Rik E Boy wrote:Imagine if Sydney and GWS finished top two. It would be a disaster for the league. They need the sponsored Victorian team to finish top so the bandwagon fans and their pets hit the G for their annual pilgrimage. They'd like to see the Crows in 5th as well so the Oval is packed. In order to keep Fraudthorn up top the umpires have had to work overtime this season but they've duly delivered in matches against the Bulldogs, Saints, Crows, Roos and now the Demons. It's pretty obvious today because the Hawks are badly missing Frawley who has done a great job covering Lake.
By giving an already great player like Cyril RIoli his own rule book and paying tricky touch woods to Ceglar while Bernie Vince gets nothing for getting his nose broken the league have displayed thier hand. unlike the 2012 and 2014 Preliminary Finals , they aren't even trying to hide it any more. This Fraudthorn side could not beat Geelong 2007-2011, Brisbane 2001-2004, Essendon 1999-2001, North and West Coast of the 1990s and certainly not the REAL Hawthorn gun team of the 80s.
Fraudthorn are as plastic as the teams that helped them create this second rate dynasty. They guard space and play pathetic uncontested football. Any dominant side should be good to watch but this team isn't. When it gets tough they play unsociable which just means they get away with shit that other teams can't get away with. Even if this club wins six in a row, after the commentators have stopped masturbating history will remember them as a highly successful team during the weakest period the game has ever known.
Hawks by 22, I reckon Melbourne are tiring.
Regards,
REB
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