'Water off a duck's back!': Ginni & Sicily opens up on EMPHATIC Hawks victory | Fox Footy

do you believe that is the question because the dream is very very much alive the haon footy Club go to Adelaide next Friday night to take on a shell shock Port Adelaide footy club and uh my word Adelaide over next Friday they'd be nervous absolutely the way the draws Lin up G it's uh it's given them a big opportunity cuz essentially they're going to play at their home ground for three of the four finals if they can keep winning uh obviously they got to out late next week they knocked them off back to the MCG which their home G against shalong and I think they do think the time you're going to see him back here is on Grand final day oh is that right so it goes the other way mate still could do it just what a this it was just a significant destruction of a very good opposition who were poor tonight but you've got to give hawor the credit for that because the dogs have been in ripping form up till tonight so yeah it wasn't just in contest it wasn't just in transition it was forward it was back it was Consolidated across the field have a look at those second half numbers there so could have been a lot worse for the Western bulldogs so they KCK seven goals 12 in the second half scores spride 50 they're scoring it will and the end we show some Vision a little bit later on about they were almost taken the you know what out of out of the game plus 20 contested possessions plus 11 inside 50s some of those numbers are off the charts and this is their first final for half of them I think Buck mentioned it a quarter time or even three quarter time it was a really mature way to Think Through the game certainly early on when the Bulldogs energy was up they were able to defend really well really shut down Hawthorne's ball movement and forc him into a game where it really suited the Western Bulldogs then after after half timee and and this is what they do to teams if they don't get you early they'll get you late and you could just see the way that they were covering the ground the way the way that they set up the game go from inside to out spoke again once about their cleanliness it was just a a complete performance of aside who was probably the second hottest team in the competition right now all right let's go back down the ground we can hear from a man that was always going to have a big same proceedings Jack ginan I am JV I'm just Nick Watson's cramping so that's all right but Jack ginan's down here as well huge result for the footy Club you keep your season alive just sum up what just happened out here for us oh amazing game um you know the first quarter wasn't on our terms and we just went back to what we're good at we got really high and got him out the back and that's all fors like this guy took the P Nick the wizard Watson you've got your own fan club here I mean four goals for you tonight how special is this I mean your first Final in these colors but um you must absolutely loving your time with the whole club um yeah what a game honestly first final um to get this turn out all the wizard hats um it's lovely but um I started cramping up in the celebration just before so I better get off the field now but now what a win go Hawks and guinea you've been here before of course at Premiership just last year but how does this group compare oh this is so much fun everyone's my age everyone does it I do celebrate carries on I love my forward line we got a few fossils Gunners and Bru keeping us together but everyone else is so young and so happy and when this guy's kicking goal is so much fun it's always scrutiny around every move that you do does it get to you or is it just water off the duck's back no I water off the duck's back I feel like I'm allowed to you know go if you want us have dinner I don't know everyone will keep talking but I'll just do what I do and just try finding kick goals and yeah pass them off as well I told you it's a big party that's building up here from a hathon footy Club point of view and invites are hard to get but when you're in the prime minister of the country there's a fair chance you're going to get yourself down in the rooms we are told he's been a long time ha on support Al dick who's one of the great great hathon men of all time and saved the football club in lots of ways and now we'll be sitting back reving in these scenes that we're experiencing here at the MCG just extraordinary we're going to unpack it in a long way so stay with us we're going to have a really good look at it Nick Watson sitting there with the wizard hat his first first final he's not the sorcerer apprentice called him a few he's H his hat have you ever what about K de interview have you ever heard an 18y old say he's really proud of the boys that's like he's a dad already seven goals between them four to Watson three to Dear in their first elimination Final in front of 97,2 people Sam Mitchell he's got some good toys to play with here [Applause] uh it's a it is an unfolding story it has been uh well from halfway through the year and every time they kept winning he said well this is going to be exciting in the years to come it's going to you this is for haon supporters of has they've been down for so long by five minutes that they look like they got something and now they are hey I believe they go they go favorites next week yeah they should be absolutely the first question we asked was about you know zero a surprised to be here he goes yeah well I'd be surprised given where we were but now we're here I'm hungry for more doesn't matter yeah so now it wouldn't be enough so that's that's a great attitude to have it seems like he's just got the right words to describe where Hawthorne are and and be satisfied and happy and celebrate what they've achieved but still to have that edge to go forward I feel like they've just embraced it now guys so normally us old schoolers we we'd sit there and go getting ahead of themselves no chance they win next week the way they're carrying on I feel like the horse on now they just embrac this whole thing celebrate with the crowd celebrate with each other Jack Gman said so much fun playing with all the younger bikes as well I think they're just going to keep doing what they're doing yeah well we we would look like idiots if we were jumping up and down about the way they celebrate because they back it up followed it through once once you back it up and they back that seven from eight then you can do what you want winners winners are grinners and losers pleas and the only one they've lost they were they had destroyed they destroyed the Giants for three qus and I reckon they took their foot off throat for 5 minutes and the game was gone and they they've learned every way as they've gone through the last twoth thirds of the season in particular and they they lost that game to Port adelay I think it was round 10 was it round 10 they lost that game to Port ad in the last kick with that Dary burn Jones toe when they were three or four goals up 97 97 800 I mean that that's the reason a lot of those fans come here one because there's probably no other game but but to see the exuberance to see the celebrations and and I think Sam said it before as long as it doesn't come disrespectful and you invite everyone in to enjoy the ride absolutely let them let them go yeah and it's a different world we live in these days I know we don't want to sound like we're too old but this is the world that we live in this this is you celebrate you you you share on social media well and you get the follows up on Tik Tok you know I'll go home and I'll just hear first thing in the morning what all those Tik toks got for horse on footy cup for my daughter h no I'm not going to be hon it Gary I'll hear all about it though we're going to wait we're going to talk to um one of the boys down there in the haon ruins but while we wait for them let's just unpack some of the good stuff and you can celebrate with us oron Smalls at half time we're sort of wondering where the season was you know but we then you know ConEd that this is a tough final it's elimination final and it was going to take a little bit to for it to open up but when it has they uh put all of their skills on the spot this is more like the final that we accustomed to are we over the years aren I was disappointing really from the get game but this was the arm wrestle early no question then from really halfway through the second quarter when Hawthorne were able to impose themselves with the game and I feel just sitting here in the ground boys just the way they're able to make the ground a bit bigger just able to spread the Western Bulldogs numbers apart yeah and I think um you know they'll probably learn a a lesson in that first quarter and first quarter in a bit where they where they couldn't generate any run they probably tried to force it a little bit too much as ginan said after the game their forwards got a little bit too high and then you've just got to be patient in these big games you don't know when that moment might come it might come in the fourth quarter next week but by God when they get on that run and they find themselves in this sort of space the other thing that I loved about their small fors were the way that they share the ball when they could have had shots at goal and I think that's a big part of the way that they they blend together the unity that they've got say there Gan massive part of that was able to find Watson on a couple occasions Watson replays in FA mcginness rning think into Watson hand ball to to mcginness which you know could have easily been a goal for himself but the unselfish nature bringing people in that I think that celebration's trademarked by Jeremy Cameron so he might have a a lawsuit on his last night that was the cap at the London Tavern a 11 points a margin at halftime and it was a it was a genuine arm wrestle and the play that we thought was uh as dominant as any was the skipper who must be a pretty proud old man right now sitting down those rooms all these young BLS around him James sley well done hey yeah buddy RS mate um unbelievable result I can't really hear that well but yeah that's all right M we just said you must be a pretty happy old man down there with all those young fellas running around thought you're outstanding in the first half when it was an arm wrestle but things opened up I mean the celebrations down there are what we've come to expect of this ha on side yeah I know they probably let themselves down a few times missed some easy goals out there in the second quarter but yeah they love they love the bright lights the looks of it so um yeah we really enjoyed the uh getting after them today and um I thought our ability to handle their pressure and the Midfield battle went such a long way today like joh Nukem and James War even miy like miky did such a great job in the Rock manate unbelievable but it looks like a bit of a freefor in the rooms we just saw gan's old man in the back tell him to get out of the out of the screen it's a bit of a freefor in there yeah M well hil's here as well I don't know how BR wiled his way in I think he's trying to come back now after that result but um yeah it's it's a good feeling they talk us through the game I it looked like a t contest in the first quarter maybe the conversation that that happened at at quarter time in how the game broke open and the confidence you boys got from that yeah look they really tried to come at us in that second quarter with running gun and handball and um we just have to stay diligent and play our way and press press the game you know that's what we we're trying to do really get after the opposition so when they kept it kept it live and kept it faster we enjoyed that but um yeah M lost for words really like had our challenges this year and we've been quick uh quick to learn from our mistakes and um yeah geez we're into another final seeis I think you're right you're not going to get finals all your way and you were able to grind it out in that first half in a different manner you you started controlling clearance a little bit more even though they won that uh that stat in the first half but as the game opened up um you're able to intercept you're able to move the ball and and challenge their defense and and really did uh have your own way in that that second half yeah look we really pride ourselves on our work rate and supporting the ball carrier you know low number out number get into contests after clearance and yeah we have a lot of confidence that we can run out games really strongly and um yeah we want to play the open side and we were able to do that for most of the game Sis how's how's the week for you leading into this game being the captain of this footy Club not being in this position before did you lean on anyone did you try and seek advice or you just tried to keep to yourself and just play the game as it comes and more so the week as well oh to be honest I was just itching at the bit to get out there you know like two weeks felt like forever um to play a game play to play tonight no in terms of asking questions of anyone I just lent on the other leaders you know we got guys that are capable of leading in all lines and um we were just really embracing The Challenge and playing uh Friday night footy CU you haven't been on this occasion for a long time so um really group group Le efforts and um yeah hopefully we can go deep James tell us a little bit about Jack scrimshaw I thought he was fantastic this evening yeah interet marks but just so strong in the contest he's he's had a sneaky Good Year probably other guys have got a lot of focus but what does he mean to you when you've got a block like that um on either side of you when when you're in that back six yeah to be honest I think he's probably going to get a little bit more respect that he deserves you know a lot of our a lot of the talk around our undersized keys and um are they going to be up for the challenge and he's been right up to the challenge all year and um he's able to use the ball so well once he does win it it's pretty um that's what's so good about maybe our undersiz yeah they might be as tall but bloody hell they can use the footy once they win it um but he's had an enormous year it's been so reliable um and was able to get the job done tonight well I don't know do you think you'd be in this situation when you're zipping five uh not this quick mate no no um I said during the week of this year's had the lowest of lows early days and now it's uh we're coming to the highest of Highs but I always believed in the vision and the and sort of the projection that we were on um full trust in Sam and the football club and um to be happening this quick right I'm I'm sort of pinching myself it's it's unreal I enjoy it mate we appreciate you giving us some time can you win the Premiership yeah why not why not we'll try that's it it's a great answer well done enjoy it