Autopsy Hawthorn defeats Port Adelaide

[seysearles]

Not really - that started within the team. The club has co-opted it a little bit from time to time - but it is not as if we blare it before games with a video package and print 'HORSES' on the back of our scarves.

Not a fan of the horses song, but if some players want to sing it doesn't bother me.
But if it was a management gimmick where our supporters were at the ground waving
Hawthorn scarves with Horses written on the back and singing along i would find that embarrassing.
But thats just my opinion, i just like that our club does the talking with our footy.

Agreed, Horses is still pretty awful though.

 

[JustKickIt]

Well when your "wife" is also your cousin things can get complicated

So they physically have to tear them apart... I understand now

 

[Hong Kong Hawk]

So they physically have to tear them apart... I understand now

Waiting for StKilda to bust out the lumberjack song

 

[EIGHTYEIGHTEIGHTYNINE]

So they physically have to tear them apart... I understand now

Like when cats are mating on your front lawn they just spray them with a hose

 

[grumbleguts]

Mate, I take my kids as often as I can. Never ever have I not felt safe, nor have I ever thought it was or would be unsafe for opposition supporters. Maybe I sit amongst the more civilised fans rather than the Port Ferals that I hear so much about. Or maybe you're just a bit soft.

As for the 'BALL' call. Do you think we all genuinely believe it's Holding the Ball every time. I've always taken "BALL" as being simply an easier way of declaring a great tackle. Being vocal, creating atmosphere, and hopefully generating some home town advantage is what being a supporter is all about. Making noise, getting involved. Not all footy fans are corduroy & beret wearing toffs that turn up when we're winning and buy the premiership scarf on the way back to the Beamer pal.



General response...You guys won, were better on the night (that third quarter killed me) and at this rate you will probably go 4 in a row this year. Generally speaking, i'm ok with that. Hawthorn have been one of my favourite non-Port teams over the last 10 years or so.

I don't ever blame the umpires. Last night, they definitely affected the spectacle (or became it), but my personal opinion is that we copped it worse (maybe that's the teal coloured glasses).

But don't you guys get sick of having all your wins tainted by favourable umpiring and luck?

Oh the buttox hurt is so strong with you you can feel it from here. Get yourself a cream.

If you must know, hawthorn has the worst free kick for/against ratio of any side ever in the entire history of the afl/vfl. EVER. More than 4000 more free kicks paid against hawthorn than for just in the last 40 years. So the next time you start crying about the umpires try putting yourself in the shoes of a team that the afl inner sanctum has admitted they don't want to see win it.

 

[benneth]

Think what this list can become. We know how good the old firm are, Mitch Hodge Lewis, but how good can TOB Sicily Howe Hartung Brand get? We're top of the ladder and do not yet know how good we can be.

I love comments like this!

 

[davross]

So, looks like the Work Experience kid for the AFL website misread his email last night, and thought that he was supposed to put up the Port Power highlights. Funny, coz I thought we dominated huge parts of the game, and yet it's not til late in Q3 of the Highlights that we see the Hawks actually get a goal.

How bizarre*












*And, by bizarre, I mean, predictable...

totally agree, I was watching the highlights as I don't live in Australia just now and would have sworn that Port won by 10 goals.

 

[Garf]

totally agree, I was watching the highlights as I don't live in Australia just now and would have sworn that Port won by 10 goals.

Sshhhhh That was the AFL script that failed to go to plan.

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

Well I've yet to see the match but a good win. We are doing all the right things at the moment

 

[JustKickIt]

How would they like Hodge to jump? With his head? Isn't it a natural thing to launch of your fee and raise your knee? Isn't that like imposdible not to do?

Ken orta consider heading back to Bell Park to coach, he hasn't got long at Port.

It's what every ruckman does at the centre bounce

 

[Lethality]

 

[badgrill]

Wouldn't mind seeing Cyril's compared to Ablett as well [emoji12]

 

[Baz_hawk]

The difference is that one of these wasn't a mark

 

[Ned Ryerson]

Poppy has the benefit of not being reprehensible scum off the field too!

 

[Hawthorn23]

Enjoy the highlights against the Tarps!

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

4 points banked, no injuries or reports, and no Coach in any blues outside the hotel.

I'd say that was a worthwhile trip. Next...

Always fantastic to see the Hawks come over here and flush Port down the dunny, where they belong.

 

[HR Roughnstuf]

This is my favourite Port 'tackle'. Burgoyne can't even extend his arm to get the ball. Umpires call? Play on. Lots of teams use this tactic of holding off the ball against us, Port, Norf, and it is rarely, rarely paid.

Holds off the ball were happening all night.

 

[Gralin]

This is my favourite Port 'tackle'. Burgoyne can't even extend his arm to get the ball. Umpires call? Play on. Lots of teams use this tactic of holding off the ball against us, Port, Norf, and it is rarely, rarely paid.

Holds off the ball were happening all night.

Yeah but we got the dodgy frees apparently

 

[EIGHTYEIGHTEIGHTYNINE]

This is my favourite Port 'tackle'. Burgoyne can't even extend his arm to get the ball. Umpires call? Play on. Lots of teams use this tactic of holding off the ball against us, Port, Norf, and it is rarely, rarely paid.

Holds off the ball were happening all night.

Just like the 2014 PF when Roughy was all but sexually assaulted by shittruck pear defenders for 2 hours without a single free kick..,.. And then Gibbo breathed near Wantfrees

 

[smitchy]

If you get caught stealing a chocolate bar, it's stealing. You can't argue that stealing only defines theft of something over say $100 and have a whinge when you get in trouble for it. Same thing goes for football; if the infringement's there, no matter how soft it may be, it's still a free kick. If you put your hands into someones back, just touch them, it's still a free kick. If you take possession of the ball and get tackled and do not make a realistic attempt to dispose of the ball, it's holding the ball. Black and white.

Was there last night and can't get over the whinging. Yes I understand that there were sequences of free kicks in a row, but how could that possibly happen? Answer: by giving away free kicks. Boy oh boy

 

[robiecampbellbrown]

Sorry I have an opinion. I will zip my lips from now on.I am sure my opinion will not be missed!

Yes it will be.

 

[Agent Smith]

4 points banked, no injuries or reports, and no Coach in any blues outside the hotel.

I'd say that was a worthwhile trip. Next...

Liam Shiels says 'Whaaa?'

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

totally agree, I was watching the highlights as I don't live in Australia just now and would have sworn that Port won by 10 goals.

Me too. Just port goal after goal. Very strange. Perhaps hoping the Chinese will view it...

 

[PAFC66]

This is my favourite Port 'tackle'. Burgoyne can't even extend his arm to get the ball. Umpires call? Play on. Lots of teams use this tactic of holding off the ball against us, Port, Norf, and it is rarely, rarely paid.

Holds off the ball were happening all night.

Yep, shit calls all night. Probably the most disgusting display of umpiring I've ever seen.

 

[MJA33]

Haha broadbent was the guy underneath both poppy and Cyril for the hangers (even though Cyril's wasn't paid still a highlight)