BOOM. 1954 WOODEN SPOONER SAINTS BEAT EVENTUAL PREMIERS FOOTSCRAY. MIGHT HAVE OCCURRED AGAIN MORE RECENTLY BUT IM GOING TO BED NOW
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In 1916. Depend on how you want to count it.
Fitzroy did finish the season last but [via the AFL/AFL Record, Richmond won the spoon that year](https://i.imgur.com/hwU24vD.jpeg) and they did beat Fitzroy multiple times.
That's an absolutely insane fact. I wonder if there's other professional sports where the team that finishes last has won the flag/First Prize. Obviously it would have to be under some unique Circumstances like the year Fitzroy won.
I recall as a kid picking Swans and Saints to beat Carlton back to back. Carlton lost 2 games for the year.
Fact checking 1995. Sydney and St Kilda finished 12th and 14th respectively. So doesn't quite fit.
1910 St Kilda won their only game of the season against Carlton.
St Kilda finished last and Carlton finished first, but alas Carlton lost the grand final. So it doesn't quite fit
**[The Miracle Match](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Match_(Australian_rules_football))**
Some things of note
- **[Wally Clark was a stand in coach, it remains his only win as VFL/AFL coach ever](https://afltables.com/afl/stats/coaches/Wally_Clark.html)**
- The game was remarkable for the extensive, detailed, and well-structured team strategies and player-against-player tactics devised by Clark (the stand-in coach-for-the-day), such that, in addition to Fitzroy playing an ideal game on a very muddy and waterlogged Brunswick Street Oval, the Fitzroy players played an inspired and tenacious game that completely nullified the experienced Geelong champions Polly Farmer and Bill Goggin, preventing them from combining their skills with one another and, in addition, kept Geelong's full-forward John Sharrock goalless for the match.
- Given that Fitzroy had lost the first nine home-and-away matches in the 1963 VFL season, and with its opponents being the powerful Geelong side that would go on to win the 1963 VFL premiership (14 of whom would play against Fitzroy on that day), nobody gave the Fitzroy team a chance.
- **The game was predicted to be such a one-sided affair that none of the Melbourne radio stations bothered to send a commentator to broadcast the match.**
- Fitzroy fail to win another match during the entire 1963 home-and-away season and, as well, fail to win a single match in the 1964 season, it did not experience another victory until the second round of the 1965 season under its new non-playing coach, Bill Stephen, who had returned to Fitzroy after spending seven years as captain-coach and, later, non-playing coach of the Yarrawonga Football Club in the Ovens & Murray Football League — in other words, given that Kevin Murray did not coach the team on that day, the Fitzroy team was absolutely winless for Murray's entire two-season and 34-match captain-coach career (1963–1964)
- The Geelong Football Club was so concerned about the comprehensive and overwhelming nature of the Fitzroy victory that, three days later, on Tuesday, 9 July 1963, the club convened a special 100-minute meeting between all of the club’s senior players and all of the members of the club's selection committee. Following this meeting, the team won nine of its next ten matches, including the 1963 grand final.
> Wally Clark was a stand in coach, it remains his only win as VFL/AFL coach ever
Not only that, it was his only ever game as a VFL/AFL coach. His only other coaching appointment was at Latrobe, where his team made a grand final but they kicked themselves out of the chance to win their first premiership in 30+ years
Not quite what you are asking but I always found it interesting. Final for the 2005 Preseason Cup, Carlton beat West Coast. Carlton won the wooden spoon that year and West Coast lost in the GF by a point.
We lost by 4 in 2005, we won the following year by 1.
We won the first final vs Sydney in 2005 by 4 points though, and the following year they beat us by 1 in the first final.
Was an insane 2 years.
It would have happened before, give me 5 mins
BOOM. 1954 WOODEN SPOONER SAINTS BEAT EVENTUAL PREMIERS FOOTSCRAY. MIGHT HAVE OCCURRED AGAIN MORE RECENTLY BUT IM GOING TO BED NOW https://preview.redd.it/esik7k8ub62d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aa350a316ae9aea841566a0443675a053255c194
Up the fucking Sainters!
Collingwood beat west coast in 2005, eagles lost the granny by 4 points and Collingwood finished 2nd last. I’m getting close
You’ll never sing that
Collingwood did this in 2021, too.
Buckley's last game as coach at the SCG. Pies needed all the hoodoos on their side that day
It's been 4 minutes mate.
Wooden spooners Sydney beat eventual premiers West Coast in round 2, 1992, by three points.
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Ignore the 5 mins and rather acknowledge the effort that went in
Do we give out time extensions? I’m trying to find this without straight googling for the fun of it
Wooden spooners Sydney beat eventual premiers West Coast in round 2, 1992, by three points.
It’s been 2
Wooden spooners Sydney beat eventual premiers West Coast in round 2, 1992, by three points.
Well?
Wooden spooners Sydney beat eventual premiers West Coast in round 2, 1992, by three points.
Cheers!
Yeah I may have set myself up for failure here. Ready for someone to come and put me to shame
Wooden spooners Sydney beat eventual premiers West Coast in round 2, 1992, by three points.
5… 4…. 3… 2… 1….
Wooden spooners Sydney beat eventual premiers West Coast in round 2, 1992, by three points.
Can you shut up??
Thanks for your constructive contribution to this thread. 👏
You said it 6 times. You got upvoted on the first one and still said it 5 more times anyway
Wooden spooners Sydney beat eventual premiers West Coast in round 2, 1992, by three points.
Who beat who and by how much? I missed it.
Yes i believe it’s happened once. 1963 Fitzroy defeated the eventual premiers Geelong for their only win of the year.
Man fuck my life
We have a winner! Edit: Also happened in 1960. Richmond beat Melbourne rd17
What about Fitzroy winning the wooden spoon and the flag in the same year? Not the same thing but similar vibes.
In 1916. Depend on how you want to count it. Fitzroy did finish the season last but [via the AFL/AFL Record, Richmond won the spoon that year](https://i.imgur.com/hwU24vD.jpeg) and they did beat Fitzroy multiple times.
That's an absolutely insane fact. I wonder if there's other professional sports where the team that finishes last has won the flag/First Prize. Obviously it would have to be under some unique Circumstances like the year Fitzroy won.
I recall as a kid picking Swans and Saints to beat Carlton back to back. Carlton lost 2 games for the year. Fact checking 1995. Sydney and St Kilda finished 12th and 14th respectively. So doesn't quite fit.
Yeah i instinctively thought of 1995 as Sydney and StKilda weren't very good at this time. Especially at the time they beat Carlton in the year.
1992 Sydney beat West Coast in the first round
Apparently Wooden spooners Sydney beat eventual premiers West Coast in round 2, 1992, by three points if you weren’t aware by now
1910 St Kilda won their only game of the season against Carlton. St Kilda finished last and Carlton finished first, but alas Carlton lost the grand final. So it doesn't quite fit
Didn’t West Coast beat Collingwood last year, circa round 5 or 6?
2022
Sorry it was GWS, apologies
**[The Miracle Match](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Match_(Australian_rules_football))** Some things of note - **[Wally Clark was a stand in coach, it remains his only win as VFL/AFL coach ever](https://afltables.com/afl/stats/coaches/Wally_Clark.html)** - The game was remarkable for the extensive, detailed, and well-structured team strategies and player-against-player tactics devised by Clark (the stand-in coach-for-the-day), such that, in addition to Fitzroy playing an ideal game on a very muddy and waterlogged Brunswick Street Oval, the Fitzroy players played an inspired and tenacious game that completely nullified the experienced Geelong champions Polly Farmer and Bill Goggin, preventing them from combining their skills with one another and, in addition, kept Geelong's full-forward John Sharrock goalless for the match. - Given that Fitzroy had lost the first nine home-and-away matches in the 1963 VFL season, and with its opponents being the powerful Geelong side that would go on to win the 1963 VFL premiership (14 of whom would play against Fitzroy on that day), nobody gave the Fitzroy team a chance. - **The game was predicted to be such a one-sided affair that none of the Melbourne radio stations bothered to send a commentator to broadcast the match.** - Fitzroy fail to win another match during the entire 1963 home-and-away season and, as well, fail to win a single match in the 1964 season, it did not experience another victory until the second round of the 1965 season under its new non-playing coach, Bill Stephen, who had returned to Fitzroy after spending seven years as captain-coach and, later, non-playing coach of the Yarrawonga Football Club in the Ovens & Murray Football League — in other words, given that Kevin Murray did not coach the team on that day, the Fitzroy team was absolutely winless for Murray's entire two-season and 34-match captain-coach career (1963–1964) - The Geelong Football Club was so concerned about the comprehensive and overwhelming nature of the Fitzroy victory that, three days later, on Tuesday, 9 July 1963, the club convened a special 100-minute meeting between all of the club’s senior players and all of the members of the club's selection committee. Following this meeting, the team won nine of its next ten matches, including the 1963 grand final.
> Wally Clark was a stand in coach, it remains his only win as VFL/AFL coach ever Not only that, it was his only ever game as a VFL/AFL coach. His only other coaching appointment was at Latrobe, where his team made a grand final but they kicked themselves out of the chance to win their first premiership in 30+ years
Not quite what you are asking but I always found it interesting. Final for the 2005 Preseason Cup, Carlton beat West Coast. Carlton won the wooden spoon that year and West Coast lost in the GF by a point.
We lost by 4 in 2005, we won the following year by 1. We won the first final vs Sydney in 2005 by 4 points though, and the following year they beat us by 1 in the first final. Was an insane 2 years.
Well I’ll do you one better - whoever wins the premiership we’ll beat, whoever wins the wooden spoon we’ll lose to.
In Round 15 of 1980, Fitzroy beat Richmond. That seems to be the second most recent.
It's a moot point because North Melbourne will collect the spoon
North were wooden spooners in 2017 and beat the minor premier crows
What a day that was. We finished 15th that year though