HIGHEST LOSING MARGIN

[TT33]

I have a mate who is a lions supporter, naturally I was giving it to him about the lions being thrashed by 139pts by the saints. He reckons the Tiges have been smashed by more than that margin in some game way back in history. I can't find any info to confirm or deny this.
Can anybody help me out with details, It would be nice to be able to at least "bash " him about this, because he has been giving me heaps for the last 5 years.

 

[JR8]

Our highest losing margin is 141 pnts against the Roos in 1990. Kangas kicked 13 in the first quarter!!

I was at that game and still have nightmares about it!!

 

[JR8]

Forgot to mention that it was the Brisbane Lions biggest loss in their history ( all nine years of it!).

I'm pretty sure they suffered some bigger losses when they were the Brisbane Bears.

 

[Tigerfan]

Fitzroy hold the record....190 points. 238 to melbourne 48. Waverley Park 1979

Fitzroy 7.7 14.14 26.17 36.22 238 Melbourne 2.1 2.5 4.8 6.12 48

they did the REAL damage in the second half. melbourne must have spent half time at the bistro

 

[23.21.159]

I was at that North game too. I might have told this story before on PRE but it's worth telling again.
I took a visiting pom to that game and he asked me why the goal umps wore coats (which they did back then), and not being able to find any decent answer (and it was a night game) I just told him that, unlike the field and boundary umps, they don't get to run around so they need the coats to keep warm. With a keen eye on the scoreboard, my pommy friend suggested that they might get to do a bit of running around on that particular night !!!
Geeze did we get flogged that night or what? Somebody kicked a million goals, Longmire was it?

 

[23.21.159]

Fitzroy hold the record....190 points.   238 to melbourne 48. Waverley Park 1979

Fitzroy 7.7 14.14 26.17 36.22 238 Melbourne 2.1 2.5 4.8 6.12 48

they did the REAL damage in the second half. melbourne must have spent half time at the bistro 

Richmond have had a few diabolical years in the last 25 but nothing like some of the seasons Melbourne had around the late 70s early 80s. I may be wrong here but I think they had one season where they won only one game - and that was by a point. Interested may be able to confirm ...

 

[Bill James]

Forgot to mention that it was the Brisbane Lions biggest loss in their history ( all nine years of it!).

I'm pretty sure they suffered some bigger losses when they were the Brisbane Bears.

Brisbane Bears 11.9 75 Geelong 37.17 239 Carrara 1992

164 pts that should shut him up.

 

[Bill James]

Fitzroy hold the record....190 points.   238 to melbourne 48. Waverley Park 1979

Fitzroy 7.7 14.14 26.17 36.22 238 Melbourne 2.1 2.5 4.8 6.12 48

they did the REAL damage in the second half. melbourne must have spent half time at the bistro 

Richmond have had a few diabolical years in the last 25 but nothing like some of the seasons Melbourne had around the late 70s early 80s. I may be wrong here but I think they had one season where they won only one game - and that was by a point. Interested may be able to confirm ...

Losing Streak
11 Games Melbourne Footscray R14,1980 Fitzroy R2,1981
20 Games Melbourne St Kilda R4,1981 Sydney R1,1982

Round 3 1981 must have been exciting with a one point win against Footscray. In 1981 they conceded more that 100 points in 20 games out of 22, conceding more than 140pts on 8 occasions. They should be thankful Frawley wasn't coaching them.

 

[CarnTheTiges]

Isn't that Bears losing margin the record? I remember watching that game. Back then the Bears were a bad joke that had just gone on too long.

 

[Bill James]

Isn't that Bears losing margin the record? I remember watching that game. Back then the Bears were a bad joke that had just gone on too long.

No see a couple of posts up for the 190 pt Mel loss.

 

[Legends of 2017]

Isn't that Bears losing margin the record? I remember watching that game. Back then the Bears were a bad joke that had just gone on too long.

It wasn't the margin that was the record. It was Geelong's score of 239 that is the highest score ever kicked at afl/vfl level.

 

[Larrikin]

Yes Richmond's biggest loss is 141 points.  However, Richmond is also the only team to win by more than 150 points on three seperate occasions.

168 points:  Richmond Vs North Melbourne : 1931 :  30.19 199 to 4.7 31
152 points:  Richmond Vs St Kilda : 1980 :  34.18 222 to 11:4 70
151 points:  Richmond Vs Fitzroy : 1996 :  28.19 187 to 5.6 36 (Fitzroy's last game in Melbroune)

So you can tell your Brisbane mate to shove it with these facts.  If he was an old Fitzroy boy, you can also remind him of their last game in Melbourne, and the 151 point send off courtesy of the Tigers.

 

[23.21.159]

I wouldn't be singing that from the treetops, either.
Hardly something we should be proud of.

 

[GoodOne]

History! Who cares. We going to argue that we were better in the 30s? Any comparisons get shot down in flames with Brisbane's 3 premierships in a row.

Cheers

 

[interested]

Richmond have had a few diabolical years in the last 25 but nothing like some of the seasons Melbourne had around the late 70s early 80s. I may be wrong here but I think they had one season where they won only one game - and that was by a point. Interested may be able to confirm ...

I've been fairly lucky in that since I was born, Melbourne started making finals series. I know very little about the dark era between 1965 and 1986 inclusive.

 

[hopper]

I was at that North game too. I might have told this story before on PRE but it's worth telling again.
I took a visiting pom to that game and he asked me why the goal umps wore coats (which they did back then), and not being able to find any decent answer (and it was a night game) I just told him that, unlike the field and boundary umps, they don't get to run around so they need the coats to keep warm. With a keen eye on the scoreboard, my pommy friend suggested that they might get to do a bit of running around on that particular night !!!
Geeze did we get flogged that night or what? Somebody kicked a million goals, Longmire was it?

I went to that game as well. We were running late and I remember hearing from a radio of another passenger on the platform at Richmond station that Michael Mitchell was running into goal and then banged through the first major of the night, We thought "bewdy" and jogged across to the G in eager anticipation. We burst through the gates to see that North had kicked five goals just while we got from the station to the ground! And it just got worse.

 

[FightingFury]

I was at that North game too. I might have told this story before on PRE but it's worth telling again.
I took a visiting pom to that game and he asked me why the goal umps wore coats (which they did back then), and not being able to find any decent answer (and it was a night game) I just told him that, unlike the field and boundary umps, they don't get to run around so they need the coats to keep warm. With a keen eye on the scoreboard, my pommy friend suggested that they might get to do a bit of running around on that particular night !!!
Geeze did we get flogged that night or what? Somebody kicked a million goals, Longmire was it?

I went to that game as well.  We were running late and I remember hearing from a radio of another passenger on the platform at Richmond station that Michael Mitchell was running into goal and then banged through the first major of the night,  We thought "bewdy" and jogged across to the G in eager anticipation.  We burst through the gates to see that North had kicked five goals just while we got from the station to the ground!  And it just got worse.

Similar thing happened to me too.
My mate and I were in the members that night,and we walked in just after Mitchells goal.After watching the next 13 goals straight to North,we stood in the bar for an hour or so watching in amazement as the RFC 2nds were in the same bar drinking and laughing as well as lampooning some of the 1st players.
One old bloke had enough of them and challenged the lot of the 'gutless dogs' to a punch up on the basis they weren't good enough to play at senior level,and didn't care that the club was a rabble.
He got the loudest cheer of the night from Richmond fans!

 

[Skills]

I was at that North game too. I might have told this story before on PRE but it's worth telling again.
I took a visiting pom to that game and he asked me why the goal umps wore coats (which they did back then), and not being able to find any decent answer (and it was a night game) I just told him that, unlike the field and boundary umps, they don't get to run around so they need the coats to keep warm. With a keen eye on the scoreboard, my pommy friend suggested that they might get to do a bit of running around on that particular night !!!
Geeze did we get flogged that night or what? Somebody kicked a million goals, Longmire was it?

I went to that game as well.  We were running late and I remember hearing from a radio of another passenger on the platform at Richmond station that Michael Mitchell was running into goal and then banged through the first major of the night,  We thought "bewdy" and jogged across to the G in eager anticipation.  We burst through the gates to see that North had kicked five goals just while we got from the station to the ground!  And it just got worse.

Similar thing happened to me too.
My mate and I were in the members that night,and we walked in just after Mitchells goal.After watching the next 13 goals straight to North,we stood in the bar for an hour or so watching in amazement as the RFC 2nds were in the same bar drinking and laughing as well as lampooning some of the 1st players.
One old bloke had enough of them and challenged the lot of the 'gutless dogs' to a punch up on the basis they weren't good enough to play at senior level,and didn't care that the club was a rabble.
He got the loudest cheer of the night from Richmond fans!

We have seen some early exits of Richmond supporters form matches,over the last 25 years. But on this night, I saw Richmond supporters leaving 10 mins in the second quarter. :hihi