Preview Hawks vs Crows - changes, discussion.........

[Angus Young]

I can't see us beating the crows over there. We have not looked good since the freo game and the crows have found their mojo

 

[Davo-27]

i think if we turn up to play, we will win, the way the team turned up on friday night was embarrassing, i'm hoping the players would be embarrassed by how they played and will want retribution against the crows, to earn some respect back, no disrespect to the Roos, they did play well, but on any other week, we would've beaten them by 10 goals......

just need our players to get angry and play OUR style of football, tightening our defense would be a good first step towards success......

 

[Harper_Hawk]

our top four aspirants have an easy round...we need to win this badly and to battle off with Sydney for top dog....come round 18..
I hope it buckets down in Sydney this week..so they have another hard slog in the wet with Carlton...who won't be a lie down affair.....

 

[hawk65]

our top four aspirants have an easy round...we need to win this badly and to battle off with Sydney for top dog....come round 18..
I hope it buckets down in Sydney this week..so they have another hard slog in the wet with Carlton...who won't be a lie down affair.....

Don't think it'll matter too much because there's a bye in between.

 

[bugalugs213]

Outs: Hale, Sewell, Suckling, Ross, Lake if he gets done.
Ins: Macevoy, Hallahan, Hill, Simpkin and Cheney.

 

[Freshmeat]

We have to win every game to be guaranteed top 2. It's not going to happen.

Where we finish is irrelevant, " anyone, anywhere, anytime" #ALWAYS

 

[Hodginator]

I'd give Sewells spot to Langford this week over Hallahan so he can run with either Danger or Sloane.

 

[Chopra]

I'd give Sewells spot to Langford this week over Hallahan so he can run with either Danger or Sloane.

Agreed - This would release Shiels to be an attaching mid where he plays his best football.

 

[Angus Young]

Where we finish is irrelevant, " anyone, anywhere, anytime" #ALWAYS

Like last week when we couldn't beat the kangaroos who were beaten by the crows and Brisbane to hold onto top spot

 

[Freshmeat]

Like last week when we couldn't beat the kangaroos who were beaten by the crows and Brisbane to hold onto top spot

We're talking finals here, our team will be ready to go...there will be no complacently delivered during finals..STAND BY YOUR TEAM!

 

[Angus Young]

We're talking finals here, our team will be ready to go...there will be no complacently delivered during finals..STAND BY YOUR TEAM!

Sorry thought u said anytime. I'll stand by them but fk me they better not serve up that same shit from friday

 

[StevenwellerHFC]

Feel we will lose by around 3 goals.

 

[Freshmeat]

Sorry thought u said anytime. I'll stand by them but fk me they better not serve up that same shit from friday

Listening to gunston & suckling on various footy programs today they seemed embarrassed about Friday night( & rightly so) expect polar opposites come next Friday.....we'll be right mate!

 

[Angus Young]

Feel we will lose by around 3 goals.

Agree. I'm already pissed off

 

[Davo23]

Agree. I'm already pissed off

Me too.

As we've already lost against Adelaide, let's drop some players now!

 

[Honeymoon Hawk]

Will be interesting to see how the battle over positions plays out over the next few weeks leading into finals eg:

Sewell v boxer and langers
Spangher v shoey
Gus v suckling and Duryea
Ceglar v hale and big boy

Big games coming up against swans, Freo and cats, have to get the right mix. Will be interesting to see the changes for this week. Nervous wait for hale.

 

[tige19]

Listening to gunston & suckling on various footy programs today they seemed embarrassed about Friday night( & rightly so) expect polar opposites come next Friday.....we'll be right mate!

Suckling is embarrassing every time someone looks like applying physical pressure..

Gunno has nothing to be embarrassed about, the guy kept us in it. As a collective it was embrlarassing, I agree!

 

[Freshmeat]

Suckling is embarrassing every time someone looks like applying physical pressure..

Gunno has nothing to be embarrassed about, the guy kept us in it. As a collective it was embrlarassing, I agree!

It's not an individual sport, I thought it was implied as a team they were embarrassed

 

[killerspud]

OUT - Sewell ( injured ), Ross (omitted), Suckling (dumped because he is not AFL standard), Lake (discipline face slap... Idiot ! ), Hale (past it or needs a wake up call)

IN - Hill, McEvoy, Woodward, Langford, Cheney


OUT - Girly tackle pressure, lack of hunger, decision making of a ******ed ice user, skills of a limb impended blind person.

IN - I'm going to kill you tackle pressure, the ball is mine and you are never having it hunger, decision making of sane people, Hawks elite skill acceptance level.

If you've seen an AFL women's game you'd know that most women's teams tackled better than we did on Friday night

 

[Rioli magic]

Me too.

As we've already lost against Adelaide, let's drop some players now!

Suckling for mine, he's been poor the next few weeks, because defence.

 

[Harper_Hawk]

Feel we will lose by around 3 goals.

Nope. Hawks will win. We're better than Adelaide. That's a start.

 

[killerspud]

Out - Lake, Sewell, Suckling and Lethargy

In - Mc Evoy, Hill, Langford and Intensity


a) Hale to play as permanent forward, Shoe to Defence - Mc Evoy to play a kick behind the play and float across our half back line marking everything that comes even vaguely in that direction

b) Stratton to Betts, Liquorland as third man up trying to chop out walker and Jenkins (along with McEvoy) - Hodge to general off half back. Burgoyne to add some class to Half forward and Mitch and Lewis to really get in and do the grunt work - Lewis also needs to go up third man in ruck where he can

c) Langford to run with Danger and Shiels to lock down Sloane

d) The leaders at the club need to stand up and remind the competition that they are the best leaders in the competition

but really you can make all the moves under the sun and it all comes to nothing if there is no intensity. We simply MUST WIN the contested ball count in this game to be any chance and then stick with our tried and true game plan. We were woeful in our fight for the ball on Friday night and only lost by 20 points

(if all this fails bring back BB)

 

[Thaihawk]

I have just worked out the A.F.L's definition of equalisation.
Let's formulate a fixture that gives Sydney and Freo equal chance of finishing first and second on the ladder.

 

[Tex200]

Hawks loss against Norf was a terrible result for us re: this week.

It's left Hawks in a dog fight for a top 4 spot.

Won't drop 2 in a row under those circumstances - too good a side

 

[TyHawk]

71 wins - 19 losses since the start of 2011! Why did I put this up? Because we've been awesome through thick and thin throughout together! Plenty of times this great team has delivered when all looked lost. I believe we will be a lot more patient and disciplined come Friday night and I think it's great that we travel to play an in form side with a bye the week after! Crows don't have a big defense, in fact Pods has been covering for them so one of Rough, Gunno or Schoe will get off the chain so us not having Gibbo or possibly Lake shouldn't be an excuse! We have had forwards kick 3's and 4's against us even when we win big..why? Because the Midfield group usually get the job done! That's where we struggled last week. Mitchell underdone along with Stratts and Lake plus Sewell out early really tilted the game on Norths side. In fact if they didn't win it would've been looked upon as a disappointment on their half. Get Hill and Mcevoy back and possibly Langers on Dangerfield and I'll be very confident with getting the 4 points! We have to and IMO will win on Friday!