Preview Round 17, 2024 : Geelong v Hawthorn, 4:35pm Sat 6th July, GMHBA stadium

[Rowie6]

It's actually quite surprising when you see his stat sheet, you'd swear he had touched it a whole lot more. He's been very noticeable with only a few touches!

I think it’s his sideways movement to get out of trouble that you we all notice?


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[Rowie6]

Has Mollison been assigned to this game yet? The kent loves Geelong - overcoming umpire bias will be one of our biggest challenges this week…

These blokes have got a free ride from the umps every week this year and expect it to be even worse down there with the home crowd… will have to take them out of it early as we did last week…

Not if you ask my missus!
One eyed as they come!


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[smeltitdeltit]

Not if you ask my missus!
One eyed as they come!


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You two must have met pre 2007 yeah?

 

[Rowie6]

Not sure about reasonable, but many like me would be very surprised if we win this. Your MF and forwards are playing superbly, and being at Geelong has not been that significant for us.
Watching the Hawks play at present is weirdly enjoyable- good, strong, fast, competitive, exciting footy.
Won't enjoy it this Saturday.
What we do know is, this rivalry always delivers something special.

I thought you looked better without The Hawk who has always troubled our backline?
Should be a good tussle!


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[Rowie6]

You two must have met pre 2007 yeah?

Do worry we have had and probably will this weekend plenty of fiery brimstone moments over the clubs we love!
I cannot stand the Rats but there is a marginal amount of respect there.
Luckily we are in Brisbane for the game otherwise we would have been at Popsicle Stick Oval for the clash!


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[KermitJagger]

I thought you looked better without The Hawk who has always troubled our backline?
Should be a good tussle!


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I actually wanted to look into this once because I always felt people got concerned about Hawkins against us despite not having that great a record overall, purely because of that one game with the after the siren goal. As it turns out he's actually got his 5th worst record against us in terms of goals scored.

Opponent	Games Played	Disposals	Cont' Marks	Marks I50	Goals
Essendon	18​	13.78​	2.22​	4.28​	3.11​
Brisbane Lions	24​	13​	1.67​	3.83​	2.83​
West Coast	16​	11.88​	2.06​	3.63​	2.69​
North Melbourne	21​	14.1​	1.90​	3.76​	2.62​
Melbourne	23​	13.43​	2.00​	3.04​	2.61​
Gold Coast	14​	12.93​	2.07​	3.50​	2.43​
Greater Western Sydney	15​	13.13​	2.33​	3.40​	2.40​
St Kilda	20​	10.75​	1.50​	2.45​	2.40​
Fremantle	22​	11.59​	1.86​	2.55​	2.27​
Port Adelaide	21​	11.76​	1.81​	3.14​	2.05​
Sydney	27​	12.11​	1.93​	3.37​	2.04​
Richmond	21​	12.24​	1.05​	2.67​	2.00​
Hawthorn	28​	12.07​	2.11​	3.00​	1.93​
Western Bulldogs	21​	11.24​	1.71​	2.10​	1.90​
Adelaide	21​	11.62​	1.33​	2.71​	1.76​
Collingwood	26​	11.04​	1.46​	2.42​	1.73​
Carlton	21​	11.57​	1.57​	2.33​	1.43​

 

[Newmo89]

Josh Gabelich.

Unlikely he plays. They’ll want his shoulder to settle down like last time, so that he can play more footy in a week or 2.

Can guarantee you that tomorrow at training he will be doing some wrestling with the tackling coach Rich, who will put his arm through it to test it out. Was what they did last time around.

 

[hawkman]

2020. No crowd. Got thrashed.

Only Richmond supporters think that season counts for anything

 

[parsons nose]

Just watched the replay of the round 3 encounter. Weird game. A couple of points, 36 points win to Geelong flattered them a bit. Both teams had equal periods where they controlled the flow of play. We squandered more chances to kick goals and their efficiency in front of goal came from high conversion rate and short but telling periods where they were able to pile on multiple goals in succession. The first period came from midfield dominance when our second stringers moved onto the ball. This is something we need to be aware of this time around. Surprisingly there won’t be a dramatic change in personnel for us either; Day for Hustwaite and in all likelihood Gunston for Breust. The question mark is Sicily. For them Hawkins won’t be there this time around nor Conway, Jack Henry

38

Jack Henry

Age

25

Ht

192cm

Wt

96kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.3

3star

K

7.3

3star

HB

2.9

3star

M

4.0

4star

T

2.2

4star

MG

142.6

2star

D

8.6

2star

K

6.7

3star

HB

1.9

1star

M

3.9

4star

T

2.1

3star

MG

142.6

3star

D

9.6

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

2.6

3star

M

3.6

4star

T

2.0

4star

and a couple of no-names. However they will have Dangerfield who missed last time plus Dempsey and Tuohy.

 

[Leather Poisoning]

Dangerfield is a gun. He's a tosser, but he's such a powerful player. Really affects the whole area of the ground he's playing in even though he's not getting 35 touches a game anymore

 

[Sirlemsip]

Dangerfield is a gun. He's a tosser, but he's such a powerful player. Really affects the whole area of the ground he's playing in even though he's not getting 35 touches a game anymore

Both Nash and Worpel match up reasonably well on him. Will be interesting to see who lines up on the flog.

 

[arupist]

Both Nash and Worpel match up reasonably well on him. Will be interesting to see who lines up on the flog.

You have to be more specific. There are so many down there.

 

[threesixpio]

Danger can go forward and heck us up there too remember.

 

[MadDawg]

Watto to get a high tackle free on the final siren and to kick the sealer after which he walks to the Selwood stand and tells them all to shoosh

Watto to the hanbagger crowd....

 

[Dipper]

-26 on percentage, if we can win and get the percentage over 100 I'd be happy tbh might get us into the 8 if we win big?

I think around an 8 goal win and we flip Geelong on percentage.

 

[Roddy]

Whatever happens this week, win, lose or draw, just remember: they haven’t beaten us in a knockout final since 1963….

 

[TheFourPillars]

Whatever happens this week, win, lose or draw, just remember: they haven’t beaten us in a knockout final since 1963….

I am backing us to win. As last week we r the form team. It's gonna take a really good team to beat us. Are Geelong that team. I don't think so. It may be close but we will prevail.

 

[mustang]

What’s the weather forecast for this game if it’s raining it makes it alot harder, cats are a 5 goal better team when it’s wet.

 

[peetoo]

Danger can go forward and heck us up there too remember.

Only cos stratton was injured. We have some pretty agile defenders today too

 

[Fulgent]

Geelong is a great place to live... when we beat the Cats. I still get them complaining to me about 2008 nearly every week. My nephews went to the milkbar after the game in their Hawks gear and had people screaming abuse at them from cars.

 

[StillAtLarge]

What’s the weather forecast for this game if it’s raining it makes it alot harder, cats are a 5 goal better team when it’s wet.

Weather is perfect but Cats haven't been a great wet weather team for some time now

 

[BIGHAWK23]

I'm going with a Geelong supporting family

il be unbearable down pakington street

 

[brew]

Geelong is a great place to live... when we beat the Cats. I still get them complaining to me about 2008 nearly every week. My nephews went to the milkbar after the game in their Hawks gear and had people screaming abuse at them from cars.

Parents used to do a stall at the Geelong market on Sundays.

Whenever they lost.. their supporters would stay home crying and not venture out.. business would suck.

 

[peetoo]

Parents used to do a stall at the Geelong market on Sundays.

Whenever they lost.. their supporters would stay home crying and not venture out.. business would suck.

And take their money out of the building soceity

 

[Fulgent]

Parents used to do a stall at the Geelong market on Sundays.

Whenever they lost.. their supporters would stay home crying and not venture out.. business would suck.

If it was at the showgrounds, it was just down the road from me. We used to go there a bit but it closed down a few years ago.