1988 VFL Grand Final

Hawthorn	Melbourne
22.20 (152)	6.20 (56)

	1	2	3	4
HAW	4.4 (28)	10.9 (69)	14.16 (100)	22.20 (152)
MEL	1.5 (11)	2.8 (20)	5.14 (44)	6.20 (56)

Date

24 September 1988

Stadium

Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia

Accolades

Norm Smith Medallist

Gary Ayres Hawthorn

Broadcast in Australia

Network

Seven Network

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The 1988 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and the Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 24 September 1988. It was the 92nd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1988 VFL season. The match, attended by 93,754 spectators, was won by Hawthorn by a margin of 96 points, marking that club's seventh premiership victory.

Background

Main article: 1988 VFL season

It was Hawthorn's sixth successive Grand Final appearance, while Melbourne were competing in its first since winning the 1964 VFL Grand Final.

At the conclusion of the home and away season, Hawthorn had finished first on the VFL ladder with 19 wins and 3 losses. Melbourne had finished fifth with 13 wins and 9 losses. In the two meetings between the teams in the regular season, Melbourne defeated Hawthorn by 21 points in round 7, while the Hawks beat the Demons by 69 points in round 17.

In the finals series leading up to the Grand Final, Melbourne defeated West Coast by just two points in the Elimination Final, then defeated Collingwood by 13 points in the First Semi-Final and Carlton by 22 points in the Preliminary Final. Hawthorn had a much easier finals run, winning the Second Semi-Final over Carlton by 21 points to advance straight to the Grand Final, thus having played only one game in the four weeks preceding the Grand Final.

Match summary

Hawthorn completely dominated the game, setting a VFL record for the greatest winning margin in a Grand Final, beating the record it had itself set in the 1983 VFL Grand Final. This margin remained a record until Geelong's 119 point defeat of Port Adelaide in the 2007 AFL Grand Final. Jason Dunstall kicked 7 goals, Paul Abbott kicked 6 goals and Dermott Brereton kicked 5 goals for the Hawks.

Team	1	2	3	Final
Hawthorn	4.4	10.9	14.16	22.20 (152)
Melbourne	1.5	2.8	5.14	6.20 (56)

The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to Hawthorn defender Gary Ayres for being judged the best player afield, with 22 disposals despite sustaining a fractured cheek bone in the first quarter. Ayres nullified dangerous Melbourne player Greg Healy, and set up many of the Hawks attacks from the defensive line. Jim Stynes was voted best on ground for the Demons.^[1]

Hawks coach Alan Joyce, who replaced an ill Allan Jeans for the 1988 season, said "I have never seen a more awesome, more inspiring passage of play than the 15-minute mark of the second quarter. I saw about a dozen Hawthorn players in a wave going down the field. It was a human chain, crashing through a desperate opposition and forcing the ball forward."

In a lesser known streaker incident a woman ran naked across the ground during the last quarter and was promptly arrested.^[2]

Teams

Hawthorn
B:	40 Andrew Collins	24 Chris Langford	7 Gary Ayres
HB:	20 Scott Maginness	2 Chris Mew	17 Michael Tuck (c)
C:	9 Robert DiPierdomenico	30 Peter Schwab	6 Tony Hall
HF:	10 Chris Wittman	23 Dermott Brereton	34 John Kennedy
F:	39 Paul Abbott	19 Jason Dunstall	35 James Morrissey
Foll:	14 Greg Dear	11 Gary Buckenara	44 John Platten
Int:	29 Russell Greene	18 Darrin Pritchard

Coach:	Alan Joyce

Melbourne
B:	9 Alan Johnson	18 Steven Stretch	14 Rod Grinter
HB:	34 Stephen Newport	28 Jamie Duursma	17 Brett Lovett
C:	12 Todd Viney	7 Brian Wilson	8 Graeme Yeats
HF:	3 Garry Lyon	5 Earl Spalding	15 David Williams
F:	11 Jim Stynes	27 Sean Wight	45 Ricky Jackson
Foll:	10 Danny Hughes	16 Andy Lovell	33 Greg Healy (c)
Int:	37 David Flintoff	21 Steven Febey

Coach:	John Northey

Goal kickers

Hawthorn

Dunstall 7
Abbott 6
Brereton 5
DiPierdomenico 1
Kennedy 1
Morrissey 1
Schwab 1

Melbourne

Lyon 2
Williams 2
Healy 1
Johnson 1

References

↑ "1988 Grand Final, Hawthorn v Melbourne - Post Game (Part 1)". YouTube. 2008-06-07. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
↑ http://demonwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=Grand%20Final%201988

External links

Match details at AFL Tables

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Hawthorn Football Club 1988 VFL premiers

Hawthorn 22.20 (152) defeated Melbourne 6.20 (56), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

2. Mew 6. Hall 7. Ayres 9. DiPierdomenico 10. Wittman 11. Buckenara 14. Dear 17. Tuck (c) 18. Pritchard 19. Dunstall 20. Maginness 23. Brereton 24. Langford 29. Greene 30. Schwab 34. Kennedy 35. Morrissey 39. Abbott 40. Collins 44. Platten

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