Good luck this weekend!

[Philhawk]

In all seriousness, banter aside, good luck this Sunday guys. I sense this match could mark the beginning of something special between our two, young, exciting clubs. This season, I’ll be the first to admit that in the Pre-Season, I expected Collingwood to be around the 8-12 mark. Instead, they’ve proven me dead wrong!

I’ve been particularly impressed this season with Collingwood's ability to cover for injuries during the year - not to mention the exciting progress of some of your youngsters in Pendlebury, Thomas, Goldsack and particularly, young Travis Cloke. If he can shake his kicking yips, he’ll be kicking a bag in every match he plays sooner rather than later.

It’s going to be a great contest, the extremely disciplined yet exciting style of play that Collingwood use vs the steady, sometimes defensive yet occasionally exciting style of play that Hawthorn use.

Hawks by 2.

 

[PIE-BOI]

In all seriousness, banter aside, good luck this Sunday guys. I sense this match could mark the beginning of something special between our two, young, exciting clubs. This season, I’ll be the first to admit that in the Pre-Season, I expected Collingwood to be around the 8-12 mark. Instead, they’ve proven me dead wrong!

I’ve been particularly impressed this season with Collingwood's ability to cover for injuries during the year - not to mention the exciting progress of some of your youngsters in Pendlebury, Thomas, Goldsack and particularly, young Travis Cloke. If he can shake his kicking yips, he’ll be kicking a bag in every match he plays sooner rather than later.

It’s going to be a great contest, the extremely disciplined yet exciting style of play that Collingwood use vs the steady, sometimes defensive yet occasionally exciting style of play that Hawthorn use.

Hawks by 2.

Cheers, It's going to be a shootout, Pies By 15, All The Best

 

[Frederlick]

Thanks, maybe Franklin or Cloke will be shooting for the game after the siren? I hope not, have a good one.

 

[hellfire]

Good luck to you... I'm tipping the hawks

 

[Collingwoodrow]

I'd actually be very surprised if this game resembled anything close to a shootout.

Depsite kicking a huge score last round (Carlton are the worst defensive side in the AFL by some margin).....Hawthorn still manage to appear in some of the ugliest games of football you are ever likely to see. There is no doubting they have the ability to score heavy with a ball winning midfield and athletic forward line structure.....but more often than not they are a very cautious team and often slow and methodical when moving the ball forward.

Collingwood are perhaps the best team at the moment of providing onball pressure and our run out of defense is amongst the best in the league. I don't see Hawthorn kicking the ball forward to a contest when under pressure risking a turnover and playing into the hands of Collingwoods runners.

Rocca is such a huge part of Collingwood's structure. He is one of the few true Power Forwards who can physically impose himself on the contested ball. His play making is very underated whether laying the ball off by hand or foot, tapping to advantage, splitting a pack or just bringing the ball to ground for Didak, Davis and co to work off. Without him, Collingwood are going to have to be a little more cautious of bombing it long......guys like Jacobs can pick this off all day without the concern of 108kg of punishment coming their way.

I think 11-12 goals may even win the game.

 

[Brown n Gold]

I'd actually be very surprised if this game resembled anything close to a shootout.

Depsite kicking a huge score last round (Carlton are the worst defensive side in the AFL by some margin).....Hawthorn still manage to appear in some of the ugliest games of football you are ever likely to see. There is no doubting they have the ability to score heavy with a ball winning midfield and athletic forward line structure.....but more often than not they are a very cautious team and often slow and methodical when moving the ball forward.

Collingwood are perhaps the best team at the moment of providing onball pressure and our run out of defense is amongst the best in the league. I don't see Hawthorn kicking the ball forward to a contest when under pressure risking a turnover and playing into the hands of Collingwoods runners.

Rocca is such a huge part of Collingwood's structure. He is one of the few true Power Forwards who can physically impose himself on the contested ball. His play making is very underated whether laying the ball off by hand or foot, tapping to advantage, splitting a pack or just bringing the ball to ground for Didak, Davis and co to work off. Without him, Collingwood are going to have to be a little more cautious of bombing it long......guys like Jacobs can pick this off all day without the concern of 108kg of punishment coming their way.

I think 11-12 goals may even win the game.

hmmmmm another "fan" that hasn't seen the Hawks play... just reads crap posted by Hotdogs and Hinders..... This thread was meant a simple good luck for Sunday but your want is to turn it into a sly bagging of our style of play. You will see how fast we run the ball out of D50 on Sunday and you will also see the likes of Birchall kicking it 55-60m off halfback to the wing. That is if the Pies dont have all 18 in the defensive half like last week...

Good Luck

 

[cs61]

hmmmmm another "fan" that hasn't seen the Hawks play... just reads crap posted by Hotdogs and Hinders..... This thread was meant a simple good luck for Sunday but your want is to turn it into a sly bagging of our style of play. You will see how fast we run the ball out of D50 on Sunday and you will also see the likes of Birchall kicking it 55-60m off halfback to the wing. That is if the Pies dont have all 18 in the defensive half like last week...

Good Luck

Chill out, its just an opinion, and despite the fact I disagree with it, he is entilted to to it.

I think Hawthorn always try to move the ball on quickly and get runners into space, if allowed to do this we will. Its when teams block our space in front of us (Brisbane, St Kilda, Roos, etc) and flood the midfield we struggle as we can't get the free runners. Our tall targets stay at home so if we don't get free breakers out on the wing or up through the middle it makes us look like we're trying to slow it up, but really the opposition are causing us to do it.

West Coast, Carlton, Port, Essendon all allowed us to run and we did, and we hurt them all that day with our running capacity over 4 quarters.

If its not a shootout this weekend IMO it will be the Pies trying to congest it like the Swans did to us, not because we aren't taking the game on.