Didn’t we beat them?
I remember the MCG game well.
We were off that day and couldn’t get over them.
Think we only played them once.
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Try explaining to your kids that you had to listen to the prelim final on the radio because it wasn’t on tv
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I recall going the the 1993 pre season GF when we beat Richmond, and on the way home in the car I was being a tad over exuberant about the win. When my mates in the car (FCFC and Hawks supporters) tried to keep me in check, I said that none of FCFC, Hawthorn or Essendon were going to win the flag that year so I’m celebrating while I can.
Was happy to be wrong six months later.
My favourite season, I gave up playing to go watch every week. Lived in Richmond and walked to the G each weekend, a great year.
After we got belted by WC early in the season we gradually improved. A core group of older players and a bunch of young, quick guns. Reminds me a bit of Collingwood’s current team. Such a fantastic team to watch, and I just knew after Carlscum just beat us in the semi finals, with half our team out, we’d get them in the granny.
Sheeds made a terrible decision to drop Kickett for the gf though. He’d been a valuable contributor all year.
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As glorious as the GF was, my favourite watch from 93 is the PF. I return to it semi-regularly, but you have to watch the whole thing to fully appreciate it.
The first half was dreadful… everything that could go wrong did.
We were sat behind a couple of hundred Crows supporters who’d come over by the busload. It was all good-natured but geez they were loud and incessant. It was miserable.
One of our crew was adamant at half-time that “we’re still in this” despite our howls of “don’t be ridiculous - we’ve only kicked a handful and we’d need to kick 10+ and keep them to only 2 or 3”.
A 7 goal half-time lead these days is manageable. With 6-6-6 and momentum it can be reeled in quickly. In those days, it was not often overcome. I just could not see it happening. I’ve never been so happy to be proven wrong. The roar when Watson kicked the sealer was truly stadium-shaking…
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It’s been mentioned many, many times by multiple posters.
The Mark Mercuri goal is the loudest single roar I’ve heard at an AFL game.
All the young guys were involved in the play starting from inside our defensive 50.
The crowd anticipated the build up, and when Mercs slotted it clinically, the margin was back to a very manageable 16pts (?).
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I could understand the Kickett decision. He had been great during the year (including one long torpedo goal in the jacket-waving game), but in the finals he’d done nothing.
He might have been saving himself for a BOG effort in the granny, but he might have been a liability.
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Two out of three ain’t bad.
We had an 8-goal turnaround in less than a quarter the previous year…