Preview 2019 Season Opener v Hawthorn Pre-game Hype Thread

[hey shorty]

Gee, a future Champion Player having to wait for injuries .....West Coast go ultra tall ....I do hope you're right and it's a game by game situation, but that's not generally Don's MO

They do go tall, but their talls are more mobile bar Kennedy. Playing Tex, JJ and Fog in the same side doesn't fill me with confidence.

 

[hey shorty]

And will Greenwood come back in & for whom?

He will, as for who.... That's the tricky part.

 

[Scorpus]

He will, as for who.... That's the tricky part.

Hopefully Douglas

 

[hey shorty]

Hopefully Douglas

I'd say so, give it 2 or 3 weeks. Then HOPEFULLY Seeds for Davey Boy next week and then we are flat straps.

 

[Alwaysacrow]

Move Knight to a wing, Milera back to hbf, bring in one of McHenry/McAdam/Stengle for the forward role Knight leaves.

Knight is not a wingman, he's a forward pressure specialist who also rotates through the middle. The elite David MacKay was the perfect replacement for Seedsman...........Whoooa.........actually maybe I've had 1 too many beers.
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[WaynesWorld19]

Hopefully Douglas

Yes ....think Dougy is on shaky ground this year .....depends on whether Jones can hold his spot & how Murphy goes

I'd probably still go Dougy over Murphy .....but then we have McAdam (fingers crossed) and Ned developing

 

[Elite Crow]

Let’s not talk about surprise shitty selections in a thread about the game.....

 

[conVINCEd]

They do go tall, but their talls are more mobile bar Kennedy. Playing Tex, JJ and Fog in the same side doesn't fill me with confidence.

And certainly not when Lynch is down there too, providing zero defensive pressure.

 

[Alwaysacrow]

Wow! I'm so pumped for this game. I'm betting someone will OP the gameday thread at 12.01am. It won't be me as I'm working early tomorrow morning.
I usually hate tomorrow's time slot but it's perfect for me because of work, otherwise I'd be counting every second 'till the 1st bounce.
Go Crows kick arse.

 

[Mike Smyth]

44 players, 2 coaches + assistants, new midfield coach for us, game plans, matchups, new rules, debut first round draftee, ruck contests, speed....

But yeah nah, DMac.

Not really concerned about Dmac but i was looking forward to seeing Milera and Smith both rebounding off half back. Lets see how they both go on wings given they made a name for themselves off of a back flank.

Game 1 in our premiership year. Greatest sport on thd planet.

 

[Alwaysacrow]

44 players, 2 coaches + assistants, new midfield coach for us, game plans, matchups, new rules, debut first round draftee, ruck contests, speed....

But yeah nah, DMac.

I hope he doesn't play a blinder
( MacKay blinder), and kick 3 crucial goals again. We'll never get rid of him all year.

 

[AmericanCrow]

Alrighty, way I figure it we will pull away in the 4th to run out a victory.

 

[Vhaluus]

think this is going to be a low scoring affair somehow. Ugly grindy football.

 

[mulz]

Always nervous playing the hawks .Especially after our disaster at the G last year where we got killed in the middle. Dont want that happening with 666 rule.
Need a big game from Sauce

 

[pjcrows]

Always nervous playing the hawks .Especially after our disaster at the G last year where we got killed in the middle. Dont want that happening with 666 rule.
Need a big game from Sauce

Both teams look quite different from that particular game.

 

[Scorpus]

Changes compared to the last time we played Hawthorn:

Out: Gallucci, Greenwood, Seedsman, Gibson, Hartigan, Otten, Poholke, Wilson, Cheney
In: B. Crouch, Sloane, Laird, Smith, Lynch, Keath, Knight, Murphy, Jones

For Hawthorn:

Out: Mitchell, Brand, Burton, Duryea, Howe, Langford
In: Frawley, Mirra, Nash, Worpel, Scrimshaw, Cousins

 

[AmericanCrow]

I gotta think a fit Crouch, Sloane and a hopefully less burdened Texan will make the difference

 

[Scorpus]

I gotta think a fit Crouch, Sloane and a hopefully less burdened Texan will make the difference

I think it's more than that. We will have five of our 10 best players back in the team after they were missing last year.

Sloane, B. Crouch, Laird, Smith and Lynch (the remaining players in our top 10 being Walker, Gibbs, Talia, Betts and M. Crouch)

 

[BunjiMC]

Did anyone rejoice when Mackay was injured in the pre-season ?? Big difference between criticising a players performance on field, and injury trolling.

Yeah one is having a laugh the other is ongoing bullying of a player from your own team. Well done champ.

Huge difference between criticizing a player for being the statistically worst 200 game player of all time, and celebrating an injury

Same as above.

Nah I'm not angry, I find it ******* hilarious.

Peoples' attempts at justifying his inclusion are also just hilarious and often completely ridiculous. More sources of amusement

He has played 200 games under a number of different head coaches, and assistant coaches but your opinion of him is less laughable than the supporters agreeing with the coaching staff and selection group.

Get a grip.

I hope he doesn't play a blinder
( MacKay blinder), and kick 3 crucial goals again. We'll never get rid of him all year.

Yeah right. So you'd hate for one of our players to have a good game because you love the club too much. Get ****ed.

 

[arrowman]

think this is going to be a low scoring affair somehow. Ugly grindy football.

If it is, it will be Hawks wanting to slow it down - or on the other side, us with the frantic pressure to nullify their precision, possession style. I wouldn't mind the latter, that could actually be good to watch.

 

[Scorpus]

He has played 200 games under a number of different head coaches, and assistant coaches but your opinion of him is less laughable than the supporters agreeing with the coaching staff and selection group.

Get a grip.

Never really been persuaded but the argument that because the coaches select him, it must be the right decision.

I dunno, I guess I just don't think that because someone else makes a decision, that the decision is automatically right.

 

[AmericanCrow]

I think it's more than that. We will have five of our 10 best players back in the team after they were missing last year.

Sloane, B. Crouch, Laird, Smith and Lynch (the remaining players in our top 10 being Walker, Gibbs, Talia, Betts and M. Crouch)

Been a loooooong offseason, I had completely forgotten about Lynch

 

[BunjiMC]

Never really been persuaded but the argument that because the coaches select him, it must be the right decision.

I dunno, I guess I just don't think that because someone else makes a decision, that the decision is automatically right.

Agreed, but if those people make a lot of right decisions over a large period of time you have to back them in surely....?

 

[Scorpus]

Agreed, but if those people make a lot of right decisions over a large period of time you have to back them in surely....?

I think each decision should be evaluated on its merits

 

[Elite Crow]

Never really been persuaded but the argument that because the coaches select him, it must be the right decision.

I dunno, I guess I just don't think that because someone else makes a decision, that the decision is automatically right.

The coaches select him then don’t rate his games, they score him poorly in the B&F and except for last year when we had injuries they drop him yearly.

And the thing is with being a senior player and being dropped, you don’t get dropped after one poor game, it’s a run of poor games before you get dropped.

Plus it’s worse than that, Mackay has made a career out of playing 3-4 good games a year, spread out generally in the first half of the year, this hides his shitty ganes in between and then a poor run sees him dropped. So in anyone year, over half his games are crap. Way to get to 200 games.

As for being bullied, I think someone needs to get a grip. Unless Mackay chooses to read this forum he wouldn’t have a clue and if he chooses to read it he’s an idiot.