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NON-MFC: Round 9, 2022

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Just now, The heart beats true said:

How many games of football in the last 10 years has Tom Hawkins kept Geelong in?

Most of them!!

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    Just now, The heart beats true said:

    How many games of football in the last 10 years has Tom Hawkins kept Geelong in?

    billions. damn fine player when he isn't throwing incidental elbows, or being clumsy with knee...

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    1 minute ago, The heart beats true said:

    How many games of football in the last 10 years has Tom Hawkins kept Geelong in?

    He will be their biggest loss when age finally catches up to him. I swear tho he’s aging backwards. 
    I can’t stand him but you got to admire how well he’s played for well over a decade now. 

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    1 hour ago, Jaded No More said:

    But as you say you’ll support it as a second team and that’s half the problem. 
    Everyone in Tassie already has a team. Would you drop Melbourne to barrack for the Tassie side? No you wouldn’t.

    Do you know many others who would?

    Eventually you’ll have kids barracking for them organically but it’ll take years and success to make it happen. 

    When Melbourne were trash I still supported them while living in Brisbane. However, I did become a Lion's member for about four years and saw some awesome games at the Gabba.

    It's all about playing a good standard of footy to bring crowds in.

    Also, I don't know if I could put up with the rubbish crowd activation at games now too though.

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    8 minutes ago, Engorged Onion said:

    billions. damn fine player when he isn't throwing incidental elbows, or being clumsy with knee...

    Or pushing the defenders in the back to take marks.

     

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    8 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Most of them!!

    Feels like he hardly ever gets injured too. Seems to always play.

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    11 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Most of them!!

    We need to keep in mind that , as I recall, it took him at least three years to crack a regular game...

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    Gotta give Tom Hawkins credit - he's trying absolutely everything to get the Cats this win. Too bad for him he'll fail (mwahahahaha!!!)

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    18 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Most of them!!

    Remember it took him 5 years to establish himself:

    AFL playing statistics
    Season Team No. Games Totals Averages (per game) Votes
    G B K H D M T G B K H D M T
    2007 Geelong 26 9 12 10 52 25 77 33 9 1.3 1.1 5.8 2.8 8.6 3.7 1.0 0
    2008 Geelong 26 10 13 5 71 48 119 51 15 1.3 0.5 7.1 4.8 11.9 5.1 1.5 2
    2009# Geelong 26 24 34 17 148 130 278 131 56 1.4 0.7 6.2 5.4 11.6 5.5 2.3 0
    2010 Geelong 26 18 21 13 95 131 226 102 47 1.2 0.7 5.3 7.3 12.6 5.7 2.6 0
    2011# Geelong 26 18 27 17 125 98 223 88 38 1.5 0.9

     

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    23 minutes ago, Chook said:

    This is terrible I know, but every time Tom Hawkins is in a marking contest, I silently hope for an injury.

    Where’s the terrible bit?????

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    Cats defence can be very loose - only saw snippets if the game but they often don’t match up then give a serve to their teammates. 
    Look around with their arms out as if “it wasn’t my man”!

    And I just loved that in round 23 2021, last mark of the day by some big guy in rednblue 

     

     

     

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    3 minutes ago, SaberFang said:

    Always great to see Geelong lose.

    First time in six years Saints have beaten Geelong. 

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    8 minutes ago, dieter said:

    We need to keep in mind that , as I recall, it took him at least three years to crack a regular game...

    To be fair, wouldn’t a part of that be that he was trying to get into one of the best teams of the modern era though?

    I could be very wrong but I think his start was probably better than others because we was in that team (lots of opportunities to score) but also he was being compared to that team too (high expectation because of how good that team was). So he may not have set the world on fire, but I’d guess his game to goal ratio was still very good.

     

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    6 minutes ago, dieter said:

    Remember it took him 5 years to establish himself:

    AFL playing statistics
    Season Team No. Games Totals Averages (per game) Votes
    G B K H D M T G B K H D M T
    2007 Geelong 26 9 12 10 52 25 77 33 9 1.3 1.1 5.8 2.8 8.6 3.7 1.0 0
    2008 Geelong 26 10 13 5 71 48 119 51 15 1.3 0.5 7.1 4.8 11.9 5.1 1.5 2
    2009# Geelong 26 24 34 17 148 130 278 131 56 1.4 0.7 6.2 5.4 11.6 5.5 2.3 0
    2010 Geelong 26 18 21 13 95 131 226 102 47 1.2 0.7 5.3 7.3 12.6 5.7 2.6 0
    2011# Geelong 26 18 27 17 125 98 223 88 38 1.5 0.9

     

    Couldn’t pull up Weids numbers so we compare could you…?

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    6 minutes ago, BoBo said:

    Couldn’t pull up Weids numbers so we compare could you…?

     
    Season Team No. Games Totals Averages (per game)
    G B K H D M T G B K H D M T
    Career 54 58 33 253 238 491 186 73 1.1 0.6 4.7 4.4 9.1 3.4 1.4
    2016 Melbourne 26 3 3 0 8 17 25 9 0 1.0 0.0 2.7 5.7 8.4 3.0 0.0
    2017 Melbourne 26 7 3 4 24 32 56 18 12 0.3 0.6 3.4 4.6 8.0 2.6 1.7
    2018 Melbourne 26 10 10 5 57 58 115 40 24 1.0 0.5 5.7 5.8 11.5 4.0 2.4
    2019 Melbourne 26 11 11 8 60 53 113 46 16 1.0 0.7 5.5 4.8 10.3 4.2 1.5
    2020[a] Melbourne 26 13 19 8 59 41 100 41 6 1.5 0.6 4.5 3.2 7.7 3.2 0.5
    2021 Melbourne 26 5 3 4 19 21 40 16 9 0.6 0.8 3.8 4.2 8.0 3.2 1.8
    2022 Melbourne 26 5 9 4 26 16 42 16 6 1.8 0.8 5.2 3.2 8.4 3.2 1.2

     

    Remember, unlike Geelong, the Demons were ordinary in 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020....

    And during crunchtime in 2018, he was aweseome.

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    It has been a fine weekend so far. The fact that the filth and geelong have lost will give my beer an extra taste.

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    I really enjoyed watching that game.  It was a decent contest but it also gave me real confidence about where we are at.  Ryder and Marshall are a great pair but were largely irrelevant against us.  Geelong's age caught up with them in the second half and the Saints zip and dare paid off this week.  We have both covered but they are decent footy sides.

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    So good to see Geelong lose again. That's 4 times now already in 2022, from memory they only lost 5 in total last year (H&A) and that included the Gawn game and they still sucked in the finals. The cliff is coming for them. 

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