Unofficial Preview Semi Finals weekend bye... anyone a fan of The Emmys or Jimmy Kimmel

[dangerwood]

I'm ultimately happy with this outcome. Before the final 8 were set, the 3 teams that really worried me were dogs, lions and giants.

IF you told me a month a go we'd have Hawks in a prelim. 100% happy.

 

[Seeds]

No, forcing behinds in pressure situations or when a side could not see a clear path out of defence was common-place. The rule was changed because Patrick Bowden in a close game chose to walk the ball back over the behind line without kicking it in, which he did on several occasions to soak up time.

Patrick bowden and hawthorn did it. It was changed after hawthorn ruined the grand final by doing it about 10 times.

Hawthorn were also dropping players behind the ball after they handballed it because the penalty was tiny.

Could also argue the belly punches became a plague under hawthorns unsociable football that season.

 

[Hawker_85]

I also think there's a Geelong-flavoured hatred in the water over there

Hope you will all pardon the intrusion, just dropped in to see what the response was to last night. I think the gif sums up the position of a lot of Hawthorn people. Can't wait for the game.

 

[Pure_Ownage]

We can absolutely beat them, but their finals record against us is enviable.

Hawks v Cats finals just have a different flavour. There's more to it than just 'who's good'.

Can't wait for it.

Yeah possibly but they finished 8th and have played on the road twice and have less finals experience than us while we had the week off. If we are premiership worthy we will get this done.

 

[dangerwood]

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Hope you will all pardon the intrusion, just dropped in to see what the response was to last night. I think the gif sums up the position of a lot of Hawthorn people. Can't wait for the game.

See this is why I love hate our rivalry with Hawthorn.

Richmond are just so angry and aggressive.

I hate you too Hawker_85 - Hawks are cocky, silky skilled, well coached, cocky, have stupid faces....I hate Sam Mitchell, I hate the way he coaches so well, I hate how good at football he was, I hate that he now seems to be a good coach, I hate that I sometimes like listening to him! I hate that I respect him and stupid cocky face.

I hope you have a horrible night next Friday night... But I'm also very excited about another chapter with you stupid cocky pricks.

 

[canny30]

What's the reason? This week's match will have nothing to do with previous encounters. It will be tough but not because history says so. They are just a good team.

They're more than a good team.

They've been underrated all season by everyone and I'm not sure why.

Yes, we should win, but it's not gonna be a walkover like it would have been vs Adelaide.

This is a serious danger game.

 

[catsfootyfan89]

Hope you will all pardon the intrusion, just dropped in to see what the response was to last night. I think the gif sums up the position of a lot of Hawthorn people. Can't wait for the game.

I tipped Hawks last night - Adelaide have been seriously off their tucker ever since the Rankine debacle. Controversies are the worst things at this time of the season. Leads to disunity / distraction / negativity.

I hoped Adelaide would win because we'd almost certainly beat them in a Prelim in Melbourne. Against the Hawks, I'm not sure. Anything could happen.

I do think Geelong will win the Prelim, but it feels 60/40 to me.

 

[canny30]

'knock-out final' is a bit selective. We beat them in finals games in 2011 and 2016. Hawthorn didn't even qualify for finals between 2019 and 2023.

It's not selective at all (and I'm not the one who made that post)

A Knockout final is vastly different to a Qualifying final.

The fact is we have lost to them 3 times now in knockout finals when we should have beaten them.

2000, 2008 and 2013.

It's what makes this game extremely nerve racking.

If they roll us this time they're snide little remarks gain even more traction.....if we beat them we can start to argue back with more conviction.

It's a massive game because it's a prelim but it's also a massive game in terms of our rivalry with these arrogant pricks.

 

[catsfootyfan89]

It's not selective at all (and I'm not the one who made that post)

A Knockout final is vastly different to a Qualifying final.

Yup - and knockout finals are actually the majority of finals. 4 of the 5 types of finals, infact.

 

[canny30]

Yup - and knockout finals are actually the majority of finals. 4 of the 5 types of finals, infact.

I love the footy club.

But I also have studied our history very closely and moreso than any other club in VFL/AFL history we have left premierships on the table because we have failed to convert in finals series.

This game is massive.

Hawthorn are the opposite of us they've won far more premierships than us because they win a ridiculously high percentage of premierships from finals appearances.

Edit: Collingwood have thrown away more, lol

 

[catsfootyfan89]

I love the footy club.

But I also have studied our history very closely and moreso than any other club in VFL/AFL history we have left premierships on the table because we have failed to convert in finals series.

This game is massive.

Definitely - although in the past few decades, we've only really shat the bed egregiously a couple of times. 2008 was poor. 2013 also pretty bad.

The thing I really love about our team right now is that we seem to have a high number of mentally strong players, and very few passengers.

If you compare to a year like 2013 for example, look at these mid-range players we had in our list at that time:

Vardy, Walker, West, Taylor Hunt, Caddy, Rivers, Motlop (I know many love Mots but he never really produced the goods in any big important moments in finals, ever)

Comparing to another bad year, like 2016 when we went down to Sydney in that horrible final, we had these plodders in our team:

Ruggles, Cowan, Caddy, Zac Smith, Menegola

The point being - this season, our bottom six is extremely balanced and deep. Picking the bottom six players is genuinely difficult, and half the blokes you'd put in that list would be extremely stiff. Who was our worst / quietest player against Brisbane? Maybe O'Sullivan?

Depth counts for so much. We could / should go all the way this year.

 

[Mr Meow]

They're more than a good team.

They've been underrated all season by everyone and I'm not sure why.

Yes, we should win, but it's not gonna be a walkover like it would have been vs Adelaide.

This is a serious danger game.

One man's good is another man's absolutely amazing. I've seen a lot of teams over the journey and for now am very comfortable labelling both of these Geelong/Hawthorn teams as good rather than world beaters. There have been no incredible teams all season, but plenty of good ones.

I already highlighted the challenge that they will present. "Danger game" acts as if we are massive favourites to begin with, which we won't be. This game will be somewhere between 50/50 and 60/40 our way at most.

 

[canny30]

One man's good is another man's absolutely amazing. I've seen a lot of teams over the journey and for now am very comfortable labelling both of these Geelong/Hawthorn teams as good rather than world beaters. There have been no incredible teams all season, but plenty of good ones.

I already highlighted the challenge that they will present. "Danger game" acts as if we are massive favourites to begin with, which we won't be. This game will be somewhere between 50/50 and 60/40 our way at most.

If you're rating Geelong as a good team then I'd agree hawthorn is a good team.

Personally I'd rate both teams higher than that.

 

[patience]

Can we please stop mentioning 2008. It’s triggering.

I’m nervous as all heck, but reasonably confident.

 

[Mr Meow]

If you're rating Geelong as a good team then I'd agree hawthorn is a good team.

Personally I'd rate both teams higher than that.

2011 Geelong and 2013 Hawthorn are examples of versions I rate higher than good. You only need a good, not outstanding, team to win a flag these days.

 

[canny30]

2011 Geelong and 2013 Hawthorn are examples of versions I rate higher than good. You only need a good, not outstanding, team to win a flag these days.

I'd suggest there's a tier of very good between good and outstanding

 

[Mr Meow]

I'd suggest there's a tier of very good between good and outstanding

I have 17 tiers and it would take 6 hours to discuss them. Let's meet for lunch and I can walk you through each of them.

 

[Pure_Ownage]

See this is why I love hate our rivalry with Hawthorn.

Richmond are just so angry and aggressive.

I hate you too Hawker_85 - Hawks are cocky, silky skilled, well coached, cocky, have stupid faces....I hate Sam Mitchell, I hate the way he coaches so well, I hate how good at football he was, I hate that he now seems to be a good coach, I hate that I sometimes like listening to him! I hate that I respect him and stupid cocky face.

I hope you have a horrible night next Friday night... But I'm also very excited about another chapter with you stupid cocky pricks.

I hate hawthorn but I respect their high performance culture a lot. It will be a cracking game but we should get this done-we couldn't have asked for a better run in.

 

[canny30]

Definitely - although in the past few decades, we've only really shat the bed egregiously a couple of times. 2008 was poor. 2013 also pretty bad.

The thing I really love about our team right now is that we seem to have a high number of mentally strong players, and very few passengers.

If you compare to a year like 2013 for example, look at these mid-range players we had in our list at that time:

Vardy, Walker, West, Taylor Hunt, Caddy, Rivers, Motlop (I know many love Mots but he never really produced the goods in any big important moments in finals, ever)

Comparing to another bad year, like 2016 when we went down to Sydney in that horrible final, we had these plodders in our team:

Ruggles, Cowan, Caddy, Zac Smith, Menegola

The point being - this season, our bottom six is extremely balanced and deep. Picking the bottom six players is genuinely difficult, and half the blokes you'd put in that list would be extremely stiff. Who was our worst / quietest player against Brisbane? Maybe O'Sullivan?

Depth counts for so much. We could / should go all the way this year.

Agree.

The list we have now is much better than the lists we had previously in the Scott era.

It shows in the fact we are 5-1 in our past 6 finals.

 

[Hawker_85]

See this is why I love hate our rivalry with Hawthorn.

Richmond are just so angry and aggressive.

I hate you too Hawker_85 - Hawks are cocky, silky skilled, well coached, cocky, have stupid faces....I hate Sam Mitchell, I hate the way he coaches so well, I hate how good at football he was, I hate that he now seems to be a good coach, I hate that I sometimes like listening to him! I hate that I respect him and stupid cocky face.

I hope you have a horrible night next Friday night... But I'm also very excited about another chapter with you stupid cocky pricks.

You blokes couldn't even have the decency to let me hate Tom Hawkins. Drove a dagger into my heart with that goal after the siren on Easter Monday then had the gall to be on TV a while afterwards and he gave me the impression he was a genuinely nice bloke. Bloody insufferable.

 

[Footy_Fan2007]

It's not selective at all (and I'm not the one who made that post)

A Knockout final is vastly different to a Qualifying final.

The fact is we have lost to them 3 times now in knockout finals when we should have beaten them.

2000, 2008 and 2013.

It's what makes this game extremely nerve racking.

If they roll us this time they're snide little remarks gain even more traction.....if we beat them we can start to argue back with more conviction.

It's a massive game because it's a prelim but it's also a massive game in terms of our rivalry with these arrogant pricks.

2013 for me, we were always the underdog going in so I’m not sure we ‘should’ have beaten them. Yes we led going into the last but we ran out of gas and could barely run due to stuffing up in week 1 and having to go the long way (also with no Hawkins, chappy or Boris)
The Hawks had the week off and were well rested.
That lost hurt like hell but 13 is a little different to the others for me.
We weren’t in prime position going into that.

 

[canny30]

2013 for me, we were always the underdog going in so I’m not sure we ‘should’ have beaten them. Yes we led going into the last but we ran out of gas and could barely run due to stuffing up in week 1 and having to go the long way (also with no Hawkins, chappy or Boris)
The Hawks had the week off and were well rested.
That lost hurt like hell but 13 is a little different to the others for me.
We weren’t in prime position going into that.

I'm referring to a 4 goal lead early in the last.

 

[callmeX]

Caro is coming for the cats off field
seriously can she start and only talk about mrs hardwick

 

[Footy_Fan2007]

I'm referring to a 4 goal lead early in the last.

Yes I know. As I stated, we ran out of gas due to having to play an extra game.

We were also 4 goals down in that game at half time against Port until we had to turn it on to get over the line.

Losing the QF that year cost us the flag.

 

[Footy_Fan2007]

Caro is coming for the cats off field
seriously can she start and only talk about mrs hardwick

Who give a rats ass what that old horrific irrelevant piece of garbage says.

Not worth the energy reading or listening to her shit