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.

The match, attended by 94,796 spectators, was won by Hawthorn by a margin of 6 points, marking that club's eighth premiership victory.

Nor did they house blatant eccentrics such as Crosswell, Hopkins or Goold. Flanagan added: "Nicholls fears his club may be heading down a similar path.

by Melbourne: 3.2 (20) 6.6 (42) 9.7 (61) 9.13 (67) Q1 Q2 Q3 Final 2.5 (17) 4.7 (31) 5.11 (41) 10.16 (76) Premiership season Round 1. 1989 Night Series Grand Final Geelong: def. "He apologised to us that he couldn't get us over the line for a premiership. "I've never gotten over losing that grand final. "The biggest mistake in footy is to think you're better than you are.

It gave them [the Blues] a confidence and arrogance they didn't have before," said McKay, 70, the former ABC commentator who now lives in Inverloch, where he has been recovering from bowel cancer.In the minds of many, McKenna and "Tuddy" included, 1970 was the unmaking of Collingwood.

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"I went for Kevin Hall [Carlton's full-back] and hit Peter by mistake," Tuddenham told theThe game also encapsulated, via the trajectory of the clubs, tectonic shifts in Australian society. We probably win another premiership in '71 or 73 ... there's no Colliwobbles, no 32-year drought.

"Lean times came later for Carlton, still in recovery after the game left their rapacious ways behind.

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. "He gave me the impression that [1970] can impact on your life from there on onwards.

This game, thus, would be the making of Carlton, who were imbued with reserves of confidence that enabled the club to win a further six premierships up until 1995.Carlton captain John Nicholls holds the premiership cup as Carlton laps the MCG. It contained the sport's most famous mark, by the balletic Alex Jesaulenko, who leapt, almost off one step, on to the back of Collingwood's hapless ruckman Graeme "Jerker'' Jenkin.The game was witnessed by the largest crowd in the code's history, 121,696 (only preacher Billy Graham drew more to the MCG), who also saw the biggest and most improbable comeback in grand final history. ''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.

Besides the injury to Brereton, By the end of the match, Hawthorn had only 13 fit players on the field. However, Geelong's physical approach was starting to take its toll. It was the 93rd annual grand final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1989 VFL season. From 2019, fans will no longer be able to subscribe to AFL Live Pass through the AFL website. Hawthorn were the reigning premiers, having defeated In the finals series leading up to the game, Geelong lost the qualifying final to Essendon by 76 points, before beating Melbourne by 63 points in the first semi-final, and then defeating Essendon by 94 points in the preliminary final to advance to the grand final. Scottish soccer player Hawthorn had a much easier run, defeating Essendon in the second semi-final to advance straight to the 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.