With Richmond winning the wooden spoon and Sydney winning the minor premiership for 2024...
The Tigers' win against the Swans on Easter Sunday in Round 3 means this will be the first league season since 1976 in which the eventual wooden spooner defeated the eventual minor premier.
In '76, Collingwood defeated Carlton at Victoria Park in Round 12, but the Magpies collapsed in the second half of the year to lose 8 consecutive games and win a historic wooden spoon (Despite winning 6 games, the most of any wooden spooner in history), while Carlton won the minor premiership but lost both finals to Hawthorn and North Melbourne.
I can also recall it very nearly happened in 2006, when wooden spooners Carlton led minor premiers West Coast by 44 points in the 3rd, Quarter, and still led by 28 points in the last quarter, only for West Coast to kick 5 goals in the last 12 minutes and win by 10 points.
On the other hand, the wooden spooner has defeated the eventual premier only twice in the last 48 years:
In 1980, eventual wooden spooners Fitzroy defeated eventual premiers Richmond by 21 points at the Junction Oval in Round 15...
And in 1992, eventual wooden spooners Sydney defeated eventual premiers West Coast by 3 points at the SCG in Round 2.
That result becomes more bizarre when you note that West Coast won 2 of the next 3 premierships.
Sydney won the next 3 wooden spoons, lost 26 consecutive games, a won a grand total of 8 games out of 64.
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