10 minute mark, 2nd qtr versus Nth Melb on the Gold Coast, I very much doubt no one on this forum would have believed we would be in a Preliminary Final this season.
I know I didn't & Nick's Bus was looking like it was going to the wreckers.
But some good tinkering, a bit of belief and determination and well here we are one win from a Grand Final spot.
As I posted earlier, the two previous prelim final losses have to burn in this group.
If it does, then we are a big chance because very few in the Hawthorn side have played for stakes this big and it might just affect their performance.
Remember Port Adelaide kept losing Prelims despite having better teams because they couldn't handle the pressure.
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Not me.
I said to someone I was watching the game with that Lyon's job would be under a fair amount of pressure because of that performance.
By full time I was eating my words, that's for sure.
Since then, we've been terrific except against Collingwood during the H&A. I thought against the Eagles we tried all day but they were always gunna win that game.
Apart from that, we've played some great football. 9 wins from 11 matches is great form to carry into a Preliminary Final.
Great point re: experience.
Put Luke Ball in that side from last night, and we have 13 blokes who have played in a Preliminary Final before, plus 2 blokes in King and Schneider that have been all the way.
15 players with experience that only a couple of Hawks have.
Hopefully it proves and advantage.
I said to someone I was watching the game with that Lyon's job would be under a fair amount of pressure because of that performance.
By full time I was eating my words, that's for sure.
Since then, we've been terrific except against Collingwood during the H&A. I thought against the Eagles we tried all day but they were always gunna win that game.
Apart from that, we've played some great football. 9 wins from 11 matches is great form to carry into a Preliminary Final.
Great point re: experience.
Put Luke Ball in that side from last night, and we have 13 blokes who have played in a Preliminary Final before, plus 2 blokes in King and Schneider that have been all the way.
15 players with experience that only a couple of Hawks have.
Hopefully it proves and advantage.
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