Hooker is a bum
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Hooker is a bum
Absolute bum of a footballer and weve got sucked in from last year. Id prefer Thomas Murphy Wallsy!!!
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Tough call, for mine.
He's playing on a mobile, 100 goals in a yea,r power forward of the AFL.
I'll be happy for 5 or less form Buddy with Hooker on him.
He's playing on a mobile, 100 goals in a yea,r power forward of the AFL.
I'll be happy for 5 or less form Buddy with Hooker on him.
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keep watching miss
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Re: Hooker is a bum
Id also be giving zaharakis a spell next week...missed goals...and nothing else meaningful to keep him in the team.
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bomberflyer wrote:Id also be giving zaharakis a spell next week...missed goals...and nothing else meaningful to keep him in the team.
Game's not over yet...
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Zaharakis was the only person in our forward line in the early part of the third term who was actually presenting.
Doesn't look like you and I are going to agree on much tonight
Doesn't look like you and I are going to agree on much tonight
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Atkinson has been a good in
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Well Jesus the way Franklin performs against us keeping him to 5 goals was am about average game for Franklin against us.
I don't think he was great but he was hardly horrible, he had one goal gifted to him by a terrible umpiring decision, he got another couple when we butcher the ball going forward and the Hawks were able to isolate Franklin in space one on one against Hooker. In those situations you are actually better off him taking the mark because he is such a freak atheletically that in those situations he would have just any defender in the competition look second rate.
I don't think he was great but he was hardly horrible, he had one goal gifted to him by a terrible umpiring decision, he got another couple when we butcher the ball going forward and the Hawks were able to isolate Franklin in space one on one against Hooker. In those situations you are actually better off him taking the mark because he is such a freak atheletically that in those situations he would have just any defender in the competition look second rate.
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I reckon Hooker did ok. Franklin is very hard to stop and normally does far more damage than that against us.
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far out tough crowd....
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You are a moron...Hooker played on their best player and kept him relatively quiet. Franklin got 2-3 of his goals from soft umpiring decisions but had little overall impact. Hooker kept to his guns all night and ended up taking Franklin out of the contest.bomberflyer wrote:Absolute bum of a footballer and weve got sucked in from last year. Id prefer Thomas Murphy Wallsy!!!
And your later comment re Zaharakis just confirms my original four words.
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Every year he comes up with a shit, stupid remark. This is no exception.swoodley wrote:You are a moron...Hooker played on their best player and kept him relatively quiet. Franklin got 2-3 of his goals from soft umpiring decisions but had little overall impact. Hooker kept to his guns all night and ended up taking Franklin out of the contest.bomberflyer wrote:Absolute bum of a footballer and weve got sucked in from last year. Id prefer Thomas Murphy Wallsy!!!
And your later comment re Zaharakis just confirms my original four words.
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Hooker played on Franklin last year and had 5 kicked on him but got alot of the ball himself. Very similar tonight, he got in some good spoils and got unlucky with Franklin getting a couple of soft ones.
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Tool! While Cale did have some Kepler moments, he did well against Franklin. Franklin was gifted two goals from soft free kicks and unloaded a bomb from 65m out. Hooker did better than hold his own tonight.
He kicks on the left
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That boy Hurley
Makes Riewoldt look shite!
He kicks on the riiiiiiiiigggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhttttttttttttt
That boy Hurley
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I thought Hooker was pretty good.
Not a lot you can do when Franklin decides to turn up.
Not a lot you can do when Franklin decides to turn up.
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Re: Hooker is a bum
This. He did a prettty good job I thought. Got some very good spoils in throughout the game. He does have his moments, especially when he strays too far in front of his opponent, but overall a pretty good game.Rossoneri wrote:Tool! While Cale did have some Kepler moments, he did well against Franklin. Franklin was gifted two goals from soft free kicks and unloaded a bomb from 65m out. Hooker did better than hold his own tonight.
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The moment I liked was when after Buddy kicked his 5th, Fletcher ran straight up to Hooker and gave him a pat on the arse and a tap on the head for encouragement "stick to your guns son, you're doing OK" sort of thing.
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The Age wrote:Buddy bags five but Hooker holds his own
CHLOE SALTAU
May 2, 2010
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/b ... -u0ht.html
THERE are two constants in the fabled rivalry between Essendon and Hawthorn: blood will be spilt and Buddy will kick of bag of goals.
Although last night's grudge match never really ignited in the manner of the infamous ''line in the sand'' game or last season's round-22 snipe-fest, Hawthorn's hopes again hinged on Lance Franklin, this time perhaps unhealthily so.
The big, athletic forward kicked five goals, and twice threatened to win the game off his own boot, but the fact Essendon prevailed had something to do with the perseverance of the lanky Bomber beside him, Cale Hooker.
Franklin had kicked 30 goals in his previous five matches against the Dons, and one of the many question marks hovering over Essendon leading into this season-defining match was how the defence would cope without Tayte Pears.
Pears was one of the few successes of the opening rounds, but broke an arm on Anzac Day. If Hooker wanted to know how hard it is to break even with Franklin, he needed only to speak to Paddy Ryder, who had nine goals kicked against him a few seasons back and last night was busy trying to find some touch in the ruck. Since then Adam McPhee, recently departed to Fremantle, had taken his turn and taken Franklin's medicine.
With the ageless Dustin Fletcher taking Jarryd Roughead, the job on Franklin fell to Hooker, the East Fremantle defender taken with the Bombers' last pick (No. 54) in the 2007 national draft.
Hooker makes mistakes but, like Fletcher, he has long arms and a way of using them to his advantage. In the first quarter he managed to reach around Franklin to spoil on several occasions, keeping the star forward to a solitary mark and kick, which went through for a behind. He smothered, too, and did not lose his cool when Franklin turned on his brilliance in the second term. He kicked two goals in a few minutes, one of them a brilliant banana from the pocket and the other a 65-metre roost that suggested he might lift Hawthorn on his own.
Franklin turned it on again in the third term, but one of his goals was a gift from the controversial decision to penalise Henry Slattery for taking the ball over the line for a rushed behind just as he slipped out of a Franklin tackle.
He was still the most influential Hawthorn player on the ground, but the Hawks' midfield, outplayed by Jobe Watson's resurgent band, could be accused of being too ''Buddy-centric'' while Roughead was starved of supply. Hooker stuck at his task and, unlike many who have tried before him, could say that he held his own against the dangerous Hawk.
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