That Was the Season that Was 1994 AFL

[@OriginalPlopsta]

This and 1995 are two of my favourite years of football.

[@trainco1643]

@MAN UTD yeah we’re talking about real football here, Australian rules, where the players can handle contact and real tackles and don’t need to dive and pretend they’ve been shot to try and get a free kick. Aussie Rules > soccer

[@bradleyferrier5118]

Unbelievable season, seems like there was an absolute legend mentioned with every clip.

[@mufc510]

Soccer is the greatest sport on Earth and is massive in over 240 countries. Afl is big in 4 Australian States. Soccer will be the number 1 sport in Australia by 2050 kgdbv

[@TBoneTony]

Tony Modra was one of those amazing players for Adelaide who was a super power full forward who could compete against the best for the goal kicking among Ablett, Dunstal and Lockett. Sadly for Modra, the knee injury of 1997 interrupted his career to the point where he missed out on 2 of the Crows premierships. During the years 1993 and 1994 were Tony Modra's best years and it is easy to see why many Crows fans remember him because he was just that good of a forward.

[@koulascarlett8206]

I wish I was back there

[@mabiorcholappreciationpage]

@MANCHESTER UNITED nobody gives a shit. USA 1994 World Cup can gagf for all I care.

[@trainco1643]

@MAN UTD Aussie rules is a real man’s sport played by real men that can handle contact and real tackles, and actually focus on the game rather than diving or pretending they’ve been shot just to get a free kick or opponents carded

[@glennarcher6]

A lot of good sides that year too.

[@StFidjnr]

@ 1:30:38 the ending song

[@AlonsoRules]

That discussion about finals at 5:20 was interesting - the Crows managed to get destroyed in week 1 of the finals in 1998 and still got to the grand final

[@frankmat]

97 and 98 were asterisk Premierships. The AFL stuffed up the finals format in those years. Any other year and Adelaide would never have made either grand final in 97 and 98. After Adelaide managed to win back to back after finishing 4th and 5th and only winning 13 games both seasons... it forced the AFL to change the finals format so we would never again have a mediocre team winning a flag.

[@mabiorcholappreciationpage]

@@frankmat I hate going in to bat for the Crows, but '97 doesn't have an asterisk and wasn't a reason as to why the AFL changed the finals format. Crows didn't drop a finals match in '97, so that flag is perfectly legitimate (although they really lucked out in the prelim and Grand Final). '98 has one of the biggest asterisks ever next to it, however. Crows get thumped by the Dees, but the finals system's flaw gives them a lifeline. Crows use that undeserved lifeline to scrape past the Swans, thump the Dogs and then pull another fluke flag out of their arses after North failed to seal the premiership the 2nd quarter (2.11 - 23 in the 2nd quarter from North). Adelaide 1998 Premiers* (* = helped by dodgy finals system and stolen from North)

[@carncats07]

@@mabiorcholappreciationpage I'm sorry but '97 has a very big asterisk. The Cats finished 2nd and found themselves travelling to Adelaide in the second week of the finals to play a lower placed side. That has never happened since (with the exception of the 1 preliminary final must be played at the MCG debacle).

[@mabiorcholappreciationpage]

@@carncats07 the top 8 system was very different back then and Geelong's situation makes sense when you know how that system worked. Geelong being the highest ranked losing team from week 1 were only entitled to an away spot in a semi final, whilst Adelaide being the 3rd ranked winning team were rewarded with a home semi final. If Geelong had a defender that could blanket Wayne Carey then they most likely wouldn't have ever had to worry about travelling to Adelaide

[@carncats07]

@@mabiorcholappreciationpage You've just proven that the '97 Premiership is an asterisked one. The AFL stuffed up the finals format and Adelaide got a flag out of it. It wouldn't happen now.

[@glencoe1266]

Nice socks Mike

[@TBoneTony]

I kinda wished that the 1994 State of Origin game between South Australia and Victoria was available on that State of Origin Collection DVD that was released back a few years ago. It was perhaps one of the last great State of Origin clashes that went right down to the wire. Ablett was brilliant and he could have won the game for Victoria if only he didn't give away that free kick in the final minute.

[@johnclifford1537]

It was after Round 1 and Geelong's 65pt loss to Melbourne that coach Malcolm Blight famously said " It's not often you see the winner of the marathon leading out of the stadium". A Grand Final appearance suggested he was right !!

[@frankmat]

Would have been better had Geelong not made it that year. Glen Jakovich said they were watching the North V Geelong prelim on tv and as soon as Ablett took that mark before the siren he knew they would beat Geelong in the grand final by over 10 goals. He was thinking he was going to go head to head with Carey and knew when Geelong scraped in that they were cooked and they had their measure.

[@stevenstefanovski6269]

I WANT THAT WAS THE SEASON THAT WAS AFL 2000

[@StFidjnr]

@ 1:28:42 the big one the grand final of 1994

[@billymcfarlane]

it's 1:28:39 NOT 1:28:42 full stop

[@lachiebrown1842]

Please upload the season that was 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001

[@CostaSports]

Lachie Brown Don't have every one of those but got a few. Will get them up soon.

[@CostaSports]

***** Haven't seen any myself. Judging by hte ad at the start of the vid Seven made a 1987 one, then it jumps to 1993.

[@Ozziecar96]

Do they have one for 2000?

[@billymcfarlane]

+Costa Sports no it jumps to 1992

[@billymcfarlane]

+Ozziecar96 yes they do

[@glennarcher6]

The key forwards that year- Carey, Ablett, Lockett, Dunstall, Modra, Kernehan, Loewe, Salmon, Longmire, Sumich, Richo, Jakovich, Schwarz, Lyon, C.Grant, Hird. Wow

[@hanajinks1044]

Some people keep insisting footy is better now tho...

[@glennarcher6]

@@hanajinks1044 Not even close. 93-2010 golden years of AFL

[@hanajinks1044]

@@glennarcher6 Norf took advantage of the ten-year rule and had an instant side...Eade recruited Lockett and prceeded to play with Fourteen defenders...anything between that was Great.

[@OriginalPlopsta]

Completely wrong 10 year rule was 1972. North's team of the 90s was built from their under 19s side, which made like 10 grand finals in a row Lockett arrived at Sydney in 1995. Eade was at North Melbourne that year. Eade started coaching in 1996.

[@TBoneTony]

Final 8 yes but it was made better from 2000 onwards. The Final 8 really made the finals really interesting and while it was imperfect during the mid to late 90s, thankfully it was improved and we don't have qualifying finals between the 3 to 6 teams that ended up being worthless games if the 7th or 8th team couldn't defeat the 1st and 2nd teams anymore. If there was one change that should have happened back then, that was the change to the final system that should have been fixed at the start. Other than that, we had some amazing finals during 1994 despite the fact that the Grand Final was so disappointingly one sided.

[@adriang6259]

Eagles finished on top and won the GF by over 80 points, did the boys offer them a mention?

[@carncats07]

The Eagles thanked their dealers.

[@StFidjnr]

12:08 the goal of the year

[@paulohara8967]

The goal from McGuane is legendary.

[@billymcfarlane]

do ya have any vfl videos by polygram like the fabulous footy 1 marks goals thrills or not cos i am interested to know that's all

[@CostaSports]

Billy McFarlane Thanks mate. Just have the one 'Fabulous Footy' VFL vid. Think Polygram also put out the Football Record Video vids. Got plenty of those on the way.

[@billymcfarlane]

what other that was the season that was year in review vids have ya got besides 1994 and 1999?

[@CursoryMercenary]

1:22:13 I don't get this comment what was he talking about?

[@tassportslover2013]

In the final 8 system that existed at the time, the bottom 2 placed qualifying final losers were eliminated. As a result of 7th-placed Melbourne winning against Carlton, 6th-placed Hawthorn were eliminated after that extra time loss against North Melbourne the previous day. The Hawks weren’t just teetering as the comment assumed, they were already gone with one final left to play that week.

[@lisaprice6855]

Great song at the end. It should've been an anthem.

[@emmahartley8766]

Do you have 1995?

[@whcchief]

1:30:38

[@JonBurrows-qd7vw]

29:07

[@StrangeLittlePoet123]

Remember modras haul

[@melthoidserendipity1332]

One can only ponder how different the final series would have been that year had Mick McGuane held that mark. West Coast certainly wouldn't have had it as easy as they did playing 8th then 7th on the ladder at their home ground before the Grand final. And Carlton should have been swabbed after the final series for taking non-performance enhancing drugs. They beat the Eagles by 11 goals two weeks before the final series!

[@zekejones2249]

West Coast early to mid 90s were an absolute powerhouse. Would of rolled anyone put in front of them, home or away.

[@melthoidserendipity1332]

@@zekejones2249 seriously? They lost to Carlton by 11 goals two weeks before the first final. Just like in 91 they were formidable but not unbeatable

[@zekejones2249]

@@melthoidserendipity1332 And then come GF day they smashed the clearly second best side of 1994 by eighty points. I never suggested that Eagles side was unbeatable, no team ever is, but the reality is statistically WC won more games than anyone in the 1990s, and in the first half of the decade, before the travel, the injuries and age caught up with them, they were at a level probably even beyond the likes of the Lions and Hawk threepeat sides. Can you imagine an interstate side or anyone for that matter winning the first 16 on the trot like the Eagles did in 91?

[@melthoidserendipity1332]

@@zekejones2249 ummm no. The Cats finished 4th that year and one TWO of their finals by a kick after the siren. They'd conceded 700 more points than West Coast during the year. It was always going to be a one sided final. They would have beaten anyone that year no doubt but it would have been more interesting if Collingwood had won that first final and WC had played the rest of their finals in Melbourne. They had an enormous advantage in Perth

[@zekejones2249]

@@melthoidserendipity1332 Same as Victorian sides have an advantage in Melbourne.

[@brettbrett9973]

Roberts was woeful, Laugh at a guy that stood on a guys head ?

[@effkay3691]

A lot of players liked to punch Gavin Brown. Just saying

[@JeffBurn-b1i]

Of course typical Victorians, edit out some of the Eagles wins, do 8-10 second takes of half of those wins while others get a full 30 seconds and no mention or congratulations on winning the Grand Final by 80 points from the hosts.