- Apr 22, 2013
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There is way too much focus on individual players here. Say Jetta played a blinder in the context of the game - that is he was one of our best five and got around 20 possessions instead of five. What difference would it have made ? At best a goal or two. At best one or two more contested possessions by the Hawks.
Stop it. You are missing the point.
Have any of you watched the game again ?
Have you watched round 18 again ?
What was the score in the to at quarter time - 5.5 to 2.3. Do you want to know what it was round 18 ? 2.7 to 2.3. In both games the Hawks have had about ten scoring shots to five.
In round 18 at the ten minute mark of the third quarter we led by twenty points. The Hawks kicked nine goals to two over the next 25 minutes.
What happened in both games was a systematic destruction of the game plan and our structures. It wasn't that we hadn't come to play. If the Hawks kicked 5.4 to quarter time in round 18 do people think we hadn't come to play ? We got out to a lead of twenty points despite the hawthorn start - do people think we hadn't come to play. The nine goals to two - did we forget to play ?
I am increasingly of the view that the gf performance was entirely predictable because we failed to draw the right lessons from round 18. I am increasingly of the view that coaching and structures were ruthlessly exploited by a better team collectively, coaching, playing, and maybe a bit of attitude. But I think that the complacency on this board was mirrored by the coaches who thought we just had a down day in round 18 when it was much more significant than that. Person after person on this board focused on the down performances of our midfielders I. Round 18 and the upside available. Maybe everyone needs to look at what the Hawks have done to us in a much deeper way.
We can spend all day thinking about whether Jetta and Macca are soft, or maybe we can look more broadly at what hawthorn is doing to us.
Personally I think looking at individual players performances is just stupid when we had at best three winners on the day, and probably more like one.
Stop it. You are missing the point.
Have any of you watched the game again ?
Have you watched round 18 again ?
What was the score in the to at quarter time - 5.5 to 2.3. Do you want to know what it was round 18 ? 2.7 to 2.3. In both games the Hawks have had about ten scoring shots to five.
In round 18 at the ten minute mark of the third quarter we led by twenty points. The Hawks kicked nine goals to two over the next 25 minutes.
What happened in both games was a systematic destruction of the game plan and our structures. It wasn't that we hadn't come to play. If the Hawks kicked 5.4 to quarter time in round 18 do people think we hadn't come to play ? We got out to a lead of twenty points despite the hawthorn start - do people think we hadn't come to play. The nine goals to two - did we forget to play ?
I am increasingly of the view that the gf performance was entirely predictable because we failed to draw the right lessons from round 18. I am increasingly of the view that coaching and structures were ruthlessly exploited by a better team collectively, coaching, playing, and maybe a bit of attitude. But I think that the complacency on this board was mirrored by the coaches who thought we just had a down day in round 18 when it was much more significant than that. Person after person on this board focused on the down performances of our midfielders I. Round 18 and the upside available. Maybe everyone needs to look at what the Hawks have done to us in a much deeper way.
We can spend all day thinking about whether Jetta and Macca are soft, or maybe we can look more broadly at what hawthorn is doing to us.
Personally I think looking at individual players performances is just stupid when we had at best three winners on the day, and probably more like one.
