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I didn’t want him back then either. I feel the same about us getting Smith.
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Just didn’t see whether it was a strain, tear etc.
I doubt they would have risked him in any scenario knowing something is there.
Would have been a huge story this week had the Cats won. Feel for him, an absolute gun.
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Massive missed opportunity considering we looked to have them on toast in the 3rd, but after that collapse I’m not sure how we would go against Sydney this week.
I like to think we saved ourselves the torture of losing the GF.
No Holmes would’ve made things very hard.
I’m still trying to work out how we were so competitive in a highly rated game with so many players playing horribly.
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No Holmes, J.Henry, Stanley, Bruhn and Danger nursing a sore back/ribs.
I'm glad we're not there this week - you need to be healthy going into a GF, not plugging holes of a depleted side.
I'm glad we're not there this week - you need to be healthy going into a GF, not plugging holes of a depleted side.
I’d like to know from the club how banged up we actually were
Modern AFL clubs are tight lipped on this kind of thing. Rightly so, because it comes off as whinging if you lost.
Why is this stickied at the top of every page?
I think what drives that narrative is the fact that three of the major Hawk injuries were deliberately done by our players, and two of those were caught directly on camera.
Buddha smashed Platten and knocked him out. Yeates kneed Brereton and broke his ribs, and Ablett absolutely cleaned up Dipper.
I can’t name which Hawk caused which Geelong injury.
I’ve always blamed Blight for us losing that game by getting us to play that way. We tried to out Hawthorn Hawthorn and that wasn’t our game. If we’d just played footy from the start, pretty sure we would have won.
We gave away a lot frees in that first quarter
Hawthorn lost a lot of players through injury as a result of blights tactics (brereton, ayers, dipper, platten). If they were fit it would of been a lot harder.
No one knows what would of happened. Brereton probably takes out couch or hocking for starters in the same way he took out vander haar the game before.
You would always rather be there. Sydney arent an indestructable team. They are beatable even down those players with a bit of luck.
Doesn't matter - it's a hamstring, it's three weeks from pretty much the moment it happens.
The good news is that these 'what if' games tend to only come along once a decade or so if you're (un)lucky. The last one was 2013. At least we're not Giants supporters, if such a thing genuinely exists.
I think we woulda been cooked this week, given the injuries. What's left of the midfield would have been put to the sword.
I think we woulda been cooked this week, given the injuries. What's left of the midfield would have been put to the sword.
I agree with this. Blight wasn't responsible for Buddha going nuts and trying to whack everyone, he wasn't responsible for Bruns trying to take on Dipper and the like.
It wasn't just Vander Haar, either - he also took out Daisy Williams and some other Essendon bloke, too.
Let me tell you all about the 2019 finals series.
And as I mentioned previously they have not played at the mcg since round 7 !
I'm not sure that's always true. Getting smashed in a GF can be a pretty bad experience.
When you’ve got razer ray coming out on SEN saying we were hard done by you know the umpiring was atrocious.
Having said that, being infront with 2 minutes to go… no one to blame but ourselves.
Having said that, being infront with 2 minutes to go… no one to blame but ourselves.
I know Holmes would have been out but the other 4 you mentioned probably would have played.
I’d personally rather be there. You never know.
Honestly, I don't think it was atrocious. There were a couple where we didn't get the rub of the green, but I've seen much worse.
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just posted the same- was at that game- had that eerie feeling that our lead was not enough, and Dermie's antics certainly helped them.
Henry unlikely, although we haven't heard.
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