The Unluckiest Bounce in AFL History 

To bad AFL isn’t big on RU-vid cause this was a brilliant video definitely deserves a lot more attention then it will get.

Really well made man, excellent work

Great vid mate You are soooo underrated

Probably the best video I’ve ever watched, although I’m a saints fan.

Hey mate, Can you keep doing AFL videos try a doco or something because you're just insanity mate well made once again.

Great video!!!

heartbroken

This is the quality content RU-vid needs

Nice work mate, hitting a niche that hasn't really been explored on YT yet. Well done!

the saints loss broke my dad. hasn't turned on the telly to watch the footy in 10 years

If the saints had of won in 2010 Goddard's mark would be up there with jesalenko's and Leo Barry's grabs but alas

I genuinely believe this Saints team was the greatest team to never win a flag

Don’t stop these mate

As a massive saints fan I can honestly say this video was a near perfect analysis of the club's so close but so far premiership in that 2000s era. I've never been more nervous since I was 11 years old in the loungeroom screaming at the tv celebrating before I realised the ball bounced the wrong way and it was just a point. It wasn't as bad as 2009 when I ran to my room crying, but man, it is pretty haunting as a saints fan to be that close and still not bag the flag. For the record, I personally love rewatching the 2010 grand final draw and it is still my favourite grand finals because it's the highlight of st kilda's history (66 is a very old game to watch in full when comparing). But yes, it is haunting as hell for any st kilda fan and to be honest, it doesn't get much crueler than that. All I can say is, when we finally do snare that second flag the scenes will be insane. There's a longggg way to go though until that happens. Cheers for making this video, I'm curious to know which team you support after seeing your videos on port adelaide and st kilda's era's.

These vids always give me goosebumps, love it bro

Wish we won that day

I remember I moved to Australia in 08 and everyone in Tassie raves about footy. I started to really get into in 2010. I was absolutely shocked being an Englishman that they didn’t play extra time.

Hey mate back again for such a banger of a video I’m just so impressed on how professional this stuff is and soon enough you’ll be recognised 👏👏

Brilliant video dude. Lifelong Saints fan. The Goddard mark is still my all-time favourite sporting moment. I was sitting just behind the St Kilda cheersquad. For most of the game Saints fans were drowned out by the endless COOOOOLLIIINNNGGGWWWOOOODDDDDD. But when Goddard took THAT mark, it was honestly the loudest roar I heard all day. Every St Kilda fan at the MCG rose as one with him. Will never forget.

I physically cannot watch this. It causes me real, legitimate pain to think about these losing grand finals. I haven't watched a single highlight from any of the games in 10 years and I can't even watch the finals that we won knowing how it turned out

Really great video mate, started getting into the AFL at the start of lockdown here in the UK and vids like these are fantastic to watch.

Another great AFL Vid, Keep this up because this is truly great content!

It’s been 54 years since we won a grand final. I really wish we win one soon 😢 🔴⚪️⚫️

My Grandfather played for the saints in the sixties, his name is Ray Cross, he played half back flank in the 66 season until 3 weeks before finals he did his knee and missed out on being apart of the 66 premiership side.

Damn great analysis on such a brief moment. Never took this much significance over the game. The port Adelaide video was a banger and you backed that up with this one. Would love to see some more 🔥🙂

was a great video, but what happened to the first half of the video? was it copyright claimed?

Who gives a fuck "just how good they were", they didn't win a flag, and in symbolic saints fashion, weren't good enough to get the job done. Hence only having one premiership. We can't go on parading about the saints of that era because they never achieved anything.

Why is this vid only 2 minutes and 9 seconds long now? Because I used to love coming back to this video every once in a while.

He could have picked it up and possibly kicked a goal, chose not to risk it and let it run through for a point. He didn't know it at the time, but that was their one chance and he should have taken it, he let it pass by

surely the full version can be changed and re-uploaded. As a saints man i loved this original vid

so gutted youtube killed this video some of the best footy content ever

Nothing unlucky about it, Milne was a deer in headlights, overwhelmed by the burden of the most important moment of his career he panicked and crumbled. That ball popped up right in front of him and was clearly heading for the behinds, he cost himself and his team a premiership and calling it luck is taking too much credit away from what he was capable of 99% of the time. Im not trying to have too much of a crack at the bloke, he was one of the best small forwards of all time and he knows more than any of us how different things could have been had he taken his opportunity but unfortunately for him and St. Kilda, in that moment he choked, end of story.

Can’t believe this is the first time i’ve seen this video. Such an incredible doco into the most infamous moment in st kilda history. Breaks my heart every time to imagine what could’ve been. Great work

As a Collingwood supporter I feel for the saints, I was 7 during 2010 and was watching it on the TV and I could not believe it, although we won the next week which will forever be a great day in my life, my dad who went can't stand talking about that grand final. Everyone was just so shocked, my uncle left his seat and went down the stairs in the dying minutes, he couldn't watch it, he couldn't stand to see another Collingwood Grand Final loss, but as we all know, the ball bounced through for a point, and thank god the next week we won. As a more mature person, I couldn't stand what happened in 2018, you get so close, but yet so far. I still think about all the "what if's" in that grand final, what if the runner didn't get in the way, what if it was paid a block against maynard, what if sheed missed. But these things can't change the outcome of the result oh well. I hope it is our year this year, but after 2 appalling loses i'm not so sure anymore. Lucky for you saints, you look like a deadly threat this year. Butler is the pickup of the year, king is having a great first year, everyone is playing well, and beating richmond and port cements your side as a real threat. I hope Collingwood wins in 2020, but if i could have any other side to win, I'd love to see the saints on top again, you guys need it.

I feel like that bounce was unfair and fair at the same time. How it bounced in the Saints' favour over the Collingwood player's head, then bounced away from the goals.

Do Collingwoods build up to 2018 and don sheeds goal

great vid!

This video made me want to cry, I don’t understood how connected I am to a team of players that I’ve never or will never personally know.

honestly amazing, thankyou for making this ❤⚪🖤

Has Milne commented on that bounce? When watched in real time speed it looks puzzling that he didn't run hard to get as close to the bounce as he could

This may be a year or 3 early but please do the The Essendon Drug Problem and How it has actually possibly benefited them. -Essendon Fan. I’d like to point out how good that team would have been in the following years but honestly.. I don’t think we would have claimed any trophies. All the retirements, the fall off of players, the age. It needed a refresh but not a total one. It’s a really unique situation that I think a story telling video may benefit from.

As a complete soccer fan, I have watched this two times and it’s crazy interesting.

Bro this was such a good video I barely realised I had gone through 15 minutes because I couldn’t take my eye of the screen, pls do more

I L O V E T H I S V I D E O

Another possibility is Milne thought it was going through the goal posts.

The only good thing of 2020 so far is saints aren’t doing to bad ;)

That bounce...life works on a complexity of levels.

Great video man. I’m an eagles fan so I’ve seen some pretty good grand finals involving my team, but that draw GF is the best game I’ve ever seen. I’ve always had a soft spot for saints and just wished legends like Hayes, Fisher, Gilbert were able to get a flag under their belt

He could have got it. I’ve got no doubt. St kilda r the most tortured club in the history of the Comp. Even the dogs finally get their flag after their drought, as did Richmond and Geelong in 2007. Everyone has. St kilda is the only one left. A truly cursed club. I’ve got no doubt they will never ever ever ever ever win another grand final

Hi mate, this is by far the best quality video I’ve seen on AFL, keep up the good work and you will be going places!

2023 Ross Lyon returns to a young Saints lineup. Hope he can do one better than before. Sick of smart Alec Monday's Experts who give their unwanted advice.

This still hurts 😢 As a Saints fan this moment will haunt me forever I think😢 If we couldn’t win a premiership with the absolutely amazing group of players that we had back then, then how the hell are we ever going to win one ❤️🤍🖤 The AFL rules to replay the GF the following week if the result was a draw was an absolute disgrace 🤬 If had have continued playing extra time that day I feel that we had the momentum to finally hold up our 2nd premiership cup, but instead the window of winning our 2nd flag had not only been slammed shut, it had been boarded and nailed shut. There’s never been a doubt in my mind that at that moment, if there had been more effort to get the ball instead of pre-empting & starting to all but celebrate the goal that he thought he was going to kick he should have put effort in actually getting TO the ball & kicking a goal or at the very least throwing himself over the ball to rush thru a point. It’s still gut wrenchingly painful to watch the THE moment that we managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. We didn’t have a hope in hell of winning the following week, we were mentally cooked. Hence why , 12 years on, there is still only 1 solitary premiership cup sitting by itself in the cabinet at Moorabbin 😭🤦🏻‍♀️

Go the pies💪

I remember sitting on cold tiles listening to geelong beat us in a grand final, and again listening to a draw, its a draw. We didnt need 5 mins more. I'd have better memory if we had of won on that day,

Brilliant stuff mate!

Go saints

GO SAINTS

Go Collingwood

It took me nine years to return to AFL and ten to start taking it seriously again. 2020 saints made me feel good again. 2021 have hurt my trust but still can be exciting to watch. I hope we have some premiership success for the older members of my family soon.

im just thinking what could've been if there was extra time.

Wow, good doco, better than anything the AFL has done. They should hire you

Love the AFL vids mate keep em up

That grand final was on my birthday when I was 11. Such a great memory considering I go for collingwood. Too bad we had to come back the week later haha.

The saints while having some good teams over the years are just irrelevant when it comes to the AFL And where’s why… Tallying all their games together they’ve got a 39% win record… it’s the 4th worst the 3 clubs who’s worse are The Brisbane bears Gold cast suns University They’ve lost by 100+ points a total of 43 times which is the most out of everyone, The next worst is Melbourne on 28 times From the original Victorian clubs they are 1 flag from 8 grand finals making it a 18.75 win percentage. The worst out of every Victorian club The only clubs worse than that who’ have played in grand finals are GWS and FREO who are 0/1 in GF’s They hold the record for the lowest score in an AFL/VFL match being 1 behind The 2nd lowest score which they achieved twice with 2 behinds and then again twice with a score of 3 behinds. Everyone knows the wooden spoon tally or well should but anyway they’re currently on 27.. Norfs spoon this year takes them to 15, they’ve won the 2nd most spoons still miles behind stkilda though… They won 6 spoons in a row, the most of any club… all be it was the early stages of the game but everyone started out at the same time… Everyone’s aways going on about a team going through the whole season undefeated! Well how about teams going through the whole season with out a win? Don’t worry the saints got you covered there too They’ve gone through a season with 0 wins 4 times, the most out of any club in the history of the game… During the late 80’s early 90’s with all the merger talks of clubs like Footscray Fitzroy north Richmond Melbourne hawthorn I can only imagine stkilda just sitting in the corner hoping no attention was bought to them. Same thing now with all the talk of relocating a club to Tasmania… how they’ve survived through everything is beyond me 22 ex stkilda players have won a flag with another team. 2 more than there are actual stkilda premiership players

Unreal! these vids are great! Haven't seen anything like them about the AFL! (they kinda remind me of the Tifo football videos). Great stuff and keep them coming!

St Kilda under Ross Lyon were anything but fun. They got exactly what they deserved in 2009 and 2010. They had a forward line like that and yet they chose to play in a manner which didn't so much fail to advantage them but actively DISadvantaged them. Nobody else to blame but themselves, and their coach. Sacking Grant Thomas was a grave error in judgement. Now THAT was a fun team to watch, with an approach that would have eventually yielded the ultimate success. Also, the bounce you refer to only followed an equally lucky bounce. Swings and roundabouts. Ultimately the drawn 2010 Grand Final must surely go down as one of the most unwatchable in football history (rivalling the 2005 ugly duckling floodathon), played between one side who insisted on going backwards and sideways and another who insisted on attacking only via the cape, if at all. The worst part of that match was that we had to tolerate the same "spectacle" not once, but twice.

Im a Collingwood supporter. That was a good doco.. and that bounce was so unlucky for the saints.. the saints did deserve a flag in that era..

This was horrible. I remember this afternoon. A silence descended on my street. it seemed many believed this was finally the saint's time including -this Richmond supporter.

Outstanding video !!! I agree, the 2010 Drawn GF was one of the most amazing games EVER !!!!

this video is unreal, footy been missing this content

It wasn’t the bounce! I was there that day. standing right behind the final play. As Milne ran to the ball I turned my back knowing that Milne would gather the ball and kick the winning goal. My mate nudged me and said it’s a point. I turned around in disbelief. Impossible how why? Milne IMO panicked, he seemed to let the ball go, not scoop it in and instead settled for the point. A staggering decision from a typically hungry and opportunistic highly skilled forward known as the tip rat. In short Milne shit himself and made a huge blunder in letting the ball go. It was not the bounce.

First time I have watched any footage of the 2010 GF since the day of the match. As a Saints supporter, this used to be hard to take, but I am over it now, and really look forward to the current season, the current players, and being part of the club, albeit watching on from thousands of km’s away. Great video, ty for posting. (10.54 Caulfield Grammer misspelling.)

As much as I hate Geelong, they beat St Kilda in the 2010 QF. And this video should be named The Luckiest Bounce That Stephen Milne Didn't Chase.

That was great! Personally I feel like enough time has passed where the losses don't hurt as much, and I can just enjoy that era for what it was. We had a strong team and had fierce rivalries with the other contenders. Given our dismal history at St. Kilda, I actually look back at that whole period quite fondly now. I was privileged to be there and experience all of that, and the second premiership will come with time.

I still remember watching the Grand Final that day......I was with my family, half the house were Collingwood and 1 qtr of the house were Saints (the other qtr were other teams). It was intense, we were talking crap, cheering when our team scored, booing when the other scored........When that ball bounced......the whole house was shocked......it was unbelievable.......not long after the match was over and it was a draw......stunned silence filled the house.....I was feeling a number of emotions.....but the one that popped up most was relieved......It wasn't over.......Collingwood started the game out strong and looked to be winning that game (much like 2018) but things took a turn for the worse.......St.Kilda looked like they were on a mission.....no one could stop them......As the game went on and the Saints got closer to our score.....I got nervous.......I never thought that it was over even at the biggest lead, but I was at least more comfortable back then.....but now my heart was racing.......then it dawned on me "We're going to lose another grand final" The Saints were caught up and had most of the ball.....they were on a rampage......I knew it was going to end up being close....but Saints looked too strong.......then the leg break of the century happened......"It's a draw?".........I was so relieved......we got another chance to play again. The next week rolled around and as soon as I saw the smother of the century I thought "We're going to win this.......and it's not even going to be close" Then we went onto belt the Saints and avenge the 1966 loss. Just remember as a young Collingwood fan, I feel just as much heartache when it comes to losing a grand final as a Saints supporter........I've seen 5 Collingwood Grand Finals (6 if you count the draw as 2)......but we've only managed to win 1 of those........only just (taking into account that we nearly lost the draw)........Collingwood manage to make Grand Finals a lot.......but we have a talent for losing them.......So when we win 1 it is something very special.

Those 9/10 Saints just needed to score more, offence lacking in some big games. Everything else awesome.

The AFL fans were completely against St Kilda at that time, Ross Lyon sides are not fun to watch unless its your side and collingwood the traditionally most hated side in AFL for its toxic fans were cheered as they beat St Kilda in 2010.

hmmm what if milne had of went for the ball , instead of thinking he could judge the bounce ......

Great Vids. Cats fan. You didn't mention Hawkins non goal against the saints in 09 could have swung it for them. Disagree entirely at the hypothetical that the saints best team could have stuck with hawthorn and stopped them. Ross lions game plan trapped them in a guilded cage, hawks attacked better then anyone in their day. Leavingluke ball off the ground for 10 mins in the last quarter in 09 was Ross lion punishing a player for not doing what he asked, cost them the game and 2010 when ball was one of the pies best players in the finals. That's an ego mistake. Can you tell I'm not a Ross lion fan hah

I mean there are so many what ifs, Goddard played a big part in that game and St Kilda almost didn’t have him, they wouldn’t have got him had Carlton not been busted for breaching the salary cap

I'm not a saints fan but watching this match with my mum who is was one of the most agonising football memories I have. We couldn't believe what we'd seen, I remember when Lenny kicked his goal that was when I thought they were going to overrun the Magpies. We both knew that was the game they needed to win and a replay the following week wouldn't go well. I'm a bombers fan but fuck if I don't wish that ball had bounced the other way with all my heart.

2010 hurt as a Saints fan. I just knew there was bullshit to come and that bullshit would snatch the flag from us, the most deserving team of the year

This is a really great video. I was planning on doing some AFL past what ifs. Another what if should have been that the VFL should have had a rule change after the 1977 Grand Final about Extra time after a drawn Grand Final. History could have been very different, especially in 2010. Hopefully you can make some more future videos on the AFL. Keep it up! 👍

Q: who was the last St Kilda Captain to win a Premiership? A: Luke Ball.... now that must sting

The way you keep cutting the footage when something's happening pisses me off, so for that reason, I'M OUT

After Goddard took that screamer and kicked a goal. St Kilda had all the momenetum and if they were good enough would have won. One rotten bounce can't be blamed for their inability to close out the game.

I really enjoyed that video it was amazing keep up the good work

I agree with Leigh Matthews, why didn't he attack the ball. Looks like he just stands there...

They’re both losers in my book. If your one kick in front or behind in the last minute of a grand final than you’ve failed

St kilda had another chance after that ugly bounce about 54 seconds left on the clock. The ball was at the guys feet and he spilled it when he could have snapped it. Not taking away from the unlucky bounce but it wasn't the last roll of the dice

If Milne attacks the ball like a player who wants to win they wouldve won Milne didn't attack hard enough plain and simple

what if the umpire called the right call against liam ryan. for maynard to then win collingwood the premiership

Yo this video is so well made you should make more cause no one makes AFL videos like this

Ross Lyon really destroyed st kildas chances, freos too. Good too see them both on the right path again gettin rid of Lyons proven horrible game plan

Been saying it for years now, but people analyse that bounce to death without a look at the one right before. It wasn't even going to score had the first one gone straight. Pies were as likely to hold on for a few stoppages as any other outcome if that was the case.

Need to feel really sorry for Milne..as much as well all loved to hate him, you can’t help but just feel his pain which I’m sure he still thinks about constantly. You’re right when you say the bounce wouldn’t be as significant if they eventually went on to win the flag the next week or even in the next year or two. Imagine if Jack Darling’s dropped mark on the goal line in the 2018 GF with a minute on the clock was for the match...Imagine if the ball bounced up for Milne...

we flogged you in the replay so the best team won

Love this man, keep it up. This is very American in terms of sports analysis, but way better.

This is some Jimmy Highroller level content Fuckin mad video mate

Im a Pies supporter, but man do i feel bad for the saints. I wish they won against the cats the year prior