News 2015 Hawthorn Fixture (released 30 October 2014)

[spudmaster]

Sydney will play GWS twice home and twice away.

GWS didn't see to mind in round 1

 

[1989]

GWS didn't see to mind in round 1

$ydney season bookended by two horrible losses.

 

[JoeHawk]

In hindsight it was the tough fixture that perhaps got us the flag......again. You've got to beat the better teams to be the best.

Look at $ydney's soft fixture and easy run home, combined with a relatively easy finals campaign in comparison to Hawthorn. The Hawks were in no doubt better prepared and the results showed.

That said, I would like to see $ydney get a similarly hard fixture and see how they handle it. But following their GF win in 2012 and still given a softer fixture, I still can't see this happening,. The AFL simply won't allow it.

 

[robs_drunk]

the only thing that matters is we will only play sides that have finished below us for the last two years.

It's good to be the king

 

[OhhhhhCyril]

Doesn't matter... We're good enough.

 

[Bayer_]

In hindsight it was the tough fixture that perhaps got us the flag......again. You've got to beat the better teams to be the best.

Look at $ydney's soft fixture and easy run home, combined with a relatively easy finals campaign in comparison to Hawthorn. The Hawks were in no doubt better prepared and the results showed.

That said, I would like to see $ydney get a similarly hard fixture and see how they handle it. But following their GF win in 2012 and still given a softer fixture, I still can't see this happening,. The AFL simply won't allow it.

Yes and no. My complaint wasn't so much with the teams/venues as the timing. It's quite obvious the AFL uses consecutive 6 day breaks to * us over. Just look at the away Sydney game. Monday>Sunday>Saturday>Friday>bye. In other words, they put us on a month of short breaks so the COLA Syds could win, with the bye following meaning we got no advantage of finally being on Friday (i.e. getting 7/8/9 day break). Similar happened at the end - Freo in Perth Sunday>Geelong Saturday>Collingwood (expected to be good this season) Friday>Finals.

They really are a putrid group of individuals at AFL House who handicap us in this way, but aren't man enough to admit what they're doing.

Makes it sweet as hell to wave the finger at them and say "* you, we're b2b bitches!"

 

[Hawkk]

I want a difficult fixture, it tests us against the best and provides us with an opportunity to play in exciting games in front of massive crowds

I don't want to see us play Melbourne, W Bulldogs, GWS and St Kilda twice its as boring as watching paint dry...

 

[Matt Stevic]

I want a difficult fixture, it tests us against the best and provides us with an opportunity to play in exciting games in front of massive crowds

I don't want to see us play Melbourne, W Bulldogs, GWS and St Kilda twice its as boring as watching paint dry...

Yep I agree. Maybe not quite 2013 difficult, but I was very happy with this years fixture.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Hoping for sumfin similar to what Cid-Ah-Nee copped in 2014!

 

[Crankyhawk]

23 6 day games in a row
Only team in the comp with no bye for the season
Gerard Healy makes a voodoo doll (aka a Hawks plush toy) and sticks pins in it
Have to play with 1 arm tied behind their backs

Hawthorn still find a way to win

No bye means chance for 2 more wins. I'd take it, can play depth vs saints and demons.

 

[Bikefreak]

23 6 day games in a row
Only team in the comp with no bye for the season
Gerard Healy makes a voodoo doll (aka a Hawks plush toy) and sticks pins in it
Have to play with 1 arm tied behind their backs

Hawthorn still find a way to win

Its part of the AFL's equalisation policy.

 

[Hawk Dork]

$ydney season bookended by two horrible losses.

You can guarantee the AFL will start ramping up the consecutive 6 day breaks for GWS to give the $wans a chance of a close tussle,in order to manufacture a rivalry.

 

[Fluro Boots]

I'd like us to just play Sydney - Geelong- Essendon on a permanent loop

 

[Glasgow Hawk]

In all seriousness I think we are going to get reamed hard this year, we wont play gold coast or collingwood twice as they don't match us.
Port, Sydney, Fremantle and Geelong x 2 are certainties
2 x North Melbourne will be likely and it will be played in Tassie (which is good for us).

These are the sides that finished 7-12.
Essendon, Richmond, West Coast, Adelaide, Collingwood & Gold Coast.
We are most likely to get Collingwood twice and possibly West Coast (assuming we get the max 2 in the 7-12 bracket) and then Adelaide & Gold Coast away!! In all probability, we will get the draw from hell next year.

 

[luciien]

Knowing the love and appreciation we have from AFL house, I imagine we will have Sydney, Port, Geelong, Richmond & Freo twice. Would be nice to play eesendon at the MCG, and Brisbane in Brisbane, but both never seem to occur.

 

[BOP66]

Don't know if this has been posted yet, but bet you London to a brick that we''l have a rd.23 away game in either Perth or Qld!
& probably coming off a 6 day break to boot!
Bring it on Gilligan as Pat sang- hit us with your best shot.

 

[rdhopkins2]

Pencil in 30 October folks in your diary for the all important AFL Fixture Release Day for 2015.

 

[Roddy]

Do you think a miracle will happen and we'll get two games against Carlton? 2 against them and 2 against the Pies is 16 premierhip points in the bank...

 

[walhawk]

No bye means chance for 2 more wins. I'd take it, can play depth vs saints and demons.

Byes or no byes season is still 22 matches.

 

[spudmaster]

No bye means chance for 2 more wins. I'd take it, can play depth vs saints and demons.

And Sydney

 

[MoscowHawk]

We play a home game in Moscow, followed 6 days later with a game on the kitty litter at ANZ stadium.

I'd be thrilled! Haven't seen the Hawks live since 2001!

 

[walhawk]

So, any leaks?
Is all we know
Round 1 Mon 6/4 3.20pm Hawks v Cats (MCG)?

 

[threesixpio]

Playing the Bombers in the early rounds? Who will get the free four point games against VFL players and rookies?

 

[Dewnior]

haha, Cats will be so pissed if we get to unfurl the flag in R1

 

[stemline]

So, any leaks?
Is all we know
Round 1 Mon 6/4 3.20pm Hawks v Cats (MCG)?

This year started 22/3...
6/4 would probably be rnd 3.