1987 VFL grand final

Grand final of the 1987 Victorian Football League season article Quarters 3 and 4 (they are blank as of writing) December 2023 October 2026 December 2017 1987 VFL Grand Final 1987_VFL_Grand_Final_Football_Record_cover.tif 50px CAR 50px HAW 3.5 (23) 6.8 (44) 10.11 (71) 15.14 (104) 4.2 (26) 4.9 (33) 7.13 (55) 9.17 (71) 15.14 (104) 9.17 (71) 26 September 1987 Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia 92,754 Robinson, Sawers Hawthorn City End Daryl Somers David Rhys-Jones Robert Walls ABC (Victoria only) and Broadcom (on sold rights to different TV stations in different states) ABC:Tim Lane (host and commentator)Drew Morphett (commentator)Doug Heywood (commentator)Kevin Bartlett (expert commentator)Ian Robertson (boundary rider) Broadcom: Dennis Cometti (host and commentator)Peter McKenna (commentator)Bob Skilton (expert commentator)Barry Breen (boundary rider) 1986 1988 The 1987 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 26 September 1987. It was the 91st annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1987 VFL season. The match, attended by 92,754 spectators, was won by Carlton by a margin of 33 points, marking that club's 15th premiership victory. Background 1987 VFL finals series 1987 VFL season At the conclusion of the home-and-away season, Carlton had finished first on the VFL ladder with 18 wins and 4 losses. Those four losses were by a combined total of just 56 points. It had been a tumultuous year off the field for the Blues; premiership defender Des English was in an ongoing health battle since being diagnosed with leukemia the previous year, and rising star Peter Motley nearly lost his life in a serious car accident early in the season. Hawthorn finished second, with 17 wins and 5 losses. Carlton had only beaten Hawthorn in two of the last twelve games in which the two teams had met, although they had defeated them most recently in the Second-Semi Final leading up to the Grand Final. The Hawks had advanced to the Grand Final after defeating Sydney in the first Qualifying Final, and, after the Second-Semi Final, defeated Melbourne by just two points in the Preliminary Final (with a goal kicked after the final siren) to advance to the Grand Final. The Blues had an easier finals run, earning a weeks rest before the Second Semi Final and then advancing straight to the Grand Final after their Second-Semi Final win. It was Hawthorn's fifth successive Grand Final appearance and it had beaten Carlton in the previous season's Grand Final by 42 points. Carlton had not won a flag since winning the 1982 VFL Grand Final. In the week leading up to the Grand Final, Hawthorn's John Platten was awarded the Brownlow Medal. Teams _carltonfc16h _sides_on_white 0E1E2D 0E1E2D 0E1E2D Carlton _brown_stripes_copia _goldsides _hoops_gold FBBF15 823f00 823f00 Hawthorn #FFFFFF Carlton Carlton Football Club #0E1E2D 31 Tom Alvin 1 Stephen Silvagni 32 David Glascott 22 Ian Aitken 26 David Rhys-Jones 35 Peter Dean 43 Michael Kennedy 21 Craig Bradley 38 Shane Robertson 3 Richard Dennis 4 Stephen Kernahan (c) 9 Ken Hunter 23 Paul Meldrum 6 Jon Dorotich 17 Mark Naley 44 Justin Madden (v/c) 7 Wayne Johnston 30 Fraser Murphy 12 Adrian Gleeson 45 Warren McKenzie Robert Walls #4D2004 Hawthorn Hawthorn Football Club #FBBF15 7 Gary Ayres (v/c) 2 Chris Mew 40 Andrew Collins 1 Ray Jencke 24 Chris Langford 34 John Kennedy 29 Russell Greene 17 Michael Tuck (c) 9 Robert DiPierdomenico 25 Peter Curran 23 Dermott Brereton 15 Russell Morris 11 Gary Buckenara 13 Paul Dear 4 Peter Russo 14 Greg Dear 30 Peter Schwab 44 John Platten 39 Paul Abbott 41 Darrin Pritchard Allan Jeans Umpireshttps://aflua.com.au/statistics/grand-finals/ Grand finals – AFLUA 13 June 2013 31 July 2021 25 October 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211025170411/https://aflua.com.au/statistics/grand-finals/ dead The umpiring panel for the match, comprising two field umpires, two boundary umpires and two goal umpires is given below. + 1987 VFL Grand Final umpires Position Emergency Field: Ian Robinson (9) Rowan Sawers (3) Boundary: Adrian Ryan (2) Christopher Sporton (2) Goal: Douglas Purss (1) Michael Roache (1) Numbers in brackets represent the number of grand finals umpired, including 1987. Match summary The game was played on a very hot day, with temperatures reaching 30.7 C F 1 or.Cockerill Mike Mike Cockerill Carlton open the door to new dynasty The Sydney Morning Herald Publications Pty Limited 28 September 1987 Sydney, New South Wales 54 This broke the previous record for the hottest Grand Final day temperature set in 1944, and the record stood until 2015. The heat was thought to favour Carlton because Hawthorn had finished a very tough finals campaign. The Hawks were also deprived by an ankle injury of Jason Dunstall, who had kicked six goals against the Blues in the previous year's Grand Final and 94 for the 1987 season. Paul Dear replaced Dunstall at full-forward. Such was the heat that Stephen Silvagni, who for most of his career wore a long-sleeved guernsey, started the match without sleeves. It was also the only time in 426 games that Hawthorn captain Michael Tuck wore a sleeveless jumper, with he and Carlton's Mark Naley both starting the game wearing long sleeves and changing to short-sleeves part way through the game. In the pre-match festivities, the coin was tossed by Wimbledon champion and Hawks fan Pat Cash. Michael Tuck won the toss and chose to kick to the City End. First quarter Carlton were switched on from the beginning when renowned finals specialist Wayne Johnston alerted umpire Ian Robinson (who was officiating in his ninth Grand final and final VFL game) that Hawthorn had one extra player in the centre square before the ball had been bounced. Umpire Robinson blew the whistle to begin the game and promptly handed the ball to Johnston to take the free kick. His long kick into attack was marked strongly by Hunter 35 metres from goal directly in front, but he missed the opening shot at goal. Carlton managed to retrieve possession from the kick-in, and Johnston was awarded another free kick for being tripped by Collins and duly converted his set shot for the first goal of the game. Barely a minute later, Carlton went into attack again through Dennis and Dorotich but Meldrum was unable to finish accurately. The Hawks had their first score on the board when a snap from Schwab from a restart bounce in attack missed to the left. From the kick-in, Hawthorn's enforcer wingman DiPierdomenico collected the ball and was charging forward when Johnston caught him flush with an elbow to the jaw, for which he earned a report. Carlton continued to struggle with accuracy when Naley's snap missed to the right, until finally Johnston picked up the ball after Schwab had lost it in a tackle and dashed forward before steadying and kicking truly on his trusty left foot for his second goal at the 12-minute mark. And when Hunter compensated for his early miss a few minutes later by converting his set shot from nearly the same position, Carlton had kicked three goals to set up a 20-point lead. But the battle-hardened Hawks were too experienced to panic. Kennedy, who had been playing on Hunter, was moved forward and kicked Hawthorn's first, swooping on to a kick forward from Collins and snapping truly on his right as time-on began. Platten and DiPierdomenico added further goals from set shots, and when Kennedy kicked his second after the quarter-time siren, the Hawks had grabbed a three-point lead, despite having been outplayed for much of the term. As that day's Norm Smith Medallist David Rhys-Jones recalled in an interview many years later: I couldn't believe it, as we had dominated the play. It just shows what a great team Hawthorn was. We knew we had to play 100 minutes to beat the Hawks because they would keep coming at us.Eddy (2018), p. 128 Second quarter Carlton again started strongly when Kernahan and Hunter combined to find Bradley in open space and running hard towards goal, enabling him to easily score his first for the game and restore Carlton's lead. At the 4-minute mark, Carlton added another goal after a grubby kick across the backline from Mew put Ayres under pressure from Meldrum, allowing Dorotich to pounce on the ball and kick his first. Third quarter the third quarter April 2023 Final quarter the final quarter April 2023 Aftermath The Norm Smith Medal was presented by former Melbourne champion and premiership captain John Beckwith to Carlton's David Rhys-Jones.Eddy (2018), p. 132 Normally a wingman, he instead lined up in defence on Hawthorn's key forward Dermott Brereton in what many considered a mismatch. Rhys-Jones only collected 17 disposals and four marks for the game (9 kicks, 8 handpasses); however, in keeping Brereton goalless for the only time in the 1987 season and marshalling his fellow defenders throughout the game, he was unanimously considered best on ground. It was sweet revenge for both Carlton and Rhys-Jones; in the previous season's Grand Final defeat, his direct opponent had been Gary Ayres, who went on to win the first of his two Norm Smith Medals. After the presentation of the premiership medals, Craig Bradley walked across to injured teammate Peter Motley, who had been left disabled following a car accident earlier in the year. Bradley presented Motley with the premiership cup and his medal. Victorious Carlton coach Robert Walls credited the hard work and improvement of his players: It was very satisfying that we won the premiership, because the players have worked very hard. There are kids who have come into the side and are a pretty good blend and a lot of players have improved.Robert Grant http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122124664 CARLTON CRACKS IT The Canberra Times 62 18,985 Australian Capital Territory, Australia 27 September 1987 1 August 2021 7 (Sunday Sport) National Library of Australia Epilogue Just two months after the disappointment of losing the grand final, Hawthorn were dealt another blow when coach Allan Jeans was admitted to hospital with a brain haemorrhage. Although surgery to repair an aneurysm was successful, the health scare was serious enough to force Jeans to stand out of football for the whole of the 1988 VFL season.AFL Media https://www.afl.com.au/news/79894/hawks-mourn-loss-of-allan-jeans-leave-a-tribute 13 July 2011 Hawks mourn loss of Allan Jeans - leave a tribute After not being picked for the grand final, club stalwart Rodney Eade left the club and went to Brisbane. <br/ > For Carlton, the victory was atonement for last year's defeat, and it served as a tribute to the fighting spirit shown by Des English and Peter Motley (as English was having treatment for cancer, while Motley suffered permanent injuries from a car accident), who joined the celebrations in the dressing room. However, Johnston and Madden had both been reported for striking. They would both miss the first two matches of the 1988 season. After losing to Melbourne in the 1988 Preliminary Final, the Blues would not play in a grand final again until 1993. Scorecard Grand Final 26 September (2:50 pm) 3.5 (23) 6.8 (44) 10.11 (71) 15.14 (104) Kernahan, Bradley 3Johnston 2 Dorotich, Gleeson, Murphy, Hunter, Naley, McKenzie, Meldrum 1 Rhys-Jones, Johnston, Alvin, Aitken, Naley, Madden, Hunter, Silvagni, Glascott Nil Johnston (striking Dipierdomenico), Madden (striking Tuck) H 4.2 (26) 4.9 (33) 7.13 (55) 9.17 (71) 3 Kennedy1 Curran, Collins, Pritchard, Platten, DiPierdomenico, G Dear Langford, DiPierdomenico, G Dear, Tuck, Collins, Ayres, Greene Nil Nil MCG 92,754 Report Robinson, Sawers Norm Smith Medal David Rhys-Jones ABC Daryl Somers References Bibliography Atkinson Graeme Brant Atkinson 2009 The Complete Book of AFL Finals 4th The Five Mile Press Scoresby, Victoria 9781742112756 Dan Eddy The Norm Smith Medallists : The players who delivered on football's grandest stage The Slattery Media Group Melbourne, Victoria 2018 9781921778872 External links http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=Grand+Final%2C+1987 Blueseum - History of the Carlton Football Club Grand Final, 1987 Victorian Football League The Football Record http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/129388 State Library Victoria 76 26 26 September 1987 1987 VFL Grand Final Souvenir Edition FZfrHXn-TB0 VFL 1987 - Grand Final - Carlton v Hawthorn (first half) j0PYVmuqVec VFL 1987 - Grand Final - Carlton v Hawthorn (2nd half) Carlton's 1987 premiership 30 years on How Carlton won 1987 premiership See also 1987 VFL season Grand final Category:VFL/AFL Grand Finals Category:Carlton Football Club Category:Hawthorn Football Club