Meanwhile . . . down at Glenferrie Road . . . .

[Diamond_Jim 12,588]

15 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

That's a point in their favour .... but they're still Hawk supporters.

 

It's a noble cause and I expect they will offer their use for free. Haj .... Demon flag ... not hard to pick the more vital cause for world peace and harmony ...

the Haj finished a couple of weeks back so I suspect they are "free".

They could fly via Bali thus making them international flights and get around the local regs... I think we may have something!!

Do you reckon we could get them painted in Demon Colours?

[Mazer Rackham 14,971]

9 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

They could fly via Bali thus making them international flights and get around the local regs... I think we may have something!!

Bali is as Aussie as Great Keppel Island. You can tell by all the Irish pubs, German steakhouses, etc. So really they should be paying us.

[old dee 23,791]

47 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Malaysian airlines have a couple of A380's that have been sitting mainly unused for the last few years. They tried to sell them but no takers as well as trying to lease them out. They are now used for the Haj pilgrimage once a year until the lease runs out.

Perhaps we could get them over for the finals week and seriously move a few people around. The airfares asked by Qantas etc are ridiculous .. you can fly return to London for the price they ask.

DJ anyone who gets on Malaysian airlines plane has a death wish.

[Earl Hood 6,086]

1 hour ago, Jaded said:

That's pretty lucky!

My Dad wants to book some cheap deal he found today. He says we'll regret it if we don't. I told him only when we are 10 goals up at half time, will I let him book it.

I'm a big believer in not jinxing it. If we book early, we'll lose. It is our destiny to win, and then spend a bloody fortune to travel to Perth, on the red eye, and sleep in a dirty motel. I can feel it!

I have secretly put money on Hawthorn to win to jinx them! I never win anything. 

[praha 11,240]

8 hours ago, No10 said:

This^

If Chris Scott was half the coach Clarkson is, then this would’ve been the 1st half Geel plan last week.

Dees v Hawks will be the game of the finals.

It's not right at all though. We have been in all but 3 games all year and have barely dropped our heads. It's an opinion based on Melbourne of past years.

[pineapple dee 2,892]

2 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Malaysian airlines have a couple of A380's that have been sitting mainly unused for the last few years. They tried to sell them but no takers as well as trying to lease them out. They are now used for the Haj pilgrimage once a year until the lease runs out.

Perhaps we could get them over for the finals week and seriously move a few people around. The airfares asked by Qantas etc are ridiculous .. you can fly return to London for the price they ask.

I would say those planes are for ' Mystery Flights ' if it's Malaysian Airlines.

[loges 6,767]

4 hours ago, Nasher said:

@Fifty-5‘s point still stands generally, in that supporters looking two weeks ahead makes no difference to anything at all. Unless you have some (as yet unspecified) reason to believe the players are getting ahead of themselves, but that’s not what you made it sound like.

I was trying to point out generally the dangers of taking Hawthorn too easy, or thinking we will just roll over the top of them, wether you be supporter, member,player, administrator or whatever. ( I don't think the players get ahead of themselves). If people want to take offence at that, honestly too bad.

[Demon_spurs 1,853]

13 minutes ago, loges said:

I was trying to point out generally the dangers of taking Hawthorn too easy, or thinking we will just roll over the top of them, wether you be supporter, member,player, administrator or whatever. ( I don't think the players get ahead of themselves). If people want to take offence at that, honestly too bad.

That's the worst spell of whether we've had for a while

[Adzman 2,154]

Didn't really take much from it. Sounds like they are ready to pack the season in and go hunting for Bambi.

And they rip us going to the snow...

[Adam The God 30,259]

6 hours ago, Moonshadow said:

At least the Hawk fans can spell and use appropriate grammar, unlike Geelong supporters

That's because most of them used to be Melbourne supporters and jumped ship when it got too hard in the 70s and 80s.

[Satyriconhome 10,878]

On 9/9/2018 at 8:26 PM, praha said:

Mostly the same posters regurgitating the same [censored] over and over again, with the occasional random post trying to compensate for Hawthorn's own inadequacies by constantly bringing up round 4.

Just like Demonland then

[titan_uranus 25,020]

2 hours ago, praha said:

It's not right at all though. We have been in all but 3 games all year and have barely dropped our heads. It's an opinion based on Melbourne of past years.

Agreed. It's an old take on Melbourne which was relevant 8 weeks ago but less so now.

We didn't have the West Coast game on our terms all day, and indeed they fought back and took the lead from us. But we steadied and won.

Geelong opened the first quarter with the first 4 inside 50s. We didn't panic, we didn't collapse, we didn't go into any shells, we just steadied and blew them apart.

A lot of supporters seems to throw around general MFC-style cliches - we can't play in front of crowds, or under lights, or in prime time, or against experienced sides. We've slowly been debunking each of those, to the point where they're not going to decide the game.

[MT64 1,144]

4 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Malaysian airlines have a couple of A380's that have been sitting mainly unused for the last few years. They tried to sell them but no takers as well as trying to lease them out. They are now used for the Haj pilgrimage once a year until the lease runs out.

Perhaps we could get them over for the finals week and seriously move a few people around. The airfares asked by Qantas etc are ridiculous .. you can fly return to London for the price they ask.

Great idea as long as they stop at Perth and not continue on.

[No10 461]

3 hours ago, praha said:

It's not right at all though. We have been in all but 3 games all year and have barely dropped our heads. It's an opinion based on Melbourne of past years.

That’s absolutely true. But in terms of strategy, the worst thing Geel did was expect us to be overawed at the start. They played open and let us into the game with our attacking style.

Clarkson is far smarter, I’m sure he’ll first restrict our game style and then try to pull us apart.

I don’t think it will work, but it will be a far more interesting tactical game than last week.

[No10 461]

58 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Agreed. It's an old take on Melbourne which was relevant 8 weeks ago but less so now.

We didn't have the West Coast game on our terms all day, and indeed they fought back and took the lead from us. But we steadied and won.

Geelong opened the first quarter with the first 4 inside 50s. We didn't panic, we didn't collapse, we didn't go into any shells, we just steadied and blew them apart.

A lot of supporters seems to throw around general MFC-style cliches - we can't play in front of crowds, or under lights, or in prime time, or against experienced sides. We've slowly been debunking each of those, to the point where they're not going to decide the game.

I don’t necessarily think it’s about any perceived weakness, it’s about countering our strengths.

Scott arrogantly thought they’d play the game on their terms. Expect Clarkson to be smarter.

[Jaded No More 68,915]

11 hours ago, No10 said:

That’s absolutely true. But in terms of strategy, the worst thing Geel did was expect us to be overawed at the start. They played open and let us into the game with our attacking style.

Clarkson is far smarter, I’m sure he’ll first restrict our game style and then try to pull us apart.

I don’t think it will work, but it will be a far more interesting tactical game than last week.

Agreed. Scott is an average coach compared to Clarkson. He would have watched our game, and all the previous games we've played against each other, and will try to choke us up the ground and shut the game down. Where we can break this, is to win some good clean ball in the middle. Start well in the clearances and put some pressure on them going forward, and it will go a long way to breaking them down. This is where our inside mids and Gawny are just so so crucial to our success. You can stop a lot of things in the modern game, but you can't stop teams winning clearances. 

[Wollongong Demon 182]

This game worries me. Last time we kicked one goal for all of the last 3 quarters. We dominated the first only to be smashed. They seemed to just switch off.

We seemed to have gelled since then but Hawks have several players capable of kicking a bag.

Game will hopefully won in the centre with improved Gus and Wayne. Most interesting game. Kent kicked half our goals. I wish he were back. 

[hemingway 7,627]

On 9/10/2018 at 10:35 AM, ding said:

Harmes is rapidly approaching "A" grade status. His second half of the year has been a big factor in our improvement.

Trac, however,is not better than a "B" grader, and its up to him to change that. Not a spud, but certainly not a champ.

Harmes always  had the desire and determination, just needed consistency, confidence and some skill improvement.

Trac is still an important player. He is tough at the contest, his tackling is first class and man o man that handball to Jonesy was a thing of exquisite beauty. Polly Farmer like. 

[Queanbeyan Demon 6,848]

• Players like Breust and Smith are never going to look good when we have our backs against the wall.
• Should have let that embarassing club rot. The amount of shame and embarassment they have brought on our game far exceeds the good.
• Don't worry hawks fans. Picture Petracca's [censored] face taunting Sicily. That same face will be in tears Saturday week after Kennedy and Darling have finished with his team.
• I'd keep Mirra and get rid of Frawley, an absolute f&$king spud.
• Can we trade for spargo looks a good player.
• Impey is actually pretty ordinary.
• Years of tanking finally paying off.
• How many times is clayton oliver going to throw it?
• Melbourne wasn't good on the night! umpires were magnificent tonight.
• Any chance we can give Frawley back to the D's?
• Richmond made us look worse than we really are. Geelong made Melbourne look better than they really are.
• Poor max gawn is a bloody hideous looking individual.
• Lots of Melbourne booing, has tomorrow’s snow report come out or something?
• Senior players gone missing for the second straight week.
• Oliver is the biggest cat in the AFL... tries to act like a tough campaigner but isn't.
• Do. Not. Ever. Kick. The. Ball. To. James. Frawley.
• Melbourne's pressure in our forward line was excellent.
• This posession gamestyle we play will not bring any more success.

[YesitwasaWin4theAges 6,703]

2 minutes ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

• Players like Breust and Smith are never going to look good when we have our backs against the wall.
• Should have let that embarassing club rot. The amount of shame and embarassment they have brought on our game far exceeds the good.
• Don't worry hawks fans. Picture Petracca's [censored] face taunting Sicily. That same face will be in tears Saturday week after Kennedy and Darling have finished with his team.
• I'd keep Mirra and get rid of Frawley, an absolute f&$king spud.
• Can we trade for spargo looks a good player.
• Impey is actually pretty ordinary.
• Years of tanking finally paying off.
• How many times is clayton oliver going to throw it?
• Melbourne wasn't good on the night! umpires were magnificent tonight.
• Any chance we can give Frawley back to the D's?
• Richmond made us look worse than we really are. Geelong made Melbourne look better than they really are.
• Poor max gawn is a bloody hideous looking individual.
• Lots of Melbourne booing, has tomorrow’s snow report come out or something?
• Senior players gone missing for the second straight week.
• Oliver is the biggest cat in the AFL... tries to act like a tough campaigner but isn't.
• Do. Not. Ever. Kick. The. Ball. To. James. Frawley.
• Melbourne's pressure in our forward line was excellent.
• This posession gamestyle we play will not bring any more success.

Hahahajahahahaha 

Bunch of [censored] sooks suck a fat stick.

Winners are grinners.

and loser can go and [censored] themselves.

Edited September 14, 2018 by Win4theAges

[Sir Why You Little 37,038]

That was superb reading. Suck it up Whorethorn 

James Frawley played a cracker tonight

[bjDee 1,249]

It’s a bit of a guilty pleasure, but I’m loving this thread each week. 

[Guest]

No different to how the resident nuffies would have carried on if we had lost.

[ding 5,126]

I know a couple of Hawks supporters... One of them is a great fella despite the fact he married my Ex-wife (I was their photographer that day too btw ). Can't hate the bloke as he is a brilliant second father to my daughter. I feel a bit sorry for him actually. He even tipped us, and wants MFC to win the Grannie if his team couldnt.

The rest of them, however,  can go and get [censored].

[censored] arrogant [censored]. The slide down the ladder begins now for you pryks. (Nothing against your club as they are the absolute model of professionalism)

Enjoy the snow.

[Demon Disciple 12,127]

the most arrogant of all supporters, Dorks fans. I despise no teams fans more.

Some muppet was having a right old sook ans having a go at a Dees supporter not too far from me. 10 seconds later we kicked a goal and everyone told him about it. Was pure brilliance ?