Toast Welcome to Hawthorn, Finn Maginness “absolute Hawthorn nuffie” and a Hawk to 2025

[Hawks1994]

Was brilliant when Oliver lost it at quarter time ……. Finn has won the contest as his man’s focus is not on their game. Love seeing the boys coming in to protect him because he will get under plenty of skin while doing his thing. Best tagger in the game!

Quite reminiscent of Ryan Crowley I feel. Hawthorn games are beginning to look ominous for opposition key players as the thought of having Finn hanging around all day is just too much to handle. They become focussed on Finn, our best players take charge and wins follow

 

[chopflop]

Elite body checking in the contest. He is just moving prime mids off the line of the ball and giving the space for our mids to hunt it. It's quite brilliant as a tactic. Goodwin is a degenerate and a moron. Keep going Finn

 

[Billyc]

The prevailing view from senior coaches for several years has been that successful sides do not play a full time tagger. While we are not a successful side (yet), Mitchell and Finn are challenging that view, because a player who can shut out players the calibre of Daicos and Oliver can be very effective. His ability to play on both outside creators and inside bulls makes him very valuable. It's going to be really fascinating to see how this unfolds over the next few years. Massive credit to how he has applied himself in the back half of this season. His discipline is terrific and despite being a pure stopper, there is nothing dirty or untoward in the way that he is playing. He is playing a part in making us a side opponents do not like playing against.

 

[HappyHawk_1]

Nothing better than seeing other teams chuck tantrums because they find it difficult to play us…

Love the stuff Finn is doing - get that contract sorted pronto!

 

[peetoo]

Opponents crack it, but he attends hardly any centre bounces

 

[Sixpence]

You know you're doing something right, when you're not just getting under your direct opponent's skin, but his coach's too!

EAD Goodwin!

 

[I got the outside word]

Oliver looked like he was having ‘withdrawal rage’. Finn really got to him.

 

[Coathanger]

He obviously got the margin wrong on the punt and was cranky.
Just a petty comment really.

 

[KeeperLeaguer]

Nothing better than seeing other teams chuck tantrums because they find it difficult to play us…

Love the stuff Finn is doing - get that contract sorted pronto!

Think it's done. Reportedly signing on for a further two years.

 

[SSSSSS]

Ball use whilst not exceptional is now reliable.

Used to have two or three major clangers a game. Can barely remember one in the last month.

 

[eldorado]

Ball use whilst not exceptional is now reliable.

Yep, I think there has been visible improvement in the second half of the year.

No longer has that "Uh oh! Hot potato!" look in his eyes when he gets the ball in his hands...

 

[TylerDurden]

100% ball use has improved.

 

[Qlder_19]

The prevailing view from senior coaches for several years has been that successful sides do not play a full time tagger. While we are not a successful side (yet), Mitchell and Finn are challenging that view, because a player who can shut out players the calibre of Daicos and Oliver can be very effective. His ability to play on both outside creators and inside bulls makes him very valuable. It's going to be really fascinating to see how this unfolds over the next few years. Massive credit to how he has applied himself in the back half of this season. His discipline is terrific and despite being a pure stopper, there is nothing dirty or untoward in the way that he is playing. He is playing a part in making us a side opponents do not like playing against.

As they say everything old is new again
Sam is just challenging everyone else step up or get left behind

 

[TylerDurden]

 

[Rushed_Behind]

Maybe the ball Oliver and Goodwin are interested in is an 8-ball.

 

[cryptor]

Would be great if the club could send Kane a 2024 membership pack. Obviously with Finn on the membership card.

 

[westhawk]

Never thought I would say this, but I am loving Kane this year. Has a lot of admiration for the way we are going about things.

Also, Simon Goodwin is a piece of s**t. Crap bloke all round.

 

[The Chad and I]

If you're a defender and you shutdown a forward, nobody says anything bad about you.
Might even win some plaudits.

Do the same thing as a midfielder...

Maginness plays a clean game.
He's got the tank, the strength and the discipline to shut them down, and they can't deal with it.
The best midfielders in the league have no answer.
It's quite an extraordinary collection of scalps he has taken.

 

[Billyc]

2 more years according to Tom Morris

Massive credit to a guy who was on the cusp mid season and has found a way to use his athletic strengths and discipline to carve out an effective AFL role.

Cornes’ comment about the lack of resilience in the modern midfielder is really interesting. Todays guns have gone their career without dealing with the hard tags.

 

[matey]

Goodwin was an absolute sook in his post match presser saying that Finn is a player that doesn’t want/play the ball. Ok so a big part of the game is getting the pill first …….. but keeping the ball from the opposition is also. No different to what Finn does to the best oppo players and I’m sure hypocrite Goodwin has never told his players to play keeping’s off at certain times during games NOT. Poor form having a cheap shot like that at Finn …… but having said that you know Finn must be doing a fine job

I reckon Mitch pulling Finn off Oliver was a bit of a strategic move for the future? ………. he knows he’s definitely got this up his sleeve when he needs it!

 

[The Spirit of Cricket]

if I were Finn I'd take Goodwins comment as a compliment. he towelled up Oliver so bad Clayton had to go and tell the coach on him haha

 

[Nugett]

Goodwin was an absolute sook in his post match presser saying that Finn is a player that doesn’t want/play the ball. Ok so a big part of the game is getting the pill first …….. but keeping the ball from the opposition is also. No different to what Finn does to the best oppo players and I’m sure hypocrite Goodwin has never told his players to play keeping’s off at certain times during games NOT. Poor form having a cheap shot like that at Finn …… but having said that you know Finn must be doing a fine job

I reckon Mitch pulling Finn off Oliver was a bit of a strategic move for the future? ………. he knows he’s definitely got this up his sleeve when he needs it!

I can imagine that Finn will be more attacking in the future, as we improve. then used to nullify a threat when he needs to.

 

[Dragz]

Cornes, as much as he drives sensationalist journalism to get the clicks, can certainly do a good level of analysis.

To be honest, he's someone I'd like doing analysis during matches. Tell us what the coaches and players are doing, make us aware of things they can do to change it up. AFL is sadly lacking at that sort of thing during a match.

He's certainly correct here too. Well done Finn, great job.

 

[CHUBBSS]

Can we send Finn cardboard lookalikes to goodwins house haha, living in his head rent free

 

[stevehawkington]

Kane must be a bigfooty lurker. Some of the words he spoke sounded like this thread before the show

Is kane.. the bigfooty rep in afl media???