Hawthorn vs Geelong MCG- Saturday July 20th 2019 - Edited Page 18 current discussion

[Geelong_Sicko]

Does the Royal still provide, ahem, "Gentlemen's entertainment"?

Yes indeedy

 

[Gavin Excell]

Yes indeedy

Noted

 

[Catsnlakers]

Noted

Right near Richmond station too, so you can literally stumble down the road then get on the train ( have done so many times ).

 

[Jimmy Yamazaki]

GWS beat us with clean centre clearances and good ball use. If Hawks are allowed to do the same, then we're in big trouble. If we drop this we have another good disposal team in West Coast the week after and all of a sudden, we could be 3-3 and back in the pack.

 

[Crankyhawk]

Backs to the wall performance coming up for the Hawks, Clarko will have them breathing fire.

Fire yes, but probably not a lot of it..
Doomed to a 15 goal loss.

 

[Crankyhawk]

The key difference between our teams I would say, is not the injuries, but the lack of development of talented youngsters. Worpel will be a future B+F for your club, Cousins and Hardwick look good and Scrimshaw, Morrison, Brand and Miles all show promise, but outside of that, it's all the older blokes carrying the team.

It will always be a good game between our two teams, and despite our rivalry, there's always a lot of begrudging respect between respective fans and clubs. I do think, however, that it's not your injuries that are the biggest issue this year, but your lack of depth to cover them when they occur, due to a lack of focus on the draft in the past 5 years (admittedly we were the same, but we cleaned it up in 2016 after our 9th placed finish in 2015)

Well that sort of fits in a time frame sense; you were winning flags 07 - 011 then slid down to decide to replenish in 2016; we were winning 2013 - 15 so are in that same down slide phase.

 

[StillAtLarge]

Geelong's injury list is supposedly as bad (though I don't think anyone who doesn't barrack for Geelong would agree) and they are are a kick away from being undefeated after 4 games.

We are a couple of free kicks away from being undefeated after 4 games

 

[Scotland]

We are a couple of free kicks away from being undefeated after 4 games

Yes but you don't have Geelong's injury list.

 

[Xtreme]

Hawthorn will smash Geelong by 8 goals

 

[Luv_our_club]

Yes indeedy

I can't do it. I end up ordering a beer looking at the ceiling and go sit on the bench next to the toilets where the bar is obscured.

 

[The Bandwagon]

Hawthorn will smash Geelong by 8 goals

You can give me 5 goals in and we'll have a little wager if you like.

 

[Xtreme]

You can give me 5 goals in and we'll have a little wager if you like.

Keep your betting antics to Bay 13 thanks, I'm just giving a predicted margin

 

[demondavey]

Cats by 27

 

[MaDEye23]

Hate to say it but cats by 35 points

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[SA HAWK]

Expecting a loss but was expecting the same x2 last year so you never know.

 

[H2F]

We will win this game I really feel confident.

 

[The Bandwagon]

We will win this game I really feel confident.

I think you'll be right.

 

[Bazza97]

Don't care who wins this game but would love to see another close one between these two teams. Think Geelong will be too strong though.

 

[The Bandwagon]

Don't care who wins this game but would love to see another close one between these two teams. Think Geelong will be too strong though.

Respective teams

A graders

Hawthorn:

Sicily
Gunston
Breust
O'Meara
Clarkson

Geelong:

Stewart
Dangerfield
Hawkins

B

Hawthorn:

Stratton
Smith
Wingard
McEvoy

Geelong:

Sewlood
Kelly
Ablett
Duncan
Menegola

C

Hawthorn:

Hardwick
Scully
Henderson
Roughead
Worpel

Geelong:

Blicavs
Parfitt
Stanley
Dahlhaus
Rohan
Scott


D

Hawthorn:

Impey
Puopolo
Scrimshaw

Geelong:

Henry
Kolodjashnij
Taylor
Guthrie

E

Hawthorn:

Nash
Brand
Morrison
Mirra
Ceglar

Geelong:

Miers
Atkins
Ratugolea
O'Connor
Clark

Pretty even I'd have thought in both regards to top end talent and bottom end talent. Of course those ratings are open to interpretation but it's simply my opinion being used as a guide.

The game will be decided by the 10 players from either team selected in group E.

Hawthorn have the master coach Geelong have one who is rigid.

Hawthorn should win this by 3 goals and I expect it to be close.

 

[H2F]

The reason I feel confident is Clarkson has been hammering at the 6/6/6 thing and it's cost us but I reckon he's figured it out now and we are about to see his first crack at how to get an advantage there.

I love how he is prepared to go at something (even if it costs games) to learn and I have this feeling he has learnt a bit in the two disappointing losses we had.

The give-away for me is change in selections in terms of player types. Go Clarko you freaking legend. Hope I'm right, but who knows.

 

[demondavey]

Respective teams

A graders

Hawthorn:

Sicily
Gunston
Breust
O'Meara
Clarkson

Geelong:

Stewart
Dangerfield
Hawkins

B

Hawthorn:

Stratton
Smith
Wingard
McEvoy

Geelong:

Sewlood
Kelly
Ablett
Duncan
Menegola

C

Hawthorn:

Hardwick
Scully
Henderson
Roughead
Worpel

Geelong:

Blicavs
Parfitt
Stanley
Dahlhaus
Rohan
Scott


D

Hawthorn:

Impey
Puopolo
Scrimshaw

Geelong:

Henry
Kolodjashnij
Taylor
Guthrie

E

Hawthorn:

Nash
Brand
Morrison
Mirra
Ceglar

Geelong:

Miers
Atkins
Ratugolea
O'Connor
Clark

Pretty even I'd have thought in both regards to top end talent and bottom end talent. Of course those ratings are open to interpretation but it's simply my opinion being used as a guide.

The game will be decided by the 10 players from either team selected in group E.

Hawthorn have the master coach Geelong have one who is rigid.

Hawthorn should win this by 3 goals and I expect it to be close.

Smith, Stratton, McEvoy, Ablett, Kelly, Duncan all B graders???????

 

[The Bandwagon]

Smith, Stratton, McEvoy, Ablett, Kelly, Duncan all B graders???????

They're neither A nor C, so yes.

 

[H2F]

Our best player this year has probably been Scully. Has to be A grade

 

[demondavey]

They're neither A nor C, so yes.

They’re all A graders mate

 

[The Bandwagon]

They’re all A graders mate

Not in my book.