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 (
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) 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.
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