Review AFL Round 22 autopsy - Hawthorn defeats Geelong by 23 points

[nowhereneargeelong]

That presser was as strange as they get.

Pretty much said we put the cue in the rack at half time...

I have never ever heard such things from a senior AFL coach. Scott appeared supremely confident re 1st week of finals.

I guess we'll find out.

 

[Teriyakicat]

Ride on at Mach 6!

I don't blame you! Throttle up the ride-on and put your feet up- woohoo!!!

I have enough energy to go and clean my ceiling fans while they're going full bore, right now, I think Might have to cut the coffees for the rest of the night....

 

[Play it Sam]

What I heard:
A Constant booing noise during the whole game.
Hawkins was good (broke even with Lake I thought). He's definitely not injured.
Lonergan thrashed Gunston
Hawthorn moved players around too much for us. Roughead and Hale good examples. Our rucks offered nothing up forward compared to theirs.

Our coaching panel was among the fizzers.
Nowhere near their man in the second half.
Taylor move too late.
Genius of dawks to pick tall.

 

[Hello Kitty]

Nah its a euphemism for cutting the front lawn.

Yeh? Ah nup! I live in Sydney, we don't have Lornes, we have Brontes + Clovellys, but no lawns/Lornes, so I have NFI what you are talking about. So if we could just stay on topic please the posters + Mods would appreciate it

Boobies, what can we take away from this game - second half obviously - to win in Finals?

With Kersten's injury, DID it impact on the game? Obvioulsy no, because he only played a short time. Still, Boobies - tell a Budney lassie what our mighty Cats need to do to murder Poos+Wees in the Finals?

 

[Teriyakicat]

That presser was as strange as they get.

Pretty much said we put the cue in the rack at half time...

I have never ever heard such things from a senior AFL coach. Scott appeared supremely confident re 1st week of finals.

I guess we'll find out.

He looked far too calm in the coach's box late in the game, too- in a nose-tapping, nudge nudge wink wink kind of way....

 

[HoopsAhoy]

best half u mean. hehe

And he wasn't Robinson Crusoe there by a long shot!

 

[Teriyakicat]

Yeh? Ah nup! I live in Sydney, we don't have Lornes, we have Brontes + Clovellys, but no lawns/Lornes, so I have NFI what you are talking about. So if we could just stay on topic please the posters + Mods would appreciate it

Boobies, what can we take away from this game - second half obviously - to win in Finals?

With Kersten's injury, DID it impact on the game? Obvioulsy no, because he only played a short time. Still, Boobies - tell a Budney lassie what our mighty Cats need to do to murder Poos+Wees in the Finals?

bringing sharp objects to our next meeting oughtta do it, Kitty; brains included!

 

[SleazySimon]

Not a fan of Chris Scott's press conference. Clearly looking forward to week 1 final v Hawthorn. Um, still need to beat Brissy to guarantee that (if Freo win their last two)
Now nervous as hell that we'll lose that...!

Everything seems just a bit too comfortable at the moment.
Scott has his contract extension. I have no idea why coaches get these. It's not as if another club is going to try and poach him or anything.
10 straight goals in the 2nd half for Hawthorn and not a single coaching move. Again thrashed in clearances and no moves made whatsoever.

 

[HoopsAhoy]

Had a BIG lol at that!
Thanks for the injection of humour, Hoops!

You are most welcome Teriyakicat

 

[manboob]

Boobies, what can we take away from this game - second half obviously - to win in Finals?

I honestly don't know. Seemed like we put the cue in the rack after half time. I think Scott wanted to try a few thing - saw that they worked and then said * it.

 

[thegerman]

Says the poster who came out after the Sydney game to said the list is hopeless, coach is hopeless - going nowhere etc. I can find it for you if you like.

Sorry bud, I've never that. Maybe, that cs had no options, or didn't try them. Never said going nowhere.

 

[manboob]

Everything seems just a bit too comfortable at the moment.
Scott has his contract extension. I have no idea why coaches get these. It's not as if another club is going to try and poach him or anything.
10 straight goals in the 2nd half for Hawthorn and not a single coaching move. Again thrashed in clearances and no moves made whatsoever.

Got no problem with it. Big dance happens in two weeks. Scott would be on the shopping list of a lot of clubs.

 

[BlakeyNoFlakey]

Pretty much said we put the cue in the rack at half time...

There's no denying our guys were like a different team after half time. I ended up feeling the whole thing was tactical, rather than a fade out. Scott always looked cool as a cucumber in the box too during that time. Not like a coach frustrated at poor play. It's dangerous flirting with form, and I guess we won't know for sure until the QF if tonight's game was tactical or not. Weird night overall, but it's a dead rubber really.

 

[thegerman]

I honestly don't know. Seemed like we put the cue in the rack after half time. I think Scott wanted to try a few thing - saw that they worked and then said **** it.

No cat player, would want to lose. Neither the coach. Beaten by a better team, that simple.

 

[Teriyakicat]

Yep i agree. So many went missing, or when they got it the disposal was ineffective. Even McIntosh, looked like gold, but just was woeful in the end.

Duncan had 26 in the first half, 9 or so the rest of the game. We laid it up.....don't think we can play the queue in the rack story

I agree the disposal efficiency did drop off as the game wore on- but we still had a lot of good players whose disposal was well above the AFL average.

 

[David the Cat]

Everything seems just a bit too comfortable at the moment.
Scott has his contract extension. I have no idea why coaches get these. It's not as if another club is going to try and poach him or anything.
10 straight goals in the 2nd half for Hawthorn and not a single coaching move. Again thrashed in clearances and no moves made whatsoever.

Yes…how interesting.

 

[Biggy_Boy]

That presser was as strange as they get.

Pretty much said we put the cue in the rack at half time...

I have never ever heard such things from a senior AFL coach. Scott appeared supremely confident re 1st week of finals.

I guess we'll find out.

He's an arrogant idiot, and you can see the players following his lead. Real contenders don't flirt with their form and pick and choose when to win. Regardless of whether it was in some way intentional or not, conceding ten straight goals like that in a half is a disgrace.

The game actually reminded me of the late season game we played against Collingwood in 2010. Late in that game, it looked like the Pies had found a way to crack us and ended up winning comfortably. In the prelim, they played the same way and completely dominated. I fear that's what will happen against the Hawks if we play them in September.

 

[SpryCorpse]

Everything seems just a bit too comfortable at the moment.
Scott has his contract extension. I have no idea why coaches get these. It's not as if another club is going to try and poach him or anything.
10 straight goals in the 2nd half for Hawthorn and not a single coaching move. Again thrashed in clearances and no moves made whatsoever.

Pretty sure I saw Taylor in the forward line for a while...

 

[manboob]

are you gonna try and get to the game boob?

Would take me 24 hours to get there. So no.

 

[Daniel McL]

Positives from Match:

- Varcoe really contributed with possessions & pressure, now needs to keep it up!
- Thurlow deserves to stay in.
- Hawkins 3 goals pretty good can't see any injury there & will be freed up a bit more when Walker/Brown come in for Kersten for a full game.
- Youth had great games! (Duncan, Guthrie, Christensen)
- Hartman brings good pressure but not in 22 yet.
- Have time to review this game thoroughly and work on what we have to work on.

Negatives:

- Typical Geelong. 2nd halves are s**t.
- Murdoch needs to find a way to stay in the game when he is having a quiet one.
- Not experienced enough now to slow down another team's momentum against us...
- Worrying that our younger guys even had good games and we still lost...There is a good chance we are just not good enough for the Hawks & Swans (no matter what we try)
- Walker/Brown/McCarthy whoever comes in for Kersten will have only 1 match practice before finals... (With Kersto most likely out for 2+)
- Worried we will come out slow against Lions, lose, and finish 4th heading to Sydney in QF...

 

[Daniel McL]

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Only Thurlow & Kersten (2 touches) at 100% efficiency. Shows how good Thurlow's foot skills are! Give it to him more to help set up plays on Wing!

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Sorry bud, I've never that. Maybe, that cs had no options, or didn't try them. Never said going nowhere.

You said large proportions of the list were going nowhere and werent going to make it. Big changes needed to be made. And yet here we are R22 sitting third. I also remember you whingeing about posters attacking others for having differing opinions - which you have now done yourself.

 

[Teriyakicat]

Yes…how interesting.

pssst- didn't we win the clearances by 3?

 

[Play it Sam]

I don't blame you! Throttle up the ride-on and put your feet up- woohoo!!!

I have enough energy to go and clean my ceiling fans while they're going full bore, right now, I think Might have to cut the coffees for the rest of the night....

You should get Hamish to help you with that.

 

[Daniel McL]

Sad for Kersten because, I know it was only in first 5mins, but you could already see him competing a bit more on hands and knees & I was excited to see if he could keep it up but sadly hammy.