How would you feel if you were Darcy Tucker in this game?
You’ve done a pretty good job, restricted access to the footy for potential All-Australian, Dylan Moore, and played a very solid, accountable game of footy. The final siren sounds, you walk off the arena, and you find that Moore has kicked 4.3 and is listed in Hawthorn’s best players.
Life is not fair.
This time last year, both the Roos and Hawks were struggling. Both entrenched in their respective rebuilds, they came into this season without high expectations, but one side has excelled.
The other has stagnated.
Hawthorn has gone from winning seven games (with a late season flurry, winning three of their last six games) to winning 14 this season in a startling turnaround. North have won three games – the same as last year, and are a team looking for a light at the end of what is proving to be a pretty long tunnel.
Today, that light was a brown and gold train, and it ran right over the top of a team that looked to me as though they put the cue in the rack last week against the Dogs. Their cumulative losing margin over the past fortnight in 220 points.
The Hawks are rolling, and they are doing it by playing irrepressible footy. North are floundering – a team who could not wait for the season to end.
And so it was at UTAS Stadium, that the Hawks touted the Kangaroos by over 20 goals.
Let’s see what we can pull from this one. Here’s The Mongrel’s Big Statements
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