vfl 1971 summary

season summary

hawks dominate with the dees and pies the main rivals falling off dees not even making the 4 at all fishing 7th pies 4th behind saints and tigers. dons finish 11th their worse for a long time but the swans fall from finalists to last with 3 wins.

interesting melbourne

won 8 of their first 9 before sliding substantionally only beating bottom two swans and dons also cats and a draw with roos from the last 13 games saw them finish 7th.

finals summary

the hawks got their beating the saints in the semi (who had to beat tgirs in the prelim) and a come from behind permership over the saints.

hawthorn summary

only lost 3 games for the year to the dogs in round 6, tigers in round 10 and blues in round 20 to finish well clear and survived two saints scares for their 2nd flag.

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