Go the Biff

Same. Mahoney had a remarkable capacity to turn what we want into what we need. Hopefully he left his playbook lying around

Niners Vikings Ravens

Yeah, I'll go again

My first hope is that we slay this curse once & for all this year. My second hope is that it's replaced by the "Clarkson Curse" which can stick around at Hawthorn for 50 years or so

I'm gonna assume you're too young to remember 1987 when we made finals after 26 years of [censored]. As we progressed it seemed like the whole city was on board with us....and it felt great Embrace the positives WoK, even the bandwagoners. You'll enjoy the ride even more

Fixed it for you Steve

Hahaha. I think you'll find your self-adulatory posting had its genesis long before the Collingwood game. I've no problem with your opinion nor your analysis. It carries no more or less weight than anyone else's on an anonymous fan forum. But your neediness is concerning. Help is out there. Seek it. Or, full length mirror

Agreed. But we've got some who can put it out in front of a leading player. I get the whole "everyone leads to the right pocket & if we don't mark it we can trap it inside 50" thing. But if I'm running forward with the ball, I'd like at least a couple of options

Same bloke who's delivered our poxy F50 strategy - that being all the talls run to the one spot & we kick it on their heads

I'm not one of the happy clappers. I've enjoyed our successes but have been fully aware of our shortcomings. Chiefly our deplorable structure & system inside 50 and our new-found weakness at stoppages. However it concerns me greatly that someone's insecurity has them constantly posting on an anonymous fan forum to give themselves pats on the back. And to admonish those who don't enthusiastically join in with the Dr. D back patting. I hope UROK. If on the other hand you are just a narcissist and an harsehole (silent first h), I'm still prepared to help you out. For Dr. D A range of options but the Blonde Block Full Length Mirror is 30% off. I believe they'll deliver in lockdown. There you go son, either use it to aid your narcissistic tendencies or to, in the words of the Couldabeens "have a good hard look at yourself"

Anything that gets those blow-ins Geelong, Carlton & Essendon the [censored] off our home ground is fine by me. They have home grounds so they can bloody well use them. Also fine is Richmond having to take a trip down the Geelong Rd and having their supporters fight for the 30 or so away tickets that Geelong give out

The way Hawthorn fans have dropped off lately, we might as well have been playing Freo. Not sure the $$$ hit will be that hard.

Hahahaha. You've been in outstanding form this round @Jaded. 10 coach's votes.

Starting to wonder whether a trip to Specsavers might be in Weid's best interest. It's not just pack marks he's spilling. It's like the ball suddenly gets big on him.

Bradtke has been playing KPD for the past few weeks & has improved with each outing. Thought he was quite good today.

Shocking commentator. Even worse singer

Agreed. The AFLW and VFL commentary teams just get on with calling the game and they do it well. In terms of "special comments" Leppa has been a welcome addition. The two best at this though are Daisy Pearce & Abbie Holmes. Their insight is a class above the other boofheads that 7 trot out . Jobe Watson does my head in. Butchers the language. He dead set invents his own words.

Would like less from Harmes. Every time he touches the footy it ends up in Port Adelaide hands. Reverse King Midas.

Also noted. I am becoming more and more convinced that Hellofatime is in fact either Majak Daw himself ........or Majak's mum.

I agree and equally am horrified but the key is "in-form". For two years he's been playing like a bloke who's afraid of being hurt. Pleasingly in last week's Casey game he went as hard at the ball and the man as I've seen in quite some time. I just hope he builds on that tonight & presses his claims. Because as you say, at somewhere near his best he makes us much, much better. Even his best I50 delivery however is gonna struggle with our forward strategy. A 25 year old Tony Lockett would struggle to get a kick the way we are going about it. Those that see the inclusion of BBB as some sort of panacea are dead set kidding themselves. Nothing to do with Weid or BBB. It's a system issue rather than a personnel problem.

Frankston are slated to play the Swans. Perhaps the fixture could be flipped so that we play the Dolphins. Both Giants & Swans have 8 games played. We've just completed 6.

Reckon there was a video of muso types having a kick at half time at a VFL / AFL game many moons ago. None of 'em wore footy boots & it was a wet, muddy surface so the video consisted mainly of them slipping over in slow motion. I think @Smokey your uncle Big Wilbur was out there sporting Melbourne colours. Can't recall many others but Molly Meldrum was in Saints gear & Jon English in a Fitzroy outfit. Shirley Strahan in Hawthorn colours

So punters, what if Brown (& Brown) stink up the house against the Bummers at Casey ? And Weid kicks six ?

Turn it up. The North game gave us the rare sight of a crowd full of Tasmanians in T-shirts. The Carlton game had a shower at half time. The only one that was wet was the Sydney game - Brown's best performance for the year. This is not a defence of Weed but I don't think your conditions based analysis stacks up

I reckon you've nailed it Jaded. In the Carlton game he covered a lot of ground but really struggled to get back into the forward line to be a threat. Glacial movement. And as others have mentioned, in the small sample size we have, Brown didn't appear to have the sharpness on the lead that he's known for. Hopefully this six week physical tune up will get him back to the sort of shape he was in when he was bagging 60 goals a year. Mind you, with our forward setup you'd struggle whether it was Ben Brown, Sam Weideman or Fred Fanning !