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Perspective guys.

At the end of the day how many teams win flags with a 20/21 year old playing key defence and a ruckman who has played 15 games.

Let it hurt but respect the absolute amazing efforts this season from your football club.
 
Next year, it will be Roughead, Franklin and another couple.

It just keeps on happening.
 
Roy boys said:
Perspective guys.

At the end of the day how many teams win flags with a 20/21 year old playing key defence and a ruckman who has played 15 games.

Let it hurt but respect the absolute amazing efforts this season from your football club.
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At last, a voice of reason and it takes a neutral observer to do so.

However, you state as if our season is done!

We're not finished yet, by any stretch of yours, or anyone elses imagination!
 

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Roy boys said:
Perspective guys.

At the end of the day how many teams win flags with a 20/21 year old playing key defence and a ruckman who has played 15 games.

Let it hurt but respect the absolute amazing efforts this season from your football club.
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Good post. Geelong were superb tonight. Hats off to them. I thought Scott and co had a brilliant game from the box.

And yes, it does hurt. The hot wire was twisted into my footy flesh when Buddy went down, but that's the cards you're dealt. And, it seems, symbolises the injuries we have copped this year to key players. But through all of that, our team has put in a big year against the odds.

Still hurts but.
 
As hard it is now lads put the shoe on the other foot.

You take our Scarlett, Taylor, Ottens and Hawkins.

KPP are the hardest to cover, thats just fact.

Ellis, Savage and another 1 or 2 should make next weeks side a better one then this weeks( Franklin aside :().
 
The club hasn't signed Gilly yet.
Hope they do soon.
 
grizzlym said:
Good post. Geelong were superb tonight. Hats off to them. I thought Scott and co had a brilliant game from the box.
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I thought they did pretty much what they did to us early in the year - won the middle, owned the corridor on the re-bound, and kicked long and high when to isolate our undersized defence was one on one.

At the other end we bombed to 1 on threes.

Don't get me wrong, I think we've done hugely well this year, and am not closing the book on this campaign, but realistically the negating game we play against Geelong needs everything to go right for it to succeed.

So I'm not so sure they had a great night in the box, they just had the better players, bigger stronger KP bodies and played accordingly.
 
I thought the rotation that had Schoey constantly on the FB line worked a treat. You actually saw it another team, can't remember now, do it to us a few weeks back, and Schoey back there is always going to end in tears.

Scott used his tall assets very well, I thought.
 
You want to win being the better team .... Tonight, we weren't.

As much as I hate losing to the Cats, they were just much better tonight ... especially their talls.

Very excited to see this Hawks group with another year in the youngsters and the keys mentioned by the OP back.

2011 not done and dusted yet, but we are not playing the better finals footy thus far.
 
Certainly is I wish it wasnt an excuse but we keep losing KP players
2009 lose the backline
2010 lose the Ruck division
2011 lose the complete spine
 
PottSie2 said:
We've played the injury card for 3 years in a row now, its getting a little tiring.
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This thread had chance of offering insight, but there is always someone who stuffs it up.
 

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Spursfan said:
What excuse, enough good players get injured you generally don't win
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Of course you don't, but waffling on about it doesn't make it any better and frankly just allows other people to label us as whingers. Id prefer not to give them that satisfaction. There is something degrading about self pity.
 
Guys.

All these season-ending injuries have been to key structural players. Essentially much of the spine has been ripped out of the Hawks team. That's pretty hard to cope with, but Hawthorn has brought in players that, for better or worse, at least have some AFL games under their belt because of injuries in the previous two seasons.

Whatever happens from here, it's been a stirling effort by the team to have done as well as they have this season.

The sub rule needs some attention. AFL claim they brought it in to minimise injuries (and they waited until statistics made that case favourable before they implemented it). This season makes that justification laughable, if not tragic by the cynical manipulation of numbers.. It's not just Hawks that have had unfortunate injuries. Freo didn't have much luck either. Other clubs can be mentioned.

I'd like to see another sub (have two). That would help cover injuries during a game and provide coaches with possible combinations of subs... maybe a spare KPP in sub mix instead of the obligatory smaller midfield / utility / running player. And a bigger player list (which means more in the club budgets).

Another thing (off-topic)... AFL have flagged reducing the time played for quarters, down from the twenty minutes plus time on. I'm willing to bet there's only a dozen-odd people on the planet that think this is a good idea. They are television executives and their adoring pets in AFL House. To them, footy isn't a sport or a game or a social phenomenom. It's a product to squeeze profits from. w***ers.
 

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