Preview Hawks vs the COLA $wans and the man they call Juda$ - it's the big dance.

[B&GBlood]

@AFL_PKeane: Michael O'Loughlin will present Premiership Cup to Swans if Sydney win.
Jason Dunstall will present Premiership Cup to Hawks if Hawthorn win

No Hirdy has to give us the Cup.

 

[Agent Smith]

As a club we have done bugger all to build up this Grand Final (which isn't a bad thing) perhaps we just revel in a low profile build up. Just like the old day???

You don't go hunting by making a lot of noise. It's swan hunting season, and we've picked out a group of 22 of 'em to feed a horde of over 60,000 hungry hawks. It's dinner time!

 

[Pessimistic]

Even this week its being described as possibly the "third flag for either team in the last nine years"



It back to back you apologists !!!!

 

[TheFourPillars]

Atonement, Restitution, Reclamation.

What are you on about you ask?

REDEMPTION

We have waited two years for this mob to be good enough to face us again. We've even given them one of our best players.
ITS TIME...

 

[Hodgey 15]

Is Sydney the only team playing on Saturday? AFL360 has had Sydney,Sydney, and Sydney again. Had to change channels, giving me the ))$&& It must be a one man team too..At least we have 18 players..

I'm enjoying my media ban because of stuff just like that. Reactive media ain't gunna get me down.
Usually watch Footy Show - giving that a miss probably too.

 

[grumbleguts]

We're 12-1 at the MCG, it is a significant advantage to us this week

That's because we play well there, not because of some home ground advantage.

How many teams do we play there that are also at home?

 

[Xtreme]

Loaded a bunch of Hawthorn things on a tablet for the downtime during the day at training tomorrow... already had a bunch of photos and things from past years, selected an Isaac Smith pose as my background image. Ripped a few Hawthorn matches to watch, edited the Hawthorn theme song to last for 10 hours (for a laugh) as well as other footy anthems (gotta have one day in september playing at some point). Oh and i forgot, press the wrong button and Shane Crawford's "that's what i'm talking abouttttttt" from 2008 plays.

If someone else from big footy attends training and hears it randomly, it might be my doing

Can't wait for tomorrow, bit ehh over the rain that's falling right now.... but last years thursday grand final training was in seriously windy and raining conditions and i toughed it out (in shorts!!!).

 

[B&GBlood]

From the AFL site. We certainly are underdogs...

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We that has come in from the 69 / 31 earlier in the week.

 

[Pessimistic]

2012 AFL grand final
Hawthorn v Sydney Swans, MCG, 2.30pm, Saturday 29 September

HAWTHORN
B: Birchall Gibson Stratton
HB: Suckling Schoenmakers Burgoyne
C: Lewis Mitchell Ellis
HF: Gunston Franklin Smith
F: Rioli Roughead Breust
FOLL: Hale Hodge Sewell
I/C: Shiels Savage Puopolo Young
EMG: Bailey Cheney Murphy

Out: schoenmakers. Ellis. Franklin. Savage Young. Maybe rioli. Sewell

In: Lake. Langford. Spangher. Simpkin. Hill. Ceglar. Duryea

Franklin rioli biggest outs for us. Lake langford hill the best ins

SYDNEY SWANS
B: Shaw Richards Mattner
HB: Johnson Grundy Smith
C: Jetta Jack Hannebery
HF: Bird Reid O'Keefe
F: McVeigh Goodes Roberts-Thomson
FOLL: Mumford Kennedy Bolton
I/C: Malceski Pyke Parker Morton
EMG: Armstrong Dennis-Lane Walsh


In: Franklin. Tippett. Mcglynn. Cunningham. Rampe. Rohan. Lloyd

Out: Mattner. Johnson. O' keefe. Roberts thompson. Mumford. Bolton. Walsh


Mumford and okeefe the biggest losses for sydney, great ins. Red hot favourites i think we were in 2012 (after we lost)

 

[Gunbarrel Jack]

Sydney are ordinary at the G and we gotta make that count. The pressure to win is all on them and the media is pumping them up big time ala Freo last year. And can you honestly see our boys allowing themselves to go thru the pain of 2012 all over again?
Revenge is ours!

 

[market]

just asking....but if Hawks win...does that mean we are "Back-to-Back" premiers? you know, something that hasnt been done for a while...just asking

 

[Roddy]

Revenge and redemption, yes. Hodgey's 250th, yes. Back to back, most definitely. Sticking it up COLA, absolutely. But I still think the greatest reason to win is still to increase our flag count. This week will see us draw even with the Dees if we salute, put us even further in front of the the Cats when they probably thought they were gaining on us there for a while. More than double COLA. And draw ever closer to the only three teams that are above us. These are all teams that had almost 3 decades head start on us too.
Top team of the afl era has a very nice ring to it too...

 

[tommyk72]

So we're 1.60 to 2.40 outsiders. We all know what happened last time we went into the GF as underdogs...

 

[cryptor]

Sydney are ordinary at the G and we gotta make that count. The pressure to win is all on them and the media is pumping them up big time ala Freo last year. And can you honestly see our boys allowing themselves to go thru the pain of 2012 all over again?
Revenge is ours!

For what it's worth their two other results at the MCG this year were 62 - 51 and 69 - 38. Both wins, but against Richmond and Melbourne respectively.

 

[dipper86]

On 360 they were discussing that Sydney still has to beat Hawthorn at the MCG which only Geelong and Richmond have done in the past 2 years...they likened it to Jordan's press conference " Still gotta come through Chicago"




Loved it.

 

[brew]

For what it's worth their two other results at the MCG this year were 62 - 51 and 69 - 38. Both wins, but against Richmond and Melbourne respectively.

That Richmond one makes me laugh

Tedd Richards can hold the ball as long as he wants

And these silly flogs think we get an awesome run with the umps?

 

[Rookie Error]

Revenge and redemption, yes. Hodgey's 250th, yes. Back to back, most definitely. Sticking it up COLA, absolutely. But I still think the greatest reason to win is still to increase our flag count. This week will see us draw even with the Dees if we salute, put us even further in front of the the Cats when they probably thought they were gaining on us there for a while. More than double COLA. And draw ever closer to the only three teams that are above us. These are all teams that had almost 3 decades head start on us too.
Top team of the afl era has a very nice ring to it too...

This would be our 4th premiership after our golden era in the 80s. More than any other club 1990 onwards Brisbane 3, Geelong 3, WCE 3 etc..

 

[Roddy]

This would be our 4th premiership after our golden era in the 80s. More than any other club 1990 onwards Brisbane 3, Geelong 3, WCE 3 etc..

Yep that's the afl era.

 

[HR Roughnstuf]

Im very well aware of what your side is capable of as i found out in round 18 we got out to a 5 goal lead then boom we couldn't stop your run.

Clarkson is one of the few coaches that can dismantle us.

Buckley the other?

 

[Gunbarrel Jack]

For what it's worth their two other results at the MCG this year were 62 - 51 and 69 - 38. Both wins, but against Richmond and Melbourne respectively.

That Richmond game was the worst game this season and yet the tigers should have won. And Melbourne......well.

We have the wood over them at the G and I don't think they really like playing us.

 

[HR Roughnstuf]

2009

We never played them at skilled in 09

 

[Hawkk]

That Richmond game was the worst game this season and yet the tigers should have won. And Melbourne......well.

We have the wood over them at the G and I don't think they really like playing us.

If we score 100 points how the hell do they go with us? So much for their gun offence

 

[cryptor]

We say this a lot but so important to get off to a quick start. Not only do we not want them to get ahead of us early but by having one of our goal scoring bursts in the first quarter it leaves plenty of time for another one later in the game. We'll be lucky to kick 7 unanswered against them again.

 

[HR Roughnstuf]

We say this a lot but so important to get off to a quick start. Not only do we not want them to get ahead of us early but by having one of our goal scoring bursts in the first quarter it leaves plenty of time for another one later in the game. We'll be lucky to kick 7 unanswered against them again.

Imagine if we start the game like that.......

 

[cryptor]

Imagine if we start the game like that.......

We started off against Freo in round 3 with 6 unanswered. Coincidentally the week before that we got over the line by under a goal. The only other time this year we've won by under a goal was last week. Ain't nothing like a close win to get you on your toes for the first quarter the following week. And with 2.7 in the first quarter against Swans in round 18 who's to say we can't make that 7.2 (or better!) this time?