Micro Noises 84: Cats incredible!
A new kind of ladder leader
Geelong's early season poor form saw it in 17th place after round one and 18th place after round two. A win against the Suns on Sunday saw the Cats rise to 15th, meaning they have occupied three different ladder places in the three rounds so far this season. Which got us wondering what might be the most number of different ladder places a team has occupied in a single season. We don't yet know the answer to that question but we aim to find out.
What we do know is that in 2014, three sides occupied 10 different places on the ladder. Adelaide took up positions 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16 and 17 at various stages, while Collingwood occupied 10 different rungs between 4th and 18th. St Kilda also took up 10 different places on the table, placing as high as sixth after winning its first two games, but ending the year in 18th place.
We'll keep you posted on our search for the most number of places occupied by a team in a single year and on the progress of that Cats and other teams in their quest to occupy as many rungs as possible in 2015.
Six wins in half a dozen places
Sydney's hard-fought win over GWS on Saturday was the sixth occurrence in 14,607 games of VFL/AFL footy of a match finishing with a final score of 111 v 90. Interestingly, all six have been at different venues. The history of "111 v 90" is as follows:
YEAR | ROUND | VENUE | RESULT |
1972 | 15 | Windy Hill | Richmond 17.9.111 v Essendon 13.12.90 |
1981 | 19 | Princes Park | Hawthorn 15.21.111 v Footscray 113.12.90 |
1985 | 11 | Western Oval | Footscray 15.21.111 v St Kilda 13.12.90 |
1988 | 7 | MCG | Melbourne 15.21.111 v Hawthorn 13.12.90 |
2011 | 13 | Docklands | North Melbourne 17.9.111 v Essendon 12.18.90 |
2015 | 3 | SCG | Sydney 16.15.111 v GWS 12.18.90 |
Omen of the week
The faith of Collingwood fans has been tested since Nathan Buckley took over as coach in 2012. A top four finish in his first season at the helm was followed by an eighth-placed finish in 2013 and the Pies slid to 11th last year. The Magpie Army will be hoping that things begin to turn around this year and if last Friday's win over St Kilda is any indication, that turnaround will not only occur quickly, it will be one of epic proportions. The Pies, you see, defeated the Saints 140-66, a scoreline that has only been seen once before in VFL/AFL history. It was in 1958, and the winner that day was also Collingwood (against another team that begins with S - South Melbourne). And what did the Magpies do after that? They proceeded to go on and win that year's premiership, ending a run of three flags in a row won by Melbourne. So there you have it - the Buckley doubters might be silenced as early as the first Saturday in October this year!
Score Wars - 105 comes alive!
North Melbourne wasn't able to notch a win like Geelong and Essendon were in round three, but the Roos did at least manage to be on the same page as the Cats and Dons score-wise. All three finished with a final score of 105 to catapult that total into the Score Wars lead. It has now come up four times for the season, one more than 78.
The Marginal Medal - 21 today!
The MCG and SCG might be different in many ways but they were on level pegging last Saturday, at least in terms of the final margin in the games played there. In Melbourne, Essendon defeated Carlton by 21 points after staving off a comeback from the Blues, while Sydney did exactly the same against GWS, also winning by 21 after a last-term charge from the Giants. Those results mean 21 joins 9 and 27 as the most common margins of 2015. Each has come up twice.
Postcode of the week
Melbourne went down to Adelaide at the Adelaide Oval on Saturday night and, while the Crows were very good, we think the Demons might have lost because they got ahead of themselves and were too busy thinking about their round four opponent. Evidence of this lies in the number of goals they kicked in each quarter against the Crows. The Demons registered 3, 1, 2 and 1 goal in each of the terms and 3121 is the postcode of Richmond.
Ridiculous footy anagram of the week
Named on an extended bench for a possible debut with the Western Bulldogs this Sunday, BAILEY DALE is a footballer with hopefully a long career ahead of him. Taken with pick 45 in the 2014 National Draft, he likes nothing better than to focus his eyes on the 'pill', grab it, and run with it. How fitting, then, that he happens to be an anagram of I EYED A BALL.
Micro Noises is Andrew Gigacz's regular, quirky look at all things footy. The name Micro Noises is an anagram of Enrico Misso, who played one game for St Kilda in 1985. He remains the only Enrico and the only Misso to have played footy at the highest level.
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