Hawthorn lose the 2013 prelim.
Game goes other way - would Hawks have stuck with Clarkson?
Game goes other way - would Hawks have stuck with Clarkson?
Losing that would have broken us I think. After the 2011 preliminary final last quarter choke and more or less choking again in the 2012 grandfinal, losing to our biggest rival after finishing the season on top again would have been to difficult to recover from imo.
We lose that game, no threepeat and Clarkson likely looses his job soon after.
Winning though gave us a belief that was missing. After that night we went from a team that kept loosing close ones to having ice in the viens any time it went down to the wire.

