Preview Changes & Preview Thread for Gather Round 2025 vs Hawthorn

[Doctor Feel]

Luckily Lord has been learning… we seem to do loads of learnings.

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Chad Cornes saying "he gets the ball to ground" gives me ****ing nightmares. That's been his hard on for years. Dixon2Ground was his pièce de résistance

 

[TeeKray]

I'd play him. This small ball shit is wank. We're always trying to emulate another system. His attitude stunk in round 1 yeah, but was he the only one? We lost by 90 lmao. The whole playing group and club's attitude has stunk. The club isn't even trying this year and we knew that was obvious from the moment they announced the failure plan. For the sake of giving Mitch and Lord support and a 3rd option up there, and getting Ollie Wines (lol) out of the ruck. We've always looked better with a 3 tall system up there. He can come out for Luko when fit, and/or if Whitlock shows enough in SANFL. Till then play him forward/2nd ruck.

And where is the proof of concept for this small ball stuff anyway? We've always looked better when we have tall forwards, even average tall forwards, competing well and winning their position. Our small forwards have been a weakness for the vast majority of Hinkley's tenure including right now, there's no justification for basing our game around them.

 

[Macca19]

And where is the proof of concept for this small ball stuff anyway? We've always looked better when we have tall forwards, even average tall forwards, competing well and winning their position. Our small forwards have been a weakness for the vast majority of Hinkley's tenure including right now, there's no justification for basing our game around them.

I guess the proof of concept is that the last two flag teams had better performing smalls than talls up forward. We have 1 good tall and 1 reasonable small so its not really comparable though.

 

[PowerBaz]

Chad Cornes saying "he gets the ball to ground" gives me ****ing nightmares. That's been his hard on for years. Dixon2Ground was his pièce de résistance

I mean is there any more to footballery than getting the ball to ground?

 

[FishingRick04]

Richards turns 26 later this year. He shouldn't need development, he should be ready now.

I haven't seen much to see the obsession we had for him

 

[FishingRick04]

Like the Gerard Whateley “Gryan Miers is the Lionel Messi of AFL” hoax.

Or like Whatley saying how good Ken coached in 2024 with this team looking at us now

 

[VineValerian]

Out:
DBJ, Evans, Mead
In:
Atkins (), Boak, Cochrane.

Berry - has to show something this week,
or it's off to the Magoo's.
Finlayson - ditto.
Evans - ditto.

Potential ins:
Lorenz.
Lai.

 

[Doctor Feel]

I'd bring Lai in over Atkins. If only for the "what did we draft him for (Lai), and Atkins isn't the future" factor.

 

[bow and arrow]

I mean is there any more to footballery than getting the ball to ground?

Especially when statistically we're terrible at ground ball gets and loose ball gets!

 

[PowerBaz]

I'd bring Lai in over Atkins. If only for the "what did we draft him for (Lai), and Atkins isn't the future" factor.

However can Ratkins bring the ball to ground. If he marks it then puts it on the ground does this count with a certificate from Chad?

 

[Waspy79]

I haven't seen much to see the obsession we had for him

He's playing like a high midfielder, he's okay in link up play but wouldn't win a hard ball contest. I would have thought these types are dime a dozen. We need GOAL KICKERS.

 

[Scholz Supremacy]

The AFL are going to regret all this WWE style crap by using this grudge match as the main event of Gather Round when Hawthorn are 12 goals up.

 

[Scodges]

This ball to ground shite gives the forwards an easy out if they spill the mark, I’d be saying mark the ball, or else !

 

[Willsy10]

Dixon and the game plan set around him gets rubbished all the time but was it actually that bad in hindsight? Genuine question.

He was physically cooked and had to retire but he still had played some pretty good games for us, he was particularly strong for us in 2017, 2020 and 2021.

 

[RangaInTeal]

Dixon and the game plan set around him gets rubbished all the time but was it actually that bad in hindsight? Genuine question.

He was physically cooked and had to retire but he still had played some pretty good games for us, he was particularly strong for us in 2017, 2020 and 2021.

It’s just not a sustainable game style that allows you to compete in finals, that has been proved every year since 2016…

Low % shots on goals, to much emphasis placed on defensive forwards, opposed to kicking a winning score.

A defensive game style that only needs to be broken a few times and pressure mounts.

 

[PAFC66]

Hawthorn to beat the f****** nowhere club by 15 goals.

 

[Willsy10]

It’s just not a sustainable game style that allows you to compete in finals, that has been proved every year since 2016…

Low % shots on goals, to much emphasis placed on defensive forwards, opposed to kicking a winning score.

A defensive game style that only needs to be broken a few times and pressure mounts.

Early days but whatever this new game plan is or what Hinkley thinks is "building" seems worse.

 

[Willsy10]

We've been a nowhere club for a lot longer than 8 years.

 

[klem22]

Out:
DBJ, Evans, Mead
In:
Atkins (), Boak, Cochrane.

Berry - has to show something this week,
or it's off to the Magoo's.
Finlayson - ditto.
Evans - ditto.

Potential ins:
Lorenz.
Lai.

We have a weak pathetic club!

 

[Powertron]

Does Ken decide to hide in the coaches box this week?

I wouldn’t put it past him and then spin it as “I didn’t want the focus to be on me, it’s about the collective teams performance”….after we’re trounced by 70+

 

[RossFC]

I could actually see this being a 100 point margin. Not only will we be too stupid to not sit back and stop the bleeding, our players just won't put the effort in to defend anyway.

 

[JimmyBC]

Good Lai

 

[malcheski]

Early days but whatever this new game plan is or what Hinkley thinks is "building" seems worse.

This new gameplan is a direct rip off of GWS, except they have a coach who can articulate how it should be done and we have a bollard moonlighting as a head coach.

 

[Jonts]

I could actually see this being a 100 point margin. Not only will we be too stupid to not sit back and stop the bleeding, our players just won't put the effort in to defend anyway.

It's a team that feasts off turnover vs a side with a handball game plan that has failed due to not being able to cope with pressure

 

[Doctor Feel]

The AFL are going to regret all this WWE style crap by using this grudge match as the main event of Gather Round when Hawthorn are 12 goals up.

They just want to sell the tickets then its gravy