Hawthorn best 22: 08-15

[Mercy Seat]

I'd like to see our spuds team from this era too. Taylor, gilham, wade skipper!

 

[The BIG X]

I'd like to see our spuds team from this era too. Taylor, gilham, wade skipper!

Not in this thread

 

[Pessimistic]

I'd like to see our spuds team from this era too. Taylor, gilham, wade skipper!

Or the 'couldofs' Peterson cupido etc

 

[A Diakos]

B: Guerra Lake Stratton

HB: Birchall Croad Gibson

C: Burgoyne Mitchell Smith

HF: Puopolo Franklin Rioli

F: Gunston Roughead Breust

R: Hale Hodge Lewis

I/C: Williams Crawford Bateman Sewell
………………………………………………………..
Emerg Dew Brown Frawley

 

[Dixie Flatline]

B: J. Williams Boumann Milne
HB: O'Rourke Thorp J. Kelly
C: Kayler-Thompson Moss Peterson
HF: Hooper Dowler Garlett
F: Stokes P. Johnson Morton
Foll: Skipper Muston Tuck
I/C: Grimley Little xx xx

On the other hand:

B: Guerra Lake Stratton
HB: Birchall Gibson Burgoyne
C: Smith Mitchell Bateman
HF: Breust Franklin Gunston
F: Rioli Roughead Puopolo
Foll: Hale Hodge Lewis
I/C: Campbell Shiels Hill Sewell
Emg: McEvoy Williams Suckling

 

[Gralin]

B: Stratton Lake Gibson
HB: Birchall Croad Burgoyne
C: Hill Mitchell Smith
HF: Bruest Roughead Gunston
F: Rioli Franklin Puopolo
R: Hale Hodge Lewis
I/C: Shiels Sewell Guerrra McEvoy
Emergencies: Suckling Crawford Schoenmakers

Tough to pick a team

 

[The Swert]

B: J. Williams Boumann Milne
HB: O'Rourke Thorp J. Kelly
C: Kayler-Thompson Moss Peterson
HF: Hooper Dowler Garlett
F: Stokes P. Johnson Morton
Foll: Skipper Muston Tuck
I/C: Grimley Little xx xx

Missing Cameron Bruce in that team above.

My team:

B: Guerra, Lake, Gibson
HB: Birchall, Stratton, Burgoyne
C: Smith, Hodge, Lewis
HF: Gunston, Franklin, Rioli
FF: Bruest, Roughead, Puopolo
R: Hale, Mitchell, Sewell
Int: Suckling, Hill, Shiels, Schoenmakers

Brown and Osborne unlucky.

 

[Dixie Flatline]

Stick Bruce on the bench.

 

[HODGEYROAD]

No Brent Renouf or Joffa Simpkin LOL.

 

[Brant]

B: J. Williams Boumann Milne
HB: O'Rourke Thorp J. Kelly
C: Kayler-Thompson Moss Peterson
HF: Hooper Dowler Garlett
F: Stokes P. Johnson Morton
Foll: Skipper Muston Tuck
I/C: Grimley Little xx xx

On the other hand:

B: Guerra Lake Stratton
HB: Birchall Gibson Burgoyne
C: Smith Mitchell Bateman
HF: Breust Franklin Gunston
F: Rioli Roughead Puopolo
Foll: Hale Hodge Lewis
I/C: Campbell Shiels Hill Sewell
Emg: McEvoy Williams Suckling

Lotta guys named on their 'wrong side'.

FB: Stratton......Lake.......Guerra
HB: Burgoyne..Frawley....Birchall
Ce: Bateman....Mitchell....Smith
Ru: BigBoy.......Hodge.......Lewis
HF: Gunston....Roughy...Franklin
FF: Popeye........Hale.........Rioli

I/C: Shiels...Suckling...Hill....Williams

Emg: Crawford...Sewell.....Bailey

Sorry: Campbell Brown.

Crawford definitely deserves a spot if we're nominating guys as per their best footy, but Crawf wasn't at his best in 2008. Same way Bailey doesn't get a gig because 2013 was his year, but his 'only' year. His tap work is clearly better than BigBoy, but BigBoy (in Premiership Years) contributed around the ground & on the score board.

 

[OnceKicked50]

Lotta guys named on their 'wrong side'.

FB: Stratton......Lake.......Guerra
HB: Burgoyne..Frawley....Birchall
Ce: Bateman....Mitchell....Smith
Ru: BigBoy.......Hodge.......Lewis
HF: Gunston....Roughy...Franklin
FF: Popeye........Hale.........Rioli

I/C: Shiels...Suckling...Hill....Williams

Emg: Crawford...Sewell.....Bailey

Sorry: Campbell Brown.

Hello Josh Gibson

Crawford definitely deserves a spot if we're nominating guys as per their best footy, but Crawf wasn't at his best in 2008. Same way Bailey doesn't get a gig because 2013 was his year, but his 'only' year. His tap work is clearly better than BigBoy, but BigBoy (in Premiership Years) contributed around the ground & on the score board.

Gibson Lake Stratton

Hodge Frawley Birchall

Bateman Mitchell Smith

Gunston Roughead Franklin

Breust Hale Rioli

Foll: McEvoy Burgoyne Lewis

Int: Shiels Puopolo Sewell Guerra

 

[onthemoney]

Or the 'couldofs' Peterson cupido etc

??? Hang on, that never happened did it?

 

[Gene Simmons]

Great concept

What would be even more interesting if we created 2 teams from the 08-15 era..

 

[wolvesjr34]

I don't have a team, but I clicked on this thread to see if people put Crawford in, and of course some of you did, talk about sentimentality, he was past his prime in 2008 and for the period 08 - 15 shouldn't get a gig. Just my two cents.

 

[tige19]

B: J. Williams Boumann Milne
HB: O'Rourke Thorp J. Kelly
C: Kayler-Thompson Moss Peterson
HF: Hooper Dowler Garlett
F: Stokes P. Johnson Morton
Foll: Skipper Muston Tuck
I/C: Grimley Little xx xx

On the other hand:

B: Guerra Lake Stratton
HB: Birchall Gibson Burgoyne
C: Smith Mitchell Bateman
HF: Breust Franklin Gunston
F: Rioli Roughead Puopolo
Foll: Hale Hodge Lewis
I/C: Campbell Shiels Hill Sewell
Emg: McEvoy Williams Suckling

Throwing the baby out with the bath water on JOR already Dixie??

 

[WWSD]

He may have only played in the 2008 Grand Final, but Mark Williams would definitely find a spot for Hawthorn in the forward 50. He had an impressive career goal average for a small forward and kicked back to back 60+ goals in 2005-06. He averaged 2.1 goals in 2008 and kicked 46 goals that season.

It's a shame he had that severe knee injury which forced him to get traded to Essendon as he could've potentially had over 500+ goals in his career for a small forward had he been injury free and not gone into early retirement.

Lance Franklin: 180 games - 580 goals = 3.22
Jack Gunston: 115 games - 252 goals = 2.19
Mark Williams: 111 games - 242 goals = 2.18
Jarryd Roughead: 231 games - 491 goals = 2.12
Luke Breust: 140 games - 271 goals = 1.93
Cyril Rioli: 178 games - 268 goals = 1.50

Total = 2104 goals

HF: Rioli, Franklin, Gunston

F: Williams, Roughead, Breust

 

[Dixie Flatline]

Throwing the baby out with the bath water on JOR already Dixie??

I'm pessimistic that O'Rourke will ever be a good player. At most he will be a mediocre player along the lines of Nick Ries or Brett Johnston. From what I've seen of him his skills are ordinary and his decision making is no better.

His U-18 form the year he was drafted was average save for the carnival where he suddenly blew everyone away and went at pick 2 to the Giants.

I hope I'm wrong but I fear we got sold a pup.

 

[Hawkas1988]

I'm pessimistic that O'Rourke will ever be a good player. At most he will be a mediocre player along the lines of Nick Ries or Brett Johnston. From what I've seen of him his skills are ordinary and his decision making is no better.

His U-18 form the year he was drafted was average save for the carnival where he suddenly blew everyone away and went at pick 2 to the Giants.

I hope I'm wrong but I fear we got sold a pup.

Couldn't agree more. Never seen it with him.

Hope we're proven wrong.

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[tige19]

I'm pessimistic that O'Rourke will ever be a good player. At most he will be a mediocre player along the lines of Nick Ries or Brett Johnston. From what I've seen of him his skills are ordinary and his decision making is no better.

His U-18 form the year he was drafted was average save for the carnival where he suddenly blew everyone away and went at pick 2 to the Giants.

I hope I'm wrong but I fear we got sold a pup.

Yeah, I can understand your views. It's pretty simple with JOR, he needs to graduate from a 16/17 possession guy to a 22-24 possession guy, I think once he has that consistency of playing through the mid rotation week in week out we will see that.

He is pretty clean inside and distributing by hand, he can also kick a goal. I think he'll be a player, he has a huge motor but needs a long winded run at it so we know.