Mazer Rackham

34 minutes ago, mauriesy said:

It's not Hawthorn the club whingeing. It's just about a dad and his son.

Correct. The dad is whingeing. As football supporters it is our duty to conflate this single supporter with the entire entitled club and wish them ill will. FOAD Hawks!

30 minutes ago, mauriesy said:

It's not about Hawthorn. That just happened to be the team the kid supports. It could be North, Essendon, St Kilda or others. It was Melbourne not that long ago.

It is about Hawthorn. They've just come off a dynasty and already they're whingeing.

ALL POINTS ALERT

CALLING WERRIDEE

THIS IS AN EMERGENCY. REPEAT, THIS IS AN EMERGENCY

What's that projected, like a spotlight, up on to the clouds? Is it Werridee's avatar?

38 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

I personally can't wait to taste the bitter tears of Geelong fans when they finally fall off a cliff. Delicious!

Let's enjoy this one to the fullest before we move on to Geelong. Let's not dilute the schadenfreude.

19 minutes ago, Pates said:

**** wow, they’re going through the doldrums of a few bad years after a dynasty and already they’re crying about being carp? Get stuffed and have 50+ years of pain, then talk to us. 

Dogs, Swans, Saints, even [censored] Dons and Pies fans know a little something about waiting a long time between drinks. As if the Hawks weren't already hated. This guy is sealing the deal.

"Why can't Hawthorn win all the flags, forever and ever, and then turn back time and win them all over again, and then invent a new sport and win all the flags in that too? Why is life so unfair? Won't somebody think of the children? Oh, and at three quarter time the jam doughnuts aren't properly warmed up yet, so it's just injury upon injury."

1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

The Perth fish bowl can eat you up and spit you out pretty quick.. just ask Hogan.

But ... it's HOME

With ya mates an' everything. Nice an' comfy. What could go wrong?

1 hour ago, Dee Zephyr said:

Since 1995, the team that has ended up 1st on the ladder after R1 has only missed finals once (Lions 2007)

Over to you Essendon.

Mmmmmmmmmmmm ... this is going to be delicious.

Just now, daisycutter said:

they certainly showed inconsistency by only giving buddy 1 week. pretty dumb if they claim to be that serious with cozzy and the concept of potential risk. cozzy is a midget compared to buddy.

In stature, or fame? Because the latter definitely plays a part.

3 minutes ago, Action Jackson said:

As long as the MRO is consistent

There's your first mistake.

When have they ever shown consistency? Every "precedent" they've ever set has been broken by themselves, usually within a fortnight.

(Not having a shot at you, AJ, but rather the AFL tribunal system.)

9 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Who is that now that S Hocking and B Scott are not there? Have they replaced that role yet? Is it Gil??

Kane Cornes

6 hours ago, Gawndy the Great said:

The issue is that the discretion is with Christiansen to grade it. That is the problem with the whole grading system.  

The problem is that there is a shadow Match Review Panel guiding the "official" MRO in what his decision should be. Informally known as the Sunday Footy Show.

5 hours ago, John Crow Batty said:

Christian should be suspended for discombobulation of the MRP rules. He does it all the time. How could Kozzie’s hit be considered high impact when Smith barely noticed it? Just another shocker from him. 

Christian's hands were tied. The shadow Match Review Officer had already declared the incident to be the worst that's ever occurred in league football.

3 hours ago, Stiff Arm said:

"Shall we darnce?"

1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

How does a supremely talented forward/ruck go through an entire game of footy without taking a mark?

If you look at his highlights reel it is mostly marks.

Somehow in the the last season he went from Jeremy Howe to Chris Dawe.

He needs a rocket put up him but unless Freo bring in Clarkson or Lyon mid season he won't get it.

On 3/2/2023 at 10:05 PM, WalkingCivilWar said:

That's actually a good likeness of him. You may have a hidden talent as a caricaturist!

48 minutes ago, Gawndy the Great said:

I reckon the Freo mob will start to get stuck into him after today’s performance, he showed nothing to justify the money and draft capital they spent on him.

From their bigfooty post-mortem thread. No-one was spared btw. Except Ross Lyon.

Jackson sucks, Fyfe is too old, we don't have a forward line, Treacy can't play football and Ethan Hughes is on an AFL list

Melbourne must be celebrating today, genuine shot at a top 10 pick all of a sudden

Jackson can't mark to save his life.

I kicked more goals in a ******* sim than Fyfe and Hackson combined. Typo but I’ll leave it.

Hope Melbourne enjoy our 1st rounder

0 marks to Jackson is a bad stat line by itself, but he was out bodied and out read every time the ball went near him in a marking contest. And he added very little more at ground level.

I thought Jackson overall was poor. And yet he started so brightly with that neat handball to Freddy for our first goal. But it was summarized by his lazy boneheaded kick around the body shot for goal that missed the lot. And that basically characterized the afternoon.....sigh!

I'll get howled down for this, but I thought Jackson showed some glimpses and I think - provided we straighten this structural cluster* out - he will be worth it in the long run. At least he was contesting 100 per cent.

4 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

Gee 68000 at Hawks v dons. That is a very good crowd 

March premiership at stake

5 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Who knows, he could be a massive bust?

Guy like him needs to be in a good team to bring out his best.

Frosty, general of he Hawk defense, versus the second coming of Jono Brown. The battle of the Demon Discards!

9 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

Fox commentators saying McAdam got chest. Same clowns wanting Kosi executed. The fear is real.

2 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Media calling McAdams hit brutal and sickening.  I'm not following your conspiracy theory thinking

McAdam should certainly get more weeks than Kozzi

Kossie might get a reprieve because Josh Kelly got caught in the head. The weekly victim might be the guy who got Kelly even though it looked like a pure accident. The MRP work in mysterious ways ....

8 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

I look at Jesse Hogan and it feels like so so long ago we had him & thought he'd be the saviour.

Honestly and it's probably helping we have had success but I'm not really missing him.

We've moved on from the Hogan Saviour times. From the Anyone Saviour times. Seeing Hogan, Hannan, Frost, Weid all playing for other clubs and us not missing their input one jot shows how far we've come. GO DEMONS!!!!

And I'm sure I saw a spectator at the Giants game. It might have been someone selling pies and drinks, but there was definitely someone in the the crowd.

7 hours ago, Bobby McKenzie said:

And the photo of the Cripps incident was so very like Kozzies bump. Feet well off the ground.  PLUS the other player was concussed. Interesting this one..

Definitely like the Asterisk Cripps one with feet off the ground.

29 minutes ago, Demonland said:

I think the optics are the worst thing here. AFL will want to make a statement. If we’re prepared to fight with Carlton level QCs we might get a more lenient sentence but I think the best we can expect is 1-2 weeks. 

Unfort the AFL have closed the loophole whereby QCs can blather for literally hours and bamboozle the tribunal into ruling that the sun actually rises in the west.

24 minutes ago, Nascent said:

Maybe it was never really "free kick hawthorn."

Perhaps it's "free kick A. Clarksons team."

Who's going to be the one to tell Clarkson that it's not a free kick to his team?

Kudos to the umps. A play on for kick not travelled far enough (should have called a zillion last night but didn't) and a holding the ball for one those "oh [censored], I'm surrounded and no way out ... I'll lie on the ground and ump will call for a ball up" situations.

33 minutes ago, Demonland said:

1901

Geelong	0.1   0.4   1.5  2.11	23	Sat 04-May-1901 3:00 PM Venue: Corio Oval
Melbourne	2.1   2.1   3.3   3.3	21	Geelong won by 2 pts [Match stats]

1941

Melbourne	4.3   8.6  13.8 13.12	90	Sat 26-Apr-1941 2:45 PM Att: 14,740 Venue:M.C.G.
Fitzroy	5.2   8.3  12.8 17.12	114	Fitzroy won by 24 pts [Match stats]

1957

Fitzroy	0.4   3.7  5.10  7.11	53	Mon 22-Apr-1957 2:15 PM Att: 24,000 Venue:Brunswick St
Melbourne	2.1   4.7  6.12  6.14	50	Fitzroy won by 3 pts [Match stats]

1961

Fitzroy	1.1   5.5   5.6  6.10	46	Sat 15-Apr-1961 2:20 PM Att: 31,787 Venue:Brunswick St
Melbourne	4.6   5.8 10.14 10.15	75	Melbourne won by 29 pts [Match stats]

So that's why we dumped Fitzroy out of the comp. Those bastards.

1 minute ago, BDA said:

pies need to tighten up. way too loose inside their defensive 50

Alternately, they could FOAD