Are we a first tier side and is Geelong a second tier side?

[Phil McCreviss]

Keen to get some feedback after Saturday's result. Discuss.

 

[Brishawk]

Haha you are a funny man, Phil. Will be happy to discuss when I am sober some time next month! Go hawks!

 

[Davo23]

No, Geelong is still better, I heard Duck Selwood say we pinched a game off them.

And did we actually win the Grand Final?
I hear the Freo fans put too much pressure on us!




(Great thread!)

 

[Hawkk]

Very harsh on the Cats.

The Cats 2012/13 was very, very similar to our 2010/11 years. Likewise I'd argue that our 2013 flag was very similar to their 2011 flag (from an age profile perspective)

 

[Phil McCreviss]

Very harsh on the Cats.

The Cats 2012/13 was very, very similar to our 2010/11 years. Likewise I'd argue that our 2013 flag was very similar to their 2011 flag (from an age profile perspective)

Lol

 

[Hawkk]

Lol

We can agree to disagree but looking at our 2010/11 season and comparing it to the Cats...

2010/11 Hawthorn
31.5 wins from 47 games (67%)
1 EF loss to Fremantle followed by a 3pt PF loss to Collingwood

2012/13 Geelong
33 wins from 47 games (70%)
1 EF loss to Fremantle followed by a 5pt PF loss to Hawthorn

In fact if you look at the PF losses incurred by both the 2011 Hawthorn and 2013 Geelong sides they are extremely similar

 

[Easy Slips Catch]

The last few years we would have cracked or panicked or try to win the game from one piece of brilliance. This year we stood up, when challenged we dug in. The loss last year gave the lads some scar tissue, that will turn out to be a good thing. This group is now hard.

This team is different to 2012 and 2011. As Sammy said yesterday it is about TEAM. It is has taken a while be we are now first tier.

 

[Noneedforaname]

Are we a first tier club and is Geelong a second tier club?

Knocking them out of the Prelim and winning the AFL GF says yes.

Beating them in the VFL grand final further confirms it.

Nuff said.

 

[MinerBoy]

Did we just win a flag?

Who cares.

 

[Phil McCreviss]

Did we just win a flag?

Who cares.

It's a pi$$take mate. Have a look at earlier threads with similar titles.

 

[MinerBoy]

I know, and I'm aware of the threads. I posted in them.

Just not even worried about all that now. Just great to win another flag.

 

[QuietB]

It's a pi$$take mate. Have a look at earlier threads with similar titles.

I think I ignored that thread. So I might do the same here.

It is nice that the Saints have fallen off a cliff, the pies are in free fall towards one, and the Hawks are back where they belong.

 

[Flukey!]

It's a pi$$take mate. Have a look at earlier threads with similar titles.

I was just going to say that I was sure we had been here already.

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

Ha ha! Now this is the kind of thread I like

Short answer, yes

/close thread

 

[Paul Kersey]

Just read about four pages on the Geelong board about how they could have won on Saturday.

Also some great pearlers how our two flags take some of the gloss of their three flags. Pack of arsehats.

 

[Gold Member]

We talking footy teams, footy clubs, geographic demographics, supporter base, BigFooty posters or all of the above????

 

[Glacier]

Oh dear

 

[sydney_hawka]

According to our so-called experts in the Media, we're a "second tier" side who just had a bit of luck on the weekend, and fluked a GF, just like 2008.

F U to all you envious pricks that wanted to see us go down.

 

[Sixpence]

Haha, great thread Phil!

Just for shits and giggles I'm going to go with "No, not until we beat Richmond.".

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

I reckon we're mentally fragile, Phil.

 

[Leather Poisoning]

Just read about four pages on the Geelong board about how they could have won on Saturday.

Also some great pearlers how our two flags take some of the gloss of their three flags. Pack of arsehats.

Would love to read their board if we managed back to back.

 

[Brant]

Both Hawthorn & Geelong are 1st rate teams - the San Francisco Dockers are 2nd rate...

The GF was held Friday night 20th September & anyone with half a brain knows it - and knows who won.

 

[Joey Seaside]

Sorry, this idea sounds a bit arrogant to me. If they're behind us, it isn't too far. In a way it's a pity they lost to Freo - their bogey side - because a Hawthorn/ Geelong grand final would have been a cracker! And I think we would have won, too.

 

[Joey Seaside]

Both Hawthorn & Geelong are 1st rate teams - the San Francisco Dockers are 2nd rate...

The GF was held Friday night 20th September & anyone with half a brain knows it - and knows who won.

I agree. Geelong lost to their bogey side. If we'd met Richmond, we probably would have lost, too.

 

[Phil McCreviss]

I reckon we're mentally fragile, Phil.

Just wet my pants a little after I read that Ech