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Take it to the bay *******, this threads not about head duck. Nice location, appropriate in a thread about Hodge.
hawks fans have to make everything about cyril
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hawks fans have to make everything about cyril
He's a beaut alright. Brownlow a strong chance I reckon, he's stood out in every Hawks game I've seen this year.
Love how he plays so straight and direct. Grab it in the centre and bang it into the goalsquare. The forwards must be eating it up.
Hawks fans may be able to confirm - wasn't he in a draft with Ball and Judd, and everyone was thinking, well it's turned out better for St Kilda and WCE. How things can change.
Love how he plays so straight and direct. Grab it in the centre and bang it into the goalsquare. The forwards must be eating it up.
Hawks fans may be able to confirm - wasn't he in a draft with Ball and Judd, and everyone was thinking, well it's turned out better for St Kilda and WCE. How things can change.
Next year when Joel Selwood gets tagged every week, we will see how good he is. He's awesome but im interested to see how a player of his physical limitations (height, speed) goes against a run with player. That said, Hodge does struggle with a tag as well, though he has the ability to go forward or back and still have a big impact on the game.
Guys like Judd, Ablett and Swan (YES SWAN DOES GET TAGGED!!!) have the ability to beat a tag one on one because of their brilliant pace. But this year, Hodge is the number one player in the competition, if anyone but Swan or Ablett beat him in the Brownlow it will be robbery.
SCARY= Hodge in the Geelong midfield....Swap Selwood with Hodge and the Hawks are a lot worse off.
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Hodge is the clear MVP this year. It hasn't been so one-sided since Judd won it in 2006.
You mean Ablett in 07. Goodes and West would have been worthy in 06 as well as Judd.
I do agree Hodge is a clear no.1 atm. Swan and Goddard the only real challengers.
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Jonathan Brown was the best player in 2007 . . .at least that was the talk in the media. Ablett was a surprise winner.
Considring both have moved on its a clear win to hawthorn regardless of other factors
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individual performances are really down on last years standards imo
don't get me wrong, hodge has been great, but if he played like this last year you'd have ablett, brown, riewoldt, judd and hayes ahead of him
lake is really the only player who is playing as well as the best at his position played last year so i'd probably give him the mvp
don't get me wrong, hodge has been great, but if he played like this last year you'd have ablett, brown, riewoldt, judd and hayes ahead of him
lake is really the only player who is playing as well as the best at his position played last year so i'd probably give him the mvp
Probably the wrong spot and may be deserves it's own thread, but surely Lake sits comfortably within the top 5 players in the competition right now. He's practically unstoppable and impregnable force down back. His impact on matches is surely matching all mentioned in this thread (Hodge, Selwood, GAJ, Swan) this year.
And how have you measured that?
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It's actually the other way round.
Ablett is averaging more goals and the same possessions as last year, but is so far behind Hodge that he might as well be ineligible.
Greater performances have put the likes of Ablett in the shade.
The only challenger from 2009 would be Riewoldt.
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Like Hird, Voss, Lappin, West, Kemp, J McVeigh, Ratten, ... just like watching guys like him play.
did you deliberately leave Ablett out? Sure he is not as consistant as last year, but to say the last 3 MVP winner is not up with the elite is quite an oversight. he is having a better season than most of that list
He touched up clint jones friday nite and he is considered 1 of the best in the business, is getting much better at coping with tags because of his better fitness and endurance, this has been his 1 weakness in his career and he has now got it right up which is allowing him to run out games better and have a better chance to burn off taggers. Swan would struggle imo if a tagger had elite running capacity such as himself, chance bateman has got himself back to 08 form with a different role the last 6 or so weeks doing jobs on good players (montagna and dal santo friday nite) and has the running capacity and the speed to match swan. Agree with your last point, hodgey was brilliant when we were losing at the start of the year, had we won more games he would be so far in front in the charlie you may as well forget about betting on it. Clearly the number 1 player in the comp this yr and arguably overall the best.
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If Hodge is at 7 votes by round 7 i would expect him to get to 30 votes by years end (barring injury).
Is an unbelievable sportsman, leader, midfielder, backman, and person.
Shows humility to opposition and umpires, and can light a fire up the ass of anyone. You'd follow him to war if your entire arsenal was him, a toothpick and a draw four Uno card.
Massive man crush, and i wouldnt swap him for anyone, ever.
Is an unbelievable sportsman, leader, midfielder, backman, and person.
Shows humility to opposition and umpires, and can light a fire up the ass of anyone. You'd follow him to war if your entire arsenal was him, a toothpick and a draw four Uno card.
Massive man crush, and i wouldnt swap him for anyone, ever.
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Hodge is the first player I'd pick to add to the Dogs lineup... Really enjoying watching him play (except a few weeks ago.... that was a bit shit)
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hawks fans have to make everything about cyril
You're the only one to mention him Bong, after your buddy tried to introduce Selwood to the conversation.
Goddard, Hodge, Swan, Chapman, Selwood, Lake. You shouldn't undersell the perfomance of these players because lovechild Ablett has dropped off a bit, they've all been exceptional and as good as other years players. Or do we ignore Reiwoldts 09 because Franklins 08 was better, ignore Bartel's 07 because Kouta's 00 was better etc?
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he said head duck, it's natural to assume he was talking about cyril
on hodge, maybe it's just because of his two poor performances against geelong that i'm underselling him?
that said, he has struggled against a hard tag, even this year
welsh x2, ling x2 and smith toweling him up raise a few question marks over his season for mine
Get your hand off it. Welsh and Ling towelled him up once. The second game against Essendon he was injured, the second game against Geelong he beat Ling. He had 20 (influential) disposals, was very influential toward the end of the game. If you think the ugly ranga can justify his existence on an AFL list on stopping Hodge from getting 10 disposals, you have no idea.
Fair to say Hodgey is now breaking tags, like on Friday night against one of the best in Jones.
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i'm not sure what game you were watching, but hodge wasn't influential at all against geelong
and don't play the injury card, that's just ridiculous
he copped a little knock early on and then pulled out the losers limp
and don't play the injury card, that's just ridiculous
he copped a little knock early on and then pulled out the losers limp
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It was me after quoting a Geelong noob talking about Selwood. Your attempts to be witty are pathetic.
Yeah like how Ablett was poor in 09 because Shirley towelled him up?
Ling hasn't nearly towelled Hodge up this year, he wasn't BOG in those games but that doesn't mean he was towelled up, and certainly doesn't mean he was poor ffs.
I'd say Welsh and Smith got him and that's it this year.
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Don't get drawn into the twisted world of this bong rips douche bag. As somebody pointed out earlier, he gives cats supporters a bad rep. Let him rip on hodge all he wants, he's just diminishing his already non-existent credibility.
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Hawthorn supporters got a question for you?
Why do you bother responding to BONG RIPS MKII at all?
He/She/It posts more about Hawthorn than Geelong and all of it negative.. I really don't understand why you feel the need to feed the troll as he clearly doesn't have a balanced opinion about Hawthorn...
Why do you bother responding to BONG RIPS MKII at all?
He/She/It posts more about Hawthorn than Geelong and all of it negative.. I really don't understand why you feel the need to feed the troll as he clearly doesn't have a balanced opinion about Hawthorn...
Losers limp.....
Norm Smith 2008 with broken ribs doesn't ring any bells?
Thought you'd still have nightmares about that one.
