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On 30 July 2011, the Australian rules football clubs Geelong and Melbourne played a home-and-away match at Skilled Stadium, during round 19 of that year's Australian Football League season. Geelong scored 37 goals and 11 behinds for a total of 233 points, defeating Melbourne by a 186-point margin.
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Date | 30 July 2011, 2:10pm | |||||||||||||||
Stadium | Skilled Stadium | |||||||||||||||
Attendance | 22,716 | |||||||||||||||
Umpires | Scott Jeffery, Heath Ryan, Shaun Ryan |
Geelong were heavy favourites going into the match; they were placed second in the league, separated from first-place Collingwood only by percentage. After a narrow loss to West Coast in round 16 – just their second for the year – Geelong had posted victories over bottom-half teams Brisbane and Richmond in the two weeks before the match. Melbourne, following their round 16 bye, had defeated last-placed Port Adelaide to put themselves in contention for a top-eight finish and thus reaching the 2011 AFL finals series. However, they faced a challenging three-game span against high-ranking sides – they had lost to Hawthorn the previous week and were set to face Carlton after the Geelong match. failed to overcome were eleventh on the ladder but remained in contention , depending on how well they performed in their six remaining home-and-away matches.
Among Melbourne supporters, the defeat is so notorious it is sometimes referred to only by their club's margin of defeat – "186".