Your favourite Essendon game..

[BenDoolan]

1984 Second Semi Final - Ess 15.15 Lost to Hawthorn 16.17. A loss - but boy, what a game. For those who remember, it was a case of progressivley getting closer and closer to beating the Hawks. Although we lost the game, the feeling was very much, wait til next time.

This wasn't the case for me. A I described, I was not only passionate about Essendon in those days, I was obsessed. I took losses very heavily. This game left me with a busted transistor radio. I just f***'n smashed it into smitherines. I thought we gave those bastards absolutely everything we had, and we still came up short. I was livid. Absolutely cursing those motherfucking Hawks. I was convinced we couldn't beat them. We hadn't all f***'n year. And I dreaded Grand Final week - thinking we'd lose to these arseholes again. So you can appreciate my distress when those pricks kicked the first 4 goals of the Grand Final.....

[Splodge]

2002 Round 9 vs Carlscum.

Other than the piss up exhibition games at The Oval, thanks to my bank being daft enough to give me a £1500 loan to pay for the holiday of a lifetime, this was my first time seeing the Bombers in the flesh.

After the 24hour flight arriving in Melbourne 7pm Thursday night and sleeping in until 3pm Friday afternoon, the train ride from my friends house in Bayswater to Flinder's St seeing the MCG for the first time and being gobsmacked by the sheer majesty of it, going into Young & Jacksons opposite and moving on down to the Duke of Wellington before walking down to the "G". Soaking in the atmosphere of the Bombers fans who were walking up pretty confident of a victory despite the loss to injury of Sir James and Lloydy the week before at Freo as Carlton were that bad. It was a night I will never forget.

As for the game itself, for a game, it was probably the worst of the 4 I saw when out there. (others were a 99pt win over the aints, a win by less than a goal in Sydney and a narrow defeat to North Melbourne) We took time to get going but eventually proved too strong for a poor Carlton side winning by something like 25 points.

classic memories I will have with me forever

[F111]

There are too many games to nominate, but that game where Silvagni muffed the kick in and the big 25 slotted the goal to win...that always makes me laugh.

[Scott]

The 81 game against Carlton at Princess park, 25 minute mark, down by 26 (if memory serves me correct) and Fitzy decides to shove the ball under his arm pits.....Whistle blows....Wasting time....Give the ball to the Bombers....GAME ON.

Then Neale decides it's time to show what he's capable of...

Still get goose bumps thinking about....I was 11 at the time and it was the greatest experience at the footy i can remember. After the siren went, it was total mayhem!!!!

Not 100% sure but I don't think they had time to change the song over to the Bombers, so it was up there Cazaly or something like that.


Great times

[Ossie]

God it's so hard to cut it down to one ...

Prelim 93
GF 93
Centenary match 96
Lloydy kicks thirteen 99
Qual Final 2000
Prelim Final 2000
GF 2000
Moorcroft's mark 2001
The comeback 2001
Hirdy vs West Coast 2003
Win in Sydney by a point 2007

But to be different from a lot of you ... I'm going to go for Boris' big night out 1996.

Mid-May I think and a bitterly cold night at the G, me and the old man went along to see the match to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first VFL match between the Pivotonians and the Same Olds.
Geelong were a little under-strength with no Gary Ablett but still had the likes of Billy Brownless, Garry Hocking, John Barnes, Paul Couch and others.
No Paul Salmon for the Bombers and things went pear-shaped when Longie went down early with a patella injury right in front of us, leaving us down to one on the bench.
Bewick was playing his first game in about 12 months, having been crunched by David Mensch the previous season, so predictably I booed him every time he went near it.
Boris went off during the second term complaining of knee soreness so it looked bad for us, especially when Hocking kicked a goal in the goalsquare while lying on his back in the third quarter - at the time the Cats were about 20 points up for memory and it was almost game over.
But lead by a bald-headed Joe Misiti who was a ball magnet, with good support from Mercuri and a surprisingly good Ben Doolan ( ) the Dons got within about ten points at 3/4 time.
Enter Bewick.
The last term was a procession - he kicked five in the quarter to finish with nine, the last an absolute miracle deep in the pocket down the Punt Rd end when he had no right to get through the two tackles and get a shot on goal.
Dons comfortable winners in the end by about 30 points but all the talk was about Bewick.
It was simply the most amazing 30 minutes of football I've ever seen - he would shoot from anywhere and they would just sail through. He was on fire. Just give him the ball was seemingly the instruction and it worked.
As a 15-year-old who loved Bewick as a kid I could think of no better result. I reckon I was on my feet for the entire last quarter, probably obstructing the view and pissing people off but I didn't care. I loved Boris.

[Gimps]

I did mention that game in the original post Ossie.. Bloody classic game.

[robrulz5]

the last an absolute miracle deep in the pocket down the Punt Rd end when he had no right to get through the two tackles and get a shot on goal.

Was that the one where he started thumping his chest as if to stay "I'm the man?"

[boncer34]

Then Neale decides it's time to show what he's capable of...

Did his knee the following week. Complete travesty.

Round 16 2001. 10 minutes left in the half, Caracella kicks a goal and we get within about 5 goals, "AND HERE THEY COME."

[BenDoolan]

Then Neale decides it's time to show what he's capable of...

Did his knee the following week. Complete travesty.

Yep, that's what happened. At the age of 20 he was labelled a champion - and named captain for the following season. But never led the team out on the field. Fkd his knee again on the comeback trail, and it wasn't until 4 years later that he made his long awaited return to footy in 1985. Then in a bastard mid-week night match (Escort Cup I believe), he mangled his OTHER knee. The bloke was just doomed. 4 years later he made another comeback in 1989 and played until the end of 1990. Wasn't even half the player he was when he was 20. Such a damn shame. He became my hero after that Carlton match. Then we hardly ever saw him again ever since. 66 consecutive games and then a series of disasters.

[Ossie]

the last an absolute miracle deep in the pocket down the Punt Rd end when he had no right to get through the two tackles and get a shot on goal.

Was that the one where he started thumping his chest as if to stay "I'm the man?"

Yep. Scott Cummings came over the top and gave him a big hug and said later he was shouting in Boris' ear "Why didn't you give it to me?!"