Now Hill out for a bit

[The Lemon]

Oh well.

Excited to see new faces

 

[HomerJayS]

At this rate Ryan Burton will definitley debut in 2016, along with Connor Glass as an upgraded rookie.

 

[Rushed_Behind]

We'll still 4-peat.

 

[Randy Campbell]

If this was a crisis it would create opportunity.

 

[JoeHawk]

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.

Frawley replaces Lake. Don't we all know that by now?

 

[Hodginator]

We'll still 4-peat.

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

Nothing official from the club as yet though. Will worry about this when/if we get official confirmation.

 

[Main Man]

Nothing official from the club as yet though. Will worry about this when/if we get official confirmation.

Lewis more or less confirmed it on 360 but admited he didn't know a great deal about it as they were not at the club today.

 

[StillAtLarge]

Don't forget Duryea is also more than capable of playing on a wing

 

[Gene Simmons]

Billy Hartung just got on my Supercoach team radar!

 

[OsakaHawk]

Now on afl website http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-03-22/another-blow-for-hawks-with-speedy-wingman-brad-hill-ruled-out

 

[Blaze Storm]

Howe, O'Rourke, Langford?

Who else comes in.

 

[Since 2001]

Howe, O'Rourke, Langford?

Who else comes in.

I can see lovell now pushing for a spot or maybe even dimma (blake hardwick) who could play forward and allow more flexibility. Sicily can still push, whiteX, litherland, brand. thats a lot of depth there

 

[Jaeger]

This guarantees hartung a game now doesn't it?

Absolutely although I suspect he was already earmarked to play on Monday.

 

[Main Man]

Absolutely although I suspect he was already earmarked to play on Monday.

Not sure about that, didn't play in the probable round 1 side intra club team on Monday.

 

[Thaihawk]

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

Was he grinning, LuvMyHawks?

 

[Flukey!]

Crap

 

[Dr_Mutley]

Geez hill couldn't tackle before, with a suss wrist, he'll definitely be a witches hat now!!

 

[Gunbarrel Jack]

This is just the 2016 version of adversity-to-premiership.

We are still 4peating - were just resting players and keeping them fresh for the back half of the year

 

[Argy]

Disappointing, but we knew before the pre-season that we would have three players out from the GF side. Two (forced) retirements and one (agreed) transfer. Compared to our 'optimum' we're only three players down.

 

[robiecampbellbrown]

Hartung for Hill
Langford for Shiels
Continuity, with Change

 

[Smithdogmaddog]

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.

Frawley replaces Lake. Don't we all know that by now?

My post was based on the last side hawthorn fielded where both Frawley and lake played.

I've always believed gibbo best role is the one he was able to play when lake and Frawley were in the team, rebounding off half back and being the 3rd man in. Not having to wrestle with the big boys.

Fortunately not that many teams have 3 genuine talls but geelong definetly do so it's particularly relevant this week.

 

[marklar]

Well hopefully there goes any complacency in the team, the start of the year is going to be tougher than we expected.

 

[Agent Smith]

At least we have enough sense to have our injuries at the start of the season rather than at the end of it.

 

[LuvMyHawks]

Was he grinning, LuvMyHawks?

Whenever Watson is on the news, telling us about injury/injuries at OUR club, he always smiles/smirks