season summary
again a 5 team race with the dees stelaing first with a controversal round 17 win over the hawks who finished 5th by one kick. the pies cats and dons are the other finalists lions had the last winless season ever.
hawthorn summary
very unlucky to miss the finals losing only 5 games to the roos in round 4, dees in round 6, cats in round 9, saints in round 14 and the controversal dees loss in ronud 17.
finals summary
cats beat dons but lose to pies who had lost to the dees in the semi the dees who won the semi easily had to win the flag controversally by the same player who beat the hawks late in the season winning the game in the same fashion the dees 12th and last for 57 years.
interesting geelong
a strong season losing to dons in round 4, before leading half way getting to 10-1 before losing to dees and pies drawing with dons in round 15, and saints in round 18 to finsih 4th beat dons lose to pies in finals.
premiers melbourne
controversy aside they had a strong year losing to cats in ronud 1, saints in round 4, dons in round 16 and dogs in round 18 two of their last 3 wins over the hawks and pies were controversal but got their 12th flag.