1986 VFL Grand Final

The 1986 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and the Carlton Football Club. The game was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in Melbourne on 27 September 1986. It was the 90th annual grand final of the Victorian Football League (VFL), staged to determine the premiers for the 1986 VFL season. The match, attended by 101,861 spectators, was won by Hawthorn by a margin of 42 points, marking that club's sixth premiership victory.

Background

Main article: 1986 VFL season

Hawthorn were playing their fourth successive grand final and had lost the last two, while Carlton were appearing in their first premiership decider since winning the 1982 VFL Grand Final. At the conclusion of the home and away season, Hawthorn had finished first on the VFL ladder with 18 wins and 4 losses. Carlton had finished third (behind Sydney) with 15 wins and 7 losses.

In the finals series in the lead-up to the game, Carlton defeated Sydney in the qualifying final before meeting the Hawks in the second semi-final, which the Blues won by 28 points to advance to the grand final. Hawthorn, after this loss, convincingly defeated Fitzroy by 56 points in the preliminary final to advance to the grand final. Carlton entered the game as slight favourites after their defeat of the Hawks in the second semi-final.

Hawks player Robert DiPierdomenico won the Brownlow Medal in the week leading up to the game. Meanwhile, the Blues were looking to give Bruce Doull, who was retiring after the game, a winning finish to his 18 season career.

Match summary

Team	1	2	3	Final
Hawthorn	5.6	8.8	15.9	16.14 (110)
Carlton	1.5	4.11	6.13	9.14 (68)

The Hawks jumped out of the blocks early and by early in the second quarter led by 37 points. A seven-goal burst by the Hawks in the third quarter sealed their win. In the final quarter Hawthorn kicked only one goal but by then the contest was effectively over. Hawthorn's Jason Dunstall, who was in just his second VFL season, kicked six goals to help the Hawks to victory, while Gary Buckenara kicked four goals for the Hawks, all of them in the first half of the game.

The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to Hawthorn defender Gary Ayres for being judged the best player afield. Ayres was playing on Carlton wingman David Rhys-Jones, who had been a match-winner against Hawthorn in the second semi-final. Ayres, playing on the wing for the first time in five years, nullified Rhys-Jones and set up many attacking moves for the Hawks.

Epilogue

After consecutive grand final defeats in the previous two seasons, Hawthorn proved to the football world that they were anything but a spent force. They would go on to participate in four of the next five grand finals, winning three of them. For Carlton, the comprehensive defeat served as a humiliating reality check. It was also a sad end to the grand career of club legend Bruce Doull, who had six goals kicked on him. Atonement would come soon enough for the Blues when they met Hawthorn again in the 1987 decider, this time running out winners by 33 points.

Teams

Hawthorn
B:	7 Gary Ayres	28 Chris Langford	29 Russell Greene
HB:	15 Russell Morris	2 Chris Mew	30 Peter Schwab
C:	9 Robert DiPierdomenico	16 Terry Wallace	26 Rodney Eade
HF:	11 Gary Buckenara	23 Dermott Brereton	34 John Kennedy
F:	25 Peter Curran	19 Jason Dunstall	44 John Platten
Foll:	14 Greg Dear	17 Michael Tuck (c)	22 Richard Loveridge
Int:	39 Paul Abbott	4 Peter Russo

Coach:	Allan Jeans

Carlton
B:	37 Wayne Harmes	11 Bruce Doull	35 Peter Dean
HB:	27 Des English	6 Jon Dorotich	2 Peter Motley
C:	26 David Rhys-Jones	21 Craig Bradley	8 Wayne Blackwell
HF:	7 Wayne Johnston	4 Stephen Kernahan	23 Paul Meldrum
F:	15 Bernie Evans	9 Ken Hunter	36 Mark Maclure (c)
Foll:	44 Justin Madden	31 Tom Alvin	32 David Glascott
Int:	45 Warren McKenzie	38 Shane Robertson

Coach:	Robert Walls

Goalkickers

Hawthorn

Dunstall 6
Buckenara 4
Brereton 3
Ayres 1
Curran 1
Russo 1

Carlton

Meldrum 3
Kernahan 2
Evans 1
Glascott 1
McKenzie 1
Rhys-Jones 1

References

Hawks Headquarters page on the 1986 Grand Final
The Official statistical history of the AFL 2004
Ross, J. (ed), 100 Years of Australian Football 1897-1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported, Viking, (Ringwood), 1996. ISBN 0-670-86814-0

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Hawthorn Football Club 1986 VFL premiers

Hawthorn 16.14 (110) defeated Carlton 9.14 (68), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

2. Mew 4. Russo 7. Ayres 9. DiPierdomenico 11. Buckenara 14. Dear 15. Morris 16. Wallace 17. Tuck (c) 19. Dunstall 22. Loveridge 23. Brereton 25. Curran 26. Eade 28. Langford 29. Greene 30. Schwab 34. Kennedy 39. Abbott 44. Platten

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