Toast Hawthorn have headf***ed everyone

[Harper_Hawk]

Going four in a row would blow up Bigfooty..Channel 7 football department/Wayne Carey would combust on air/Chief writer of the Herald Sun would call on the AFL to kick us out of the competition...and most probably the Great Wall of Geelong would be built by their new council. It's okay they'll survive!

 

[cryptor]

Hope we win the GF by 3 points from a free kick (that was there mind you, not that it will matter) after being down at 3 quarter time.

 

[suedehead]

The delicious, petulant tears of other teams' supporters should be savoured. Geelong supporters' brains were broken by '08, but the threepeat has had the same effect on the rest of the league.

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[Steven Tyler]

Even Gill McGlaughlan was pissed when we beat the Dogs a few weeks ago, which was disgusting from a CEO

STUFF EM ALL!

 

[Davo23]

I just love it how our club just keeps mum. It infuriates the media even more. I did love the the nice dig on twitter on Sat - "keep strong". It was like a big indirect "up your arse" to the envious.

What had me in stitches on watching the replay was Duck almost squealing and appealing for 50 for somene too close on the mark. It was like "mummy, mummy, please.. please".

The confirmation bias is huge in the media at the minute. Let's turn the screws further on the weekend and drive them into insanity the jealous bastards.

Great point.
The club says little, Clarko just keeps saying we were lucky, etc, etc.

And they store up all the opposition mouthy comments for later.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Case in point.

Poster on the main board arguing that Shaun Burgoyne would be lucky to be in the top 50 Aboriginal players to have ever played.

And that even mentioning him is trolling.

Of course, it's a cat fan.

 

[The Jet From Poowong]

Great point.
The club says little, Clarko just keeps saying we were lucky, etc, etc.

And they store up all the opposition mouthy comments for later.

Yep the "we woz lucky" line from Clarko has been used beautifully. The reality we know is starkly different.

 

[Blaze Storm]

Do we start paying marks to players who didn't mean to drop the ball?

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[Smooth Banana]

They really have.

Have a read of social media, listen to the radio, switch on the TV......Hawthorn have head****ed everyone.

Credit where it's due, you just know that when Hawthorn is mentioned in footy media, there's 15,000+ separate blokes, in loungerooms around the country, mumbling under their breath with disdain "bloody Hawthorn".
No one wants to see Hawthorn win another flag, they don't want to see Hawthorn win another game....hell, they seemingly lose their shit even when Hawthorn get a legitimate free-kick.

Whether it be a reference to the "good bloke" Hodge in every second thread on bigfooty, some whinging about umpire favouritism on SEN or the continual need to relate every single reportable offence to what Hodge, Lake or Lewis have done in the past....the so called 'neutral' supporters have been completely head****ed by our dominance, and now they can't stand both watching us win more games, nor get due credit for our performances.

Right now, if you head to the main board, you'll find a thread dedicated to Rance's hit on Watts, but inside that thread, you'll be hard pressed to read half a page without mention of Hodge or Hawthorn. It's amusing, but they're head****ed.

Similarly, if you venture onto the Umpires board, Hawthorn is a real conversation starter for those who love a good slab of tinfoil wrapped around their ears.
Some genuinely believe the AFL have set out to gift Hawthorn 4 flags in a row.....which is mind numbingly stupid, but to these twits, completely and utterly what is happening "right in front of me". They're head****ed.

Travel back to the main board, and any thread regarding Hawthorn will soon have an influx of posters complaining about how Hawthorn are being spoken about positively, or that Hawthorn posters are insufferable and how they've had a gutful of it. They're completely head****ed.

Of course, there'll also be the consistent theme of "that Hawthorn bloke isn't really any good, it's just his teammates making him look good" that's become such a constant over the last 5 years, and this is unlikely to cease until those players are no longer running around tearing other teams a new arseh*le each week.

It probably goes without saying, that a few of our favourites, the Geelong supporters, have gone to a whole new level of being completely and utterly obsessed by Hawthorn over the last few years, throwing in cheapies about pretty much every topic that I've highlighted above and right now they've started to bristle at the thought of our youngsters stepping up in the future.

So heres to Hawthorn, and their ability to not only win games and premierships, but completely head**** an entire league of opposition supporters along the way.

Long may it continue.

 

[TAITA]

Times have changed. I recall just over a decade ago, there was a team named Brisbane Lions taking all before them and winning three flags in a row. The media loved them, and so they should have. They were a great team to watch and set the standard for the rest of the competition. I recall how I wanted them to win the 2004 flag so I could see history being made with 4 flags, equalling Collingwood 1927-30.

I have always enjoyed the great clubs in great eras. Some of those Richmond teams in the 1960s and 70s were so powerful and it was incredible to watch. Even the Carlton teams (I'm not keen on Carlton) in the 70s and early 80s made the game great to watch. I was so fortunate to be a Hawthorn fan in the 1980s.

This is why it disappoints me to see all the negativity towards our club when our only "crime" has been to be as good as we possibly could be in accordance with AFL rules. It has become obvious that opposition supporters don't appreciate the great teams any more, all they want to do is whinge, criticise, and just plain hate.

IMHO, supporters don't enjoy the game like we used to 30 years ago. Back then it was tribalism on a Saturday but after the match you had a beer and got on with the rest of your life. These days it's football 24/7, even when it's not even football season. It's not part of peoples' lives now, it IS their life. You only have to read endless posts complaining about no football on Good Friday to realise some people have nothing else in their lives except football. I find it all very unhealthy to be honest.

Add to this, the number of posters you read saying how much they hate a team because they cost them on their footy tips or betting. How pathetic is that?

I touched on this in another tread, but a huge part of the problem I see is the football media. 30 years ago, people wrote about the games, the champions, the positives that came from football. These days it is all so aggressive and negative with journos forever looking for the controversial, always looking for ways to bite the hand that feeds them.

On TV, there's always a panel of around 4 or more people sitting around, all searching for something to say to justify their own existence when only 2 people would suffice. They have nothing better to do but to question just about every umpiring decision made over 100 minutes of football. What else is there for them to crap on about? The best football show ever was on a Saturday night called the Winners. Just one man sitting there reviewing the round of matches, it was fantastic. No bullshit, no comedians, just all highlights and discussion on the games.

Football is an emotional game, and supporters do not need being wound up by commentators seeking to be controversial. Commentators should be banned from commenting on umpiring, especially when most of them have spent the past 2 hours correcting their own decisions after watching replays.

It is the media who are responsible for the ridiculous way in which we support the game in the 21st century. It is the media who have the average football fan in a lather screaming about unfair treatment from umpires, hating opposition teams and players, etc. I hope they're proud of themselves.

I get it, what you are saying, and appreciate that football and media and their relationship in the 70's, 80's and 90's was more 'pure' and correct.

However, when you sell your soul to the devil (and in Rupert they certainly have) and have more accredited journalists covering football than players playing the game it's like a massive dilution to the draft pool - everyone has to bang on about something and as self appointed, all seeing, all knowing oracles - many of these trumped up tarts think they are bigger than the product themselves.

At grass roots level I see great things happening - in juniors, local and womens football money is flowing through from the media rights and the participation levels are rising again - so there is long term benefit.

It's up to the media to have a look at the product that they are generating from their access and to what value that delivers.

At the moment they all seem hellbent on doing exactly the same thing at varying levels of competency.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

I forgot the mother of all head****s.....James Hird.

"I hate them more than anyone".

Then he employs a witch doctor who sets up a doping regime to try and beat us.

LOL.

 

[bris tarangau]

Case in point.

Poster on the main board arguing that Shaun Burgoyne would be lucky to be in the top 50 Aboriginal players to have ever played.

A clear example of the unfounded jealousy and/or hate for the Hawks and Hawks players. Instead of celebrating an achievement of a very good player, the poster quickly looks for a negative.

 

[blue harvest]

Even Carey has lost it.
Banging on about Smith's fake handball, well that happened before he was tackled so it is irrelevant. You can stand there all day doing fake handballs if you want. It's only HTB if you do it after you are tackled.

 

[BlackHawk72]

It's no longer Collingwood the most hated, it's us

I love being hated, it means we are sucessful if we are hated across the board

 

[LuckyHawk]

I love the hate on hawthorn as a whole but get riled when they target our players individually.
Nothing better at the footy, you dislike the other team,opposition fans dislike the Hawks- it gets
the juices going.

 

[hfc70]

Hope we win the GF by 3 points from a free kick (that was there mind you, not that it will matter) after being down at 3 quarter time.

Hope we win by 'Golden Point'.....interchange infringement incorrectly given due to new interchange cap laws

Please...

 

[JoeHawk]

It's no longer Collingwood the most hated, it's us

 

[Boo71]

I get it, what you are saying, and appreciate that football and media and their relationship in the 70's, 80's and 90's was more 'pure' and correct.

However, when you sell your soul to the devil (and in Rupert they certainly have) and have more accredited journalists covering football than players playing the game it's like a massive dilution to the draft pool - everyone has to bang on about something and as self appointed, all seeing, all knowing oracles - many of these trumped up tarts think they are bigger than the product themselves.

At grass roots level I see great things happening - in juniors, local and womens football money is flowing through from the media rights and the participation levels are rising again - so there is long term benefit.

It's up to the media to have a look at the product that they are generating from their access and to what value that delivers.

At the moment they all seem hellbent on doing exactly the same thing at varying levels of competency.

Its not just the media though, and I think this is more what AH meant, its the supporters who have become obsessive with anything negative as well.

it truly is becoming 'days of lives' tit for tat crap when even on this board slagging off about a person or player people don't like is more important than the game it seems, a good example of this is one rant in our own 'no opposition thread' about Carey being out on the town high - who gives a flying turd? and what has that got to do with footy? except for a person trying in vain to get revenge on Carey who only dared do what he's paid to do, talk shit. Then the fanboys jump in and run with it and the snowball is complete.

Seems to hard for people to realize its still just a game that ends with the siren, you either won lost or drew, nothing more nothing less when everything is said and done.

And you're right, people should get out to grass roots footy much more to remember it is just a game a lot of people still play and watch for fun.

 

[cryptor]

Hope we win by 'Golden Point'.....interchange infringement incorrectly given due to new interchange cap laws

Please...

Ooh that's even better. Obviously Stevic or Nicholls pays the free. Maybe even a BS 50m penalty pulled out from somewhere to have the shot taken from the top of the goal square.

But which hated Hawthorn player gets to make the score?

Quite a few contenders...
- Luke "Good Bloke" Hodge?
- Sam "The Corker" Mitchell?
- Cyril "Overrated" Rioli?
- Paul "Ducker" Puopolo?
- Ryan "Clangermakers"?
- Jordan "Punchable Face" Lewis?
- Brad "not as good as the other" Hill?
- Josh "No Opponent" Gibson?
- Any of our other players whose nickname could be "only looks good in a good team"?

 

[Briar Gold]

I love this and completely agree.

Would add that the internet and social media have given insecure people with negative views a voice.

Previously these people were ignored by those around them - known as annoying, weird, energy draining etc. Now they can type something and even reasonable people like us are stupid enough to care every now and then.

Times have changed. I recall just over a decade ago, there was a team named Brisbane Lions taking all before them and winning three flags in a row. The media loved them, and so they should have. They were a great team to watch and set the standard for the rest of the competition. I recall how I wanted them to win the 2004 flag so I could see history being made with 4 flags, equalling Collingwood 1927-30.

I have always enjoyed the great clubs in great eras. Some of those Richmond teams in the 1960s and 70s were so powerful and it was incredible to watch. Even the Carlton teams (I'm not keen on Carlton) in the 70s and early 80s made the game great to watch. I was so fortunate to be a Hawthorn fan in the 1980s.

This is why it disappoints me to see all the negativity towards our club when our only "crime" has been to be as good as we possibly could be in accordance with AFL rules. It has become obvious that opposition supporters don't appreciate the great teams any more, all they want to do is whinge, criticise, and just plain hate.

IMHO, supporters don't enjoy the game like we used to 30 years ago. Back then it was tribalism on a Saturday but after the match you had a beer and got on with the rest of your life. These days it's football 24/7, even when it's not even football season. It's not part of peoples' lives now, it IS their life. You only have to read endless posts complaining about no football on Good Friday to realise some people have nothing else in their lives except football. I find it all very unhealthy to be honest.

Add to this, the number of posters you read saying how much they hate a team because they cost them on their footy tips or betting. How pathetic is that?

I touched on this in another thread, but a huge part of the problem I see is the football media. 30 years ago, people wrote about the games, the champions, the positives that came from football. These days it is all so aggressive and negative with journos forever looking for the controversial, always looking for ways to bite the hand that feeds them.

On TV, there's always a panel of around 4 or more people sitting around, all searching for something to say to justify their own existence when only 2 people would suffice. They have nothing better to do but to question just about every umpiring decision made over 100 minutes of football. What else is there for them to crap on about? The best football show ever was on a Saturday night called the Winners. Just one man sitting there reviewing the round of matches, it was fantastic. No bullshit, no comedians, just all highlights and discussion on the games.

Football is an emotional game, and supporters do not need being wound up by commentators seeking to be controversial. Commentators should be banned from commenting on umpiring, especially when most of them have spent the past 2 hours correcting their own decisions after watching replays.

It is the media who are responsible for the ridiculous way in which we support the game in the 21st century. It is the media who have the average football fan in a lather screaming about unfair treatment from umpires, hating opposition teams and players, etc. I hope they're proud of themselves.

 

[Flamin Joe]

It is getting ridiculous, we are the new "protected species" lol. Some of the shit being posted on my facebook feed is laughable like this shit:

 

[JoeHawk]

It is getting ridiculous, we are the new "protected species" lol. Some of the shit being posted on my facebook feed is laughable like this shit:

Surely must have been compiled by some obsessed cats fan. You can go through ANY game and you will find bad decisions (mind you I don't agree with nearly any of what this twit put together). Some people have far too much time on their hands not to mention a seriously unbalanced life to be worried about such trivialities.

 

[cryptor]

It is getting ridiculous, we are the new "protected species" lol. Some of the shit being posted on my facebook feed is laughable like this shit:

Lol I could make a video exactly like this, and I mean the exact same footage, second for second, just with different captions instead supporting the decisions and it would be just as convincing a piece of evidence. In fact it would be more convincing as I'd actually describe why these were called.

 

[Main Man]

Surely must have been complied by some obsessed cats fan. You can go through ANY game and you will find bad decisions (mind you I don't agree with nearly any of what this twit put together). Some people have far too much time on their hands not to mention a seriously unbalanced life to be worried about such trivialities.

You would think that Hawthorn is the only team to have ever got a dubious free.

 

[Blaze Storm]

If I know anything, it's that if teams start criticising ump treatment of one team, that team only gets better treatment. Look at Weagles, Geelong, Sydney in their hay-days.

Fingers crossed