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IMHO we are not going to go the next step and win a premiership with Mabior as the main power forward, we need someone who can clunk marks and make less errors in bigger pressure games. So this is where I guess Mitch Lewis/Calsher Dears development is crucial. Or recruiting a Georgiades or...

Is anyone else slightly nervous about going down this route again of trying to get a 28 year-old plus player and giving up high picks, to try and plug an immediate hole vs. developing Blanck and other recent recruits instead? Yes we do need urgently a tall key back but a 28 year old? Aim for a...

This hidden video has just given a glimpse I had under-appreciated; there is more in getting Gunston back to the club than just whether he plays constantly in the AFL side each week or not...our side currently needs as many mentors/leaders at Hodge standard as possible. I'll never forget his...

One thing worth remembering is that EVEN in our premiership years with Rioli, Hardwick always knows how to beat Hawthorn. He is fair dinkum our 'bogey coach', all these years, when competing against us...could it be his years as assistant coach with Hawthorn in our golden years?

Is anyone slightly nervous fellow Hawkers the desperation to get both Mabior Chol and Jack Ginnivan (we should only be doing this for absolute grade A not B+?), for multiple draft picks, and sending Brandon Ryan ala Burton-style to Brisbane? Why on earth do we need Gunston now, he couldn't even...

DGB and Tyler Brockman who has not had a go for a couple of years both played well at Box Hill. With a backline having 4-5 players not playing that well, and a totally decimated forward line, as well as Ramsden/Long/Butler and others putting their hands up at Box Hill; we really need to give...

Can you guys believe that Frost is apparently in the leadership group? And why Impey is always an automatic selection 3 years in a row? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I love it that Sam Mitchell is not mucking around with players' heads and keeping them in positions where they were 'born to play' (no more chess with forcing players to fit a fully defensive/too much rotating mind-set). E.g. no more Gunston to defence suddenly; keeping Chad in his latter career...

TOB was alright in the ruck today and as usual made it a lot of contests and almost marked a few rippers. Was not our worst. On Nokia 6.1 using BigFooty.com mobile app TOB is at a stage in his career now where on the day 'making a lot of contests/was not our worst', drifting along as a decent...

I hear you but in the first 2 games (and in pre-season games where we won), at such a young age he made a critical difference already. Even Dunstall commenting was excited which is very unlike him commenting for Fox. We have very, very few players with potential 'x-factor' in our current list...

I will be really disappointed if one of Hanrahan, Nash, or Lewis gets dropped for Gunston as the latter has had a very ordinary year. It's starting to get very interesting the current list now to watch the young fellas developing and now with Wingard back in - they need lots of games instead of...

This forward line of Breust, Puopolo, Gunston triumvate is just not working all year. Why is Mitchell Lewis suddenly not being picked

I really feel if we are treating Roughead this way to plan for the future/send a message, then on form alone someone in the Puopolo/Gunston/Breust/Smith/ Stratton group need to dropped as well. This forward line configuration game plan since Cyril has left is just not working out (Mitchell...

How does Roughead get dropped but not Puopolo or even Gunston/Smith on form alone to be fair? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My view is that with time, the coaching staff may need to seriously consider whether the current game style is just too structured and not enough use of central corridor - and therefore at times too slow - with the trends in the game in the last 3 years. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

At the moment Hawthorn's game style is looking very, very tired, and the same thing since 2016. Also, the precision kicking into forward line at times is now broken. Also at times boring to watch.. There was a beautiful kick to a fast lead in the first quarter in the forward line today and some...

In the cold light of day these are just my thoughts having seen the game live on the wing: 1) Again a miserly back 6 winning 6 games in a row developing chemistry leading up to finals, resulted in Teia Miles and Brand being dropped like hot potatoes for spud Frawley, Mirra, and love child Doc...

Echoing many of the comments in discussion, however my thoughts would be (this was most evident if you were watching the game live last Thurs); - If Clarko is so miffed at journos being 'sheep', and that 'systems win premierships', why so much tinkering last Thurs night on a rainy evening with a...

If JOR is recovered from his injury and is not picked for next week, and instead TOB/Whitecross/and Duryea are kept in the side because of Big Boy's injury, given how much we were smashed today on home ground when finals were on the line - I am going to really crack it. At least he tends to have...

Dear Hawthorn selection committee Could we please stop 'persisting' with O'Brien and Langford as they have been given 3 years to become A grade players, and instead now let JOR be given a miniscule of a chance given the current development state of our midfield outside our guns JOM/Mitchell?

What is Clarko and selection panel's obsession with keeping O'Brien, especially Frawley, and Langford in the side as 'project players', when Brand and others are trying their guts out in Box Hill, whilst players like Burton and (last year Hartung), get dropped at a whim at least temporarily?

Would like to echo some of the comments on this thread to not drop Schoenmakers - reward for performance culture - esp. if you are not dropping players like Gibbo, Shiels, Breust, Gunston, and dare I say Roughead when they are having a 'run' of ordinary games. He is a brilliant straight long...

1) not mentioned that much by commentators; did anyone notice just how much "straighter" Schoenmakers makes Hawthorn play through the corridor with his pinpoint kicking? Will he be dropped when "injuries players" come back? 2) Any chance that the young backline actually can grow together with...

Was watching Cousins closely during the game he is an absolute gun. Just about every possession created space or advantage vis-a-vis the 'generic' kicks and possessions that Brand and Doc Dre instigate. Please don't drop him but am afraid he will be dropped when veterans come back. Sicily and...

I hear you but: 1) Brand is not a 'kid' and is close to cracking it/nearly left last year as to why he is constantly dropped like a hot potato when clearly he has potential, whenever a 'senior' is due back from injury/etc 2) Heatherley has been in the system forever - for years - still yet to...

This is clearly going to have to be a development year, including having a deep dark look at our current now totally outmoded/depreciated general game plan and forwards coaching; (still the old habits of pausing and looking now for too long; defensive zoning/kicking backwards/holding possession...

I know they are rare as hen's teeth, but the other thing for future midfielders re: potential picks like Jarman, is I am starting to tire of us choosing 'very short' players, and perhaps we need to aim for inside or outside potential mid-fielders more in the Fyfe/Bontempelli/Burton height range...

Anyone who has watched Hawthorn live this year would know that on form alone, Lewis especially (he's too slow now and makes stupid handballs), and even perhaps Gibson/Schoenmakers/Schiels/Birchall (latter three making constant clangers/not doing much), should have been considered before...

Was wondering if anyone is mystified at the continual dropping of Howe and O'Rourke, whilst players continually doing intermittent clangers/disappearing out of game like Lewis, Langford, Hill, and TOB. I've watched both these young guys live and esp with Howe, note they are silky with decision...

I am over Clarko/selection panel committee insisting on the Zac Dawson/Schoenmakers experiment of playing 'never born to play in defence' players as a KPD. Just about wrecked Schoenmaker's career. What on earth is TOB - played forward all his life from youth days - doing in a KPD position at...