We know this isn’t one you’d like to relive but it wouldn’t be doing this countdown justice if it were to miss out.

 

Having finished top four after the home and away season, the Hawks faced the Cats for a place in the preliminary final.

 

Tasked with taking the ball ‘coast to coast’, from one end of the ground to the other, with half a minute remaining in the game, the odds were probably in Geelong’s favour.

 

But as this great Hawthorn side, hunting a fourth consecutive premiership, had so often done, it found a way through the Cats defence and a way to shot on goal for Isaac Smith.

 

The wingman marked the ball 35 metres out on a 45 degree angle five seconds before the siren.

 

Trailing by three points, his side needed him to convert truly, the prelim beckoned. But Issie’s shot was wayward. The Cats instead had snatched that spot in the preliminary final, though neither side would go on to make the big dance.

 

Despite the result, the fact that one side could pinch the win with a shot after the siren indicates just how epic this instalment was.