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Feel like Hawthorn got a reprieve there with the change of weather.

If a team works hard defensively and earns a turnover, Hawthorn can be exposed on the rebound if you go hard right away.

Nick Blakey telling the story with 6 intercepts and almost 700m gained at 3/4 time, and a lot of both those stats were built after the Swans began to get their harassment act together.

 

 
1 minute ago, Demonstone said:

A recruiter (might have been ours) saw him play and reported that "This kid is a wizard".  The name stuck.

good to know

I might be getting old (true) but I can’t remember him referred as such in his first AFL season

If he was, I would think that is premature and I would not have been a fan of that. Let kids establish themselves first i reckon

So we've got a Wizard and a Lizard playing tonight and more than one King running around. 

All we need now is a Gizzard to get the band back together again.

 
10 minutes ago, DubDee said:

There’ll only be one Wiz mate

I hate how Watson got this nickname before he played a game 

exactly does my head in, you cant reuse nicknames like that


2 minutes ago, GS_1905 said:

This is why opening round  should be in Melbourne. No rain. 

Or they could hold it in Geelong. No Collingwood.

Have to be the maggots worst performance of the year.

11 minutes ago, GS_1905 said:

This is why opening round  should be in Melbourne. No rain. 

You're telling me!  Was watching the game and enjoying the new dimension of rain before it fi ally clicked that I live down the road from the SCG and I rushed off to collect my newly wet washing 😅

 

Ugh I just remembered why I don’t like the NON-MFC threads. I mean, I do like them, I very much like them, but I can’t stand the “I hope the MFC are watching/learning from this!” finger-wagging type of comments. What part of NON do folks not understand? Personally I like watching matches that don’t involve us coz it’s nice to breathe during a game 😅

Anyways, end of rant. Thanks for listening (even though you had no choice 🤭)

It has always been so difficult to get a clear read on the quality of football at the postage stamp that is the SCG. The Swans v Hawks game has been quick and intense with lots of pressure plays, but little of the game style transfers to most other grounds. Both teams look OK, and it looks like the old fashioned "utility" player has had a field day.

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Geez the hawks have got some cheap frees tonight. 
 

Having said that Swans will struggle this year.

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5 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

Ugh I just remembered why I don’t like the NON-MFC threads. I mean, I do like them, I very much like them, but I can’t stand the “I hope the MFC are watching/learning from this!” finger-wagging type of comments. What part of NON do folks not understand? Personally I like watching matches that don’t involve us coz it’s nice to breathe during a game 😅

Anyways, end of rant. Thanks for listening (even though you had no choice 🤭)

Hey GW, I haven’t noticed many finger wagging type posts. I personally think it’s been ok. 

There was a crazy stat on AFL360 that every team that has been beaten by more than 6 goals in a GF has done poorly the next year. Not one had won a final the next year and about half had missed finals completely! 

crazy!


Must say I've been happy with the non colour clash of jumpers on TV but that chocolate hawthorn jumper...

Even an orange V might have helped save it fashion wise

16 minutes ago, Willmoy1947 said:

Have to be the maggots worst performance of the year.

I obviously have no bias either way, but i thought the umps were pretty good tonight, after a jumpy first quarter

12 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Hey GW, I haven’t noticed many finger wagging type posts. I personally think it’s been ok. 

They’re there. I didn’t wanna quote anyone coz I’m so not up for a bunfight (whatever that is). Granted, there’s not as many as usual but they’ll come as the weeks go by. As sure as the sun rises in the east etc. they’ll come. ☹️

edit: I just dictionary.com-ed Bunfight. I prefer its synonyms: free-for-all and rough-and-tumble. They almost sound like fun 🤩 

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16 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

Barrass will be a good pick up for the hawks

Very good. It enables Sicily to go forward, and that should have alarm bells ringing across the AFL.


Saddest chairing-off ever. EVER. 

22 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

Barrass will be a good pick up for the hawks

He’ll be AA FB if he plays every game. Solid player. That Hawthorn backline reminds me when we picked up May and Lever. 

 
1 hour ago, GS_1905 said:

Neither of these forward lines are drastically better or worse than ours. Just goes to show it’s not as  important to have superstars in your forward line.

Disagree. Both teams have some pretty handy players in their forward lines.


PUCE

That’s the other colour!

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poos and puce. 


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