Toast Hawks made finals in 2024! - Hawks finals discussion

[MasterSamurai]

İt's the ' İF NOT NOW, WHEN ' season! Sam should put that up on the whiteboard before every game.

 

[play2win]

I tell what I find frustrating and that's having to double up playing the away venue in the same season. Playing both Port and the Crows at AO for eg. If it was fair and equitable system you play once there for the year and you play the other tenant once at the G. Could be just me that has an issue with it but still.

Don’t think we have any reason to complain when you think of the travel burden on weagles, freo, lions and gc over the course of the season. The trip to SA is the shortest of them all, only in the air for about an hour.

 

[TheFourPillars]

İt's the ' İF NOT NOW, WHEN ' season! Sam should put that up on the whiteboard before every game.

naah they already have 'NO LIMITS' up on the board

 

[Cyril says]

İt's the ' İF NOT NOW, WHEN ' season! Sam should put that up on the whiteboard before every game.

Or ‘WHY NOT US?”

 

[KermitJagger]

Saints won't beat the Dons.

It's hard to tell having played West Coast but they have looked a lot better the past few weeks. I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand, especially not at Marvel.

 

[cryptor]

Saints won't beat the Dons.

They definitely can. It will be close.

 

[Hawkers Hero]

If Saints beat Essendon*, Carlton beats Port by 50 and we beat Adelaide by 50, we will be in the 8 in 4 days’ time.

It’s not impossible.

It's not even that complicated.....

Saints beat *, GWS beat Melbourne and Sydney beat the Dogs we are in the 8 (if we also win).

Once we are in the 8, just keep winning and we won't leave it.

 

[Hawkinspired]

Need to win 3/5 and have some big wins like put Crows and Tigers away by big margins. I can see Hawks beating one of Carlton and GWS but loosing to North. either way we can’t be losing by more than 20 points because margin will be critical against teams like GWS and Port.

 

[The Jet From Poowong]

That question will be answered in 3 weeks.

All else being equal, this is very true. If the Hawks knock off the Blues in three weeks, the current frenzy will turn into mania.

And there wont be a lid big enough

 

[Cyril says]

Call me an effing idiot but:
(1) took everyone I knew to the Norf game to see our ‘potentially only win’ for the season
(2) for the first time ever, booked a holiday in September.

Oh no!! What an idiot!!

Don’t worry - I’m on the first plane back if we make the Granny.

GO HAWKS!!!

 

[Cyril says]

It's not even that complicated.....

Saints beat *, GWS beat Melbourne and Sydney beat the Dogs we are in the 8 (if we also win).

Once we are in the 8, just keep winning and we won't leave it.

You are right. I’ve tipped the Dogs, but the point is there is a massive logjam within arms reach that is about to break.

We’ve been unlucky with many results above us but that has led to a lot of teams being not far ahead of us.

Now they are all about to play one another - if we keep winning, the seas have to part, and we can walk to the promised land!

There is a possibility we win all 5 leading to the finals. That puts us likely 4th or 5th - I like both of those options.

This could still turn out the best season of footy we’ve ever seen.

 

[jenniferHAWKinS]

There is a weird chance our 1st jump into the top 8 comes in the last round.
We could overtake 3 teams that week.
Lions at home beat Bombers?
Dockers at home beat Port
Loser of Dogs vs Giants.

 

[DogDaySonny]

All else being equal, this is very true. If the Hawks knock off the Blues in three weeks, the current frenzy will turn into mania.

And there wont be a lid big enough

Chernobyl Mark II

 

[grumbleguts]

Is the glass half empty or half full?

It doesn't matter, there is a tap.

 

[RobHawk]

They definitely can. It will be close.

P

 

[Dewnior]

Saints won't beat the Dons.

Oh, but how delicious will it be if they do.

Last weekend was almost perfect for me. Geelol, *, $wans, Dees, Norf all lose and we smash Pies by 11 goals.

 

[Ned Ryerson]

Got this email from the club today (wondering I have a P1 membership it was a bit redundant) saying that the AFL has given another 1,000 grand final tickets to participating clubs so the club now has another 1,000 P1 memberships. Clearly we are bullish on more than just finals!

 

[Ned Ryerson]

İt's the ' İF NOT NOW, WHEN ' season! Sam should put that up on the whiteboard before every game.

naah they already have 'NO LIMITS' up on the board

Or ‘WHY NOT US?”

I prefer the Jake Taylor quote from Major League (slightly edited to avoid swears):

 

[CHUBBSS]

Saints won't beat the Dons.

Their a chance, look a lot better without king

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

Saints won't beat the Dons.

Says who, teams out of contention for finals have nothing to lose. There in no man's land no matter if they win or lose the rest of the year. Same with the Crows. I see both games as danger games for both teams. We should win and so should Essendon but if we're slightly both off will definitely lose. There isn't that big of a gap down to 15th.

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

You are right. I’ve tipped the Dogs, but the point is there is a massive logjam within arms reach that is about to break.

We’ve been unlucky with many results above us but that has led to a lot of teams being not far ahead of us.

Now they are all about to play one another - if we keep winning, the seas have to part, and we can walk to the promised land!

There is a possibility we win all 5 leading to the finals. That puts us likely 4th or 5th - I like both of those options.

This could still turn out the best season of footy we’ve ever seen.

We win all 5 were top 4. Take that to the bank. There isn't a big enough gap between 2nd and 11th for those teams to lose a couple more games and be safe. Particularly when quite a few are playing eachother. This year has been like no other.

 

[KermitJagger]

Feels pretty good knowing that since Rd 8 we're 2-0 against the top 4 and 3-1 against the top 8 form teams.

Just need to carry it through.

 

[Gaston]

If we make finals when are we going to conduct our heavy training block?

 

[MistyAvalon]

yes we can...............but they have to win and win well... carna hawks been too damn long

 

[Blackhawk42]

McKay a late out. All the results we're relying on keep not going our way.

Unfortunately I expect Port to win quite comfortably tonight. Carlton in all sorts on the injury front.