Qn regarding the 1988 final series?

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Thought I’d resurrect some dvd’s of old Hawthorn games over the summer.

Wonderful reminder seeing some of the absolute guns we were privileged to have in our team back then.
The game has changed substantially since then:
· the physicality with which the game was played,
· how the payment of free’s has changed,
· the substantial improvement in skill.


(must say that watching the highlights of the 1988 2nd semi against Carlton has reminded me why I hate Carlton)


Anyway was watching the channel 7 GF panel and was reminded that Don Scott was actually Melbourne’s ruck coach at that time. There was some talk on the panel about something that Don Scott said during the week before the GF which got back to Hawthorn and annoyed the playing group to the degree where the panel were speculating whether this fired them up.


Does anybody remember this? And what did he say?

Just as an aside and not sure whether this is common knowledge but in the 88 GF Gary Ayres copped a fist from Jim Stynes (I believe in the first quarter) which resulted in a depressed fracture of the cheekbone.


Meant he played the rest of the game out with this injury.

Not bad for a Norm Smith medal winner!!!!
 

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Thought I’d resurrect some dvd’s of old Hawthorn games over the summer.

Wonderful reminder seeing some of the absolute guns we were privileged to have in our team back then.
The game has changed substantially since then:
· the physicality with which the game was played,
· how the payment of free’s has changed,
· the substantial improvement in skill.


(must say that watching the highlights of the 1988 2nd semi against Carlton has reminded me why I hate Carlton)


Anyway was watching the channel 7 GF panel and was reminded that Don Scott was actually Melbourne’s ruck coach at that time. There was some talk on the panel about something that Don Scott said during the week before the GF which got back to Hawthorn and annoyed the playing group to the degree where the panel were speculating whether this fired them up.


Does anybody remember this? And what did he say?

Just as an aside and not sure whether this is common knowledge but in the 88 GF Gary Ayres copped a fist from Jim Stynes (I believe in the first quarter) which resulted in a depressed fracture of the cheekbone.


Meant he played the rest of the game out with this injury.

Not bad for a Norm Smith medal winner!!!!
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Crock Can't remember if Don Scott was Melbourne's rucks coach ... if he was he must have had an impact as I remember their first ruck , Steven "Strawbs" O'Dwyer , was suspended for the GF for a silly incident in the very wet Prelim v Carlton at Waverley.

 
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Can remember watching the match against Carlton at home and it looked miserable. Pissed it down all day I reckon.
 

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Can remember watching the match against Carlton at home and it looked miserable. Pissed it down all day I reckon.
Thats the game!
Dermie the only multiple goal scorer for Hawthorn playing on the slapper Rhys-Jones.
Platten BOG on a wet muddy ground,
Ayres collected Johnson. Johnson left the field holding his ribs and didn't come back. Nice to see Johnson get some of his own medicine!
 
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Thought I’d resurrect some dvd’s of old Hawthorn games over the summer.

Wonderful reminder seeing some of the absolute guns we were privileged to have in our team back then.
The game has changed substantially since then:
· the physicality with which the game was played,
· how the payment of free’s has changed,
· the substantial improvement in skill.


(must say that watching the highlights of the 1988 2nd semi against Carlton has reminded me why I hate Carlton)


Anyway was watching the channel 7 GF panel and was reminded that Don Scott was actually Melbourne’s ruck coach at that time. There was some talk on the panel about something that Don Scott said during the week before the GF which got back to Hawthorn and annoyed the playing group to the degree where the panel were speculating whether this fired them up.


Does anybody remember this? And what did he say?

Just as an aside and not sure whether this is common knowledge but in the 88 GF Gary Ayres copped a fist from Jim Stynes (I believe in the first quarter) which resulted in a depressed fracture of the cheekbone.


Meant he played the rest of the game out with this injury.

Not bad for a Norm Smith medal winner!!!!

Watched that game the other day and Stynes was the only Melbourne player who remembered to take his angry pills before he ran through the banner. He hit packs hard took some good marks and let the Hawks players know he was around. Conan would not have been the only one he hurt by Jim. Apart from that it was another great 80's effort. Melbourne kept on on trying but the class gulf was something else. The margin, in hindsight, was probably not unexpected in some quarters.
 

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Thats the game!
Dermie the only multiple goal scorer for Hawthorn playing on the slapper Rhys-Jones.
Platten BOG on a wet muddy ground,
Ayres collected Johnson. Johnson left the field holding his ribs and didn't come back. Nice to see Johnson get some of his own medicine!
That game holds a very special place in my memory...

Geez I was anxious in the lead-up, as Hawthorn had lost the previous 3 major semi-finals, and the added specter of having lost the previous GF to Carlton effectively made this game a non-negotiable.

I was living in Ballarat and going to the game with another Hawk fan and two Carlton tragics. It was pissing down in Ballarat, but I said -"No wuckas, lads, the weather will be brillo in Melbourne, no need to bring wet weather gear..." Um, yep, it was a bloody good deal worse in Melbourne and stayed that way all friggin' day, and I wouldn't have thought it was possible to be so deliriously happy while sitting drenched in a large concrete bowl with water pooling around your ankles. Fabulous win in tough conditions and I knew noone was going to get us on GF day after that.

No surprises that the Rat was so good that day. He was routinely huge for us during that period, and I used to always contend that the best way for an opposing side to get the drop on Hawthorn was to 'splat the Rat'... It was a view that Geelong was smart enough to take to heart in the 1989 GF, but even then they couldn't get it done.
 

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Don Scott tipped melbourne and the panel laughed..

They knew what he was up to. Those were the true glory years..

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Wasn't he on the Melbourne payroll at the time as a ruck coach of some sort? I think he was obligated to pick the Dees, though he may not have been all that convincing about it... ;)
 
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Wasn't he on the Melbourne payroll at the time as a ruck coach of some sort? I think he was obligated to pick the Dees, though he may not have been all that convincing about it... ;)
Yeah he was the ruck coach. It was still funny though... The commentary team knew he was being a dick.

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