Carlton and Essendon followers have been given a painful reminder of their prolonged premiership droughts forward of their spherical 13 conflict on Sunday evening.
The conventional rivals confronted off for some uncommon Sunday evening footy and each groups determined to honour their proud historical past pre-game on the MCG.
All of Carlton’s and Essendon’s VFL/AFL premiership cups had been positioned across the MCG’s centre circle earlier than the sport.
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The Bombers and Blues are the 2 most profitable golf equipment in Australian Rules historical past, with each golf equipment having received 16 premierships.
This week Essendon celebrated the 30-year anniversary of their 1993 premiership, the place the workforce nicknamed the ‘Baby Bombers’ claimed an iconic flag.
It’s unclear what the event was that prompted Carlton to get in on the act and be part of the pre-game act.
But their devoted followers have needed to endure some very lean years in current instances.
Essendon received their final premiership in 2000, however the Bombers haven’t received a remaining since manner again in 2004 — a drought that has turn out to be a meme of kinds lately.
Carlton’s most up-to-date premiership was 28 years in the past in 1995, whereas they haven’t made finals since Chris Judd wore navy blue in 2013.
Essendon has rebounded this season and is effectively within the hunt for finals after sturdy first half of the season.
But the identical can’t be mentioned for Carlton, who’re set for one more yr within the wilderness with solely 4 wins and a draw after 12 rounds.
And it’s protected to say the sight of the premiership cups out on show on the MCG turf wasn’t acquired too effectively by cynical followers, accusing the Blues and Bombers of residing up to now.
Carlton and Essendon might boast probably the most premierships of any membership, however solely 4 of these have come within the AFL period.
Garry Lyon summed it up on Fox Footy: “32 premierships between these two teams, 16 apiece,”
“Carlton’s last premiership was 1995. Their last finals win was 2013.”
“From the Essendon footy club, their last premiership was back in 2000. Their last finals win, you’ve got to way back to 2004.
“Whilst this is magnificent and it’ll be a great picture and the 80-odd thousand people at the ground will be appreciating the historic nature of these might two mighty footy clubs — the sad, hard reality is success has been hard to come by in recent years.”
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