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That kick in '87 is discussed on page 63 of the little paper.

Can't believe it was 25 years ago.

I still remember it vividly. Same feeling as a death to someone close.

'88 just kicked my guts even harder.

Hawthorn are still "up"

F$&@K...

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That kick in '87 is discussed on page 63 of the little paper.

Can't believe it was 25 years ago.

I still remember it vividly. Same feeling as a death to someone close.

'88 just kicked my guts even harder.

Hawthorn are still "up"

F$&@K...

From the goal square. Still defies belief.

I was in Tassie with my family. Dad booked flights to go to the grand final at 3/4 time.

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Impossible to forget..had he kicked it straight I would have been near to position in the crowd to mark it..lol.. How he f#*cked that kick up is indelibly stamped in my memory.

Water under bridge

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pulled back on a ridiculous angle. thought when he marked that we'd made the grand final.

you werent alone... disbelief and numbness all wrapped up in one afterwards

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Impossible to forget..had he kicked it straight I would have been near to position in the crowd to mark it..lol.. How he f#*cked that kick up is indelibly stamped in my memory.

Water under bridge

You and i must have been sitting close BB. I was numb for hours afterwards...gutted.

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I can vividly remember the commentary - though not sure if it was radio or TV - "he doesn't want to take the kick".

Had he nailed that the Buckenarra / Jimma event would never have taken place, or at worst been totally irrelevant.

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Whatever - whoever won that day was destined to be slaughtered by the Tankers the following week due to sheer exhaustion!

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I can vividly remember the commentary - though not sure if it was radio or TV - "he doesn't want to take the kick".

I think it was Bernie Quinlan.

And yes, Eishold didn't want to take the kick. I've used a derivative for his surname ever since.

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Campbell ... selfish

Yeats... uncharacteristic miss

Eishold... Innnnnnnept

Result?..... more pain, and news report had me swearing again over my weeties

"Just when you thought it was safe to go back"

Memories linger..,.

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You and i must have been sitting close BB. I was numb for hours afterwards...gutted.

I can remember a very eary silence afterwards.. A lot of people looking at each other ...whether they be mates eyeing mates or strangers acknowledging strangers.

We all seemed to understand one thing... We all felt our just desserts evaporate befoe our eyes.

In a word...stunned!!

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Eishold, Campbell and Yeats. Most amazing game I've witnessed.

Must have been tanking.

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Rohan Connolly gives the same game a run down on age website.

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I can remember a very eary silence afterwards.. A lot of people looking at each other ...whether they be mates eyeing mates or strangers acknowledging strangers.

We all seemed to understand one thing... We all felt our just desserts evaporate befoe our eyes.

In a word...stunned!!

and then we were stuck in the carpark next to the Hawthorn Cheer Squad van for 2 hours.

It was quite surreal.

Only time i have seriously contemplated death.

And those buggers are still up there.

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That kick in '87 is discussed on page 63 of the little paper.

Can't believe it was 25 years ago.

I still remember it vividly. Same feeling as a death to someone close.

'88 just kicked my guts even harder.

Hawthorn are still "up"

F$&@K...

Still vivid in my memory(more branded with a hot poker),have never felt similar since.Similar feeling to grieving but on another plane.

Thought Hawthorn may have had some pay back today but alas luck(umpires) favoured them.Much like it did us in the '87 PF even with a wind change in the final term.Still haunted by that day.

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Rohan Connolly gives the same game a run down on age website.

Frigging hell. Why do I do this to myself? You couldn't script a more cruel result if we led by 120 points in the last quarter of a grand final only to have our entire team struck dead by lightning. Flaming Shakespearean tragedy.

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and then we were stuck in the carpark next to the Hawthorn Cheer Squad van for 2 hours.

It was quite surreal.

Only time i have seriously contemplated death.

And those buggers are still up there.

we found the pub !!!

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Outside of "that " kick but looking at that old footage...made me remember how good Warren Dean was. Looked like some kinda cross between Gary lyon and Robbie flower to me. Had a huge final series in 87. Did his knee the next year I think and only played about 30 games. Could have really been a player. Just too many tragedies at that time wasn't there.

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WTF The Hawks are STILL up,

STILL

this is like the we've been shite for 48 years talk

must have been crazy to have changed coaches 4 times since they have been up all that time

convenient memories, I thought this was about Eishold

I believe some meant to say the Hawks are back up

They were where we are now 7 years ago

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Just before ¾ time, when we were nearly 6 goals ahead, Sean Wight handballed out of defence and we had loose men ahead everywhere on the field. I momentarily thought we could nail the game there and then but the white maggot blew the whistle and penalised Wight for a throw. Hawthorn goaled from that and they were close enough to mount a comeback in the last quarter.

This was the only part of the replay that I managed to get myself to watch and I thought it was a legitimate handball. I reckon nine times out of ten it would have been deemed legal but not by the maggots we got on that day.

To make matters worse, a couple of years later we played Geelong in a final and it was an armwrestle in the first quarter. I saw a Garry Ablett (senior) throw go unpenalised and then a Geelong player ran across Greg Healey's mark and there was no penalty for that either.

Such is life.

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pulled back on a ridiculous angle. thought when he marked that we'd made the grand final.

Exactly. First took the ball in the centre of the goal square and was put around on an absurd angle.

The crowd at the GF breakfast the following week erupted when the mark was replayed. They knew we were dudded - although Tony Campbell and others contributed to our dudding with missed gimmes.

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Its sad Eishold gets hit with that one moment.

The previous week he had played a cracking game against the Swans and outpointed the classy Gerard Healy.

If we are going to crucify Elshold I cant believe that we do not include Campbell, Yeats and Stynes in the same breadth. You could possibly add the lack of defence from the various kick ins as well that allowed the Hawks to go from goal to goal so quickly.

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Its sad Eishold gets hit with that one moment.

The previous week he had played a cracking game against the Swans and outpointed the classy Gerard Healy.

If we are going to crucify Elshold I cant believe that we do not include Campbell, Yeats and Stynes in the same breadth. You could possibly add the lack of defence from the various kick ins as well that allowed the Hawks to go from goal to goal so quickly.

And Ricky 'Steamboat' Jackson missed.

It's the commentary and look on Eishold's face, as much as anything, which ensures his place in history.

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