IF WE THREE-PEAT..........

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A momentous challenge, they will do everything they can to get it done.

If we three-peat, opposition supporters will be super jealous and will want to see someone else win the flag for a change.
 

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The AFL will get Leigh Matthews to present the premiership cup to Clarkson and Hodgey. Very symbolic - four time premiership coach, former Hawthorn premiership captain and arguably the greatest ever Hawthorn player - to confirm, anoint, and preside over the beginning of one of the greatest eras in Australian football history as Hawthorn go on in 2016 and beyond to challenge Collingwood and Melbourne's eras of VFL domination. Bookmark it!
 

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I haven't got around to checking yet but I bet this thread gets a couple mentions on certain opposition team boards...
I hope so. Most opposition clubs and supporters have always feared us (don't know why Richmond and North don't...), and this very post topic would make their stomachs twist in knots with rage and angst over its potentiality.
I've always thought fear and loathing of the HFC worked in our favor, not against us.
Puts teams on the back foot sort of thing, just expecting us to be great and take the game from them. Makes them less likely to play free-wheeling football, without concern to our being able to hurt them. It's the playing-without-conscience style of footy that is so hard to play against, is every great team's Achilles heel, and it's hard to do that when a club's emotions are so wound up in envy and anger. I think it's why the Bombers struggle so regularly playing us, our history weighs on their every kick and contorts their psyche creating extraordinary pressure to perform.

80's Hawks thrived on everyone's bitterness, I say make them as bitter as you can. :cool:
 

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The AFL will get Leigh Matthews to present the premiership cup to Clarkson and Hodgey. Very symbolic - four time premiership coach, former Hawthorn premiership captain and arguably the greatest ever Hawthorn player - to confirm, anoint, and preside over the beginning of one of the greatest eras in Australian football history as Hawthorn go on in 2016 and beyond to challenge Collingwood and Melbourne's eras of VFL domination. Bookmark it!
Actually, in terms of context you missed out on the obvious one - the last premiership coach to win 3 flags in a row symbolically 'passing the baton' (as it were) to the next 3-peat coach. I can certainly see the AFL setting this up... if they have enough grey matter to work this out.
 
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I haven't got around to checking yet but I bet this thread gets a couple mentions on certain opposition team boards...
Cos apparently we're all a bunch of arrogant flogs. Or they just don't get the joke perhaps..... funny how every successful teams players and supporters are "arrogant". What were meant to do when we win a premiership (or 2), is hide the cup and pretend it never happened so to avoid any possible offense.
 
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