Reasons we will beat Hawthorn

[Cynic]

The biggest mistakes teams make against Hawthorn it to try to stretch our backline. Just because we have a weakness to dominant KP players doesn't mean throwing more of them back there will result in more goals. It results in being cut apart.

Beating Hawthorn isn't difficult in theory. Maintain pressure on the ball carrier. Take your opportunities when they come. If Adelaide can maintain pressure for the full game then they'll definitely make the current odds look like a joke and potentially secure a fantastic upset victory.

Best of luck for Saturday

 

[rayven]

Maintain pressure on the ball carrier. Take your opportunities when they come. If Adelaide can maintain pressure for the full game then they'll definitely make the current odds look like a joke and potentially secure a fantastic upset victory.

Best of luck for Saturday

In general play we are very good at that. It's set pieces we fall away. A few big games this year in the h@a we have excelled at taking our oppotunities (Syd/Geel/Carl/west coast/freo)

I don't know if you guys have handled a Walker playing good footy yet, be interesting to see him play well and how you handle it. He's very good at ground level which means that if we played Tippet and Jenkins we won't quite be as top heavy and your probably going to have to leave Walker one out. Freo chose not to risk allowing Tippet to get into the game last week by swapping defenders when Walker cut loose, it didn't work.

 

[BUTTON 92]

Shane Mcinerny Umpring our game! It just got harder folks!

 

[jackster83]

You scraped over the line against a tired Fremantle who finished 7th on the ladder in front of a poor but none the less home crowd willing you over the line after being soundly beaten the week before at home.
This week you play the top team who are in good form, won their first final comfortably, have had a weeks rest, are at near full strength, playing infront of 50,000 of their fans willing them on. They wooped you by 9 goals early in the year, have their captain back who didnt play that game, roughy was in his second game back from a serious injury and has starred all year since, shoey and gunston have improved alot through the year, while you have lost your best 2 backman against a team with one of the most potent forward lines in the comp..
Someone also said you have an AA calibre ruckman while we don't but our combo of Roughy and Hale have negated the best rucks including the AA's all year, fed our elite mids who inturn have fed our potent forwardline to end up with the highest ever percentage in league history.
I think the Hawks fans have reason to be confident.

Just the fact that you felt the need to post this suggests you're worried about Saturday.

If Hawthorn lose this, it will be the biggest choke since Essendon in the 1999 PF.

 

[Cap]

Shane Mcinerny Umpring our game! It just got harder folks!

I know, surely the Crows can put in a complaint - the guy dislikes the Crows.

 

[VSTone]

While watching the last three the hawks have played it has really shone out how much the hawks have banged them selves up in those games...I wonder what they have in the tank? especially if some of their injury problems resurface early in the game...seriously got to wonder how much of a role drugs are playing on their tilt at the cup...

 

[Freddy Bassett]

While watching the last three the hawks have played it has really shone out how much the hawks have banged them selves up in those games...I wonder what they have in the tank? especially if some of their injury problems resurface early in the game...seriously got to wonder how much of a role drugs are playing on their tilt at the cup...

With a week off they will be fresher than us...

 

[Damp Squarie]

Shane Mcinerny Umpring our game! It just got harder folks!

You are far king joking...he is an absolute cheat. Is this true?

 

[Damp Squarie]

With a week off they will be fresher than us...

At least we get an 8 day break instead of 6 like Collingflog

 

[SpeciousArgument]

You scraped over the line against a tired Fremantle who finished 7th on the ladder in front of a poor but none the less home crowd willing you over the line after being soundly beaten the week before at home.
This week you play the top team who are in good form, won their first final comfortably, have had a weeks rest, are at near full strength, playing infront of 50,000 of their fans willing them on. They wooped you by 9 goals early in the year, have their captain back who didnt play that game, roughy was in his second game back from a serious injury and has starred all year since, shoey and gunston have improved alot through the year, while you have lost your best 2 backman against a team with one of the most potent forward lines in the comp..
Someone also said you have an AA calibre ruckman while we don't but our combo of Roughy and Hale have negated the best rucks including the AA's all year, fed our elite mids who inturn have fed our potent forwardline to end up with the highest ever percentage in league history.
I think the Hawks fans have reason to be confident.

So you missed the bit about how this is a thread talking up the crows and giving us positives to think about... thanks for dropping by, maybe next time read the OP

 

[SpeciousArgument]

With a week off they will be fresher than us...

without any facts to back up my claim over the years it has seemed to me that the week of has done as much harm as good with clubs losing a bit of touch and having a longer than average leadup to a game.

 

[VSTone]

With a week off they will be fresher than us...

no doubt...

they'll go in with out guerra and whitecross...who would play if available

Franklin...has played the last 3 since a long lay off...
Rioli...has played 7 qtrs in the last 6 weeks
Lewis and Young...have now been out for 2-3 weeks
Gibson has had ankle issues this season...
Gunston was subbed off with knee/ankle in rnd 23

they've had a very heavy schedule and have copped a lot in the last month or so...

I don't think the hawks premiership favoritism is as clear cut as the polarised melbourne media make it out to be!
favorites but not unbeatable...

ok - I'm officially getting a little toey now....

A win this weekend will restore the Pride in South Australia...

 

[Geoffa32]

If we win, my drinks for the GF weekend in Melbourne are covered thanks to us paying $5.90 for the win.


A good investment for those going to the GF if we win lol.

 

[Elder van Berlo]

If Petrenko doesn't come up. Is there a chance Jaensch will come in?

Not anymore. Season over for Matty.

http://www.afc.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/4417/newsid/148031/default.aspx

 

[jenny61_99]

Shane Mcinerny Umpring our game! It just got harder folks!

****!

 

[Smoooothy]

would it kill a ****ing mod to get rid of these trolls off our board. it wouldn't be accepted on other ones...

 

[Jars458]

without any facts to back up my claim over the years it has seemed to me that the week of has done as much harm as good with clubs losing a bit of touch and having a longer than average leadup to a game.

No, the stats show that on most occassions the team with the week off win the prelim final. Only three sides since 2004 I think it is have won the prelim coming from the semi's. Sydney and West Coast both did it though.

 

[thestew]

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/148044/default.aspx

Realistic by Sando? Interesting thing to say in the lead up to the game. I'm sure the journo's beat it out of him though.

 

[raticus_usm]

If we lose this will be the first thread visited by hawks fans. It's asking for trouble.

 

[King Elvis]

I believe the deciding factor will be whether or not we get sucked in to the ball carrier - like we have all year.

We did it too much against Freo, and the Hawks are twice the team they are.


If all of our players attack the ball carrier and leave nobody defending in the area, the Hawks will get it out sideways, run their arses off and smash us.

If, when we have 4 guys around a contest, we can maintain our composure and only have 1 or 2 of our guys attack the ball carrier, we have a chance of shutting them down.

And we need to stick our bloody tackles!!

 

[Elite Crow]

I realise that Hawthorn go in as favourite, I think every Crows fan would believe that.

But your post is still poorly constructed, illogical and remarkable, in the sense that it provides no insight into the Hawthorn, the Crows or the contest, yet someone still chose to write it on a football forum.

And he came across as an arrogant tosser

 

[Glenno23]

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/148044/default.aspx

Realistic by Sando? Interesting thing to say in the lead up to the game. I'm sure the journo's beat it out of him though.

Its the reverse pump up

Also known as the "Opposition are favourites, wouldn't want to lose would you?" And get them thinking "we've got this in the bag"


Then POW! Suddenly they're down by 5 goals, its half time, Buddy and Cyril have collided heads, Gunston is sucking his thumb, Mitchell is thinking about his Brownlow, Suckling suddenly gets the yips with his field kicking, Birchall has a shocker due to his AA and the pressure that comes with it and Clarko's hand explodes after punching the wall, which has since been brick filled after his last effort earlier in the year versus the plaster board

 

[ManInTheArena]

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/148044/default.aspx

Realistic by Sando? Interesting thing to say in the lead up to the game. I'm sure the journo's beat it out of him though.

It's an odd thing to say. I think we have an advantage because there is no pressure on us, everyone expects us to lose. Sando reinforcing that to Hawthorn is a bit of mind games in my view,

 

[moogerfooger]

If we lose this will be the first thread visited by hawks fans. It's asking for trouble.

Good for them.

Leigh Matthews said it best - if this match were played 10 times Hawthorn would probably win 8 or 9 times. No team is invincible. Their best players have 100 games and 3-4 years of experience on our most dangerous players like Walker and Dangerfield. All being equal, they should win. We're a bit like they were in 2007/8 - you can see the potential but it hasn't quite peaked yet.

Play the 2008 GF 10 times and Geelong wins it 8 or 9 times. They were lucky and caught Geelong on a bad day. Now the boot's on the other foot. You just never know.

 

[jpzhawk]

Not at all, just saying if that is the Hawthorn you are expecting to play against then you could be in for a very rude shock. I know, from your previous post, that you think we are being very arrogant and my post may have rubbed you up the wrong way. We have played completely differently to that Tiggers game for the remainder of the season. This is evidenced by the fact that after the Tigers game we went 12 - 1. We were 5 - 4 prior to that game.

Not to mention the way we won that 12 - 1 either. We smashed teams and ended with a league history highest percentage. Our only loss to the reigning premiers by 2 points after the final siren.