Lavington suffered three gut-wrenching losses in preliminary finals

Andrew Moir
Updated September 11 2020 - 10:26am, first published 8:00am
HOODOO: Lavington's Tom Hargreave played in gut-wrenching preliminary final losses as Yarrawonga celebrates in 2011. Picture: JAMES WILTSHIRE
HOODOO: Lavington's Tom Hargreave played in gut-wrenching preliminary final losses as Yarrawonga celebrates in 2011. Picture: JAMES WILTSHIRE

Former Hawthorn premiership player Jordan Lewis said a number of years ago that preliminary finals are almost the hardest games to win, given a grand final berth is on the line. And the Lavington Football Club couldn't argue with that. From 2011 to 2014, the Panthers lost three prelims by a combined margin of five points. To make it worse, the club led all three at three quarter-time by around two goals. Even as a neutral observer, it was hard to watch as the club tried so hard, but couldn't win the big games. In our weekly series over what would have been the O and M's finals, but for COVID-19, we look back at Lavington's gut-wrenching and 'cursed' run, which led to some opponents branding them 'chokers'.

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Andrew Moir

Andrew Moir

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