YOU BEAUTY!!!
What a game! Nothing like slogging out a win against a fancied opposition in the wet! Although i knew it meant the crowd would be well down for the main game and would look crap on tv, was glad the rain came down.
The end of the 1st quarter was probably their best patch, where they were able to run the ball into the wind and score fairly easily.
Glad the rain came when it did, stopped Willy from playing open footy, and denied them using the strong wind effectively in the 2nd qu.
Well done Patty Hassett on BOG, great to see.
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Well done Hawks.
Neally fell of my seat when I heard Brad Gotch in his 'special comments' role saying that Box Hill had dropped back senior players to play in their reserves GF side !!
Fair dinkum Gotchy , your mob played 6 blokes who had played in the senior PF the week before. Plus , you had 2 AFL guys playing in Hall and Walker. Box Hill had.....ummm , hang on , I'll find it......eerrrr , ummmm , oh yeah , Box Hill had 0 !
The SENIOR players he must have been referring to were blokes like Rudolph , Jolley , Weinert and Cook. All guys who have played many more reserves games than senior games.
I know it must have hurt Gotchy , to have lost the only game of the year that really mattered but give me a break will ya.
Great performance by the Hawks and lets hope the club can use this as a springboard to rebuilding the place after the slash and burn Liberatore/Collins years.
All this means little in the long run unless they can translate yesterdays win into senior success in the next 3 years.