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  • Scully needs to stick tackles and hit targets at a minimum.
  • Melbourne are a pretty physical side and with 3 ex Dees playing for us, I expected the game to have a fair bit of niggle in it.
  • Melbourne are little like North to me; love to get real physical regardless of where the game is at and sometimes to the detriment of their movement.
  • Looks like we get to see Scully squib a few more contests! Patton looks out of shape too, body is wrecked, move him on.
  • (Selection) Very frustrating. We continue to play Henderson and Scully.
  • Gawn has constantly pantsed BB (McEvoy) over his career, and we have no one even close to Gawn's height apart from Ceglar on our entire list but if he's injured so be it.
  • Hendo, Scully , Smith and Morrison in same team. Melbourne have nothing to match it.
  • If we can't beat Melbourne then serious questions need to be asked of the club across the board.
  • At the moment I'd settle for Melbourne's game plan, it's manic and not very effective but at least it looks like they are doing something.
  • If we get trounced by Melbourne, then I would hope for a clean out and just play the younger guys.
  • The Scully experiment is done now. He can run all day sure, but he is just about the softest player I have seen put on a hawks jumper. 
  • Melbourne can’t score either so we are in for another eye sore. Get ready for “worst game of all time” media reports post game. The loser of this game is going to cop it.
  • Melbourne are super slow and not skilful. They have Gawn who is awesome. But aside from him they are not a good side. I think we will win. But the score line might challenge that Richmond Swans beauty.
  • Viney, Oliver, Petracca, Brayshaw, Harmes is a very good midfield. May and Lever. They've got talent everywhere.
  • That midfield has terrible skills. Viney, Oliver and Brayshaw are accumulators but burn merchants. They are not damaging. Petracca can be dangerous - until half time when he runs out of puff every week. Terribly unfit but talented. Gawn is quite easily the best player in either side and will tear Ceglar to shreds though. 
  • Hasn’t done much yet but have you seen some of the searing pressure that young Pickett puts on? It will be an interesting matchup between him and dare I say Dimma.
  • Hawks need a smaller backline. Especially against Melbourne who have no key forwards.
  • Petracca has been tremendous this season. No running out of puff and is putting in four quarter efforts. He's a different player now. The rest are tough nut hackers though, much like Mitchell, Worpel and to a lesser extent JOM.
  • Their midfield is the equal of ours in terms of hardness (JOM, Mitch, Shiels and Worpel = Viney, Oliver, Harmes and Brayshaw).
  • They are using their most dynamic player in the middle and he's been huge this season. We need to throw Wingard back in there or around the packs at least to match it.
  • They've also got Gawn who will destroy Ceglar, and have some KPF targets to kick to. 
  • Weids And McDonald have played like 2 and a half good games since the end of 2018.
  • Fritsch caused our defence issues last time.
     
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2 hours ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:
  • Melbourne are little like North to me; love to get real physical regardless of where the game is at and sometimes to the detriment of their movement.

Never have words cut so deep

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2 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

Im glad they hate on Scully, what a terrible draft for us it was and he hasn’t got any better. 

2010 was the only year he showed any promise. 
2011 he didn’t go near the ball. (He was told)

The Recruiters who thought he was the Number one Pick in the land should all just sack themselves 

A decade ago. Wow

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8 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

2010 was the only year he showed any promise. 
2011 he didn’t go near the ball. (He was told)

The Recruiters who thought he was the Number one Pick in the land should all just sack themselves 

A decade ago. Wow

Agree, remarkable he was the standout.
 

I remember him putting his body on the line in his first season. 
he could never kick though. Always had poor skills. He was just way fitter than anyone in the TAC cup

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11 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Agree, remarkable he was the standout.
 

I remember him putting his body on the line in his first season. 
he could never kick though. Always had poor skills. He was just way fitter than anyone in the TAC cup

He was an elite athlete and an average footballer

 

 

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Nothing too drastically stupid in there, the points about low scoring I’m really hoping that the win and high(er) score last week will give a few players confidence. Petracca is definitely getting noticed more, most weeks are a close to 4 quarter effort now. Hopefully his disposal is cleaner this week. 

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Scully's career was always destined for the toilet when he was offered $1 million a year after 2 seasons in the league. Accept it and play with the burden of pressure. Decline it and you're that "guy who turned down $1 million". I do believe he'd have been a much better player had he stayed at Melbourne. If not for a Sheedy vendetta, GWS may have thrown their coin elsewhere.

Anyway, Dees by 12. Goals.

Seriously, we should pansy them. Much better on paper.

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The more of these threads i see, the less i think other teams supporters are as stupid as we like to think.

Cant fault much of what was said in the OP.

We should win this one.

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1 hour ago, ding said:

The more of these threads i see, the less i think other teams supporters are as stupid as we like to think.

Cant fault much of what was said in the OP.

We should win this one.

Thanks QD   yes amazing some other supporters seem quite intelligent.    No cannot be true !

 

Hope we win, but not overly confident. Talent wise we should but that's not how it works all the time !.....

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1 hour ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

Accumulating burn merchants  and  Tough nut hackers...

Sadly that pretty much sums it up from the Glenferrie Rd brains trust   -    maybe that explains why some of my best mates are Hawks

sci-fi running GIF by MANGOTEETH

Although they haven't picked up on the fact that we not only have May & Lever down back.

  We now have a better, stronger, faster ...

   " O-Mac "

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Mea culpa time.  I was wrong about Scully.  I thought his ''cruising speed'' over a 120 minute game of footy together together with his ability to read the play would make him a damaging player.  I misread Sam Blease's best made.  He has the heart of a grape seed.  But because he hasn't played for Melbourne in a long time he goes under the radar.  If he was still with us we'd get pilloried and the soft cork would feel the heat much more.

While I'm at it...

Josh Kelly is as smooth as Egyptian cotton.  But boy, he doesn't like getting his hands dirty.  It's in him to get a hard ball, but right now he's a seagull.  He better pull his finger out or he'll quickly become another overrated player.  There's no press about him, but he should be dominating games and he's presently not much more than a rich man's Scully. 

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6 minutes ago, Hannibal Inc. said:

Mea culpa time.  I was wrong about Scully.  I thought his ''cruising speed'' over a 120 minute game of footy together together with his ability to read the play would make him a damaging player.  I misread Sam Blease's best made.  He has the heart of a grape seed.  But because he hasn't played for Melbourne in a long time he goes under the radar.  If he was still with us we'd get pilloried and the soft cork would feel the heat much more.

While I'm at it...

Josh Kelly is as smooth as Egyptian cotton.  But boy, he doesn't like getting his hands dirty.  It's in him to get a hard ball, but right now he's a seagull.  He better pull his finger out or he'll quickly become another overrated player.  There's no press about him, but he should be dominating games and he's presently not much more than a rich man's Scully. 

Josh Kelly reminds me more and more of Bryce Gibbs

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3 hours ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

Accumulating burn merchants  and  Tough nut hackers...

Sadly that pretty much sums it up from the Glenferrie Rd brains trust   -    maybe that explains why some of my best mates are Hawks

Sadly also sums up our recruitment strategy. For the last 7 years.

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Imagine being Tom Scully.

You play at 3 clubs where you're remotely never going to be welcomed back for any future player functions, or part of any 100 game club where you receive life membership at the club..

You'll always be a loner Scully.

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17 minutes ago, binman said:

Sadly also sums up our recruitment strategy. For the last 7 years.

Absolutely hilarious, agreeing with opposition supporters  personally don't give a flying [censored] what Hawks supporters think

Our midfield was selected to grow and mature together, unfortunately injuries such as Viney's foot, Brayshaw's concussion, Trac's knee have got in the way

Last week started to look like they are all on same page, finally, we just need the consistency now, which comes from playing games together

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