{"id":1669,"date":"2023-11-30T16:44:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T16:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thestar.test\/2023\/11\/30\/roughie-composed-ahead-of-big-clash\/"},"modified":"2023-11-30T16:44:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T16:44:45","slug":"roughie-composed-ahead-of-big-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestar.com.au\/blog\/roughie-composed-ahead-of-big-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Roughie composed ahead of big clash"},"content":{"rendered":"
\t\t\t\tTuesday, September 29th, 2015<\/span> | Posted by Sarah Vella<\/a><\/span> \t\t\t<\/div>\n

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Roughie composed ahead of big clash<\/h1>\n

THIS Saturday Hawthorn is attempting to win its way into an exclusive club and join only five other teams to have won three premierships in a row.
Local Hawks\u2019 hero, Jarryd Roughead, will play in his fifth grand final but said, \u201cIt\u2019s never easy.\u201d
\u201cAs a team we have worked so hard to get there. It hasn\u2019t been an easy run this year.\u201d
Roughead says the word \u2018three-peat\u2019 which is being bandied about by the press has no currency inside the club.
\u201cThere has been no mention of it,\u201d he said.
Famously, Leigh Matthews coached Brisbane to a third premiership and referred to the hat-trick only twice that year; once pre-season and then again at three quarter time in the 2003 preliminary final when the Lions were leading the Swans by only two points.
He used it then as a spur, to motivate his team when he felt it might make the difference between the two teams.
Having played in four grand finals, Jarryd Roughead says he has no special routine way of preparing for the big day.
\u201cYou never know if you\u2019ll ever be back there again so it is a matter of sitting back, enjoying the week and having fun. They are some of the best days of your life.\u201d
The Hawks have beaten West Coast just once this season, a round 19, 14 point win. This result has no real relevance on the Hawks\u2019 chances of winning this weekend says Roughead.
\u201cWe have scouts who keep an eye on our opponents and plus we have seen them play on television.
\u201cIf anything it makes it more exciting for us, a new opponent is a new challenge.
\u201cWe will go out there to make amends for being beaten by them three weeks ago in the qualifying final.\u201d
(The Eagles beat the Hawks by 32 points at their home ground, Subiaco).
As West Coast plays a team defence the Hawthorn forward is not expecting to have a direct opponent to combat.
A number of other senior Hawthorn players have significant grand final experience and none more so than Shaun Burgoyne who has played in six.
\u201cThose players are a bonus; they are like having coaches on the field,\u201d said Roughead.
\u201cThey know what to expect.\u201d
He said the club is proud to have reached where it is.
\u201cWe have kept going on, we have built on what has been achieved in previous year.
\u201cOur blokes want to go on getting better.\u201d
Speaking to Jarryd Roughead gives you a clear sense of the composure and confidence which is so vital in a grand final.
No doubt he will be a mentor on the field to any team mates who need reminding of what is at stake.
Roughead watched his old team, the Leongatha Parrots, go down to Traralgon in the Gippsland League grand final on Saturday.
\u201cIt was a bit disappointing,\u201d he said of the day on which not only did the Parrots lose the football, but Drouin\u2019s A Grade netball team, with his fianc\u00e9 Sarah Dunn on court, lost by five goals to Traralgon.
\u201cAll credit to Traralgon,\u201d he said and when asked about Traralgon\u2019s captain\/coach Mark Collison playing in the grand final with a severe reprimand following a striking charge for which he was found guilty, Roughead said, \u201cI have seen the incident. There wasn\u2019t much in it and Collison has a clean record.\u201d
Roughie, as he is affectionately known locally, missed two games while being treated for a melanoma on his upper lip and is thankful that this is well behind him.
\u201cIt is two months behind me now. I\u2019m not worried about it but have to have regular checks and be diligent about exposing myself to the sun.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Prize fighter: Jarryd Roughead in action in the second preliminary final against the Fremantle Dockers on Friday night after booting one of his two goals. Photograph courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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