Toast Sam Mitchell 300 Games

[mightynineteen]

Congratulations Sam, 300 games, what an awesome achievement.

 

[drviccles]

Congratulations Sam!

 

[hawker11]

Congrats Sammy!

You have to look (very) hard to find a write up in this milestone in the Sunday HS today...

 

[Sleutheren]

Hey that hyperbowl was worth a Brownlow for Judd.

Hyperbowl? Is that the superbowl sponsored by red cordial?

 

[PerthBoy87]

Congrats Sam Mitchell, 300 games at AFL level is a great achievement.

I think at times he is slightly underrated, only the last few seasons people are realising how good he is. Great player and competitor

 

[Cdreamer]

Love this bloke, what a champion! Is he the smartest footballer ever to play... Incredibly high footy IQ

 

[Tas_Dean]

The way he's playing, maybe in 20 years time the players will be chairing him onto the field ready to play!
Playing one of his best ever seasons, an absolute legend of our club.

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[Hawkthorn33]

Man I love watching Sammy go to to work, absolutely carved them up today. What a legend

 

[Lithium]

Legend.

 

[cryptor]

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Legend.

Great photo.

 

[beta_condition]

Best 300 game milestone performance?

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

Was excellent today

 

[kazzooka]

I see no reason he can't play 450.

 

[cryptor]

Featurette they must have played before the game on TV yesterday had an interesting bit by Mitchell.

Related to something a few classless opposition supporters were banging on about in the main board version of this thread about how Mitchell wasn't liked by his teammates.

Basically Mitchell admitted he rubbed a few teammates the wrong way early in his career as he was very driven and was harsh on those who didn't keep the same high standards. But that those people who knew him back then meet him again now and can't believe how much more laid back he is now.

I found it hard to believe that this incarnation of Mitchell could be disliked en masse by his teammates. Everyone seems to love him and show great respect for him in HawksTV videos. Particularly since he's had kids he seems a lot less intense in his pursuit for greatness.

 

[bigton08]

I love at the end how Sammy said after welsh said about the hard times and if he thought he'd never make it and Sam said he was so cocky he always thought he would !!! Ha ha funny stuff... Sam knew he'd make it

 

[Off The Couch]

"Be yourself
People don't have to like you and you don't have to care.
Your success can be compromised by the need to be liked by everyone"
- anonymous

 

[badgrill]

Some great pics here:
http://m.afl.com.au/news/2016-07-25/sam-mitchells-300th-in-pictures

 

[Thaihawk]

I have been following the Hawks for an eternity now, and one of the questions I hate being asked is who is the best Hawthorn player you have ever seen. Arthur, Knights, Matthews, Hudson, Brereton, Mew, Crimming, Platten and the list goes on and on, and is still being added to today. Mitch, Hodge. For a Hawthorn stalwart to answer this question is impossible. However what I can say is Sam Mitchell sits comfortably with all these names, and all the other champions I have missed. Langford, Dunstall, Edwards, Tuck ... you can see where I'm going here.

We have been, and are still so lucky to be part of one of the world's great sporting clubs.

Well done Mitch.

 

[badgrill]

Another nice touch in his post-game interview, he thanks the crowd for cheering every touch he got, said it made it pretty special. Good to hear, as you're never really sure whether the players pay attention to that sort of thing.

 

[La Vache]

Took a hammering last night and rose above it yet again.

Another 30 disposals in a final (for the 12th time ) and but for one glaring brain snap at half forward he was sensational.

A warrior.

 

[Dixie Flatline]

Overtook Shane Crawford for most games played for the Hawks last night, having played game 306. This puts him third on the club's all time list behind Tuck and Matthews.

 

[SSSSSS]

Overtook Shane Crawford for most games played for the Hawks last night, having played game 306. This puts him third on the club's all time list behind Tuck and Matthews.

Tuck Ruck Rover
Matthews Rover
Mitchell in the Centre

Probably our best ever midfield line up.

 

[Steven Tyler]

Tuck Ruck Rover
Matthews Rover
Mitchell in the Centre

Probably our best ever midfield line up.

We'd need a ruckman Ida thought

Scott wasn't the greatest ruck, but he gave his heart and soul every time he pulled on our gurnsey, over 300 times!
Salmon, brilliant ruck but we saw him at the end of his career (imagine him as a ruckman from the get go, with stints resting forward, not the other way around!)
Spida, prick of a bloke apparently, but a sensational ruck (imagine him at his hawk best in our team now!)

 

[SSSSSS]

We'd need a ruckman Ida thought

Scott wasn't the greatest ruck, but he gave his heart and soul every time he pulled on our gurnsey, over 300 times!
Salmon, brilliant ruck but we saw him at the end of his career (imagine him as a ruckman from the get go, with stints resting forward, not the other way around!)
Spida, prick of a bloke apparently, but a sensational ruck (imagine him at his hawk best in our team now!)

Have to go to Scott I think for overall contribution. Never saw him play but we have a lot as club to be thankful to him for. Might not be a Hawthorn without his efforts.