10-04-2015, 01:01 AM
(10-04-2015, 12:47 AM)laj link Wrote:76, 78, 79, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91.I managed most of those! I started in 1973. What a shocker! We finished with 14 fit players and still scared the crap out of them.
1987 I missed. I was in Europe for the whole season. I saw the game in an Aussie Club in London.
In some ways 1987 makes my point for me (from my previous sermon): Hawthorn went into the GF without a key player, Dunstall, and fell in a hole. The longer the game went, the less their team functioned. That was a good day!
1973 also makes a point for me. We lost a couple of very important smalls before the GF and ended up giving Vinnie Catoggio his debut. We lost about 90 possessions through those injuries, and couldn't manage when Richmond took out our 'brain' (Nicholls). They then broke Southby's jaw, Hall's cheekbone and gave concussion to a couple of others.
1988: injuries to key players killed us. We did a fantastic job to do as well as we did. But we couldn't get our best on the field in the last half of the season.
Does that sound familiar? Let's see Hawthorn win with those problems. It isn't going to happen!
Live Long and Prosper!