Port v Central, Adelaide Oval, 1991.
Dogs leading all day, up by about seven goals in the third quarter. Even at the 21 minute mark of the last term they had a comfortable four goal buffer.
Still not enough!
Darren Smith kicked a goal on the siren in general play.
Port win by six points.
therisingblues wrote:
That was bloody amazing that kick. I was watching it on TV because it was a Sunday game from memory...
A huge pack of players had formed in the goal square, Monday's Advertiser caught the moment well with a photo side on to the action, showing Danny Hughes ( I reckon) with the perfect sit at the back of the pack, and the ball just passed his clenched fist. I reckon in all that ball had to travel an extra 5 meters to beat the pack, I reckon it was coming down at a pretty sharp angle after being in orbit so long. In all the kick possibly travelled about 70 meters.
Sunday it was, live on TV. Couldn't believe it when Harris kicked that goal.
Reakon the player in question was Ben Harris, Port's regular full-back in '84.
Hughes joined Melbourne after the '83 season.
Another famous kick after or on the siren, Western Australia vs South Australia as Footy Park in about 1984. WA player, named Ball I think, kicks a hooked running goal on the siren and WA win by about 3 points.
Ball was B.O.G. that day.
But he was the WA ump.
The dirty, cheating, thieving WA ump...