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Worst holding the ball of the year, that.

lol it is not. Port ain't bad.

Yes, 3x 6-day breaks, but it comes off like 3x 10-day breaks. Across a 42-day window from Round June 2 - July 14, we play 6 games. That's an average 7-day break between games. People need to calm down. Saints also come off a 6-day break from Perth. Brisbane a 6-day break when they play us. What I love is 3x Sunday games at 3:20pm. Quickly becoming my favourite timeslot.

Wonder what they're saying at Alberton...

Non-Specific Royal Monarch Obligatory Celebration of Birth Day.

Not against the idea.

Saints coming crashing back down to Earth where they belong. Play a half decent attacking team and they struggle. Lyon in for a ride awakening. Hate to say it but hope both Pies and Dees keep winning. 90k+ definitely on the cards for King's Birthday if we're still 1st and 2nd.

If Hibberd stays fit, then him, Lever and May is a sufficient backline alongside McVee, Rivers, Bowey, and eventually Salem.

He gets easy possessions and lets teams waltz it down the wing. He is unaccountable. Badly needs to improve his defensive game.

I think a lot of people are missing something about games like today. Watching it very close to ground level in AFL Members, the Hawks pressure and spread in the second half was intense. We still won by 10 goals. In literally any other decade, a 10+ goal win is a "belting". We belted Hawthorn today. They gave it their all. At their best, we are still a 10 goal better team. Which is as it should be between top 4 and bottom 4. No one team at their best is 100 points better than any other team at their best. It's an anomaly. If people think a 10 goal win is "uninspiring", then I'm scared for the league for when we are 100% switched on. I have two key take aways from today and they're not even team based, they're player based: 1. Hibberd oozes professional and football smarts. He and May in the same backline is key to us winning a flag. Lever, Rivers, soon Salem, McVee, Bowey are all intercept and zone players. Hibberd and May are our 1-on-1 lockdown defenders. It's so good having Hibberd back and playing well. The definition of "experience down back". 2. Langdon is beyond simply being "down on form". I watched him closely today. He is unaccountable, points fingers a lot, avoids tackles.. teams are targeting his space and exploiting it. He is a liability against good teams. Going to be a very interesting month for him to see how he performs.

"Professional Finger Pointer"

Another 10 goal win game against a team that absolutely bashes us into the ground. Teams are absolutely throwing everything at us and we're still winning by 10 goals. It looks uninspiring but these are hard fought wins Now to do it against decent oppositon. Freo, Port, Carlton, Collingwood to come.

Lucky to have been outscored by 10. Thank [censored] for Rivers, May, Lever, Hunter, Judd and Jordon in the latter half of that quarter

Hawks are doing their best to keep this under 100 points. 10+ goal win today would be good.

This is the impact Paul Roos has had on the game. When he came to Melbourne it was all about deficit minimisation. Mitchell is very good at it. And if they steal a win then great. Otherwise it's follow the process, forget the scoreboard. Hawks playing with pride. But this should be at least a 10 goal win. Anything less than 60 points is a win for Hawthorn's development. That's how they see it. Hawks have huge Melbourne 2014-2015 vibes about them atm.

Hate to find a negative in this but Langdon is unaccountable and useless.

Foot to the throat. We are so far on top of them they're taking the [censored].

I can't tellnif the umpiring is average or good. Letting a lot go.

lots of free tickets given away

decent crowd building.

It had good vibes in the late 80s and early 90s. Finals there had a different feel than the MCG. But once the Southern Stand was rebuilt, Waverley seemed to age at lightning speed. Just wasn't up to speed. But you could tell that it was built "for footy". Some good memories there too. I was too young to remember the late 80s much but fondly remember the 94 win against the Pies by 5 points. A Collingwood goal was disallowed just as the halftime siren went. Pies fans were livid at the end of the game. And of course there's Farmer's goal in 98 vs Hawthorn. Always fondly remember Jakovich's performance against Hawthorn there in 94. Absolutely dominated but ended up with 4 goals 10 behinds. Quintessential Jakovich performance lol

Bed time.

They're recapping the entire hearing. Good, because it's not like it LITERALLY JUST HAPPENED or anything.

Perfect scenario for a Hawks dud to pop up and kick 6.0 and to give up 20 marks inside 50.

Feel like we're due for a shock loss against a bottom team. Hawthorn always seems to come to play against us. Teams like Carlton underperform. Hawthorn always performs exactly as you'd expect. They're getting Bruest back and their midfield is doing okay. Should be at least a 7-8 goal win.