Game Day Round 21 MUST-win vs Hawks at AO

[FR0GGY]

That free to Watson in the last minute was straight up bullshit. Chayce anticipated the duck and went low and they still called it.

Lucky the footy gods were watching even if the umpires weren’t

 

[Trenchies Park]

Bond showed some nice glimpses. He's a AFL player

 

[Peter Doherty]

We 'should' get percentage boosts against the 2 bottom sides so its unlikely geelong would catch us on % and they are a game behind. So even if we dropped the collingwood game, we should still have enough % to stay above them.

Luckily when they were towelling up north, we ended up matching them with our flogging of port

We dropped 2% tonight, Geelong will overtake us on %. We have to keep winning to stay above them.

 

[Scorpus]

We dropped 2% tonight, Geelong will overtake us on %. We have to keep winning to stay above them.

We will have the opportunity to beat West Coast and North by 100 point margins

 

[Peter Doherty]

We will have the opportunity to beat West Coast and North by 100 point margins

 

[Betts are off]

Love that Gary Lyon interview of Tex.

Good on him for seeing a moment of pure joy in an older player and repeatedly praising it and him for all its footy glory.

If we are lucky enough to forfil the fairytale this year for Tex, that interview will be a great piece of the puzzle.

 

[FR0GGY]

Love that Gary Lyon interview of Tex.

Good on him for seeing a moment of pure joy in an older player and repeatedly praising it and him for all its footy glory.

If we are lucky enough to forfil the fairytale this year for Tex, that interview will be a great piece of the puzzle.

Why can’t Tex be the afls fairytale?
#freekicktex

 

[cleanhands]

Why can’t Tex be the afls fairytale?
#f#freekicktex

Bring a tear to a grown man

 

[Betts are off]

Why can’t Tex be the afls fairytale?
#f#freekicktex

#MakeTextheFairytale

 

[n4sir]

Love that Gary Lyon interview of Tex.

Good on him for seeing a moment of pure joy in an older player and repeatedly praising it and him for all its footy glory.

If we are lucky enough to forfil the fairytale this year for Tex, that interview will be a great piece of the puzzle.

If you are talking about the one game at a time mantra that the team has been going on... well Tex has done that the last few seasons as well.

You can't afford to dwell in the romantic idea of destiny... because it will end up biting you in the arse.

In that documentary 1997, the players said Blight always kept a lid on it, saying that the next week was an invitation ticket from the AFL to keep going. They all bought into that. It kept it simple, and brutally real.

We've kind of done the same this season so far. There are no guaranteed jobs. No old boys club. There's one goal for the team, because it's a team goal, not an individual goal. If we stick to that, we give ourselves a chance, against all the odds.

 

[Rank]

Tex will

Tex would love too, but pussy Cornes would sue him. Tex would have loved to have been Nathan Brown for 5 minutes when Brown had that boxing match with Cornes. Cornes would be too gutless to step in a ring with Tex though. He just hides behind the media.

 

[Rank]

Hawks board should be fun reading after their arrogance in the lead up

I was surprised how confident they we're before the match, now it's mostly the umpires fault, even though they got given most of their goals.

 

[cleveland]

Thanks guys

 

[Iridescence]

Okay I'm saying it the lid is officially OFF!!!

For sure. But we've still got two bogey sides we need to defeat. We're almost certainly going to meet one of Geelong or Collingwood in a final and potentially both, and potentially even more than once.

 

[catsfootyfan89]

This is the year for you guys - gotta make it happen. Dawson playing with absolute arrogance in this game. Loved seeing it.

Also the commentary-lead dispute over the 50m penalty in the last quarter is laughable. Before Rankine had taken any steps off the line, Sicily is 3-4 metres over the mark, cutting off any sideways passing and stepping towards Rankine lol. Why even dispute that? Silly. Yes it was touched, but you play the whistle.

 

[Riviat]

Beating the Hawks is almost as satisfying as beating either the Pies or Port

 

[chazwazza]

We dropped 2% tonight, Geelong will overtake us on %. We have to keep winning to stay above them.

Don’t forget Geelong will be resting players also.

 

[beagle2]

No mention of Newcombes two right jabs in the scuffle?

 

[ams4crows]

No mention of Newcombes two right jabs in the scuffle?

Or who ever dropped Berry after one of Rankine's goals

 

[Cromulant]

Or who ever dropped Berry after one of Rankine's goals

Hardwick.

Dirty sniper of a player like his namesake

 

[dblstR]

Good: The type of win and resilience that preps you for finals:
Bad: 1st quarter, umpiring, and deciding to upgrade from silver to gold tonight and the allocation is exhausted

 

[ams4crows]

It was so important to win and we did!

 

[whattagun07]

Bond showed some nice glimpses. He's a AFL player

agree. Kept Moore quiet too. He walked into a furnace for his first game of the season. Looked a touch off at times, but overall was solid. He's got Luke Brown level potential as a lock down IMO. A good horses for courses type for Hawthorn, or possibly Geelong with their dangerous smalls.