
MinerBoy
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Time to bring in Hale for McEvoy.
The 'McEvoy as a forward' experiment has failed dismally.
Certainly not clunking the marks.
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Time to bring in Hale for McEvoy.
The 'McEvoy as a forward' experiment has failed dismally.
Having thought about it overnight I'm not so upset as I was. The hardest thing to swallow is being beaten by cheats. Other than that, we played okay without two of our main midfielders and two of our best defenders. ANd we still only lost by two seconds. We were uncharacteristically sloppy and slow to make decisions. My guess is that's a combination of cockiness and pressure from the opposition. No loss is good, but coming at the start of the season, as it has, means we've had a solid reality check. Anyone who thought a hat trick was a foregone conclusion has rocks in their head.
PS: I agree with Teamwork Talks - probably about time to give Hale a run.
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Having thought about it overnight I'm not so upset as I was. The hardest thing to swallow is being beaten by cheats. Other than that, we played okay without two of our main midfielders and two of our best defenders. ANd we still only lost by two seconds. We were uncharacteristically sloppy and slow to make decisions. My guess is that's a combination of cockiness and pressure from the opposition. No loss is good, but coming at the start of the season, as it has, means we've had a solid reality check. Anyone who thought a hat trick was a foregone conclusion has rocks in their head.
PS: I agree with Teamwork Talks - probably about time to give Hale a run.
I think you've gone a bit early.Jono o'rourke - had this belief he is just an average player and first time seeing him play live today .. How he was a no.2 pick is baffling .. Even more outrageous is how we swap pick 19 for him ..
He is just not clean with the ball, always rushed, has bad bad hands ie, is a fumbles king .. Bad decisions.. No tank, no real speed, .. I m astounded how he was so high rated ..
Hawks have lost big in this one .. I think Maynard, miller, Goddard were available at this pick ..
Hawks fans can be pathetic. Maybe your arrogance has got to your heads a bit too much. Not as good as you thought you were after all.
Please go back to shithole you are from. Come back in September and have a chat!!!
Hawks fans can be pathetic. Maybe your arrogance has got to your heads a bit too much. Not as good as you thought you were after all.
I think you've gone a bit early.
It was his first game for Hawthorn, in a tight match, in front of the biggest crowd he'd ever played in front of, so he was always going to be a bit nervous. We'd just hope that it would transfer to his ball handling.
Add this to the fact that he has not had senior bodies around him, telling him where to be, or what to do in most of his career to date, so there's a learning curve, and one which he has said himself is a big change from being at GWS.
One thing Wright has excelled in in his time as list manager is identifying talent at other clubs who will flourish at Hawthorn.
The kid has time up his sleeve.
No. In a scenario where the general sport is the winner there are two genuinely good teams having a crack at each other. For the general sport to be the winner (in this case Australian Rules) the general adherents of the the sport (the fans) would have to be better for the experience, they would have to have enjoyed the experience. The numbers of people wanting to watch the sport would have increased.The game could have gone either way and those last two minutes were pure desperation by both teams.
Football was the real winner today.
No. In a scenario where the general sport is the winner there are two genuinely good teams having a crack at each other. For the general sport to be the winner (in this case Australian Rules) the general adherents of the the sport (the fans) would have to be better for the experience, they would have to have enjoyed the experience. The numbers of people wanting to watch the sport would have increased.
Sadly, there are 17 teams in the competition, and ALL of their supporters (the aforementioned adherents, if you will) were disappointed at the result. Even though Hawthorn has dominated for the last few years they STILL wanted hawthorn to win today.
There have been posts in this thread from some of the other 16 teams' supporters that sum up the general consensus. "You guys have dominated for so long and you chose THAT game to stuff it up?"
No one wants to see a cheat win. Not because your team cheated. But because you sabotaged the game. You lowered the prestige of the sport in the eyes of the public. No one will ever go to a match again and fully appreciate that that result that brilliant bit of play was unassisted. Your team did that. For nothing more than a few extra wins in a couple of seasons, your team visited domestic violence on the children of the afl. Hansie Cronje has nothing on your team.
Then instead of taking the punishment like real men, you hid in the corner burning the evidence like wormtongue, sinvelling that no one likes you. Then celebrated when you all mistakenly thought you'd been found not guilty. When in fact you'd been found to have destroyed the evidence sufficiently were enough.
No football wasn't the winner, and never will be while your team takes the field of play.
Hope this clarifies things.
Hawks fans can be pathetic. Maybe your arrogance has got to your heads a bit too much. Not as good as you thought you were after all.
Can not believe some of the overreaction on this board
The arrogance levels here are extraordinary.
Again, your team played well yesterday but Essendon also had some vital players out, Dempsey, Myers and Hocking..
Give the cheating thing a rest, thanks. Even if the cheating issue hypothetically occurred I doubt the players wanted anything to do with it. Let it go, focus on the football, thanks.
The arrogance levels here are extraordinary.
Again, your team played well yesterday but Essendon also had some vital players out, Dempsey, Myers and Hocking..
Give the cheating thing a rest, thanks. Even if the cheating issue hypothetically occurred I doubt the players wanted anything to do with it. Let it go, focus on the football, thanks.
The arrogance levels here are extraordinary.
Again, your team played well yesterday but Essendon also had some vital players out, Dempsey, Myers and Hocking..
Give the cheating thing a rest, thanks. Even if the cheating issue hypothetically occurred I doubt the players wanted anything to do with it. Let it go, focus on the football, thanks.
The arrogance levels here are extraordinary.
Again, your team played well yesterday but Essendon also had some vital players out, Dempsey, Myers and Hocking..
Give the cheating thing a rest, thanks. Even if the cheating issue hypothetically occurred I doubt the players wanted anything to do with it. Let it go, focus on the football, thanks.
We didn't play well. That's the problem. And we still only lost by 2 points and 2 seconds. Lets see how things are looking in round 22, not round 2.The arrogance levels here are extraordinary.
Again, your team played well yesterday but Essendon also had some vital players out, Dempsey, Myers and Hocking..
Give the cheating thing a rest, thanks. Even if the cheating issue hypothetically occurred I doubt the players wanted anything to do with it. Let it go, focus on the football, thanks.