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This is so true. And so evident decades on in everything you read, watch and listen to. Mental scarring that is forever present. The good things is, our club is inflicting another dose and a further generation of scarring.I LOVE this current era, enjoying each and every living second of it. But the 70s and 80s Hawks left mental scars on other teams, players and supporters that are still being felt today.
This...
The comparison is excellent...
1971 is 2008 (the start of the dynasty)
1974 is 2011
1975 is 2012 (huge favourites)
1976 is 2013
1978 is hopefully 2014 or 2015
The 1970's is a greatly underrated era for Hawthorn,obviously overshaddowed by our 80's success. For most other clubs it would have grounds to be considered a glory era in its own right
John Kennedy Senior will always be our greatest coach. Always.A more pertinent question is whether another flag would place Clarkson as our greatest ever coach.
This is especially relevant if he becomes the first coach to guide us to back to back flags
Guess this means Tom Harley's being groomed as the next Gerard Healy.This is so true. And so evident decades on in everything you read, watch and listen to. Mental scarring that is forever present. The good things is, our club is inflicting another dose and a further generation of scarring.
John Kennedy Senior will always be our greatest coach. Always.
^ That forward line. Oh wow. Chuck Buddy on the bench and we'd kick 200 points every game
Yep...if only the rest of the team had of tried as hard as Buddy did..We should be going for one this year.
Brilliant synopsis HAWKK....A scarily eerie carbon copy there almost!....Does that mean we are destined for 3rd this year & to atone in 2015?
The 70's is still my favorite era, as its the era of my childhood....With Matthews, Knights & Tuck all at their peak!....Other greats included Kel Moore at fullback, Big Al Martello at CHF, 'Gladys' Moncrieff at Full Forward (Much underrated still to this day!) 'Racehorse' Ablett & 'Rocket' Eade on the wings. 'Bomber' Hendrie as the gun half forward....Donald Scott in da ruck, 'Rubber' O'Halloran & Ian Bremner as 'Boy' Knightsy's able lieutenants down back....It was wonderful!...The brand of footy & the game's characters were brilliant too!...Even the footy cards were better in those days, with a jigsaw picture of scenes from the previous years Grand Final on the back. You even got a free stick of scanlens pink gum, which left a lasting smell on the cards inside..
Interesting fact: Of the 16 Finals we played in the 70's, 10 were against North Melbourne....Little wonder then why they were our main rivals of the era!
The 80's was merely all gravy to me....A gluttonous, cream-filled, over-the-top, toffee dripping goo-fest; choc full of ice cream & cherries....Spoilt rotten!
Mmmmmm how good was the gum.
You know I still have all my footy cards back then.
Hope you have dispensed of the gum!
What a joke of a thread ..... We can't/barely beat Geelong
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Nifty little tidbit:
After 7 rounds (before the first lot of byes) we not only have the highest points scored, but also the lowest points against. Belting sides offensively whilst choking them defensively. Love it!
Mmmmmm how good was the gum.
Are we comparing performances or the actual team vs team? I recon if the best team from our golden era got in the DeLorean and traveled to today to face our current best team, todays team would destroy them.
The game is totally different these days and it's harder to come by flags. Too hard to compare.
Interesting.....
Mitch the Center over Plough.
B: Burgoyne Langford Ayres
HB: Birch Mew Gibson
C: Dipper Mitchell Hill
HF: Bucky Brereton Cyril
F: Rough Dunstall Gunston
Foll: ? Hodge Platten
Coach: Jeans
We might be softer than our 80s team. But they couldn't get get away with these days either. I still recon our current team would win easily if matched up against our best 80s team. They wouldn't be able to keep up with the pace and compete against the structures in place these days.Not so sure about that squire.....Derm, Dipper & Ayres would frighten the begeezus out of most of our current crop!....Hell, most of them go missing against the Cats, hate to see them against true toughness & hard grit!
Also, while we are at it, if Scotty, Barney, Derm, Dipper & Ayres were playing the Cats, then you can be damn sure that Selwood, Johnson & Bartel would not have left the field of their own volition in half those games & the result would be the other way dear chap.....You can take that to the bank!
This current crop by comparison with the 70's & 80's are a pack of soft utensils!