- Jun 7, 2015
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So here we are, Sir Douglas Nicholls round, sitting idly in front of our devices waiting to watch a team we have supported for many days, months, years or decades play a team that could be considered a successful spawn of our own making.
Clearly Hawthorn would be nothing without the coach we gave them, the superstar forward we gave them, and the other two indigenous players we gave them.
Now they all get to come home and kick our ass. Or do they?
Hawthorn are a strange Frankenstein of a team, they are the Canberra of the AFL, its very hard to find anyone who was born in Canberra, in the same way its very difficult to find anyone that was drafted by Hawthorn who actually plays for them.
However, on this occasion Hawthorn have 8 players with less than 50 games, and we have 5.
Both sides have 4 players with 50-99 games.
We have one more player in the 100-149 game sweet spot.
And we have 9 players with 150+ games, and they have 7.
I had the perception that they were the older side, but no, on average they are 10 months younger than us and have played 18 games less than us.
We welcome back Mr Bonner to replace the recalcitrant Mr Houston.
Motlop has been named on the wing to replace Duursma.
Westhoff has been named at CHF (yeh right) kind of replacing Mr Ladhams.
Its good to see the Brad back replacing Mr Farrell, even though I have this nagging doubt as to whether Brad should keep playing.
Its seems as if Ken is giving all the senior players a run. Perhaps its seniors week?
So who will come back to our best 22 for the f... , the f... , your know, the stuff that we used to play after the minor round.
I dare not say the word in case we find some new and interesting way to mess things up.
Duursma, Rozee, Burton and Marshall when fit, fresh and in form could all arguably be in that best 22, so there is pressure on spots.
You may think I left two off this list accidently, yeh nah.
Apparently Hawthorn have a lot of injuries, but they seem to have no more best 22 players out then we do.
The named side:
Interchange:
Mayes, Lienert, Georgiades, Woodcock
Cousins, Scully, Hanrahan, Shiels
Emergencies:
Drew, Farrell, Sutcliffe, Bergman
Nash, Morrison, Minchington, Lewis
Recent history (thanks to footywire)
As much as I know it will come back to bite me, here are Hawthorn's ranking for 2020:
And here is ours...
So what will happen, will we go from tiger killer to cat bitch back to hawk slayer?
We should win, but as Macca19 eloquently put it, we all how how this one ends, i.e. Wingard kicking a goal after the siren to win the game.
Its either Port by 10 goals, Hawthorn by 3 points, or Hawthorn by 6 goals.
It should be a balmy 13 degrees at kickoff (feels like 5) with winds from the SW at about 37 km/h.
Most sides seem to favour kicking to the South end first, will someone Cotchin this one up?
I'm expecting a huge margin at quarter time, I'm just not sure which way.
Never written a preview before, and with the shitty week its been going from the Geelong game to Ladhams loungeroom I'm not sure why I'm even doing this, but I'll of course watch the game and hope for dominant Port play. I don't think I'm too concerned with the final score, I'm more interested in how we play this game.
Will the intensity be back, or will our players be in holiday (we've got 5 easy games now) mode.
By the end of the day, we will know.
Here is some footage of what is arguably the worlds most dangerous downhill skiiing.
Pfft, you think that is downhill skiing, wait until 4:00pm today...
Clearly Hawthorn would be nothing without the coach we gave them, the superstar forward we gave them, and the other two indigenous players we gave them.
Now they all get to come home and kick our ass. Or do they?
Hawthorn are a strange Frankenstein of a team, they are the Canberra of the AFL, its very hard to find anyone who was born in Canberra, in the same way its very difficult to find anyone that was drafted by Hawthorn who actually plays for them.
However, on this occasion Hawthorn have 8 players with less than 50 games, and we have 5.
Both sides have 4 players with 50-99 games.
We have one more player in the 100-149 game sweet spot.
And we have 9 players with 150+ games, and they have 7.
I had the perception that they were the older side, but no, on average they are 10 months younger than us and have played 18 games less than us.
We welcome back Mr Bonner to replace the recalcitrant Mr Houston.
Motlop has been named on the wing to replace Duursma.
Westhoff has been named at CHF (yeh right) kind of replacing Mr Ladhams.
Its good to see the Brad back replacing Mr Farrell, even though I have this nagging doubt as to whether Brad should keep playing.
Its seems as if Ken is giving all the senior players a run. Perhaps its seniors week?
So who will come back to our best 22 for the f... , the f... , your know, the stuff that we used to play after the minor round.
I dare not say the word in case we find some new and interesting way to mess things up.
Duursma, Rozee, Burton and Marshall when fit, fresh and in form could all arguably be in that best 22, so there is pressure on spots.
You may think I left two off this list accidently, yeh nah.
Apparently Hawthorn have a lot of injuries, but they seem to have no more best 22 players out then we do.
| Will Golds | Knee | Season |
| Ricky Henderson | Knee | 2 weeks |
| Harry Jones | Knee | 4-6 weeks |
| Jaeger O'Meara | Hand | 1-2 weeks |
| James Sicily | Knee | Season |
| Isaac Smith | Shoulder | TBC |
The named side:
| FB | R Bonner | T Clurey | T McKenzie |
| FF | J Impey | T O'Brien | S Burgoyne |
| HB | H Hartlett | T Jonas | D B-Jones |
| HF | J Patton | L Breust | C Wingard |
| C | S Motlop | O Wines | K Amon |
| C | C Jiath | D Howe | J Scrimshaw |
| HF | S P-Pepper | J Westhoff | B Ebert |
| HB | W Day | S Frost | B Stratton |
| FF | Z Butters | C Dixon | R Gray |
| FB | B Hardwick | M Hartley | C Glass |
| Fol | S Lycett | T Rockliff | T Boak |
| Fol | B McEvoy | J Worpel | T Mitchell |
Interchange:
Mayes, Lienert, Georgiades, Woodcock
Cousins, Scully, Hanrahan, Shiels
Emergencies:
Drew, Farrell, Sutcliffe, Bergman
Nash, Morrison, Minchington, Lewis
Recent history (thanks to footywire)
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As much as I know it will come back to bite me, here are Hawthorn's ranking for 2020:
And here is ours...
So what will happen, will we go from tiger killer to cat bitch back to hawk slayer?
We should win, but as Macca19 eloquently put it, we all how how this one ends, i.e. Wingard kicking a goal after the siren to win the game.
Its either Port by 10 goals, Hawthorn by 3 points, or Hawthorn by 6 goals.
It should be a balmy 13 degrees at kickoff (feels like 5) with winds from the SW at about 37 km/h.
Most sides seem to favour kicking to the South end first, will someone Cotchin this one up?
I'm expecting a huge margin at quarter time, I'm just not sure which way.
Never written a preview before, and with the shitty week its been going from the Geelong game to Ladhams loungeroom I'm not sure why I'm even doing this, but I'll of course watch the game and hope for dominant Port play. I don't think I'm too concerned with the final score, I'm more interested in how we play this game.
Will the intensity be back, or will our players be in holiday (we've got 5 easy games now) mode.
By the end of the day, we will know.
Here is some footage of what is arguably the worlds most dangerous downhill skiiing.
Pfft, you think that is downhill skiing, wait until 4:00pm today...
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