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Football => Memorable Moments => Topic started by: one-eyed on September 23, 2008, 10:40:49 PM
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A Bombers fan on BF has posted a youtube clip of the last minute of Knighter's 279th and final game plus his lap of honour and chairing off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqQJBfwFl5w (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqQJBfwFl5w)
For the record, Richmond's season was shot by round 17, 2002 on the back of 8 straight losses after making the Preliminary final the year before and went into the game 15th on the ladder at 4-12. While Essendon was 10th on 8-7-1 and still fighting for a finals spot 1/2 a game outside the Eight.
Round 17 Friday Night, July 26, 2002 @ the MCG Crowd: 39,650
Richmond 1.2 2.3 6.6 7.11-53
Essendon 4.2 5.8 5.9 7.12-54
Knighter "retired" at 31 and on the night finished with 21 disposals (11 k, 10h), 6 marks and 3 inside 50s.
http://stats.rleague.com/afl/stats/games/2002/041420020719.html
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West and Eade's media conference yesterday was almost word for word the same as Knighter and Spud's.
The only difference was Spud forced Matty to make a decision about retirement during the season after dropping him back to the VFL. Matty decided to make that Essendon game his last and allow a kid to take his spot for the rest of the 2002 season. All this after Richo had been banished back to Coburg for a week for cracking it with Rodan in the goalsquare. Libba coincidently retired at the same time as Knighter.