A GAME featuring one of the biggest flashpoints of the 2024 season has been voted as the best of the year by AFL.com.au readers.
Port Adelaide’s nail-biting three-point semi-final win over Hawthorn at Adelaide Oval was voted by 25 per cent of readers as the best game of 2024.
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In a tight vote that attracted more than 11,000 responses, the Power-Hawks game finished just ahead of Brisbane’s preliminary final win over Geelong, which picked up 23 per cent of the votes.
Remarkably, the first Port v Hawthorn game of the season finished third, with the Power’s one-point win in round 10 after they had trailed the Hawks by 41 points getting 14 per cent of the votes.
But it was the semi-final that topped the charts, a thrilling encounter that concluded with a late miss from Hawks skipper James Sicily and a fiery and controversial postscript involving Sicily, Hawks forward Jack Ginnivan and Power coach Ken Hinkley, which led to Hinkley being fined $20,000 by the AFL.
This season, the two sides will face off again at Adelaide Oval in a Sunday night blockbuster to conclude Gather Round in round five before another clash between the two sides in Launceston in round 19.
Best games of 2024 – fan vote
25 per cent – Port Adelaide d Hawthorn, SF
23 per cent – Brisbane d Geelong, PF
14 per cent – Port Adelaide d Hawthorn, R10
9 per cent – Brisbane d Greater Western Sydney, SF
6 per cent – Sydney d Greater Western Sydney, QF
5 per cent – Essendon drew with Collingwood, R7
5 per cent – Carlton d Brisbane, OR
5 per cent – Collingwood d Carlton, R8
4 per cent – Collingwood d Brisbane, R23
2 per cent – Fremantle d Sydney, R16
1 per cent – Brisbane d Sydney, R19
1 per cent – Essendon d Adelaide, R6
