis gets 7 weeks holiday these days.
Was in year 9 or 10 that year.
Went to a few games, most notably I saw us beat the Bulldogs at the G where Kickett kicked 8 and a great win out at Waverley where we beat Whorethorn. A fine memory that, as I had seen us on the end many a Hawthorn loss in the late 80s and early 90s.
It’s my favourite season of watching Essendon. They were most of them young kids, and it was fantastic to watch them as they gradually started to realise that they could take it up to any other team and win. Nobody took us seriously at the start of the year, but we finished on top of the ladder (by a short half head) and we beat every other team in the comp. Some we played more than once and lost to as well, but we beat them all.
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Melbourne ?