1995 AFL season#Round 9

See 1995 AFL Draft.

{{Main|1995 Ansett Australia Cup}}

{{AFL NM}} defeated {{AFL Ade}} 14.9 (93) to 8.15 (63) in the final.

• This round featured the first Anzac Day match held between {{AFL Col}} and {{AFL Ess}}, which famously ended in a draw.
• The crowd of 94,825 for the Anzac Day match was the second-largest crowd for a home and away game in AFL history. It is currently the third-largest crowd, having been surpassed by the crowd of 95,179 at the Round 6, 2023 Anzac Day match.

Tony Lockett kicked both his 100th goal for the season and his 1000th career goal during the Sydney Swans v Fremantle game at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

The Brisbane Bears vs Essendon Bombers game at the Gabba is the first ever night game in Brisbane.

{{Australian rules football ladder start}}

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| 1 || align=left | {{AFL Car}} (P) || 22 || 20 || 2 || 0 || 2357 || 1711 || 137.8 || 80

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| 2 || align=left | {{AFL Gee}} || 22 || 16 || 6 || 0 || 2558 || 1939 || 131.9 || 64

|- style=background:#FFFFBB

| 3 || align=left | {{AFL Ric}} || 22 || 15 || 6 || 1 || 2096 || 1943 || 107.9 || 62

|- style=background:#FFFFBB

| 4 || align=left | {{AFL Ess}} || 22 || 14 || 6 || 2 || 2464 || 1931 || 127.6 || 60

|- style=background:#FFFFBB

| 5 || align=left | {{AFL WC}} || 22 || 14 || 8 || 0 || 2079 || 1692 || 122.9 || 56

|- style=background:#FFFFBB

| 6 || align=left | {{AFL NM}} || 22 || 14 || 8 || 0 || 2311 || 2013 || 114.8 || 56

|- style=background:#FFFFBB

| 7 || align=left | {{AFL Foo}} || 22 || 11 || 10 || 1 || 1879 || 2054 || 91.5 || 46

|- style=background:#FFFFBB

| 8 || align=left | {{AFL BB}} || 22 || 10 || 12 || 0 || 2104 || 2207 || 95.3 || 40

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| 9 || align=left | {{AFL Mel}} || 22 || 9 || 13 || 0 || 1938 || 1925 || 100.7 || 36

|-

| 10 || align=left | {{AFL Col}} || 22 || 8 || 12 || 2 || 2043 || 2111 || 96.8 || 36

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| 11 || align=left | {{AFL Ade}} || 22 || 9 || 13 || 0 || 1749 || 2184 || 80.1 || 36

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| 12 || align=left | {{AFL Syd}} || 22 || 8 || 14 || 0 || 2314 || 2299 || 100.7 || 32

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| 13 || align=left | {{AFL Fre}} || 22 || 8 || 14 || 0 || 2051 || 2209 || 92.8 || 32

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| 14 || align=left | {{AFL StK}} || 22 || 8 || 14 || 0 || 1814 || 2258 || 80.3 || 32

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| 15 || align=left | {{AFL Haw}} || 22 || 7 || 15 || 0 || 1857 || 1975 || 94.0 || 28

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| 16 || align=left | {{AFL Fit}} || 22 || 2 || 20 || 0 || 1617 || 2780 || 58.2 || 8

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Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 94.4
Source: [https://afltables.com/afl/seas/1995.html#lad AFL Tables]

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{{main|1995 AFL Grand Final}}

• The Brownlow Medal was awarded to Paul Kelly of {{AFL Syd}}.
• The Leigh Matthews Trophy was awarded to Wayne Carey of {{AFL NM}}.
• The Coleman Medal was awarded to Gary Ablett of {{AFL Gee}}.
• The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to Greg Williams of {{AFL Car}}.
• The AFL Rising Star award was awarded to Nick Holland of {{AFL Haw}}.
• The Wooden Spoon was "awarded" to {{AFL Fit}}.

• The Fremantle Dockers made their debut in the competition.
• They played their first game against {{AFL Ric}} at the MCG and won their first game against {{AFL Fit}} at Whitten Oval.
• The first ANZAC Day clash between {{AFL Col}} and {{AFL Ess}} was held in round 4 which ended in a draw.
• {{AFL Car}} won a record 16th premiership, winning twenty games for the home-and-away season, also a new record (subsequently surpassed by Essendon in 2000 and Geelong in 2008). They won their 16th consecutive match in the grand final, comfortably beating {{AFL Gee}} 21.15 (141) to 11.14 (80).
• Amidst these records, they also suffered the rare ignominy of losing to the bottom team ({{AFL StK}}) while atop the ladder in their Round 9 game. In this game, they failed to score a goal in the first half and became the fifth (and to date last) premier team to have kicked a season's lowest score (also in 1923, 1968, 1970 and 1992).
• {{AFL Ric}} reached the finals for the first time since 1982, finishing 3rd and making the preliminary finals.
• They won their first 7 games, winning their first five games for the first time since 1982.
• They were on top of the ladder for the first time since 1982 (from rounds 9 to 12).
• {{AFL BB}} made an exceptional late season charge to reach the finals for the first time in team history.
• The Bears sat 14th after 15 rounds with a win–loss record of 4–11 and a percentage of 83.2%.
• In Round 16 at the Gabba against Hawthorn, the Bears trailed Hawthorn by 45 points at three-quarter time, but scored nine goals to one in the final quarter to pull off a seven-point victory. It remains the largest three-quarter time deficit ever overcome in VFL/AFL history. The Bears were still in 14th place at the end of the game.
• Brisbane won its next two games against bottom eight opposition to reach 12th place, but were to face Carlton, Richmond and Essendon (who then held the top three places respectively) in the following three weeks. Against all odds, Brisbane lost to Carlton by only 14 points, then thrashed the Tigers by 77 points and beat Essendon by 32 points.
• At the start of the final round, Melbourne, Collingwood and Brisbane sat 8th, 9th and 10th respectively, all on nine wins. Brisbane needed to beat Melbourne, and rely on Sydney (13th place) beating Collingwood to reach the finals. Brisbane beat Melbourne by 21 points on Friday night, then watched on Sunday as Sydney scored eight final quarter goals to overhaul Collingwood by 23 points.
• The Bears finals appearance was short-lived, as the eventual premiers Carlton beat them by 13 points in the first week of the finals in a very high standard game.
• However, the 10 wins and 12 losses of Brisbane in 1995, remains the worst record of a team in VFL/AFL history which qualified a team for the finals (excluding those seasons where more than half of teams qualified for the finals).
• Tony Lockett transferred from St Kilda to {{AFL Syd}}.
• {{AFL Foo}}, VFL and State of Origin legend Ted Whitten died.
• He had been given a "lap of honour" during the 1995 State of Origin match between Victoria and South Australia. The State of Origin saw Victoria win against South Australia in Melbourne and Allies win against Western Australia in Perth.
• The Western Oval would be renamed the Whitten Oval in his memory.
• {{AFL Haw}} missed out on the finals for the first time since 1981.
• The team finished second last, failing to register a win for its last seven matches.
• {{AFL Fit}} continued to decline, failing to register a win from round 9 and finished on the bottom of the ladder with just 2 wins.
• There were many significant changes to incumbent AFL team coaches:
• After round 19, the {{AFL Fit}} coach Bernie Quinlan was sacked and replaced by caretaker coach Alan McConnell for the remaining three games of their season (Michael Nunan later was signed as coach for 1996).
• Peter Knights was sacked as coach of {{AFL Haw}}.
• John Northey resigned from {{AFL Ric}} (he became coach of {{AFL BB}} in 1996).
• Robert Walls resigned as coach of {{AFL BB}} and joined {{AFL Ric}} as coach in 1996.
• Ron Barassi coached his last VFL/AFL match, resigning as coach of {{AFL Syd}} at the end of 1995.
• The first ever (and to date only) AFL game was played at Bruce Stadium in Canberra, between Fitzroy and West Coast Eagles in round 9.

• [https://afltables.com/afl/seas/1995.html 1995 AFL season] at AFL Tables
• [https://www.australianfootball.com/seasons/season/afl/138/premiership%2Bseason/1/1/1995 1995 AFL season] at Australian Football

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