Greatest Swans moments of all time.

[Velour&Ruffles]

Wow i remember having these 3 games on video for years until they became unwatchable after too many viewings,as a few have said its so hard as theres so many great moments.Who remembers the game in 96 i think against the Tiges at waverley on a cold rainy day and the tiges kicking a goal to hit the front with seconds to go only for the ump to pay a shepherding free against Richo to Dunkley when the ball had actually sailed 10 metres above their heads,Dunks should of got an academy award nomination that day,or that run of games in 96 when we beat pretty much everyone we played in melbourne including the blues and north at optus oval with Dunks again towelling up Carey.Just on Dunkley how good could he have been if he could kick better,in my book he was one of the best pack marks the swans have had in years.

Glad others remember this fondly too - it is one of my favourite Swans moments. Dunkley had actually given Richo a bit of a curry in the second quarter and the big galoot had been looking for payback from that point on. He got his payback, but it cost the Tiges the match. A good friend of mine is a Richmond girl and even now she cites this incident as proof of how mentally feeble Forrest Gump Richardson was.

[Nico]

He did his groin in that incident and missed the "Syyydddnnneeyyyy" game against West Coast and the the 1st Final v Hawthorn.

The birth of that chant is another great moment in our history.

I heard that he actually did the groin during the week before that game when he was getting over a fence at the greyhounds somewhere in Sydney. Perhaps at the time he should have been home and in beddy byes.

[Velour&Ruffles]

Wow i remember having these 3 games on video for years until they became unwatchable after too many viewings,as a few have said its so hard as theres so many great moments.Who remembers the game in 96 i think against the Tiges at waverley on a cold rainy day and the tiges kicking a goal to hit the front with seconds to go only for the ump to pay a shepherding free against Richo to Dunkley when the ball had actually sailed 10 metres above their heads,Dunks should of got an academy award nomination that day,or that run of games in 96 when we beat pretty much everyone we played in melbourne including the blues and north at optus oval with Dunks again towelling up Carey.Just on Dunkley how good could he have been if he could kick better,in my book he was one of the best pack marks the swans have had in years.

And by the way, I agree with this too. Dunks in '96 was at the height of his marking powers and it was a thing of beauty. Strangely enough, the only other Swan I can think of in the past 15 years who could come close to Dunks as a pack mark was the much (and in my view unjustly) maligned Luffy. He was a seriously good clamp in traffic.

[Nico]

Another great moment was in the 70's at the Lake Oval. Gary Brice who came from Port Melbourne and played mostly half forward flank was poleaxed by the little Fitzroy sniper/nancy boy Warwick Irwin with a wicked elbow to the temple just seconds before half time. Bricey lay prone on the ground seemingly destined for other parts. Trainers gathered around and tended to his crumpled body. We stood on the wing near the scoreboard with a large group of blokes from Port Melbourne and they started the "Port" chant that got louder and louder. Miracle of all miracles occured and Bricey started to move and slowly (very slowly) he raised his body from the turf. He got to his feet and he staggered/was dragged from the ground by the trainers. Cheers went up from around the ground. Needless to say he didn't appear after half time.

For us Lake Oval devotees Max James (father of Heath) took a truly spectacular mark right in front of us on the wing. He charged from a distance back and took off like a bird and sat on the shoulders of his opponent and held the ball firmly in his grasp to the ground.

A more, lets say, dark moment was at the Carlton Oval playing Hawthorn. Norm Goss had taken a mark in front of his face. He had fully lowered his arms with the ball when he was smashed from the front by one the greatest thugs of all time... the wonderful, lauded love child of Mike Sheahan...Leigh Mathews. Goss was carried off on a stretcher and I don't know that he was anywhere near the player he was after that incident. I can still see it and still hear it, it was dispicable. No report would you believe. Interestingly in an interview with Mike Sheahan on Fox recently he used the excuse that he was frustrated with his poor form at the end of career for smashing the face of Neville Bruns all over the same oval. The only VFL/AFL player who has ever been charged with assault on the footy field, he conveniently forgets all his other behind play and in play thuggery.

[Primmy]

That Port game was brilliant to watch. I had a call from Adelaide Crows friends telling me that a son had called him in to watch the game as Port were being smashed by the Swans, mobile phoning another friend and cheering the Swans while laughing their heads off. Mad Mob. I know I have said it before, but it is possible to do an aeroplane loop of a cottage kitchen, and a mexican wave with four people on two couches, accompanied by a barking dog. We screamed. It was mad.

[Triple B]

I heard that he actually did the groin during the week before that game when he was getting over a fence at the greyhounds somewhere in Sydney. Perhaps at the time he should have been home and in beddy byes.

M8, I can guarantee with authority that you heard wrong on this one. He hurt it in the Barry Young incident.

[On-Baller]

He had 10 at half time I think (with a spell on the bench in the 2nd quarter). Absolutely incredible, he was kicking them from everywhere! Pity there's no footage of the game.

Yeah i was lucky enough to be there that day and the reason he went off was due to the fitzroy fullback Mark Zanotti was trying to scrag Lockett [can you imagine?]so plugger nwas called to the bench so he wouldnt retaliate,Im fairly sure Barrasi explained his extended stint on the bench as a miscommunication between he and the bench.

[ROK Lobster]

Ryan O'Keefe's arse?

[AnnieH]

Ryan O'Keefe's arse?

Buns of cement.

[Primmy]

Ryan O'Keefe's arse?

Hmm, you have a point. Best I have seen. Yep, in contention.

[Cant turn right]

Davo's 4 goals simply because unlike the gf, the game seemed so lost but they turned it around.

[GongSwan]

hmmm, i was at the 96 prelim, makes it tough, flag in 05? of course, but really,, don't ask me to make a decision on this, put in everything Paul Kelly ever did, Daryn Cresswell, Lockett, Mick, noooooooo too hard

[BSA5]

Needs "Here it is!". I know it's sorta covered by Roos and Hall lifting the cup, but it's its own moment, needs its own option.

[aardvark]

Needs "Here it is!". I know it's sorta covered by Roos and Hall lifting the cup, but it's its own moment, needs its own option.

Agree. Sends a shiver down the spine every time I hear it.

[Nolie]

Agree with all the posts particularly the 2003 PF against Port. I have it on video. At one point the camera shines on a Port lady, she with all the other Port people, has this perplexed look on her face "Come On Port!" she wails in a disbelieving plaintiff voice. The same game Leo Barry makes a massive lunge in front of Gavin Wanganeen to spoil a mark and certain goal, hurts himself as he crashes to the ground, a stunning movement of the ball from HBF across the ground to Darryn Creswell who runs in, stutters, steadies and bangs a goal through (early last quarter), Barry Hall rushing to the wing to contest boundary throw -ins and keeps on knocking it out wasting valuable minutes , the bump on Kirk of course, Tim Lane making the comment "Everyone thought it was going to be a one-sided affair - trouble is its the wrong team" and then finally after the game - and I don't know if it is caught on tape - Darryn Cresswell pulling out his red and white jumper and showing it to the baying crowd.

And as a final postcript - the win got the Swans into the Prelim Final against Brisbane and channel ten had the "Sorry" introduction - 'The following people might like to apologise to the Sydney Swans. These experts said Sydney would finish last. Tonight they are playing for a place in the Grand Final".