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Why we hate the Hawks

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16 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Everyone hates the Hawks. Not one neutral supporter tomorrow night is going to be barracking for the Hawks.

☝️100% truth

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    They are just so hateable, from their arrogant [censored] supporters to their free-kick staging, mullet wearing, poncey looking Glenferrie road coffee-sipping players, Hawthorn can get stuffed

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    I hate them for an accumulation of little things that kind of come in from every direction. All the thug moments like Spider Everitt dropping his forearm onto a prone Simon Godfrey's throat, the number of Hawks fans who go for maximum gloating while actually being pretty 'lightweight' fans, the rancid hypocrisy symbolised by their 'family club' poker machine empire and personified by Jeff Kennet (who also personifies the gloating lightweight, come to think of it), and the little irritating matter of them blatantly tanking and never being so much as tut-tutted about it.

    I expect to hate them a little less after friday, nothing comforts more than knowing that they are stumbling while we are on the hunt.

     

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    3 hours ago, Demonland said:

    That's always been my thoughts on the merger. Thinking of getting a Don Scott tattoo.

    Staple a velcro hawk to your arm

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    I respect them and don't necessarily hate their current team (or the team that won 4 flags recently). I was too young to remember the 80s and the 96 merger is a distant memory for me, although I remember the merger game.

    Their fans are a special breed though, cocky as hell and rightfully so. A proud club we should aspire towards.

    I would love nothing better than to bury them tomorrow.

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    2 hours ago, Jaded said:

    Everyone hates the Hawks. Not one neutral supporter tomorrow night is going to be barracking for the Hawks.

    Eagles supporters would be (and are going by comments on WA News outlet Facebook pages).

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    If we merged now it’d be handy to have Tom Mitchell on the bench. 

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    4 hours ago, reynolds46 said:

    premierships since I was born

    HFC 12

    MFC  0

     

     

    That's the heart of it. They've become what we were in our glory days of the '50's and '60's

    I don't hate Hawthorn. I admire and respect them and a lot of my favourite non-Melbourne players over the years have been Hawks

    Their supporters though - for the most part - give me the sh!ts. I knew about 3 of them growing up and now the bandwagoners are everywhere. If ever someone tells me they barrack for Hawthorn I always ask who their first team was.

    Add to that the fact that Glenferrie Oval used to be Range Rover Central and I'm pretty sure that the overwhelming majority of snow-goers are "Hawthorn barrackers".

    I wonder if my mum and her Demon mates were as smug as those pricks back in our heyday.

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    2 hours ago, RedButMostlyBlue said:

    When I was 7 years old, Jim Stynes came to my school, handballed a footy to me and said we'd win the flag. He was wrong (we got thumped by the Hawks in the GF), but a new Dee was born anyhow. The funny thing is that prior to Jimmy's sales pitch, I was a Hawks supporter. Sometimes I wonder what could have been, had I supported such a successful team..

    Saint James. Another soul saved.

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    I hate them because of the 87 Prelim.

    Firstly when Dipper ironed out Robbie, and of course Buckanaras winning goal.

    After the siren a silly hawks supporter feral woman taunted me by waving her scarf in my face, which I proceeded to grab and wrap around her neck.

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    That thug Leigh Mathews totally taking out Peter Giles blind-sided on the half forward flank at the G as he was going for the ball. Utter contempt for that "hero of of our game."  (Don't forget his police charge for on-field aggression). Quite a legacy.

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    Hawthorn tossers at work telling me we played our GF last week.

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    39 minutes ago, maximum bob said:

    That thug Leigh Mathews totally taking out Peter Giles blind-sided on the half forward flank at the G as he was going for the ball. Utter contempt for that "hero of of our game."  (Don't forget his police charge for on-field aggression). Quite a legacy.

    ... Stephen Smith apparently still gets headaches resulting from another assault. 

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    38 minutes ago, maximum bob said:

    That thug Leigh Mathews totally taking out Peter Giles blind-sided on the half forward flank at the G as he was going for the ball. Utter contempt for that "hero of of our game."  (Don't forget his police charge for on-field aggression). Quite a legacy.

    Saw that from northern stand, giles was never the same after the broken jaw

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    1 hour ago, Deestroy All said:

    If we merged now it’d be handy to have Tom Mitchell on the bench. 

    And omera at casey 2nds

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    I'm going to say a prayer for all you blokes that have been aggrieved, and that there is justice in the world of sport.

    I used to enjoy going to the dance afterwards because there was always plenty of skirt and beating their basketball Teams in the finals, when it was a free for all, was my happy moments to square up..... 

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    37 minutes ago, Go the Biff said:

    That's the heart of it. They've become what we were in our glory days of the '50's and '60's

    I don't hate Hawthorn. I admire and respect them and a lot of my favourite non-Melbourne players over the years have been Hawks

    Their supporters though - for the most part - give me the sh!ts. I knew about 3 of them growing up and now the bandwagoners are everywhere. If ever someone tells me they barrack for Hawthorn I always ask who their first team was.

    Add to that the fact that Glenferrie Oval used to be Range Rover Central and I'm pretty sure that the overwhelming majority of snow-goers are "Hawthorn barrackers".

    I wonder if my mum and her Demon mates were as smug as those pricks back in our heyday.

    I think the arrogance and superficial character of many of their supporters is at least 80% of the reason for me.

    You are dead right about them being many of them being the finacially well off types.  My recollection of the most obnoxious of them back in the 80s and 90s is that they were arrogant privileged aholes that wanted to project more of a tuff, working class yet sucessful image of them selves by association of baracking for  Hawthorn - it didn't work though, you could tell they were silver spoon in the mouth private school boys alot of them.  They were always such total experts and could spend all day telling you why the Hawkers were such a successful club.

    I imagine things only got worse during the 2000s.

    The other 20% hatred is probably due to the sucess they had over us.

    I rank Essendon supporters only just behind Hawthorn supporters for similar reasons.

    Really hope that Melbourne supporters don't turn into such a bunch of arrogant ferrals if we get the sucess that we all crave.

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     It is mine to avenge.I will repay. In due time their foot will slip, their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them.

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