Good mate of mine is a Hawks supporter who observes that Hawthorn is vulnerable to Geelong and Sydney pressure.
Why not ours?
In Rd 3, Hawks ran riot through the corridor like a thundering herd of gazelles on the Kenyan savanna, as any Hawk with the footy in hand had one or two teammates running alongside to handball to, or someone ahead to kick to. Different sport analogy, but they looked like the '80s "Showtime" Lakers in the NBA wiping the floor with the talented, but
flatfooted Celtics.
Granted, we were already without Barlow and Fyfe and Mayne, Ibbo and Son-Son all went down with injuries, but still.
Oh and I definitely see the merits of other posters who rate the home loss to North as a worse defeat than getting poleaxed by Hawthorn. I also was livid, considering we held the Roos last year to 29 points. But y'know Coach Lyon's mantra: "The past counts for nothing."
Still see Hawthorn loss as worse, as we had a chance to show the world we could hang with and beat those guys. Hope we get our hurt boys back for late-season matches against them and Port, are in ripping form and beat them so badly they'll answer "Freo!" when we ask 'em, "who's your daddy?!"