Analysis Hawthorn rebuild: are they tanking?

[jannissary]

All the talk of young talent and early draft picks...

This thread needs more Wizard - kid could be the best small forward in the competition within a very short period of time.

it's amazing to see that toby greene successfully emulated him on sunday!

 

[Yoda_]

Geez there’s some humorous posts from you a little back.

No wonder you’ve gone awol.

Weird flex

 

[Yoda_]

Did it better than Essendon
When they had better players
And more to play for

Thanks for the kudos

hopefuly Strapping Young Lad can learn some class from you. Go Hawks

 

[theiaofseed]

Young Key Forward
Ahahahahahahahahahaha

Shame he's went mia. I miss his amazing insight.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Weird flex

Weird flex?

You were in here posting a stream of bad takes and dumb opinions, now you’ve disappeared.

 

[endure]

Solid system.

 

[Hawkk]

Back on the right side of the ledger, just before EOFY…

Are rebuilds still hard?

Next on the list is to get above 100% which should happen next week against the ‘Dad’s Army’ Cats

 

[The hands of stone]

This is a fun read , surely it's time to close those down now ?

 

[Ashman23]

WTF. I have never seen this level of blatant tanking acceptance by a club. Sam Mitchell outright said he wanted to tank and not meddle around in the middle. Their trade period.

Are the ****ing AFL going to step in and do something? AFL need to go down hard on Hawks and strip them of picks

I've never seen another club purposely and blatantly tank. It's unfair they are doing that to obtain a generational player in Harley Reid

They are completely compromising the draft!!!

WTF. I have never seen this level of blatant tanking acceptance by a club. Adam Simpson has compromised the draft.

Kept on those from 2015 such as Cripps, Yeo, McGovern and Darling.

And, Harley Reid is an Eagle.

 

[eldorado]

WTF. I have never seen this level of blatant tanking acceptance by a club. Adam Simpson has compromised the draft.

Kept on those from 2015 such as Cripps, Yeo, McGovern and Darling.

And, Harley Reid is an Eagle.

As I said when I first saw this thread...trolls and halfwits.

And I think you've just quoted King Halfwit.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

This is a fun read , surely it's time to close those down now ?

No. I want this thread to stay open forever.

 

[The hands of stone]

No. I want this thread to stay open forever.

Can this stay open as long as we also bring back the 'ignoring first round of the draft' thread too ??

 

[SSSSSS]

Rebuilds are hard work.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Can this stay open as long as we also bring back the 'ignoring first round of the draft' thread too ??

Yuck mate.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Rebuilds are hard work.

I did spare a thought for Red Bull when this was posted recently, after spending so much time declaring that the KCC was just a figment of our imagination.

 

[Malik_90]

Form team of the comp.

 

[sr36]

Rebuilds are hard work.

It worked when the Cats fans were saying it, but you have actually missed the last 5 final's series.

 

[earthworms]

Still can’t believe we’re tanking

 

[Kobe Gryant]

It worked when the Cats fans were saying it, but you have actually missed the last 5 final's series.

It's based on a running joke through this thread from a few oppo posters, so it's fair play that the Hawks supporters are giving it back IMO.

Purely from a literal standpoint, you've got a point though. 5 years out of the finals and then rising from there is pretty standard for a rebuild timeline.

 

[Sixpence]

It's based on a running joke through this thread from a few oppo posters, so it's fair play that the Hawks supporters are giving it back IMO.

Purely from a literal standpoint, you've got a point though. 5 years out of the finals and then rising from there is pretty standard for a rebuild timeline.

If it's standard, then it's not hard.

 

[Mr Meow]

Hawthorn are playing sensational footy of late.

Biggest Geelong/Hawthorn game since the 2016 QF coming up? We are in the home stretch of the season and both teams are thereabouts, albeit not genuine contenders. Better fare than the usual 3rd vs 17th type stuff we've had over the past 5 years.

 

[Judd2Sewell]

Purple will claim we are tanking by winning, because we are denying ourselves any chance of getting top picks and really actually rebuilding for real this time.

 

[hawkman]

Hawthorn are playing sensational footy of late.

Biggest Geelong/Hawthorn game since the 2016 QF coming up? We are in the home stretch of the season and both teams are thereabouts, albeit not genuine contenders. Better fare than the usual 3rd vs 17th type stuff we've had over the past 5 years.

2018 was 5th v 9th in Round 21

From 2020 we have only played once early in the season

 

[Mr Meow]

2018 was 5th v 9th in Round 21

From 2020 we have only played once early in the season

Well that would be the last match that wasn't genuine filler material then.

I'm still going biggest since 2016.

 

[earthworms]

Purple will claim we are tanking by winning, because we are denying ourselves any chance of getting top picks and really actually rebuilding for real this time.

Winning the premiership is the ultimate form of tanking