15,000 Days and Nights in the wilderness

[Enrico_Misso]

15,000 days from Saturday 24th Sept 66 to Oct 19th 2007.

We've come close a few times, but the suffering rolls on.

[stinger]

you have way to much time on your hands.....


funny that ...it's felt more like 150, 000 days.......

[cowboy18]

Nice presentation!


1897-1902, 83-86 redefine "flatlining".


A nice reminder for anyone who remembers the awful days of "save our saints" - our clubs grip on things is tenuous at the best of times when onfield performances aren't there.

[st.byron]

thanks Enrico. Shows just how starved of success we've been.
Bring on 2008.

[my les foote]

Can I suggest another line to show where the finals cutoff was?

eg between 8th and 9th going back to 1994
between 6th and 7th before that

[linz]

15,000 days from Saturday 24th Sept 66 to Oct 19th 2007.

We've come close a few times, but the suffering rolls on.

You don't know Alan Kowler from ABC Finance Report by any chance???

[Batnoe]

We have only ever finished 16th once

That would have to be one of the best records in the AFl wouldnt it?

[n1ck]

We have only ever finished 16th once

That would have to be one of the best records in the AFl wouldnt it?

Really?

Even from 99-2002?

Only once?

I suppose Freo were worse than us alot... ok just.

[ausfatcat]

We have only ever finished 16th once

That would have to be one of the best records in the AFl wouldnt it?

A fair few teams have never finished 16th once

[Saint 58]

buy 20,000

[Batnoe]

We have only ever finished 16th once

That would have to be one of the best records in the AFl wouldnt it?

Really?

Even from 99-2002?

Only once?

I suppose Freo were worse than us alot... ok just.

We have finished on the bottom the most, i think it is 26 times, which on average every 4 years since we have been in it, ir it was when we had our last one so it is probably up around 4.09 years or something now hahah

[Spinner]

Yet Fans still ring up SEN introducing themselves as a long suffering Carlton/Essendon supporter.

[n1ck]

We have only ever finished 16th once

That would have to be one of the best records in the AFl wouldnt it?

Really?

Even from 99-2002?

Only once?

I suppose Freo were worse than us alot... ok just.

We have finished on the bottom the most, i think it is 26 times, which on average every 4 years since we have been in it, ir it was when we had our last one so it is probably up around 4.09 years or something now hahah

Yeah i realise that, but since the 16th team (Port) was introduced in '97 i think... we didnt finish last in that year or '98, but im sure we must have finished 16th more than once between '99 and '02? We were a joke at that time, but was there a team even more of a joke than us then?

[Batnoe]

98 - we only missed i think we got 6th

in 99 we got 10th

We got the spoon in 2000- with 2 and a half wins

in 01 i think we finished 15th- only to Freo where they traded their number one pick to Hawks for Trent Croad hahaha

in 02 we finished 15th, above Carlton but they cheated and we got their number 1 pick (Goddard)

in 03, 11th

and the others speak for themselves

So only 16th once

[riccardo]

To date I believe only Port, Adelaide and West Coast have never finished bottom at all.

[Enrico_Misso]

Can I suggest another line to show where the finals cutoff was?

eg between 8th and 9th going back to 1994
between 6th and 7th before that

Terrific suggestion MLF.
I added a line showing the number of finalists.
Prior to 1931 it gets a bit messy with a number of finals options tried.
But they mostly involved 4 teams, so I have just set it to 4 for the 1897-1930 period.
This of course includes the infamous 1916 season with only 4 teams and 4 finalists where The Roys won the spoon and the flag.

And worth pointing out if anyone is confused, that each blue dot on the purple line corresponds to a wooden spoon - 26 in all.

And each blue dot on or above the orange line represents a finals appearance - 22 in all.

Here's the update ...