There's something funny about these close Hawthorn wins...

[Maddogmetro]

You can't pretend to kick a goal more than 50m out with less than a minute left to take the lead. That takes skill that can't be feigned.

 

[mightymouse75]

I know it wasn't your intention but many will take the above as gospel as apparently many believe free kick counts should be even in every game

Not at all. All games will differ.
Over 6 years of west coast averaging 3.27 extra frees a game is an alarming trend.
The team with the next highest free kick + trend is a long way back with north melbourne @ 1.05 a game.
#freekickhawthorn ??? Maybe not.

 

[mightymouse75]

Hawthorn with a measly .41 up on the weekly free ledger over 6 years.

 

[mightymouse75]

The current western australian umps need to be looked at as they are seriously incompetent.

 

[Roddy]

Bizarre thread
Hawthorn win close games because their pressure goes up. They win close games because they refuse to roll over and die when behind. They win games because they think they can win close games. They win close games because they practice how to win close games.

Get those bloody pesky reasoned, intelligent arguments out of here, this is Bigfooty! We only want irrational, baseless 'dems Hawks is favoured by da umps, freekickhawthorn' style rantings and ravings.....

 

[smeltitdeltit]

there is something funny about those close wins. A very "ha ha, suck sh1t" kind of funny. keep it up!

 

[Glorious couch life]

A little bit of venting, a little bit of indulging my imagination a little bit. I don't know though, it just strikes me as strange how it's happening so much though.

It's probably better to remain silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Top thread

 

[FISTO]

Hawthorn are campaigners but this is one hell of a shit thread

 

[Seadog]

Not at all. All games will differ.
Over 6 years of west coast averaging 3.27 extra frees a game is an alarming trend.
The team with the next highest free kick + trend is a long way back with north melbourne @ 1.05 a game.
#freekickhawthorn ??? Maybe not.

Learning not to give away free kicks is an alarming trend? Well it's certainly not a trend that will catch on at Freo.

 

[hutchy31]

I'm not sure if many posters have read this yet:

https://www.bigfooty.com/news/2016/07/close-wins-have-nothing-to-do-with-club-culture/

The maths are interesting, but if you're a TL;DR poster then it boils down to this - Hawthorn won only 1 out of 5 close games last year, they've won 5 out of 5 this year. If you look at all clubs there is no correlation between a team being good, having a great culture etc and winning close ones. It would also appear to debunk the conspiracy theories.

Anyway, worth a read if you're one of the objective BF posters who has no axe to grind against a particular team. Both of you.

 

[Coaster2012]

Perthboy at it again, this guy loves making threads, at least the profile pic has taken an upgrade.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Hawthorn are campaigners but this is one hell of a shit thread

Agree strongly both points

 

[Bad Horse]

If this isn't the worst main board thread ever I'd hate to see the competition, because this is truly a piece of fecal matter.

Oh, and I hate Hawthorn.

 

[Bad Horse]

"I'm not suggesting it's a conspiracy, but if I was..."

 

[Dinsdale]

tremendous thread, had to check that I wasn't back in the Bae. Actually a potentially shit thread was saved by the respondants.

 

[Kent Brockman]

Great thread

 

[Crankyhawk]

Great thread

Why you bump all of the OPs threads?

 

[BallaratBulldog]

Why you bump all of the OPs threads?

His
obsession with him, before he made a thread
calling him out and got deleted