Now Hill out for a bit

[bungholes_premiers]

 

[rdhopkins2]

When one soldier goes down, another rises to take his place. Bad luck Hilly but another opportunity for a youngster to step up and take the opportunity. Go Hawks.

 

[Great 2008]

Not liking these injury rumours/reports at all.

 

[HawkMongrel]

Not liking these injury rumours/reports at all.

They're not even small niggly injuries. They're all big f**kers.

 

[Seagull Supremacy]

Starting to have a 2009 feeling about this year...

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

 

[jiphoc]

Any official word on this yet?

 

[moginie]

Well, this will test our depth & resilience.

 

[MadDawg]

Am I missing something here??

Injuries to Roughy, Shiels and Hill from best 22 while not nice, is not 'sky is falling' stuff.

Should be able to cover 3 players with the depth and quality around them.

 

[Wundo]

Dammity damn damn. Adversity hasn't stopped us before. We'll just have to get over this hill and keep rolling.

 

[HawksILove]

Shit

 

[LuvMyHawks]

Tim Watson told us about Hill on the news a few mins ago..

 

[threesixpio]

Thank F we have Billy

 

[threesixpio]

Savage Lunchbox will have egg on his face if our lack of run kills us

 

[TazHawk15]

****.

 

[Smithdogmaddog]

Rough a massive loss that can't be covered.Have no idea what we are going to do here. Sicily I think has the runs on the board, not confident about Obrien. Don't mind Hardwick if we go small but they are all so far off roughs quality.

Lake cant be replaced but we had the choice to give him another year so I guess it's Brand if we go 3 talls or Litherland if we want more run. I hope we knew what we were doing not giving lake another year I guess we'll see.

Hill can be replaced by Hartung.
Shiels can be replaced by Langford.
Hale is replaced by Ceglar.
Howe in for suckling.


Not saying the replacements are as good but not far off in the last 4 examples.

 

[Baz_hawk]

Hartung's chance to really step up and fill the role.

Disappointing to hear about Hill, hopefully it's not too bad.

 

[threesixpio]

Go Billy! Kick some ass

Langers, O'Rourke and Howe?

 

[tige19]

Hilly is a good, very good footballer but he didnt impact games last year like he did in 2014.. I don't think we lose to much with Billy coming in, we may even see the making of the kid.

 

[HawkMongrel]

Starting to have a 2009 feeling about this year...

lol, not even close. In 2009 pre-seasons were lost through about half the squad. At least this year pre-seasons have been completed with the exception of Roughead so while Shiels and Hill are temporarily down they'll bounce back OK.

Starting to have more of a 2014 feel about this year.

 

[Main Man]

Rough a massive loss that can't be covered.Have no idea what we are going to do here. Sicily I think has the runs on the board, not confident about Obrien. Don't mind Hardwick if we go small but they are all so far off roughs quality.

Lake cant be replaced but we had the choice to give him another year so I guess it's Brand if we go 3 talls or Litherland if we want more run. I hope we knew what we were doing not giving lake another year I guess we'll see.

Hill can be replaced by Hartung.
Shiels can be replaced by Langford.
Hale is replaced by Ceglar.


Not saying the replacements are as good but not far off in the last 3 examples.

Frawley is Lakes replacement.

Remember that we won 2 flags with Lake/Gibbo as the main defenders, we just had the luxury of both Lake and Frawley last year but Frawley missed big chunks of the season with injury anyway and also played forward at times when he was in the team.

This year it is Frawley (we saw just how good he is in the two biggest games of the year) and Gibbo whilst Brand can play the Spangher role of 2014 if necessary.

 

[Goody1971]

Billy time

 

[Hawk Dork]

Early indications are Hill will miss between four and six weeks.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/hawtho...d-hill-to-a-wrist-injury-20160322-gnoss8.html

 

[GerryLewis]

Frawley is Lakes replacement.

Remember that we won 2 flags with Lake/Gibbo as the main defenders, we just had the luxury of both Lake and Frawley last year but remember Frawley missed big chunks of the season with injury and also played forward at times when he was in the team.

This year it is Frawley (we saw just how good he is in the two biggest games of the year) and Gibbo whilst Brand can play the Spangher role of 2014 if necessary.

Exactly right! People tend to forget this. Im more than comfortable with Chip, Gibbo and Brand covering off talls.

 

[Since 2001]

This guarantees hartung a game now doesn't it?