Stuart Dew's 5 minute Grand Final dominance (2008)
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- In this weeks video, we take a look at Stuart Dew's grand final heroics for Hawthorn vs Geelong in 2008. Do you agree with the video?
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Plenty of people (hawks fans particularly - yep, me!) love this moment in time, 4 goals in literally 3 minutes of play and your world spins on its axis from nah-Geelong-are-too-good-again to incredulous elation, and Dew was obviously a key part in each play. Two reasonably difficult goals, plus a contestedmark-playon-boomingkick assist, and I've never seen such a list but surely the exchange with Mark Williams was one of the greatest assists of all time.
The narration was a great set up of the facts and context with this being the emergence of the Hawks with a master coach, and of the fascinating back story of Stuey Dew who had a year away from footy before being picked up in the draft, and had then probably underperformed during 2007 up until the GF and let's be honest, he was the fattest AFL player in at least the last 30 years. We all love an ugly duckling story! These are the stories and memories and images that make the Australian tradition of anointing premier teams from a grand final win so much better than perhaps an uninspiring win with 2 rounds to go in the regular season.
A missing little fact about the coach/player connection (it seems to be a bolt out of the blue in the narration) is that Clarkson was the 2001-02 coach (premiership and runner up) of SANFL club Central District, which was Stuey's "reserves" club while at Port Adelaide, for whom he played in the 2000 Premiership - it was actually his original home SANFL club as a youngster. Clarkson was then assistant coach at Port for the next 3 years where Dew was a real fan favourite. (Any time he picked up the ball forward of centre the crowd was baying for him to boot it long for goal with that famous left foot.)
Thank you for the comment! If ever I miss information like that it's usually because it's a little before my time - so I don't really remember footy before 03. I am glad that you enjoyed reminiscing this moment though it would be awesome to relive. I'm a freo supporter so I haven't had much to cheer about but I do remember absolutely loving what the Hawks (Dew, in particular) did on that day.
Football gods must have been smiling - to give the least likely player due to fitness to have his best moment in football in a winning grand final is pretty special. I was there thanks to a gifted free ticket and it was great to watch.
i literally drank a whole carton of beer while watching this game & didn’t remember much but i have rewatched it a few times since
Good vid man!
Wut...did you just post this? This is weirdly relevant to my life right now
Hahaha yeah
For all of us who helped Don Scott, who fought against the merger at an ugly coal face1996, 2008 was the reward. Ill never forget it as part of that fight. 2008 was our reward.
Great day
Was always of the opinion he should have received the Norm Smith. Nice video.
You are a good CZcamsr I like you can you do a vid about Richmond
Cheers mate, I have a video on Dusty, Fyfe and Danger atm. I will do a full video on the tigers at some point soon.
epic hwathorn win and season
Hey Mate, is your CZcams name a reference to the Nujabes album?
Yes it is! Glad to see some people have noticed.
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nah
Sad geelong