Review Cats get home in another RIVALRY thriller by 7 points.

[OddYears]

Some huge moments in the dying minutes. Mannagh, danger, SDK, jezza in the backline. What a win

 

[Zouz Kitty]

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/thre...-apr-21-2025-3-20pm-mcg.1394832/post-87615302

A metaphor? We did, finally on them

 

[OddYears]

I'm still seething with the gutter dog act from Nash.

Standard hawthorn stuff

 

[STPer18]

Awesome stuff. That clown who clobbered Messi can HOK off!

 

[MacStradbroke]

Will be a very tough review for a few players but great team effort to hang on, on very tired legs.

Thought Bowes was solid down back and may have found a spot. Didn’t deviate once where quite a few did (some numerous times).

 

[Cataholic]

Standard hawthorn stuff

Yeah, not sure why its surprised me.

 

[Footy_Fan2007]

Love beating those sniping dirty pigs. **** yeah

 

[frggr]

Mannagh was unreal - defensive, offensive - he was everywhere

 

[catscratchfever]

It's times like these that remind me how much I FORKIN HATE DAWKTHORN.

 

[thegerman]

Some things today totally irritating. Some just don’t want contact at all and some do the impulsive things for self glory other than team work.

Good to see Miers in the team huddle singing the song.

What I liked:

• Smith and Holmes first half was great.
• resisting the urge to put Danger in the mid
• Neale I thought had some bigger impact late with some big grabs.
• Forward pressure was good for the most part.
• Defence held up well.
• Tommy effing Atkins.

What I didn’t like:

• Rushing forward at times was ordinary.
• a lot of softness around the edges.
• selfishness crept in the forward line.
• some underperforming badly.

 

[thegerman]

Mannagh was unreal - defensive, offensive - he was everywhere

Just got to get him to understand teamwork wins. Some selfishness out there

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Felt like we slipped on a banana peel that game, but then the Hawks slipped on two.

If you look at the games the opposing captains played

Patrick F Dangerfield

James Sicilly

 

[Interdimensional Bigfoot]

We've got some work to do, but we'll take the win. Bit of an ugly game from Hawks and we probably got lucky. Danger still our best player.

 

[smotherking]

Haven’t seen the replay cuz there was none in the ground but looking at how miers walked off surely Nash gets weeks

 

[JeffM]

Felt like we slipped on a banana peel that game, but then the Hawks slipped on two.

Only for us to slip on three only for the Hawks to come across four to slide on.

It was one of those type of games which had plenty of drama but wasn’t the best showcase of skills.

 

[Mad_Hatter]

These wins when we have so many players barely impacting or having really negative games are huge for our season and show a fair bit of mongrel and character.
Guys like Neale, COS, Mannagh, even OH all had some really really poor efforts or plays, and all of them had some positive moments that ended up potentially being the difference.
Mannagh of course more positive than the others but the point still stands.

 

[geelong_crazy26]

And I'm happy to keep saying it - he's 26 games into his senior career, he'll make mistakes, he'll have quiet games & quiet periods within games but we're also seeing he'll have those big moments

He did it in the last quarter against Freo in round 1, and we saw some more big moments in the last tonight

He's a work in progress and as long as we keep seeing these steps he's taking, I'm looking forward to watching his development

He had 8 touches 1 behind and 5 marks. These standards se for neale are incredibly low by some fans

 

[catsfootyfan89]

Still struggling to work out how we won that game. We looked dead in the water for about 40 minutes of footy...

The one positive to take from that is we found a way to win despite a pretty terrible performance.

Really glad Mannagh redeemed himself with that last goal.

 

[StonedCat]

WEKILLTDEMFARKING !!!

 

[Art Vandelay_]

FWIW for those that watched on TV.
Hawthorn fans. Grown adults... Actually go to the footy in Wizards hats.

 

[Cats_R_Cool_4_Ever]

Our forwards were superb in the last few minutes to get the winning goal. Danger still looking like he’s playing some of his best football in his career and he’s 35. Impressive.

Hope Miers is okay, was nice to see him in the circle singing with all the boys.

 

[winty]

In another example of how Champion Data rating points mean 4/5ths of SFA, Hawthorn had the 5 best players on the ground, and 7 of the top 8, yet still lost.

 

[Pivo]

So FurBall IS better than HokBall

 

[MacStradbroke]

Atkins elite again!! Especially late when gut running appeared too hard for some, he was still chasing his arse off. I always thought Ling got the most out of his career I have seen, Atkins is similar

 

[Schmegg]

Good win, I’m at an age where wins against hawthorn give me a sense of joy that can only be replaced by finals and grand finals.

Ollie Henry, geez think he needs to take some time and get some form, he’s not adding any real value outside of being a decoy and being out marked by his opponent.

Felt smith and Holmes were really good, and the flow from defense to attack is better than the start of the year. Wasn’t a very high possession game.

We suffered for a long time by bombing it forward and letting hawthorn mark at will inside our F50.

Stengle looked a lot better today, our smalls ran both ways, we are probably just an inside bull away from being a really great side again.

Still 4-2 after the first six rounds, gives us some sort of platform to work with.