Round 20 - Box Hill Hawks v Footscray Bulldogs - Saturday 9 August 2025 • 2:05 PM

[Bornadog]

24 min gone and 18 points up. Need a goal to wrap this up

[GVGjr]

This should close it out.

[Bornadog]

Great Win

Footscray : 11.7.73 to BH Hawks 7.12.54

[josie]

Strategy of short, accurate kicks. Wonder if our senior team meet hawks in a final whether we try same strategy. It blunted their speed.

[HOSE B ROMERO]

Confidence boosting win against a big rival leading into the finals. Loved the games of Scott, Croft, Dolan and Jacques. Great defensive team play.

[Mofra]

I think Mofra had him on his radar

Yep. Best small forward in the draft, by a fair way apparently.

[GVGjr]

Strategy of short, accurate kicks. Wonder if our senior team meet hawks in a final whether we try same strategy. It blunted their speed.

At training sessions it's referred to as 'defensive stones'

[josie]

Yep. Best small forward in the draft, by a fair way apparently.

Thanks Mofra. If he joins us has to lose that horrible haircut. Other than that yeah, let’s hope we’re in running for him if we don’t trade our first for an afl listed player.

[ledge]

Bloke I work with was supposedly best on ground, go Billy Crofts .
great win, Box hill are an extremely good team .
Edge did his homework stopped their run and made it a defensive tussle , Box Hill are quite a high scoring team .
Thought Croft was good, played all over the ground and managed to kick 3 in a low scoring game .
Jaques, Hynes and Sellwood were good.
Gardiner was exceptional, sadly he just can’t do it in AFL.
Dolan is a bit like Arty , if only they got a bit more ball they have tricks.

[Sedat]

How did Jai Serong go for Box Hill? I've got some Hawks mates who have huge wraps on him, and he is not going to get many chances in the seniors with Sicily, Barass and Battle ahead of him. Not sure of his contract status but would he be worth looking at?

[Mofra]

How did Jai Serong go for Box Hill? I've got some Hawks mates who have huge wraps on him, and he is not going to get many chances in the seniors with Sicily, Barass and Battle ahead of him. Not sure of his contract status but would he be worth looking at?

Looked very good. Beat Croft in the air a few times. Awkward size for AFL

[Bornadog]

Goals: Lewis 3, Croft 3, Jaques 2, Dolan, Kennedy, Khamis.

Disposals: Sellwood 27, Coffield 27, Crofts 24, Scott 21, Hynes 21, Craig-Peters 20, Kellett 20.

[Bornadog]

I thought the defence was excellent today. Jones, Coffield, Sellwood, Walker, Duryea repelled many attacks

[josie]

Bloke I work with was supposedly best on ground, go Billy Crofts .
great win, Box hill are an extremely good team .
Edge did his homework stopped their run and made it a defensive tussle , Box Hill are quite a high scoring team .
Thought Croft was good, played all over the ground and managed to kick 3 in a low scoring game .
Jaques, Hynes and Sellwood were good.
Gardiner was exceptional, sadly he just can’t do it in AFL.
Dolan is a bit like Arty , if only they got a bit more ball they have tricks.

Enjoyed this post-Thx Ledge. I’m a big Billy Crofts fan. Very reliable, no fuss, tough player who is pretty skilful too.

[Eastdog]

Was at the game today at Box Hill. Great win!

Was impressed with our defence today. It helped them missing a lot as well.

Croft was very good kicking a couple.

Really liked the look of Jacques. Moves very well. Dolan is going to be a very good player. I get the love from doggies ftw for Sellwood really good game.

Liked how Walker went today. Liam Jones was very good. Hynes and Scott were solid as well.