Diamond_Jim

need to push them wide as they come into the fifty and thus limit the scoring from a percentage viewpoint. Need Watts to play back centre corridor and just clog up the space. Even if he doesn't get a kick he will do his job if they are forced wide.

Stating the obvious.... outscore them this quarter and the game is ours. Go Dees

love it !!!!!!!!!

and one more please before half time

understandable ... really North is a team we should beat easily if we're going anywhere

Come on 10 minutes of this quarter to go and we are still a goal down ... need to go int0 half time in front !! Edit .... even now... another 4or 5 would be nice

Is this going to the Carlton game of 2016 all over again. They are 17th ... have nothing to play for ... we all know the story

we really should be playing an extra tall in defence when they have the wind... Watts or T Mac or even Hogan

half way through the quarter and oppo score is minimised.... we need to hold for another 15 mins

according to BOM site winds in Hobart presently at 40kph gusting to 60kph that's serious wind http://www.bom.gov.au/tas/observations/hobart.shtml?ref=hdr

watching on Oz plus in Asia which is 5 mins behind.. so please forgive Hawks have had a draw so percentage is not that relevant to them... who knows.. they have a relatively easy run home

The hawks will rue that third quarter. So many shots on goal. Admittedly they were all from hard spots but no cigars. Looks like the Swans march on.... 10 wins from 11 games or similar ,,,,, sickening

the peanut man was legendary.... he carried the peanuts in a big hessian bag on his back like Santa Claus. The peanuts (in shells) were packed in paper bags. His call was ... "peanuts .. shilling a bag..peanuts" How he got into grounds was always a mystery as he wasn't an authorised seller ....... as you say life was simpler back then I had a job selling sweets and drinks .. hard work humping those trays around on your back for not much money

nah if Richmond don't get ninth then it would be great for the Hawks to finish 9th and lessen the Saints draft pick. Can't see it happening as the Swans are playing very well at present..... unfortunately

Like your thinking Pates. Our earlier loss this season to North was a real let down and it is really time to put this losing streak to the sword. Hopefully Garlett continues his good form and even better goals with some of those kicks he just missed last week. Watching the replay he could have had a 6-7 goal game easily.

Understood .. might just have to get used to another Americanism .... you are right though ... in the posts themselves as against the quoted posts the date is shown in the usual format Good luck and as I said it's a very small point .... Great job

thanks ... looked in my profile but nothing was obvious. Here is a link to a page in another thread. The second last post quotes "bandicoot's posting of 7/26/2017" on my screen http://demonland.com/forums/topic/42313-looking-ahead-the-path-to-september/?page=14&tab=comments#comment-1443687

what can one say.... other than WOW what will they think of next in this wonderful interactive world

Small thing but I notice we have the American date system with the month before the day. My mind is fuzzy but I don't think that was the case with the old software Just to clarify the date is the one which appears when you quote a posting over 24 hours old cheers

you assume a 17 week home and away season which is fair. If however you still play a 22 week season and then structure byes the TV rights value does not change as you still have weekly product of 6-7 matches. If anything production costs go down for the TV stations and the ratings remain the same. Gate receipts might go down but arguably average attendance per game goes up and you are not hit with the cost of opening stadiums for under attended games.

Any one of GWS, Richmond, Port or Swans losing is a good result ... Probably the "best" one would be a loss by GWS simply because it is then in our hands to take their spot in the four the following week.

In a perfect world it would simply alternate year by year .. one year you play Freo in WA .. the next in Melbourne Given that there are 8 interstate teams every Melbourne based team would ideally have 4 road trips each year. Trouble is the world isn't perfect

Out of interest when would you start and end the season? I think 17 rounds is an idea worth thinking about but I would like to see a March start and September end like now. That would mean time off mid winter in a block or staggered byes. Would you retain the dedicated blockbusters such as Anzac day or would it be a real draw (out of a hat). There would have to be some compromise simply to ensure available grounds.

While the draw may bounce the fact is that the money ball games remain with the power house clubs

no the growth period has gone. Hawks had 20 years of success and their hold is tenuous. Five years of limbo and watch the golden threads disappear. We have had fifty years of irrelevancy with a stuttered respite in the 90's and early 00's We have lost our number 1 discriminator .. the MCG ....(home to 6 or is it 7 or 8 clubs these days .. hell even Geelong uses it when they care to.) For us to make our mark we need a game changer ... not sure what that is but funnily enough our best chance was Jurrah but it wasn't to be. Perhaps it will be Daisy P ... who knows but the old ways no longer work that well.