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Ablett with elbows up again. Did anyone see it? Looks similar to last week, the ball was well gone and he definitely went the man. 

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    No reason why GW$ cannot be beaten by the MFC in a few weeks time on the ‘G. 

    They have never liked it. 

    We must be ready though

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    Incredibly boring game but credit where it is due... Clarkson is the master of the game plan. Like a python squeezing the life out of its prey before devouring it.

    GWS will take us to pieces if we play the blunt bulldozer gameplan in our present form.

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    There is only one team that can confidently be predicted to win each week:  Geelong! 

    For the rest, complacency is the favourite's worst enemy.

    So nearly every game is up for grabs.

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    3 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    So apparently we’re in a form crisis, but yet we’ve beaten a team who will today beat a flag contender.

    Let me explain... the blunt bulldozer works against the kick it around style of the hawks if you can prevent the slingshot attack that killed us last year.

    Against a fast run and carry/outside gameplan it fails. Geelong, GWS, Saints, Suns and a few others all play this style

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    Um ve been at work and have heard no results.  Just saw the hawks gws game. What happened to the giants? How do they only kick 5 goals? That won't win them a premiership on the g.

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    Have to laugh at the Hawks getting such a shocking crowd vs GWS at the G, especially since they've got such a monster membership! I wonder whether those same people that gave Melbourne [censored] for low attendances on Mother's Day will give it to the Hawks as well.

    Meanwhile Hawks beating GWS should give us confidence in a couple of weeks, unless of course we get (likely) murdered by the Eagles next week. 

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    4 hours ago, Dee Zephyr said:

    Ablett with elbows up again. Did anyone see it? Looks similar to last week, the ball was well gone and he definitely went the man. 

    Given he has never been suspended can provide his perfect record in tribunal hearing.

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    37 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

    Um ve been at work and have heard no results.  Just saw the hawks gws game. What happened to the giants? How do they only kick 5 goals? That won't win them a premiership on the g.

    Apparently they've won 2 out of 15 at the G

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    48 minutes ago, chookrat said:

    Apparently they've won 2 out of 15 at the G

    It's incredible.

    1 against us in 2014 and the other against Collingwood at the start of last year.

    Horrid record.

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    5 hours ago, Dee Zephyr said:

    Ablett with elbows up again. Did anyone see it? Looks similar to last week, the ball was well gone and he definitely went the man. 

    Yes had a look at it twice. He jumped off the ground to put two arms across the players face running past. An almost exact replication of last week’s assault on Shiels, so it must be unintentional again and low impact so we move on?! 

    Oh and his exemplary record will stay intact I suspect. 

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    1 hour ago, dees189227 said:

    Um ve been at work and have heard no results.  Just saw the hawks gws game. What happened to the giants? How do they only kick 5 goals? That won't win them a premiership on the g.

    I only saw short snipets but what i did see looked a little like a version of the old Clarkson cluster but with extra numbers behind the ball.  The zone starting more around mid field and behind rather than most of the field under the 2008 version.

    Snuffed out the ability of GWS sling shotting off HB and easily hitting up leading targets as in recent weeks.

    When the Hawks got it they then switched to possession/momentum mode with accurate kicking across HB on switch etc.  At one stage late in the last quarter they had racked up 97 marks just for that quarter!

    Strangulation of GWS possession.  Insane control of possession when they had it.  Mind you the GWS pressure or willingness too close up on an opponentn when Hawk's had possession game going looked pretty ordinary from where i was sitting.

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    Whorethorn got 14,000 to The ‘G today

    wow what a bunch of soft [censored]. 

    There must be thousands of Members at that club, who are in fact inanimate objects. 

    Should have stayed at Glenferrie Oval

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    6 hours ago, Dee Zephyr said:

    Ablett with elbows up again. Did anyone see it? Looks similar to last week, the ball was well gone and he definitely went the man. 

    This is where the reprimand system was actually a good thing in my books because twice in two weeks he’s gone for deliberate high contact but both very low impact. A reprimand last week and this week would see him suspended fairly in my books, warning and result for repeated infringement. 

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    29 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

    I only saw short snipets but what i did see looked a little like a version of the old Clarkson cluster but with extra numbers behind the ball.  The zone starting more around mid field and behind rather than most of the field under the 2008 version.

    Snuffed out the ability of GWS sling shotting off HB and easily hitting up leading targets as in recent weeks.

    When the Hawks got it they then switched to possession/momentum mode with accurate kicking across HB on switch etc.  At one stage late in the last quarter they had racked up 97 marks just for that quarter!

    Strangulation of GWS possession.  Insane control of possession when they had it.  Mind you the GWS pressure or willingness too close up on an opponentn when Hawk's had possession game going looked pretty ordinary from where i was sitting.

    My wife, a hawks supporter attended the match and said they refused to chase or tackle hard enough, allowing the Hawks to possess the ball. They were looking for the easy ball and made no attempt to change their game plan. Thought they would just walk away with an easy win. Hard to know where the Giants are at. 

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    21 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Whorethorn got 14,000 to The ‘G today

    wow what a bunch of soft [censored]. 

    There must be thousands of Members at that club, who are in fact inanimate objects. 

    Should have stayed at Glenferrie Oval

    Everyone used to scoff at Melbourne's low crowds at Mother's Day games, of which I remember attending many. It being Mother's Day was seen as just an excuse for Melbourne supporters' lack of commitment. (How often did I hear snipes from others about our crowds on this Sunday). Well, what is the difference when a team like Hawthorn with a huge membership fails to pull in a crowd today? Mother's Day is not a good day to bring people to the football.  Glad Melbourne didn't get saddled with it this year.  It was great to spend the day at home after a win the Saturday night before. (For a change).

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    Crowd of 14,636 at Hawks game.   Even allowing for it being an i/state opp and Mother's Day it was a fairly dismal effort by their 80,000 fans. 

    Not winning games?  Hawks fans = fair weather sailors, perhaps?

     

    Edit:  OOps, just say SWYL and Dame Gaga's similar posts...

    As an aside the Cats/Roos game at Marvel Stadium up the road had 40,000+...

    Edited by Lucifer's Hero

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