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52 minutes ago, Skuit said:

So now we know where Curry and Beer got to.

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8 minutes ago, praha said:

I would think we'd be able to get on top in contested football. Our defense needs to tighten up and our mids need to cover the spread well today. Zero room for error today.

Hawks are ranked fourth for scoring from turnovers. If Port and the Saints tore us up on the rebound, the Hawks could annihilate us. Defensive pressure needs to be at its peak today.

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22 minutes ago, P-man said:

That's true, but where the Hawks are most punishing is their speed and ability on the outside. The wet conditions will lessen the impact of that and, in theory at least, turn it into more of a contested slog. Contested footy is not the Hawks' strength. It does happen to be one of ours, albeit without Viney.

Its drizzling constantly not bucketing which will make it slippery but not necessarily continual stoppages. I can just see them kicking it long and the ball sliding out the back to Rioli, Breust and Puopolo all day. 

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2 minutes ago, big_red_fire_engine said:

Its drizzling constantly not bucketing which will make it slippery but not necessarily continual stoppages. I can just see them kicking it long and the ball sliding out the back to Rioli, Breust and Puopolo all day. 

Yep, the goals out the back have the potential to get real ugly. I'm still leaning towards wet weather + Trenners comeback game giving us a sniff.

Please don't rob me of my shallow optimism.

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3 hours ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

I bought a ticket just so I can see Jack run onto the MCG again.

Hope I'm not sitting amongst a trillion Hawks supporters!

Don't worry, the ground only holds a tad over 100k at full capacity.


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Travelling up the hume to Culcairn to play footy and its hammering down..

yuk

Hawthorn are going in with 2 ruckman. Wonder whether they will make a late change.

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The weather radar shows a very slow moving front. The rain should get heavier by game time

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I wouldn't play Frost anyway in this particular game (or many for that matter) but with the weather conditions looking crap are we going in one tall too many with him? Especially with the Hawks not having any Key (tall) forwards at this point. Should adequately cover their 2 mediums in O'brien and Gunston with Tmac/Omac from a height point of view.

Grimes for Frost would seem to be the smart play for mine in today's conditions. Could take Puopolo wile Nev covers Cyril. Or Bugg to Puop and Grimes to Sicily.

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41 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

I wouldn't play Frost anyway in this particular game (or many for that matter) but with the weather conditions looking crap are we going in one tall too many with him? Especially with the Hawks not having any Key (tall) forwards at this point. Should adequately cover their 2 mediums in O'brien and Gunston with Tmac/Omac from a height point of view.

Grimes for Frost would seem to be the smart play for mine in today's conditions. Could take Puopolo wile Nev covers Cyril. Or Bugg to Puop and Grimes to Sicily.

I really hope one of Dawes or Frost is taken out.

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No late changes for either side.

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We need a late change, we will get murdered in the wet with Frost and Dawes coming in

Posted (edited)

I'm actually not feeling to bad about this game.  The weather will work a little in our favour and I think we'll certainly put in a much better defensive shift than we did last week.  The Hawks aren't the gun side they were either and I think we can get close to them IF we limit that run off half back.

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i fail to ever understand how weather plays into our hands

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Anyone else use the 'Footy Live' app? Under today's game and 'Head to Head' there are some really good stats. If correct, we go in with some very similar match ups, age, average score, ave. marks inside 50 (both 12 per game), we're slightly up on contested possessions. On paper we match up very very evenly.

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1 minute ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Anyone else use the 'Footy Live' app? Under today's game and 'Head to Head' there are some really good stats. If correct, we go in with some very similar match ups, age, average score, ave. marks inside 50 (both 12 per game), we're slightly up on contested possessions. On paper we match up very very evenly.

Yes , quite interesting  ( use this app too )

 

shame we aren't playing on paper

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1 minute ago, beelzebub said:

Yes , quite interesting  ( use this app too )

 

shame we aren't playing on paper

The only real difference is the average games played. Their average is 22 games more so basically a season. 

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If we don't sit someone on Mitchell the entire day then I have no idea what the hell our coaches are doing. Has proven a very effective tactic all year.

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