Recent content by Hawker55

Turning that around, a lot of interstate teams finish top 4 because of home ground advantage. Swings and roundabouts and all that.

People forget the main reason we are Chol's third club is he doesn't get along with Dimma.

Having this commentary team doesn’t help. Darcy is a deadset dickhead and part of that Dogs culture that won * all. Jobe hates us because we took back the Brownlow he cheated for. Shaun and Campbell are ok but hardly A graders

Umpire was 30 metres away and behind him to call that. It was a guess. This is one of the worst umpiring performances I’ve ever seen.

He’s trying too hard against his old team. He’s been sticking them so far this season.

This is terrible play. Senior players need to stand up - they’re the ones letting us down. Ward doing ok.

Wiz standing next to Lewis in the Cats game was absolutely ridiculous.

This is where 2017-2020 has killed us. We traded for B+ talent (and I'd probably put Mitchell in that category as well tbh) instead of genuine A graders and it hurt us. We still had a serviceable team, especially 17/18 and if we'd taken our medicine and accepted we'd be lower reaches of the...

If you applied that standard to some of the people in there now it'd be interesting. Leigh Matthews king hit a bloke on the field of play and nearly caused a riot. Ted Whitten has more skeletons than people realise - just for two. I find people comparing Clarko and Hardwick to Ablett Snr...

There was one point in the first I think where he tried to hit a 20 metre chip kick to a free man on half forward in the middle of the ground and with his left (with an incredibly clunky kicking action) hit it straight at the Pies player in between them. If it was a one off that's fine but he...

Has his kicking gone backwards? I love that he can tag and he can certainly play a role - but someone like Shiels for example started as a tagger and then progressed as he learnt the patterns and improved his disposal. I want Finn to be best 22 as he has a killer tank and having someone who...

I can't think of any other than Nick Daicos.

Yeah he's looked undercooked. As well I think we all thought Chol was recruited to be the stay at home forward freeing Lewis up to go up the ground - the way it's worked out is just the opposite. Chol's workrate is great and he's getting up the wings then running back and I think it's...

Also - give Mackenzie another preseason and he will be an absolute jet. He’s shown a lot this year, just needs the extra muscle and physicality. Did anyone see Worps give the don’t argue to two Pies one after another in the 3rd? Moving Mitchell on has been the best thing we ever did in the Sam...

Positive: Weddle didn’t get his weekly “take possession and bounce the ball for no reason and get done for holding” that he usually does. I coached my U8s out of bouncing the ball, god knows why he still does it randomly.