One of the trends of 2019 so far is winning hitouts and losing games. As someone wrote above, you have to look at the combined impact of Marshall and Acres against Gawn and Preuss. We won the clearances and contested possession. The point of winning a hitout is to enable your midfielders to win a cl...

There's a stat in the AFL "clearances from stoppages".

Marshall is the equal 4th ranked in the AFL on this stat. The only players ahead of him are Josh Kelly, Patrick Cripps and Lachie Neale.

Destroyed McEvoy and Ceglar. Most ruckmen try and win a hitout to then give their midfielders a chance at winning a clearance. Marshall just wins the f**** clearance himself. 7 clearances to him, 2 to the Hawks ruckmen combined. Forget the irrelevant stat of hitouts - Marshall is the best ruck playe...

Stupidest thing I've ever heard

Put my hand up as someone who thought Seaford was the right move at the time and that Archie Fraser was hard done by because the move was completely driven by Westaway, Levin and Gdanski. Particularly the latter who had oversight of the project. However it was clearly a bad move from a cultural pers...

Anything less than playing finals is a failure. Richardson has twice got us to finish just outside the 8. Not good enough to just repeat that in his 6th year. We will go nowhere by finishing 9th-12th again. In my view, he should be out if we don't play finals. I think the Board can justify that posi...

Apparently both North and the Crows were keen on Gubby but he didn't want to leave Victoria and we offered him a bigger role. His conduct with Whitfield was something that a hundred other footy managers have done. He was the bloke who got caught. He's a relationships guy and I wouldn't be surprised ...

This is a guy who openly tells his team mates (one of whom has relayed this conversation to my wife) that he struggles to get motivated, looks for shortcuts at training, and would prefer to be playing suburban footy with his mates rather than AFL. On attitude alone he should be delisted. Absolute sp...

Absolute crap.

AFL rules now prohibit someone from being appointed a senior coach unless (i) they've already been a senior coach or (ii) they've completed the Level 4 coaching course.

This is a guy who openly tells his team mates (one of whom has relayed this conversation to my wife) that he struggles to get motivated, looks for shortcuts at training, and would prefer to be playing suburban footy with his mates rather than AFL. On attitude alone he should be delisted. Absolute sp...

Hawks won 4 games by less than 6 points. Lose those four and they finish 13th. Lose two and they finish 8th. It's a very fine line in this competition. Buckley couldn't buy a supporter last year and now he's a GF coach. Not arguing against Clarkson's genius (would take him in a heartbeat) but I thin...

Yep - for better or worse, the club is locking in behind RIcho for 2019.

He can't say he hasn't had every opportunity...

Ratten actually has some real coaching chops. His senior record at Carlton does not tell the real story there. He got chopped by a completely dilusionary board. Hawks assistant for a while. Will be our next senior coach if our first month next year is anything like 2018. Ratten was 3 points from a ...

Spot on SRS & Teffers, what credentials does GT have for the presidency role? The GT hero worship here is quite amusing, you'd swear he was Allan Jeans & dare I write it Drake/Huggins rolled into one person :lol: - Experienced media performer across radio and TV. - Excellent connections in ...

Thomas made us relevant. Whether or not he could coach was meaningless given where we were between 1998 and 2002. He made us relevant again. He's not the man to coach football in 2019, he's been out of coaching footy for a long time and his business is in an exciting phase. Coaching is in many ways ...

In 2015, we won 12 last quarters, despite only winning 6 games for the year. Adam Basil had us supremely fit and we made a number of late comebacks in games that we ultimately lost. Over the past three seasons, I've felt that our ability to run out games has deteriorated progressively. I'm not sure ...

Not sure about Mitchell. Wasn't universally loved at the Hawks. Hard task master and didn't always relate well to other people - think Nathan Buckley. Unsure whether he'd make the transition to senior coach. He's also had pretty limited experience. Certainly he's miles behind someone like Caracella ...

C'mon guys settle down... this is a moment of great celebration!!! The most incompetent list manager in the history of our club has been given the boot in the arse!! He took us to rock bottom, and now, finally we can feel the winds of change blowing in the right direction... like a summer breeze. I...

Don't post much on here anymore. The striking thing about this thread (and others) is the widespread agreement among everyone. None of us can see any passion or hope. Failing to live up to expectations always creates despair, but it's more than that. Most fans realised 3-4 weeks ago that finals were...

Matt Finnis is a lawyer with a psychology major in his Arts degree. Ameet Bains is a regulatory and marketing lawyer with a long history in amateur football. Neither of them are accountants. Neither of them are finance people. Ameet Bains was employed a couple of weeks after we lost the replay in 20...

If Billings goes at 60% in front of goal and plays 20+ games, we play finals.

Why do people feel the need to criticise? So what if he's an inside source or making it up? Does it really matter? Why attack him? Does it make you feel good? Trying to give certainty about our trade period strategy is like trying to predict with certainty which horse will win a race every 50 metres...

Sam McClure reporting that we have now made an offer for Devon Smith because the Bombers can't get a deal done.

A 7th placed finished would have seen us play Port in Adelaide (as Port would have won one fewer game). There was a fair chance we would have won that game and made it to the semi-final against GWS, who we had beaten this year. Our inability to play finals can be solely attributed to poor goal kicki...