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Collectors item? If Daws plays 200 games, the number of his back might move closer to zero.<\/p><\/div>\n

As the twilight descended into night we stared agog as the number of missed handballs, shanked kicks, out on the fulls, miskicks, dropped marks, fumbles and inaccuracies mounted. This Hawks V Roos clash felt like a sluggish Sunday morning training “session” in the good ol VFL days where would be sports scientists would manage the keg as the sole performance enhancing substance. Made from beer, not monkeys. Or bark, or a cows colostrum.<\/p>\n

Roos should have won. Had more disposals, contested possessions, hit outs, clearances, inside 50’s, free kicks (a whopping 30 to 15 which earned the wicked field umpires a sustained traditional pantomime send off). Big Hawks ruckman Max Bailey kicks the Hawks first three – one for each knee reconstruction – all from within the goal square. Scot Thompson held Lance “Buddy” Franklin goalless after conceding 13 goals to him in the parallel game last year.\u00a0 Cyril was a star with 4 before blowing his hammy. Lindsay Thomas slotted 5, the sleep shattering goal yips now well behind him. The lid blew off the game in the last 5 minutes as Mitchell and Gunston score truly for the Hawks while Petrie and Wright miss critical match winners for the Roos. It was the sort of game where whoever made the most of the least wasted opportunities won. That was Hawthorn.<\/p>\n

I’ve always had a sweet spot for North Melbourne. The kangaroo motif seemed authentic, Australian. A bit like the Gold Coast Suns. The entrepreneurial ethos which awoke an old school outfit into the excitement of those first 2 flags in the 70’s under Barassi. The Pagan era with it’s evocation of a pre war “Shinboners spirit” culture that added 2 more in the 90’s.<\/p>\n