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Hawks fight KO'd
By Tim Morrissey
May 24, 2004
WITH their season on the brink, Hawthorn turned to former three-time world boxing champion Jeff Fenech for inspiration yesterday, only to be KO'd by Swan Jude Bolton.
Fenech delivered pre-game and halftime motivational speeches to the Hawthorn players at the SCG.
And the Hawks displayed plenty of fight, but their efforts went unrewarded when Bolton pinched the game for the Swans with a running goal with 2min_56sec left on the clock.
"It was just good to kick one in the last (quarter) and put us back in front," Bolton said after the Swans' one-point victory.
"You dream of that as a kid, but to do that in your 100th game, and also end a four-game losing streak, is pretty special.
"It takes a bit of the weight off our shoulders. It sort of just starts our season off again."
Hawthorn recovered from a woeful 4.4 to 0.1 first term and staged a dramatic fightback to come from 21 points down at three-quarter time time by kicking four answered goals to hit the lead with 8min_15sec remaining.
However, the Hawks have every right to feel they should have been 12 points closer at the final change after Trent Croad wasn't paid what appeared to be a clear mark in a good scoring position late in the third quarter.
The Swans gathered the loose ball and moved it quickly into their forward line, where Jared Crouch won a sprint along the boundary line to goal with 11sec remaining on the clock.
When questioned about the Croad controversy after the game, Schwab took the umpiring decision on the chin.
"I'll have to see the replay, I don't know ._._. I can't comment because I haven't seen it," he said. "But it wasn't (a mark) because they didn't pay it. That's footy."
Schwab also defended Hawks captain Shane Crawford's decision to kick into the wind after winning the toss, denying it had anything to do with Sydney's fast start.
"It was more the way we played and Sydney played in that first quarter rather than whether there was a breeze or not," Schwab said.
"The key factor was we allowed them to play an uncontested game of footy and we didn't run at all so we put ourselves behind. We clawed our way into the game at halftime and allowed it to slip again at three-quarter time."
The Daily Telegraph
By Tim Morrissey
May 24, 2004
WITH their season on the brink, Hawthorn turned to former three-time world boxing champion Jeff Fenech for inspiration yesterday, only to be KO'd by Swan Jude Bolton.
Fenech delivered pre-game and halftime motivational speeches to the Hawthorn players at the SCG.
And the Hawks displayed plenty of fight, but their efforts went unrewarded when Bolton pinched the game for the Swans with a running goal with 2min_56sec left on the clock.
"It was just good to kick one in the last (quarter) and put us back in front," Bolton said after the Swans' one-point victory.
"You dream of that as a kid, but to do that in your 100th game, and also end a four-game losing streak, is pretty special.
"It takes a bit of the weight off our shoulders. It sort of just starts our season off again."
Hawthorn recovered from a woeful 4.4 to 0.1 first term and staged a dramatic fightback to come from 21 points down at three-quarter time time by kicking four answered goals to hit the lead with 8min_15sec remaining.
However, the Hawks have every right to feel they should have been 12 points closer at the final change after Trent Croad wasn't paid what appeared to be a clear mark in a good scoring position late in the third quarter.
The Swans gathered the loose ball and moved it quickly into their forward line, where Jared Crouch won a sprint along the boundary line to goal with 11sec remaining on the clock.
When questioned about the Croad controversy after the game, Schwab took the umpiring decision on the chin.
"I'll have to see the replay, I don't know ._._. I can't comment because I haven't seen it," he said. "But it wasn't (a mark) because they didn't pay it. That's footy."
Schwab also defended Hawks captain Shane Crawford's decision to kick into the wind after winning the toss, denying it had anything to do with Sydney's fast start.
"It was more the way we played and Sydney played in that first quarter rather than whether there was a breeze or not," Schwab said.
"The key factor was we allowed them to play an uncontested game of footy and we didn't run at all so we put ourselves behind. We clawed our way into the game at halftime and allowed it to slip again at three-quarter time."
The Daily Telegraph
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