1989 afl grand final full game

Collection: AJBMcKay became a good friend of Thompson as colleagues at the ABC. Nearly 33 years after they had lost the unlosable grand final, Collingwood greats Peter McKenna, Len Thompson and Des Tuddenham received a surprising apology from Bob Rose, the man who had coached them on the afternoon that they would never get over.

Within a minute Brereton, only moments ago on the ground and seemingly out of the game, took a strong mark, then steadied and kicked truly. "We blew it," said McKenna.

''Where 1970 differs isn't in the quality of the match (though it was exciting), but in the sub-plots and long-term impact of a team recovering from a 44-point deficit to win by 10 points.In 2015, our experts came up with a list of the 20 best VFL/AFL grand finals of all time. We probably win another premiership in '71 or 73 ... there's no Colliwobbles, no 32-year drought.

It was the 93rd annual grand final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1989 VFL season. "Tuddy stays. The game confirmed Barassi's stature as a super coach, a platform for him to reinvent hitherto downtrodden North Melbourne; indeed, one could argue that whole concept of a coach making audacious moves to turn the tide – as Sheedy did in 1984 – took root in the second half of the 1970 grand final.One player's career was entirely defined by the second half, a blond small forward/rover who came off the bench at half-time to boot four goals for the Blues. A wake, after all, still brings people together.

It is regarded as one of the greatest grand finals Robert Walls thinks that Barassi's instruction to "play on and take risks'' was significant to the outcome, not so much in the volume of handball, but "Words like bold and daring were used a lot,'' said Walls, noting that other coaches might have sought to engineer a respectable loss in 1970, instead of daring to win, as Barassi did.The most fateful moment for the Pies came in the second quarter when Tuddenham knocked out McKenna, who'd booted five goals to that point and still cannot remember the second half (a blessing of sorts). Moments later, the ball came into Hawthorn's attacking zone and Dunstall kicked a goal. "The biggest mistake in footy is to think you're better than you are. That was Collingwood's mistake in 1970." In the week leading up to the grand final, Geelong's The grand final was played in near perfect conditions. As Carlton's 1970 centre half-forward and 1987 premiership coach Walls recalled, Barassi spoke to the players about why Syd Jackson, a sublime Indigenous footballer from WA, was being paid double what the likes of young Walls were getting.Collingwood, which did have a highly talented team, did not recruit an Indigenous player of note from WA or anywhere for decades.

Bob Rose stays.

AFL Live Pass is required to view AFL.TV & Match Replays. "I've never gotten over losing that grand final. "David "Swan" McKay played in defence on 200-centimetre Thompson throughout that grand final, the first of four flags McKay would garner in his impeccably timed Carlton career.McKay was blessed to join the Blues just as they were reaching their apex under Ron Barassi, whose half-time instructions to the players to chance their arm and handball has entered football folklore – rightly or wrongly – as the moment when the game of Australian football shifted from a more static one to one in which handball was weaponised and flowing play-on football became enshrined.The Blues overcame a 44-point half-time deficit in the 1970 grand final. Hawthorn had a much easier run, defeating Essendon in the second semi-final to advance straight to the grand final.

Geelong made their intentions clear right from the start when Despite the insistence of the club doctors and trainers, Brereton refused to leave the field and instead was helped to the forward pocket. However, Geelong's physical approach was starting to take its toll.