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And just on the 2019 Hawks. Their best is easily top 4 quality IMO. They just have too many lapses.

It's hard to argue. Putting Ed onto Fyfe didn't work so he swung SOS onto him and Jack played a cracker.

Setterfield into the back pocket was effective.

Walsh in the forward flank / pocket was also successful (though he missed 2 gettable goals).

Kennedy in the Josh Caddy role was a masterstroke - 2 vital goals.

None of these type of moves was a hallmark of the Bolton era.

Where's flyboy ? He was at the game and I was looking forward to reading his report.

Yes but they kept at it, that’s what is the most pleasing thing. They didn’t go into their shells and start kicking backwards and over complicating it - move the ball forward and keep it there!

Especially as yet again we’ve forgotten to start playing until we’re 5 goals down!

Wins bring confidence, however they come about!

I noticed a lot of slipping over by our guys, wrong shoes or what?

Thanks flyboy. That's the impression I got from watching highlights and seeing bit of the match live. Good effort, but more good luck that we were ahead when the final siren went, the opposite of the bad luck we had earlier in the year.

That's the important thing - wins build confidence and belief and with those things will come better skills execution and tighter control over games. Let's not let old loyalties and axes to grind detract from our team's efforts  too much. Hopefully we can knock over the Dees this week.

Not luck at all.

Earlier in the year we cr@pped ourselves when we hit the front or folded under fair-dinkum pressure.

You make your own luck and when you've an aggressive attitude and application to offensive/defensive play, it can and does throw the opposition off to a degree - it clearly rattled the D1ckers. And that's what I saw after qtr time... our good moves of SOJ onto Fyffe and Ed hunting his own aggott and an aggressive/positive mind-set combined to create 'good luck'. Also results in more mistakes but if you anticipate these and suck it up, better skills will be created.

Not luck at all.

Earlier in the year we cr@pped ourselves when we hit the front or folded under fair-dinkum pressure.

You make your own luck and when you've an aggressive attitude and application to offensive/defensive play, it can and does throw the opposition off to a degree - it clearly rattled the D1ckers. And that's what I saw after qtr time... our good moves of SOJ onto Fyffe and Ed hunting his own aggott and an aggressive/positive mind-set combined to create 'good luck'. Also results in more mistakes but if you anticipate these and suck it up, better skills will be created.

I'll take the win any day and every day, but I think some assessments of that game are very sugar coated. Ordinary skills, behind on the scoreboard most of the night, not turning up to play, as flyboy says, Freo lost it rather than the other way around. If the siren sounds 40 seconds earlier, if Murphy kicks a behind or OOF etc., the post game emotion and analysis is very different. Teague says so himself. Watch his post game presser. Apart from the final result, that's not how good teams go about it. Yes, I know it's early days, and I hope Teague smashes it, but we won't be troubling too many sides with that display.

I'll take the win any day and every day, but I think some assessments of that game are very sugar coated. Ordinary skills, behind on the scoreboard most of the night, not turning up to play, as flyboy says, Freo lost it rather than the other way around. If the siren sounds 40 seconds earlier, if Murphy kicks a behind or OOF etc., the post game emotion and analysis is very different. Teague says so himself. Watch his post game presser. Apart from the final result, that's not how good teams go about it. Yes, I know it's early days, and I hope Teague smashes it, but we won't be troubling too many sides with that display.