My Top Five Sydney - Essendon Matches

[dawson]

1) PF, 1996 - Plugger's point after the siren as we progressed to our first Grand Final in 51 years. Sheer joy, elation and pandemonium.

2) R17, 1987 - The week before we had gone crazy scoring 201 against the Eagles. This time we went even better kicking 36.20 (236) against the Bombers with Stevie Wright having an absolute field day. Missed out on three points on kicking the highest score in history. It's now the third highest of all time.

3) R15, 1997 - Wet, cold and miserable. We weren't playing very well and the Bombers were on top everywhere. Enter stage left for a Mark Bayes cameo as we win by a point. We stole this game and kept our home ground record intact.

4) R19, 2005 - First time we had defeated the Bombers in Melbourne since 1986. 1986 also marked the last time we had two wins in a year against the Red and Black.

5) R6, 1996 - Young kid called Shannon Grant shows his worth as Plugger kicks a bag and pushes Dustin Fletcher over the fence. A huge torpedo by James Hird salvages a draw.

[cruiser]

Re: My Top Five Sydney - Essendon Matches

Originally posted by dawson
1) PF, 1996 - Plugger's point after the siren as we progressed to our first Grand Final in 51 years. Sheer joy, elation and pandemonium.

2) R17, 1987 - The week before we had gone crazy scoring 201 against the Eagles. This time we went even better kicking 36.20 (236) against the Bombers with Stevie Wright having an absolute field day. Missed out on three points on kicking the highest score in history. It's now the third highest of all time.

3) R15, 1997 - Wet, cold and miserable. We weren't playing very well and the Bombers were on top everywhere. Enter stage left for a Mark Bayes cameo as we win by a point. We stole this game and kept our home ground record intact.

4) R19, 2005 - First time we had defeated the Bombers in Melbourne since 1986. 1986 also marked the last time we had two wins in a year against the Red and Black.

5) R6, 1996 - Young kid called Shannon Grant shows his worth as Plugger kicks a bag and pushes Dustin Fletcher over the fence. A huge torpedo by James Hird salvages a draw.

I agree with your selected games and the only diff for me is that I'd swap 3 and 4 around. It was after we beat them in Melb last year that I really started to get excited about our premiership chances.

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Re: Re: My Top Five Sydney - Essendon Matches

Originally posted by cruiser
I agree with your selected games and the only diff for me is that I'd swap 3 and 4 around. It was after we beat them in Melb last year that I really started to get excited about our premiership chances.

Mine would be pretty much the same matches

-Prelim final 1996 Nuff said really.

-drawn match 1996. This was the first time I saw what the Swans were capable off. I had seen the Swans steal defeat from the jaws of victory so many times. To see Justin Crawford kick that goal to break into the lead was just awesome, even if a Hird torpie with the wet ball resulted in a drawn match. To me it felt like a VICTORY. It was a legacy for things to come in 1996.

-1 point win 1997 We seriously came from nowhere to steal this one. A massive adrenalin rush to beat them AGAIN just like the year before. The crowd was at its noisiest ever; the Swans players were proverbially running through brick walls towards the end of that last quarter. From memory they stuffed up the time-clock at the ground as well. Many thought we won by 2 points when we only won by 1.

There definitely is something special about Swans-Essendon matches. Even last year with both teams struggling last season they pulled out a thriller of a match. Wasn't it Mark Johnston who yelled at Amon Buchan that he was a "weak @@@@@" & got a 50m penalty or something?

The worst, DEFINITELY that Alessio match. Enough said there really.

JF

[tez]

Always count on a good contest. A few heart breakers as
in Ricky Mott missing from 30 metres out dead in front ,
which would have given us the game at Telstra Stadium.

[ScottH]

I guess Rnd 1 2006 doesn't make it.

[cruiser]

Originally posted by ScottH
I guess Rnd 1 2006 doesn't make it.

It will only ever be memorable if we have a thread about worse ever first quarters.