{"id":29787,"date":"2017-04-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/leigh-matthews-shock-comment-about-former-premiers\/"},"modified":"2017-04-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T00:00:00","slug":"leigh-matthews-shock-comment-about-former-premiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/leigh-matthews-shock-comment-about-former-premiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Leigh Matthews\u2019 SHOCK comment about former premiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Leigh Matthews says Hawthorn\u2019s premiership champs are looking like \u201chackers\u201d and the club has lost its confidence.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThe names are still there,\u201d Leigh said of the winless Hawks, \u201cbut the fact is the Riolis the Rougheads the Gunstons the Breusts &#8212; they just are looking like hackers in the last week or two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/318417224&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" frameborder=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve all of a sudden just lost their confidence,\u201d Leigh said. \u201cThey\u2019ve just lost their belief in themselves and their teammates and probably starting to question the system that they work under.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leigh said watching the Hawks reminded him of the Brisbane Lions\u2019 struggle to remain competitive in 2005 after making the GF in \u201904:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI saw what happened with the Brisbane Lions &#8212; when you fall of the cliff, sometimes you can fall big time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a great believer of the connection between hope and energy, there is a connection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of a sudden the hope\u2019s gone in the game, they\u2019ve been used to playing in premierships, now we\u2019re struggling to actually be competitive, your energy levels drop off as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what\u2019s happened to Hawthorn.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/brownie-s-massive-call-on-an-adelaide-crows-star\"><strong>BROWNY\u2019S MASSIVE CALL ON AN ADELAIDE CROWS STAR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/port-adelaide-condemns-shocking-fan-photo\"><strong>PORT ADELAIDE CONDEMNS SHOCKING FAN PHOTO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leigh Matthews says Hawthorn\u2019s premiership champs are looking like \u201chackers\u201d and the club has lost its confidence. \u201cThe names are still there,\u201d Leigh said of the winless Hawks, \u201cbut the fact is the Riolis the Rougheads the Gunstons the Breusts &#8212; they just are looking like hackers in the last week or two.\u201d LISTEN HERE: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiveaa-sports-show","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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