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Which Tiger team had the better overall finals series - 1980 or 2017?

                For              Against            %
1980    55.40.370      30.43.223       165.9
2017    44.38.302      22.35.167       180.8
 

1980:

QF (Won by 42 pts):
Richmond   6.3  11.4  16.7   18.8-116   
Carlton       2.1   5.5    5.8   10.14-74   

SF (Won by 24 pts):
Richmond   3.2   7.3   10.6   14.11-95   
Geelong     5.2    7.4    9.4    11.5-71

GF (Won by 81 pts):
Richmond   6.5  11.11  15.17  23.21-159   
Coll'wood    2.6   4.10    5.18    9.24-78

2017:

QF (Won by 51 pts):
Richmond    2.4    3.7    6.10    13.13-91   
Geelong      0.4    2.4     4.9       5.10-40

PF (Won by 36 pts):
Richmond   4.3     5.7   11.11    15.13-103   
GWS          3.3     5.6     6.10      9.13-67

GF (Won by 48 pts):
Richmond   2.3     6.4    11.8     16.12-108   
Adelaide     4.2     4.7     5.10      8.12-60

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Re: 1980 vs 2017: Which Tiger premiership team had the better finals series?
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2017, 06:48:58 AM »
2017- we played a cooked Collingwood in the GF in ‘80 but beat the best team ladder wise this year in the GF.

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Re: 1980 vs 2017: Which Tiger premiership team had the better finals series?
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2017, 11:21:02 PM »
They are harder to win in 2017.
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Re: 1980 vs 2017: Which Tiger premiership team had the better finals series?
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2017, 11:48:18 PM »
Head says 2017

But heart goes with the team that slammed the Pies in the grandfinal, even if they were ''cooked'.

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Re: 1980 vs 2017: Which Tiger premiership team had the better finals series?
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2017, 12:44:47 AM »
The numbers say that goals were easier to score in 1980, so that would make the 2017 win against the top side a better team performance.  But I will always cherish flogging the filth by a record margin while KB ran rings around them!  2017 needs some perspective & some time for things to resolve, in time it may become our greatest ever premiership victory!     :gotigers
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Re: 1980 vs 2017: Which Tiger premiership team had the better finals series?
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2017, 07:21:25 AM »
You would think it was our most unexpected premiership. If that is possible.

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Re: 1980 vs 2017: Which Tiger premiership team had the better finals series?
« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2017, 08:50:02 AM »
They are harder to win in 2017.
First premiership in the AFL era. Has to be more significant.

NB Wasn't alive for 1980.

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Re: 1980 vs 2017: Which Tiger premiership team had the better finals series?
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2017, 09:26:58 AM »
They are harder to win in 2017.
First premiership in the AFL era. Has to be more significant.

NB Wasn't alive for 1980.


I won't mention 1967 then.


A side boasting the best ever centre line of Francis Bourke, Billy Barrott and  Dick Clay. Not to mention a very young KB kicking 3 goals.


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Re: 1980 vs 2017: Which Tiger premiership team had the better finals series?
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2017, 08:54:18 PM »
You would think it was our most unexpected premiership. If that is possible.

Be interesting to hear from someone who was around for both to compare the unexpectedness of this year with 1967

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Re: 1980 vs 2017: Which Tiger premiership team had the better finals series?
« Reply #9 on: December 15, 2017, 09:13:25 PM »
You would think it was our most unexpected premiership. If that is possible.

Be interesting to hear from someone who was around for both to compare the unexpectedness of this year with 1967

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Re: 1980 vs 2017: Which Tiger premiership team had the better finals series?
« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2017, 03:25:24 AM »
You would think it was our most unexpected premiership. If that is possible.

Be interesting to hear from someone who was around for both to compare the unexpectedness of this year with 1967
I wasn't around way back then  ;D but I do remember being told once that we weren't far away from being a top side the previous year (1966). We spent all but round 1 in the top 4 and we were sitting on top of the ladder with only 4 rounds to go. However, we lost to the Pies and Cats in successive weeks (both top 4 sides that year) which saw us tumble to 5th. We won our last two matches but, with only a final 4 in those days, we needed St Kilda, Geelong or Essendon to drop a game. They all didn't and we missed the finals by half a game.

So by 1967, with the addition of Royce and St Francis, we became the top side. We won the minor premiership and our percentage of 145 was 20 higher than the next best.
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