Round 17 Carlton vs Hawthorn Pre Game Pontifications

[crashlander]

Having seen some of Hawthorn's display on TV last night, next Friday night's game is not looking good.
[1] Hawthorn appear to have hit form and are playing very well.
[2] Hawthorn appear to hit (or knee) players and get away with it. We get suspended if we put any physical pressure on.
[3] We will not be able to get anything like our best 22 on the park. Even if we get a few guys back, we seem to lose somebody irreplaceable each week.
[4] The honeymoon appears over for Johnny Barker. We have returned to some fairly negative football and have a lot of players playing without a lot of passion. The run and willingness to take risks just hasn't been there.
[5] We haven't beaten Hawthorn for so long that many supporters have never seen it happen. I would LOVE to see us reverse this trend, as we have been getting closer and closer in recent times. However, we just don't have the cattle at this point of time.

[PassIt2Carrots]

Eek.

That said, I would absolutely LOVE for us to go down swinging. No chance of winning so let's square the ledger from past thuggery.

[ItsOurTime]

#believe

If we can manage to get Marc Murphy off his usual gig of being the Official AFL punching bag and back to being the most dangerous mid going inside 50 in the comp again we're a shot of getting within 10 goals.

[Lods]

We'll win this.
...and here's why...

Hawthorn have played what they probably regard as their two biggest rivals for the flag in the last two weeks and done the job easily.
They would have been building up for a couple of tough games and will look at this one next week as a "break".
You wouldn't think they'd face it with near the same intensity.
You could almost guarantee a let-down.
Whether that's enough to drop an "unloseable" game is doubtful...... but a season sometimes turns up an improbable result like this one

[cookie2]

We can always hope but I don't expect to reverse our trend of losses to the Thugees this game. I will be there - our seats are conveniently located near the exit in case an early retreat is necessary!

[ElwoodBlues1]

Get smacked probably by 15 goals given the form lines of the two teams unless the Hawks decide to rest some star players.....

[PaulP]

White to Mitchell, given the good job he did on Fyfe ?

[Mantis]

I will be happy if we can stay within 10 goals of the Hawks in the next game. For the first half to start with. Then we will see how things go in the second half. I just hope we don't get too many injuries in this game.

[kruddler]

White to Mitchell, given the good job he did on Fyfe ?

Cripps to Mitchell.

Like for like, give the kid something to look up to in the future.

White to Hodge.....bring the popcorn.  >

[blue4life]

We've got some good taggers and a couple of good half backs in Docherty and Tuohy, we've also got a better ruckman.
We'll get well beaten but I don't think it will get near 100 points.
Menzel is out of chances surely, Jaksch in for him is the only change I'd make, keep running the young blokes.