What was your highlight of the 2014 GF?

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i had a dude high fiving everybody around him after every goal...there was 21 goals and i have to say each one was magical....langers freak goal is by far the best though...everybody played well though.....
Were you on the 4th level behind the city end goals? There was a bloke in front of me dishing out the high fives to everyone in reach.

Great day, great crowd and fantastic result.
 
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I reckon that for Taylor D., his run with five bounces, then kick, pushed over, free kick paid downfield to Roughhead, goal, would be a highlight he will never forget.

I'm actually really glad he had some sort of impact in the game. It would be hard for him to enjoy his first gf only playing 20 odd minutes. But for him to have the same or more possessions than 8 swans(sub inc.) would have made him feel he contributed.
 

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Beating Sydney by the biggest margin that they have lost by since rd.7 2010 (67pt to Geelong) and before that rd.12 2003 (72pt loss to Port Adelaide).
 

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My two highlights were, in order, Mike Fitzpatrick's crestfallen demeanour after the game. His sorrow was palpable. The head pig in the rancid house of AFL yearned for a Sydney win and for Goodes to get the Norm Smith.
Sorry it didn't happen, AFL.....sorry.
Secondly it was a thrill to reflect on the Clarkson era and the one for all attitude of the modern Hawthorn teams. And what a contrast to the rabble we removed: Dutchie Bolund, august specialist Dixon and the rest of the slag ends.
 

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Following that, I also really liked the booing of Goodes.
Very proud of all Hawthorn supporters who booed and very amused by the outrage of the left wing feminist media.
I am not sorry.
 
I'm actually really glad he had some sort of impact in the game. It would be hard for him to enjoy his first gf only playing 20 odd minutes. But for him to have the same or more possessions than 8 swans(sub inc.) would have made him feel he contributed.
20 mins & more possessions than 8 of their players - including a run of 5 bounces!
They would've offered him $8m for 7 yrs if the AFL hadn't shut them down...
 

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I suppose if I were to pick a single moment in the grand final that I had to select as a defining highlight, it was the passage of play where the umpire bounced the ball I think it was in the first qtr, somewhere around the 0 minute mark up until spangher was blocked just as that siren sounded with about 0 to go in the final qtr.
 
I suppose if I were to pick a single moment in the grand final that I had to select as a defining highlight, it was the passage of play where the umpire bounced the ball I think it was in the first qtr, somewhere around the 0 minute mark up until spangher was blocked just as that siren sounded with about 0 to go in the final qtr.
A very telling passage of play...!
 

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Every time I read a post I get the urge to watch it again. Should I do that, I could find myself homeless, such is the number of times it has been watched
Managed to watch it right through for just the third time today. My wife thought that was bad. Hanging for the Victory pack so I can get it on the big screen.

Favourite bit definitely the Roughy hit on Hannebery which led to the Gunston goal.

Also loved Lake making Buddy earn his marks with a gentle elbow rub to the ear a couple of times. Each time feigning complete innocence. Priceless.
 
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Managed to watch it right through for just the third time today. My wife thought that was bad. Hanging for the Victory pack so I can get it on the big screen.


The other half and I watched it again last night
Our kids: you can't be fekkin serious - you guys are obsessed and then proceeded to tell us we needed to get a life.

We reminded them that they were young adults and home on a Saturday night :D
 
Not the 'highlight' but something that made me smile & glow:

With 23 seconds to play in the 2nd Quarter, $ydney pump a ball long into the right Forward Pocket where the Buddy lurks. The Hawthorn player makes ground & body contact with Franklin, sending the ball out of bounds & both players to ground. Franklin immediately turns to the umpires, suggesting a free kick was warranted. The umpire signals for a throw-in & so Franklin looks to the Hawthorn player who is by now, fast approaching him. Enter: Luke Hodge...
Franklin fronts him, and Hodge, who by rights should flinch, instead advances. Hodge smiles that look that says: "I dare you to do something stupid..." (I really hope you do something stupid...). Franklin, in an instant, breaks into a knowing smile & embraces Hodgey with a right arm around his back.
= Acceptance of Defeat...

Whether Franklin appreciated that they were 42 points down & conceded the contest; or, whether he immediately acknowledged his True Captain & showed him the appropriate level of respect, I'll never know. But the look between the two is something I'll never forget.
 
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My excuse is "You never know when we'll win another one."

And I'm sticking to it.
 
My excuse is "You never know when we'll win another one."

And I'm sticking to it.

One of my uncles is a saints supporter - he just had his 80th - he hears what you are saying
 

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CouchPotato you are so lucky being paired up with a hawk you can enjoy the moment together, I have a blue bagger I'm married to and I'm getting death threats every time I even suggest watching the DVD.

In all seriousness though I am as drunk As a toad right now but f**k humility. A team with an average midfield and a susceptible defence to gorilla fwds just went B2B and as a hawthorn supporter/member I couldn't be prouder of what my football club achieved.

I've tried to be humble but right now I'm angry. Humility can wait.

18 teams, draft, hardest fixture in league, equalisation tax and B2B against the best list ever assembled and our boys just murdered them.

Bruest and roughy punishing hannebury.

Hodgey leading by example. Our leader, our captain, our warrior. Couldn't be more apt.

Mitchell the clearance king.

Lewis our new elite mid.

Bradley hill you are a star. A super, super star.

Isaac smith run and run and run till you can't no more.

Lake, Gibbo and Stratton the rocks.

Birch and burger the missile launchers from the backline.

Langford the new kid on the block performing miracles.

Suckling maligned but doing what is expected.

Gunston lol. 22 and a gun.

Hale I thought you were cooked but you somehow dug deep and played your part.

Duryea super sub.

Rioli you are the most special footballer. Your mere presence sends nerves through opposition players.

Shiels. Pup. Goes unnoticed but so important. He is the consummate professional.

Puopolo. The terrior. Big or small if you think you're getting the better of poppy you can GAGF.

McEvoy. Did what you had to. Contributed.



As a club we will never be liked. But those who don't respect what we have achieved since 1961 can GAGF.
 
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I Loved all the guys getting up on the fence near the cheer squad. Esp. the one of Clarko & Bolts-priceless.
This will be emulated by all the next premiers, just another thing we started.
Will be like when Pat Cash won Wimbledon & jumps up into the stand.
 
Not sure if someone has already posted this, but I was watching the game (again) and saw a Sydney player (Parker I think) throw his head up at the sky after Langford's goal from the pocket. Just a brief snippet (he was standing roughly between Langford and the goals when it happened), but it looked like he was utterly dejected. As in 'Oh Jesus, they can't be stopped. Not when they're kicking goals like that.'

Not my favourite highlight, but a highlight nonetheless. Really drove home to me what the Swans were feeling. That they were metaphorical leaves being swept away before a flood of brown and gold ;) Take a look!
 
This one has just been pointed out to me. That is the best season, in terms of H & A wins, that the Swans have ever had.

And there is a great big, Hawthorn-sized exclamation mark that finishes that season.
 

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There was a moment during the 1st Quarter when the cameras went on Longmire. The look on his face was like..."* ! We are in real trouble !"
 

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