1990 AFL Grand Final - Essendon Vs Collingwood (Extended Highlights)

Uploaded in high quality 50FPS, please enjoy these extended highlights of the 1990 Grand Final. This was a tough and fiery encounter, where Collingwood were looking to finally shake off the Colli-wobbles, their long 32 year premiership drought. They were playing Essendon, whom they had accounted for in the second semi-final, and themselves were looking for their first flag since 1985.

1990 AFL Grand Final Extended Highlights

Date: 6 October 1990 2:50PM
Venue: MCG (Attendance: 98,944)
Coverage: Channel 7
Commentators: Sandy Roberts, Ian Robertson, Don Scott

Essendon 5.11 (41) def. by Collingwood 13.11 (89)

[helenalderson]

Brilliant/. Thanks so much. I was there on the day, a great day. Will never forget it. Go Pies!

[woodsmen]

Thank you for uploading this. Fantastic channel.

After so much heartbreak, we finally broke the drought ⚫️⚪️⚫️⚪️⚫️

[mike]

Excellent Quality Videos. A really good channel. Thanks for the uploads! Love the ones from the 80s & 90s.

[morkusmorkus]

1:49 In what bizzaro world is that a mark?

[laurencetilley]

You only needed to touch the ball to be awarded a mark. lol. The skill levels today are much higher. I had been a Pies supporter for 23 years before I saw the Pies win a premiership. Our captain was ahead of his time when it came to skill level. GoPies.

[shannonpincombe]

It says something about a club like Essendon and how they treat players when a bloke like Paul Salmon comes to Hawthorn after a long career with Essendon and ends his career saying he thinks of himself as a Hawthorn player who once played for Essendon. We loved the Big Fish at the Hawks.

[joememphis]

Between 1958 and 1990, The Magpies played in nine Grand Finals with a net return of eight losses and a draw. 1960, 1964, 1966, 1970, 1977 (draw), 1977 (Grand Final replay loss), 1979, 1980, 1981. Since the 1990 and 2010 Grand Final victories, they have lost in 2002, 2003, 2011 and 2018 plus the 2010 drawn Grand Final.

[alexmaccini]

Excellent quality!👌 The scoreboard is a good addition too 👍

[Liofa]

14:19 -- The Bombers player deliberately punched the opponent in the ribs out of frustration. Horrible tactics.

[TheBinaryWolf]

Full credit to the 'pies, but Essendon were handicapped by Sheedy, who instructed his team to attack the man and not the ball. Under the miscreant Irishman, the 'dons were the dirtiest team in the league. And who is to say God did not play hand, when the ball so often bounced unfavourably for Essendon?

[Collingwoodfan]

What was a better grand final win
1990?
2010? Or
2023?

[sliat]

How much did the AFL pay Essendon to throw this match?

[adamthomas]

Stop talking crap.
The year before was the greatest touhest Grand Final.
And Leigh Matthews told the pies to play the ball.
Essendon was already like that.
Dooh

[kevaldrick]

Nar... can't watch that.
Once was too many times.
2018...Yair...watched that a dozen times and loved it on the day...will never forget it...better than most GF's
GO BLUES
GOAT: Bruce Douall

[purplexs]

Watched this game on the tele, in Hippy Valley in Tasmania. For personal reasons 1990 was an awful year.
I was hoping for an Essendon flag to cheer me up:
nope.
Bombers played like I felt.

[sarcasmgod]

I think anyone who isn't a Collingwood supporter just pretends this grand final never happened.

[macgregordawson]

This was surely the worst grand final of the modern era. There have been more one-sided games (1988, 2007 & 2019 to name just three), but at least in those you could admire the skill and obvious superiority of the winner. This game was just a snoozefest after quarter time. It was obvious from midway through the second term who would win, but the winning team went long stretches without even scoring.

You can see in hindsight why this Collingwood team went nowhere after 1990.

[baconurl]

It looked like a prison brawl between to gangs of inmates