Campbell Brown's curious outburst on radio immediately after the round 22 Hawthorn-Essendon game can almost be forgiven, since the two people he would regard as leaders of his club showed by their actions that a knee-jerk reaction was acceptable.
Jeff “Dial-a-quote” Kennett, intoxicated by the illusion of power and happy to feed those he once contemptuously threw sand at, has spoken at length about anything and everything recently, often without adequate consideration of his intentions beforehand.
Alistair Clarkson, leaving the ground after the game, unleashed a stream of invective at Essendon players as he left the arena, notably with Brown in close proximity.
Brown himself, no model of propriety on the field, had already mouthed off to the Essendon bench during the second half — which was about the total of his contribution to the game — and following the example set by his coach and his President, decided to start his tongue without first engaging his brain.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the Lloyd-Sewell collision, and there was clearly no animosity between the two after the game, the Hawthorn of the Noughties has not distinguished itself save for its grace in victory last September.
The Hawthorn of Kennedy, Parkin, Jeans, Matthews, Brereton, Dipierdomenico, et al played the game with brutal intensity, but when it came time to take their share, they did so without either a backward step or a whimper.
The current Hawthorn leadership would do well to look to those predecessors for a guide to how to conduct themselves. By all means play “unsociable” football, but when the time comes, take it like men!
Monday, August 31, 2009
A dearth of leadership at Hawthorn?
Jeff “Dial-a-quote” Kennett, intoxicated by the illusion of power and happy to feed those he once contemptuously threw sand at, has spoken at length about anything and everything recently, often without adequate consideration of his intentions beforehand.
Alistair Clarkson, leaving the ground after the game, unleashed a stream of invective at Essendon players as he left the arena, notably with Brown in close proximity.
Brown himself, no model of propriety on the field, had already mouthed off to the Essendon bench during the second half — which was about the total of his contribution to the game — and following the example set by his coach and his President, decided to start his tongue without first engaging his brain.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the Lloyd-Sewell collision, and there was clearly no animosity between the two after the game, the Hawthorn of the Noughties has not distinguished itself save for its grace in victory last September.
The Hawthorn of Kennedy, Parkin, Jeans, Matthews, Brereton, Dipierdomenico, et al played the game with brutal intensity, but when it came time to take their share, they did so without either a backward step or a whimper.
The current Hawthorn leadership would do well to look to those predecessors for a guide to how to conduct themselves. By all means play “unsociable” football, but when the time comes, take it like men!
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As much as I thought it was cowardly shot by Lloyd, what happens on the ground stays on the ground. Brown took it off the field by his comments and that is a no no.
Hawthorn this year have been full of excuses and lack of real leadership. Maybe they really missed Crawford...
Took them most of the year to deal with the zone been played against them and then like you said, when unsocial football was played against them. They did not like it.
Think a long think sessions will be happening as they made several terrible decisions this year. The weekend just being the start of them.
Cowardly?? How so?
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