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    Training 2025 Off-Season & Preseason reports and discussion

    With the hoohaa about defenders going forward there is one bloke not mentioned - esp with Dear going down. Sam Frost. He could alternate with Chol in taking the 2nd ruck chop-out. The two big plusses from that is: 1) It keeps Weddle well away from the ruck 2) Sic is free to take probably...
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    Welcome Welcome to Hawthorn : Calsher Dear! Rising star nom!

    I'm not sure when you got to see Jasper play, but I've watched him at the VFL games 3 times now, and I can honestly say he's a lot better than you are suggesting. He needs to work on his running patterns - especially laterally - and needs more 'forward craft' to play against experienced...
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    Training 2025 Off-Season & Preseason reports and discussion

    Lets not forget HH's debut game. 15 disposals, 5 tackles and 2 goals Vs Melbourne shows the lad can play at the highest level. His height is a factor that is to his advantage, as is his super quick hands. Henry has a very bright AFL future - whether it is with us is another question. Like...
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    Training 2025 Off-Season & Preseason reports and discussion

    I'm a little perplexed by the enthusiasm for Weddle being used in the ruck. I gotta be honest - whilst I understand the thinking, you'd think he is too valuable to give the opposition ruck a licence to hurt him. You don't put an Arabian stallion to ploughing the rock strewn top paddock, you'd...
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    Training 2025 Off-Season & Preseason reports and discussion

    Everyone seems to have forgotten my man Jasper so far. I reckon he could be the smokey for 2025. He's tall, strong, and is a MASSIVE kick. A genuine 65m+ goal kicker. Certainly he has a lot to work on, but he's 19 / 20 and is being coached by some of the best going around. I expect some...
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    News Hawthorn in the media 2025

    Sam channelling his inner Rygel......
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    Training 2025 Off-Season & Preseason reports and discussion

    Blanck has been growing the guns too....
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    Training 2025 Off-Season & Preseason reports and discussion

    Obviously working hard to be spot on for 2025. I do worry tough about extra body mass placing extra strain on hamstrings, quads and calfs. I'm sure the conditioning team will be all over it. Begs the question - is Sam going to train him up forward and that's why we are seeing the extra...
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    Review AFLW Qualifying Final, vs Lions, @ Ikon Park (Carlton), Sunday 10 Nov 1.05pm

    The AFL want the game to improve. They can start with the umpiring. Unless you've actually been watching it, it's impossible to convey just how dire the umpiring is. Multiple HTB decisions unpaid, infringements missed, and the cherry on top was watching the boundary ' umpire' picking the ball...
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    No Oppo Supporters General AFL discussion and other club news

    Tim Membrey was an odd one. Long time at St Kilda with a pretty decent record. I think it's 300 odd goals in nearly 200 games? Still looked super fit when I saw him play, and always cracked in. I know he had a lot of mental health issues, but he was very open about it, and obviously getting...
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    Analysis Should we be pursuing a secondary market post-Hobart? If yes, then where?

    Lovely spot Bunbury. When I lived in WA I used to travel to Bunbury - and straight around it with my doors locked and windows up! https://redsuburbs.com.au/suburbs/bunbury-wa/ Enjoy! (and try to come home alive....) ;)
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    Player Watch Welcome to Hawthorn, Denver Grainger-Barras (delisted 2024)

    One of the main issues was their stupid housing policy. The 'club' had bought a bunch of 4 bed houses on a new waterfront estate - and put all young draftees in those houses. In some cases there were 4 18 / 19 yr olds dumped in a house with no supervision. I'm honestly amazed more of them...
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    Welcome Welcome to Hawthorn: Ethan Phillips. 2024 SSP (delisted 2024)

    Sad that Easy got cut, but understand why. At least he played at AFL level, which the vast majority of players never do. He has a bit left I reckon, and would be best 22 for WCE, North and certainly Richmond. FWIW my mail is he will be in 'yellow and black' next season. Best of lucky Easy
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    Rumour Multiple GWS players are set to be suspended to start the 2025 season after distasteful costumes and skits from their post-season function

    And yet it was. It took a determined barman to go into the security CCTV footage the next day to actually find something offensive. Does that not worry you? That someone is so out to get you for some reason, they go to a venue in their own time to find something to hurt you with? God forbid...
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    Rumour Multiple GWS players are set to be suspended to start the 2025 season after distasteful costumes and skits from their post-season function

    Here's the sole reason the AFL threw a tantrum. They can't have anyone upsetting their self-induced White Elephant, the AFLW. The AFL's almost pathological desire to make this competition relevant is amazing.
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    Rumour Multiple GWS players are set to be suspended to start the 2025 season after distasteful costumes and skits from their post-season function

    How deep is the rabbit hole you are trying to burrow down. A black man of Ghanese heritage - a people ravaged by slavers - is being suspended for portraying a black slave. The world has gone mad. This goes to court and it will rage on for a long long time. The AFL over-reach is frightening...
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    Rumour Multiple GWS players are set to be suspended to start the 2025 season after distasteful costumes and skits from their post-season function

    Now you are just guessing. When people make on point rebuttals - fair enough. When people make shit up to further their agenda, then you've already lost. Why would you accuse them of re-inacting a rape when you have no idea if they did or didn't. You are playing dirty pool here my man.
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    No Oppo Supporters General AFL discussion and other club news

    The latest info from Morris is that the Barman reported it after watching the venue's CCTV replay. This throws up so many questions I don't actually know where to start. Not offended at the time, but goes to watch a recording of it, and then anonymously calls the Giants and complains? The AFL...
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    Rumour 2024 Hypothetical trade and FA Thread

    Frenchie is the one. He has the potential to be absolutely elite.
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    Rumour Multiple GWS players are set to be suspended to start the 2025 season after distasteful costumes and skits from their post-season function

    Honestly both sides are just repeating the same culture war battle cries. My concern is AFL over-reach. AFAIK it was a private room in a private venue with no members of the public there. It was 'an anonymous allegation' and the AFL want to suspend multiple players for 6 matches. Where is...
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    Rumour Multiple GWS players are set to be suspended to start the 2025 season after distasteful costumes and skits from their post-season function

    'Impersonating Raygun' apparently causes embarrassment and offence and leads to a $20k fine. Being Raygun apparently gets you an expenses paid trip to the Olympics where you embarrass and offend the entire nation. One should kop a fine, and it isn't Toby Greene.
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    Rumour 2024 Hypothetical trade and FA Thread

    Roos need to be relevant just hit a new low. Talk about 'yesterday's man'
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    Play Nice AFL Womens - General Discussion

    Honestly, nothing against you - 'sacrifice my comfort levels'? Do you talk to people face to face like this? There's a section of society that is utterly alien to the rest of us, who speak like this, and they think the world is a better place for them being in it.
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    Rumour 2024 Hypothetical trade and FA Thread

    Except that we have already made enquiries. GWS - at this moment - want to hold him to his contract. Max is open to coming back to Victoria. More than open TBH. If he stays this year, I very much doubt he sees it out until 2026. He won't be expensive. And Fatty coming puts him behind...
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    Rumour 2024 Hypothetical trade and FA Thread

    Anyone else get a feeling that Max to us this year is all dependent on GWS signing Fatty Stringer?
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    Play Nice AFL Womens - General Discussion

    Am I the only one that tries to read the AFL / AFLW.com site to learn about AFLW football related stuff only to be met with "i'm a lesbian' stories as the main focus. It's literally every other story gets 'my girlfriend' or 'my wife' shoehorned into the first or second paragraph...
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    News Hawthorn in the media 2024

    The cheer squad are working overtime today. Outside of the Hawthorn Forum, there isn't a single person that thinks giving one hour sick calls to a pre-arranged kids function is acceptable in 2024. It doesn't matter if there was an attempt to reschedule 2 weeks prior. The simple facts are that...
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