Round 8 2015: Hawthorn vs Sydney - MCG

[vonn]

No losers tonight i feel Hawthorn were magnificent.

They were the better team tonight IMO.

 

[bungholes_premiers]

I remember when the hawks rolled us in 2013 after we beat them in the granny, hawks fans on here were absolutely giving it to us.

Well, I'm going to be the bigger man today.

We really didn't deserve to win, hawks dominated 90% of the game...

... BUT THEY COULDN'T KICK GOALS WHEN IT MATTERED, JUST LIKE 2012 YOU CAMPAIGNERS!!

Any chance swans can beat us on their own merit instead of getting it handed to them?

 

[Ticky009]

Cyril is a star, Suckling on the other hand is a soft campaigner

Cyril one of your best tonight. If you can keep Suckling in we'd appreciate it

 

[SSwans2011]

Well to be honest what happened out west tonight made this game a sideshow. North are a contender and Freo utterly destroyed them.

To be honest the Hawks and Swans are fighting for the chance to be runner up this year.

Can Fremantle do it in September though? Don't think you can ever say a team has the flag after last year and 2012.

 

[tige19]

Cyril one of your best tonight. If you can keep Suckling in we'd appreciate it

It's mind boggling how he keeps getting a game... It really baffles the majority of our supporters.

 

[The King!]

Our kick ins are not even vfl standard

 

[Lord Eddard]

It's mind boggling how he keeps getting a game... It really baffles the majority of our supporters.

I thought it was because he has a beautiful kick and that compliments the Hawks game plan. Obviously a good kick alone shouldn't get you a game in the AFL.

 

[The King!]

Well to be honest what happened out west tonight made this game a sideshow. North are a contender and Freo utterly destroyed them.

To be honest the Hawks and Swans are fighting for the chance to be runner up this year.

Who is fighting for 9th?

 

[The King!]

Any chance swans can beat us on their own merit instead of getting it handed to them?

Lol

Checks free kick count

Lol

 

[SSwans2011]

Our kick ins are not even vfl standard

Give them to Jetta from now on imo. No one else.

 

[smeltitdeltit]

Mate every time you "pull a jordy" you're up for a 50.

really? So high contact I the spoil = 50m does it?
never knew that

Can you explain the advantage from a mark call as well?

 

[Heeney2Franklin]

They were the better team tonight IMO.

That's a fair comment after the first quarter.

 

[Lord Eddard]

Hannebery stuff not to get BOG. What are his brownlow odds? If Fyfe gets suspended he would be a good shot.

 

[tige19]

I thought it was because he has a beautiful kick and that compliments the Hawks game plan. Obviously a good kick alone shouldn't get you a game in the AFL.

It's the greatest myth in the league mate

 

[The King!]

really? So high contact I the spoil = 50m does it?
never knew that

Can you explain the advantage from a mark call as well?

That was baffling

Especially when mcglynn almost stuffed it

 

[TW Sherrin]

Swans got the rub as usual.

 

[PetterdHoisted]

Can Fremantle do it in September though? Don't think you can ever say a team has the flag after last year and 2012.

yeah you're right of course, let's put it this way, the measuring stick for the comp right now is how you go against Freo.

 

[Lord Eddard]

really? So high contact I the spoil = 50m does it?
never knew that

Can you explain the advantage from a mark call as well?

Yeah when you make no attempt at the ball and a fair attempt at the coat hanger they pay 50s these days. Remember the Jordan Lewis one?

They paid it a non mark and an arm chop. Would have preferred the mark rather than the terrible play on. Only reason we got a goal in the end was a Hawks fluff up on the goal line.

Anything else?

 

[tige19]

Swans got the rub as usual.

The AFL's team, we all know that

 

[Maddo11]

Any chance swans can beat us on their own merit instead of getting it handed to them?

That reminds me, I must thank Breust and Cyril four missing two absolute gimmies in the last 5 minutes. They really did hand the game to us.

(just like gunston in 2012)

 

[afl genius]

Rioli was great- I think he's an exciting and talented player, I think he's overrated and I think injuries are a large part of him not really playing to his full ability or to the extent he's hyped up...

BUT

The commentators make him insufferable, them over-reacting to everything he does than trying to justify his mark between two players being uncontested as "It's the way he just jumps up" is painful. It's painful to listen to the commentators talk about him all match and it was almost euphoric to watch the game slip between his fingers.

Pretty much summed it up. A good player who is dangerous as all hell but overrated severely by the media. Listening to the commentators rub one out over pretty standard passages of play involving him was horrific

 

[WALDENPOND]

Well to be honest what happened out west tonight made this game a sideshow. North are a contender and Freo utterly destroyed them.

To be honest the Hawks and Swans are fighting for the chance to be runner up this year.

North a contender? I don't think their supporters even think they are in the same league as the teams in this thread.

 

[PetterdHoisted]

Who is fighting for 9th?

I'm looking for the Tiges to be there or thereabouts!
Just taking it one week at a time though.

 

[vonn]

Haha Carlton still trolled.

 

[The Swans Blog]

Are there fans who seriously think that the Swans were handed the win? What ****ing game were they watching, Eurovision?!

A great game, one of the season's best, marred by some incredibly biased and disgraceful I've ever seen for 2 quarters of football, topped off with a hands-off approach in the last.

If any group of supporters should complain its the Swans.

In the end we were good enough to overcome the Hawks and 3 cheating scumbags.

And roughead will get cited for his off the ball rib tickler on Shaw in the 1st.