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This is the second in a multi-part series on the building of the current Hawthorn team.  To see part one go to



http://www.ozsportsdude.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/building-of-flawed-flag-favourite.html



As the 2002 season dawned there was a lot of optimism from Hawthorn fans, still bitter over the loss of Croad the fan base still reasoned, with some justification, that he was…

Round 9

Okay, so I got it wrong last week and this week is not an easy game either. Games against the Swans are always tough, hard-fought battles. Perhaps just as bad as the loss of the game last week was the loss of Rhys Stanley whose height and speed have made him a real asset to the Saints. This is even more the case since the injury to Big Ben.  Last  week, until he pulled his hammy he out-leaped NicNat.

However I…

PART ONE:  THE CREATION MYTH

2012 was looking like it would be a lot of fun for Hawthorn fans, as the season approached you were able to open a newspaper or watch one of the now ubiquitous football panel shows without being made aware that the Hawks were one of the favourites for this year’s premiership.  With the main players from the 2 Hawks superdrafts of 2001 and 2004 now well and truly in their primes and a bunch of the younger players now approaching the 25-50 game mark…

Round 8

Well round 7 went well for the Sainters. As I said last week, it was a winnable game for the Saints and so it proved to be; mainly thanks to a dominant mid-field and our small forwards. Funnily enough these were probably the two areas that most pundits would have predicted that the Blues would dominate.

There is no doubt that the Saints learnt much from how Essendon strangled the Blue’s…