Review The most idiotic media call about Hawthorns rebuild

[moginie]

That's a terrible rehash of a wonderful (true) story ....

In the 1970s, a church in Hawthorn on its notice board posed the official question to its parishoners -

What would you do if God came to Hawthorn?

A wag wrote underneath -

Move Hudson to centre-half-forward.

Which in itself is a copy of the original What would you do if Jesus came to Liverpool?

And someone scrawled; Move St John to outside right.

 

[Nathan Detroit]

She would have taken the last train to Clarkesville then.

And I don't know if she's ever comin' home.

(Damn, how do I have to be to get sucked into quoting Monkees lyrics????)

 

[Agent Smith]

In this sense, there's nothing close to Barrett.

Everyone else is just pissing in the wind...but Barrett actually waged a public campaign to see our club punished, with his bullshit, completely unsustainable agenda. basically, Hawthorn made two trade swhich he didn't think were fair value..therefore WE ARE TANKING!

Hopefully, I have my timeline correct, but I have a theory on what Barrett was attempting to do. Way back at the start of the year, Harley Reid was being talked up as a generational talent and he could see that talent going to his beloved Norf. The main obstacle early on seemed to be Hawthorn, and he started his vendetta to put into the public mindset that Hawthorn was deliberately tanking, in the hope the AFL would strip the club of draft picks if the club ended up with pick 1. Only he could be so delusional to think he could actually influence the AFL in that way.

When that didn't seem to work (colour me surprised), he jumped on the racism review and continually pushed for Hawthorn to lose draft picks. This is classic headf**kery if ever you've seen it. If you look carefully across that year, as Hawthorn started to win games and stopped becoming a threat to pick up the wooden spoon, Barrett's draft attacks on the Hawks began to wane. He obviously didn't think of West Coast being a threat to his Harley Reid dream as surely they wouldn't pick up a Vic kid who could leave them after a couple of years. In the words of Chris Scott... mission accomplished!!

Anyway, just my two cents...

 

[peetoo]

Hopefully, I have my timeline correct, but I have a theory on what Barrett was attempting to do. Way back at the start of the year, Harley Reid was being talked up as a generational talent and he could see that talent going to his beloved Norf. The main obstacle early on seemed to be Hawthorn, and he started his vendetta to put into the public mindset that Hawthorn was deliberately tanking, in the hope the AFL would strip the club of draft picks if the club ended up with pick 1. Only he could be so delusional to think he could actually influence the AFL in that way.

When that didn't seem to work (colour me surprised), he jumped on the racism review and continually pushed for Hawthorn to lose draft picks. This is classic headf**kery if ever you've seen it. If you look carefully across that year, as Hawthorn started to win games and stopped becoming a threat to pick up the wooden spoon, Barrett's draft attacks on the Hawks began to wane. He obviously didn't think of West Coast being a threat to his Harley Reid dream as surely they wouldn't pick up a Vic kid who could leave them after a couple of years. In the words of Chris Scott... mission accomplished!!

Anyway, just my two cents...

It was all about Reid. Barret mentioned him in context a few times

 

[Faraway Hawk]

IF ...​

Jaeger O'Meara

2

Jaeger O'meara

Age

30

Ht

184cm

Wt

84kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

22.9

5star

K

12.4

5star

HB

10.6

5star

M

3.7

4star

T

5.5

5star

CL

4.8

5star

D

20.9

5star

K

13.0

5star

HB

7.9

4star

M

3.6

4star

T

4.0

5star

CL

5.0

5star

D

19.4

5star

K

11.4

4star

HB

8.0

5star

M

4.0

4star

T

4.0

5star

CL

4.6

5star

's form has been solid in the Dockers' impressive season ...

THEN ...​

what an opportunity he's got on Saturday in Launceston to remind the Hawks of what they didn't want, when they forced him out under contract at the end of 2022.

IF ...

Barretts head is still somewhere where the sun doesn't shine

THEN ...

There's a 85% chance it will be stuck there for eternity.

 

[Manila_Hawk]

I think yesterday showed it all for Mr. Purple.

Meek and O'Meara had quite different impacts for their respective teams.

 

[Hawk1986]

IF ...​

Jaeger O'Meara's form has been solid in the Dockers' impressive season ...

THEN ...​

what an opportunity he's got on Saturday in Launceston to remind the Hawks of what they didn't want, when they forced him out under contract at the end of 2022.

IF ...

Barretts head is still somewhere where the sun doesn't shine

THEN ...

There's a 85% chance it will be stuck there for eternity.

Solid…averaging 14.5 disposals per game

 

[MrPremiership]

"It's a form of tanking"

 

[Judd2Sewell]

 

[The Seaword]

IF ...​

Jaeger O'Meara's form has been solid in the Dockers' impressive season ...

THEN ...​

what an opportunity he's got on Saturday in Launceston to remind the Hawks of what they didn't want, when they forced him out under contract at the end of 2022.

IF ...

Barretts head is still somewhere where the sun doesn't shine

THEN ...

There's a 85% chance it will be stuck there for eternity.

If…
I keep predicting ifs and thens over the course of eternity
Then…
I will predict something that happens and it will look like I predicted correctly

Worst column in afl the “if then.”

 

[The Seaword]

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Hahaha

Only chance Mitchell won’t be there is if he accepts a shot load of money to take on the west coast job next week.

 

[Buckemenico]

Barrett also picked us to win the wooden spoon this year .

 

[Nugett]

Barrett also picked us to win the wooden spoon this year .

Barrett can Barrett. He is now saying we could win it, yet won’t admit that his opinion was wrong.

 

[OnTheRocks]

What shade & type of hair dye does purple use?
Maybe he's Maybelline?

 

[Gunston19]

this was a convo with joey might watch his mouth next time

have tried to contact Barrett but he has no socials.

 

[ahhhhhh]

Will Barrett go after Richmond for tanking?

 

[Snoref]

Fair dinkum the media have been on the airways telling Richmond to blow it up and trade out everyone and rebuild, but when we do it - they call it tanking...

 

[peetoo]

Fair dinkum the media have been on the airways telling Richmond to blow it up and trade out everyone and rebuild, but when we do it - they call it tanking...

I don’t think Richmond need a trade out everyone rebuild personally

 

[I got the outside word]

Classic from the cheeky boy.

 

[Manila_Hawk]

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Classic from the cheeky boy.

I can't describe how much I love it.

 

[Hawker_85]

Hitler could be on a 'who is the worst out of this lot' list and Barrett would still win.

 

[Hawker_85]

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Ben Waterworth - the D+ of footy journalists.

The face-to-head ratio on that bloke is beyond ****ed.

 

[kazzooka]

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Classic from the cheeky boy.

I think that should be the standard response when people look back at the 2024 flag and ask What is HOK BALL??

"It's a form of tanking"

 

[Alite]

One has to give props to Caroline Wilson to not be in this "worst commentator" thread. She recanted her early call on the Hawks rebuild, and I give her great props for that. Few people say that that are wrong, and when they do I respect them more for it. Hint, the guy who has NOT said that he was wrong is my nomination for the biggest knob in commentator circles.

Kane has been on the Hawk's bandwagon before there was a wagon. He is being proven right. Kane is anything but idiotic.

Joey looks at play-style and had a point early in the Hawks season. Kingy looks at stats and had a point... but they have both changed their tune and now laud the Hawks. Their reasoning was not wrong, but they did not see the upcoming evolution of the team (and frankly ... who did)

The outlier is Barratt. He should APOLOGISE for his "a form of TANKING", comment. If he does not he should be haunted by it for the rest of his journalistic career. He sent a slur towards the Hawks that, if the Hawks rise did not happen so fast, could have stuck like sh!t to a blanket. But now that shi!t is his to wear.

I cannot look at Barrett without thinking, "this guy tried to sink the Hawks rebuild".

I quite like Kane, Joey, and King, but Barrett can go get stuffed.

 

[earthworms]

Could we be the first tanking team to win the premiership?