What was the greatest AFL football match ever played?

i think the 1989 grand final hawks v cats and being a bomber fan i also enjoyed the big come back vs the kangaroos

The 97 and 98 grand finals where the mighty crows rightfully claimed back to back titles to step into the record books

Quandry, that was Jimmy bloody Stynes who ran across and took away Melbourne's chance at premiership glory, I still maintain if we had got to the Granny we would have won it, oh well. The best match I saw was the 89' Grand Final Hawthorn and Geelong, also the match they played earlier in the season at Hawthorns then home ground Princess Park, very high scoring game I think it was 179 Hawks to The Cats 159, great games.

It really depends who you support. For me it was one of 3 matches. Watching the hawks come back from 60points down to beat the saints years ago at AFL Park. The 89 GF the walking wounded Hawks got home with no fit bench players and the 91 GF Hawks V West Coast at AFL Park.

I'm with quandary cats and pies last year was the best game Ive ever seen we lost but what a game that game should of been the GF not the tripe port dished out the next week

The draw in the 77 GF and the replay. It is pure drama. North won, very good.

im only 16 so my greatest game probobly isnt really the greatest ever game as I dont know of any good matches in the '70's but for me, West Coast v Sydney games over the 2 year period of '05 and '06 with the best of them been the '05 Grand Final for me. i would say '06 but I was in a 747 going to Japan on the day of the game!!!! i was so angry that we couldn't go a day later! so the greatest game I have WATCHED, 2005 grand final. greatest one that I have seen highlights of, 2006 grand final

Well the prelim final (Cats/Pies) last year is the only one that's ever had me in tears but I'm biased. I thought we'd lost it! I think there was a prelim final between Melbourne and Hawthorn about 15 years back where someone gave away a fifty metre penalty after the siren to Buckenara (am I right?) by running across the mark. That was pretty awesome/ devastating. The Swans/Eagles gf a few years back with 'that mark' in the last three seconds. The 1989 gf - it ALMOST had me in tears!

For me it was when the Eagles beat Sydney in the 2006 GF I nearly had a heart attack I would also say the drawn GF match between North Melbourne and Collingwood my friend was getting married the next week and was a mad Kangaroo supporter and never imagined he would have to choose between his wife and footy team quite so soon into his marriage.