Preview Rd 6 Geelong V Hawthorn - THE Rivalry - Monday Apr 21 2025 3:20pm @ MCG

[BotsMaster]

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The Hawks are the media darlings at the moment so winning on Monday will mean beating the media as well

 

[Commando]

Coming from an Essendon family we hate Hawthorn like they hate Essendon

Got us/them in GFs & PFs

 

[iameviljez]

Chris Scott usually features one of the up & coming young'uns in big marquee games at the G. A kind of initiation by fire..

I predict Oli Wiltshire will debut. He's had his puff piece by Cats Media

I can't see anyone dropping out the side after that performance, despite the Neale and Henry pitchforks.

 

[iameviljez]

The Hawks are the media darlings at the moment so winning on Monday will mean beating the media as well

Errrrrmmm are you watching Port vs Hawthorn right now?

 

[Commando]

These are all doing the rounds

 

[BotsMaster]

Errrrrmmm are you watching Port vs Hawthorn right now?

I am. Enjoying it very much

 

[standupand]

I can't see anyone dropping out the side after that performance, despite the Neale and Henry pitchforks.

It wouldn't be a Geelong game without a late out for something like measles.

 

[Vdubs]

Errrrrmmm are you watching Port vs Hawthorn right now?

they are creeping back into it

 

[Art Vandelay_]

It's time. Obligatory Hawks gif time.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

they are creeping back into it

They're shit is what they are.

 

[Shell]

I guess it's a rivalry.

But I've never hated them.
If you're both good, you're both good. You cant hate that.

Yeah tbh I don't really care that much


I hate Essendon

 

[sleep]

Coming from an Essendon family we hate Hawthorn like they hate Essendon

Got us/them in GFs & PFs

They dont hate Essendon. Thats a beat up from Derm.

They only hate Geelong and we hate them.

 

[Zouz Kitty]

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The Hawks are the media darlings at the moment so winning on Monday will mean beating the media as well

Enjoyed SDK running forward + two goals
Jezza needs to have the passion from that game next week
Close + Holmes to have massive impact next week
Miers to lift, as the team barometer
Stewart led Disposals with 26 last year, will he return next week
Bowes, Dempsey, SDK + Mannagh in Top 5 for Disposals
Mannagh
Disposals 20
Tackles 14

Hoping they improve on last year’s effort, which they could, considering wins against Freo ️, Meltdown + Crows

 

[lettheboysplay]

I dislike everything about them, their attitude, their attire, I have a six sense to identify their supporters in the wild. Never met a Hawthorn supporter that lacked the selfish, narcissistic gene. Both players and supporter carry a level of entitement can't even be matched by European football clubs owned by oligarchs or the investment vehicles of Middle Eastern dictatorships. I morn their successes and cheer their failures.

I love this, and agree with every word of this petty diatribe. Delicious.

 

[Zouz Kitty]

I dislike everything about them, their attitude, their attire, I have a six sense to identify their supporters in the wild. Never met a Hawthorn supporter that lacked the selfish, narcissistic gene. Both players and supporter carry a level of entitement can't even be matched by European football clubs owned by oligarchs or the investment vehicles of Middle Eastern dictatorships. I morn their successes and cheer their failures.

 

[Commando]

They dont hate Essendon. Thats a beat up from Derm.

They only hate Geelong and we hate them.

Not sure what circles you mix in, definitely exists in my area

 

[Baudolino]

I dislike everything about them, their attitude, their attire, I have a six sense to identify their supporters in the wild. Never met a Hawthorn supporter that lacked the selfish, narcissistic gene. Both players and supporter carry a level of entitement can't even be matched by European football clubs owned by oligarchs or the investment vehicles of Middle Eastern dictatorships. I morn their successes and cheer their failures.

Think I'm going to have print this out and frame it. What a beautifully written post.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Hopefully In: Stewart, Kolo. Get those two in and they won't kick a winning score.

 

[Baudolino]

Hopefully In: Stewart, Kolo. Get those two in and they won't kick a winning score.

Isn't Kolo still weeks away?

 

[catters05]

Just killemfarken

 

[winty]

Fun fact: We've won the last 3 games against the Hawks by an average of 56 points.

Long may it continue.

 

[cats_09]

Isn't Kolo still weeks away?

By the time Easter Monday rolls around, it'll be the best part of 8 weeks since our clash with Essendon which is when he last played

Thinking a week or two in the VFL will be the starting point of his return

 

[My Tilly]

 

[Zouz Kitty]

Well seeing the thread title has got Rivalry in it , and that started in 63 not 89

Who was good to watch from them , well Peter Hudson because he was so clever , great football brain , and the other Peter - Knights who could be equally good at CHF - where i saw him play a game at KP early 80s which Geel won and he played a ripping game . Darren Jarman of course and Tuck was also very good , and could kick booming torps

Couldnt understand the earlier poster who said he was envious of Rich , Coll circa 80s but not envious of Hawthorn , but the Hawks lap those 2 clubs for flags

The 11 wins in a row were thing of beauty and absolute joy ( and some of those wins must have caused heart break for Haw ) because prior to that Haw piled absolute misery on Geel for decades , and there was a little patch their around say 95 to 99 , where Haw continually beat Geel narrowly at KP , and was there a worse sight at the final siren , smiling Haw supporters with their scarves on , i will give them one bit of credit , they looked well educated , University lecturers and Stock Broker types ( no rough as guts Rich barracking fork lift driver types amongst them ) , and they would look at us losing Geel supporters like we were peasants .

Well seeing the thread title has got Rivalry in it , and that started in 63 not 89

Who was good to watch from them , well Peter Hudson because he was so clever , great football brain , and the other Peter - Knights who could be equally good at CHF - where i saw him play a game at KP early 80s which Geel won and he played a ripping game . Darren Jarman of course and Tuck was also very good , and could kick booming torps

Couldnt understand the earlier poster who said he was envious of Rich , Coll circa 80s but not envious of Hawthorn , but the Hawks lap those 2 clubs for flags

The 11 wins in a row were thing of beauty and absolute joy ( and some of those wins must have caused heart break for Haw ) because prior to that Haw piled absolute misery on Geel for decades , and there was a little patch their around say 95 to 99 , where Haw continually beat Geel narrowly at KP , and was there a worse sight at the final siren , smiling Haw supporters with their scarves on , i will give them one bit of credit , they looked well educated , University lecturers and Stock Broker types ( no rough as guts Rich barracking fork lift driver types amongst them ) , and they would look at us losing Geel supporters like we were peasants .

Excellent post Goggin

Two goals to you in 1963.

Bobby Davis:
“After the Cats' important win at Glenferrie, coach Bob Davis, when asked by a reporter what he thought of Hawthorn, called them "the roughest, dirtiest side that [he] had ever seen" and that "Any time they want to play football, we'll give them a hiding". Davis later admitted he didn't care what he said at the time.”
John Kennedy Sr too great offence at Bobby’s comments.

I reckon that’s how the rivalry began.

Rivalry intensified when Hawks beat us in 2008 Grand Final.

Jeff Kennett stated:
“What they don't have, I think, is the quality of some of our players; they don't have the psychological drive we have. We've beaten Geelong when it matters.”

A bit of history about the Kennett Curse, for some of the young members:
“following the upset Grand Final loss, Geelong players made a private pact, which was later made public by Chappy, to never again lose to Hawthorn. Following Kennett's comments, Geelong won the match in Round 1, 2009, + proceeded to defeat Hawthorn in eleven successive matches: a run that included a number of close games and come-from-behind victories that seemed to highlight the existence of the so-called 'curse'. During this 11-game run, Geelong won two Premierships, one in 2009 + another in 2011 which included a 31-point Qualifying Final win over Hawthorn.”

cats_09 posted of the great games during the Curse.

As did Geelong:
Five Iconic Geelong and Hawthorn Games

The only live game I saw during the era of the Curse was the 2013 First Preliminary Final

Anhhooo, enough history.

On with the show

 

[Pure_Ownage]

I can't see anyone dropping out the side after that performance, despite the Neale and Henry pitchforks.

The only question will be whether Stanley can back up again (10 day break will help) and what we do with the ruck setup otherwise but I would expect we remain unchanged asides from Stewart for clohesy.