I’ll cop flack for this from other Hawks supporters, but Dear’s omission was due to Lewis’s return who was always going to be a liability in terms of the current team dynamics. Yes, the Hawks were smashed, but it was on a unique pencil shaped ground without Dear, Sicily and Ginnivan which had a significant impact on the teams system.Not really sure what’s cocky about pointing out a couple of pretty basic observations from two matches so far.
Dear was missing? Sorry but that’s like us whinging that Shannon Neale missed a game. Yeah he might have a future but it’s not exactly Jesse Hogan or Jeremy Cameron missing a match, is it. Regardless, Hawkins, for as bad as he has been this year, missed that game as well and even after Dear’s goals today, Hawkins has had better output this year than Dear has. What’s the difference, really. Seems strange that you’d pick that absence to whinge about when he’s a player who’s output has been lower than that of a Geelong counterpart.
We were also without Tanner Bruhn who’s been easily among our best 2-3 midfielders.
Can anyone that follows this sport just accept a defeat? Ever?
Will it actually drain life force from you to say ‘you know what, the 22 human beings on the patch of grass that day, the same one that represented my team, kicking the same ball, at the same target, that we played against, were too good.’ It’s always unfamiliarity or the crowd or some other bullshit
Hawthorn may well smack us if we meet again: God knows their best football is probably good enough and who the hell knows which Geelong will turn up.
But it won’t be the venue that beats us, it will be your football.