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You'd think that spells a number of changes.Sam Mitchell “Their work rate taught us a lesson today”
That is a tough thing to say as coach.
Ned is a baby as far as ruck terms, I hope he dominates one day, but I can’t believe how easy a bloke that is seven foot can be pushed off the ball so easily.
He was man handled more than once by Casboult ffs.
We just didn’t work hard enough so many times we took possession and had no one running forward to give an option.
Mitch Lewis would work up the ground take the ball on the wing and miss a target or ignore Kosi.
Was a s**t show.
Sounds like the Freo game, its a learning experience.A very hard game to watch live. I took someone for their first afl game experience and it was hard game to sell! The game was played with little spirit and low skill level with little noise
- Take W.Day out of our midfield and it become fairly average. Worps,Nuke,Nash, Moore, are all solid players but not that star factor / footy I.Q that is W.Day.
- Meek, Kosi are clueless at times to find the space and time to lead or present down the line. They often struggle to have impact on the contest or break even in it!
- We Lacked leadership across the ground!
- The Sicily factor, Day Covers the back, Moore plays in the middle.Which sounds great but in the end our Mids / Forward line both played like rubbish and got comprised!
I agree, based on what I watched tonight mate, don’t think he could do it. In the second quarter he was beaten easily by Casboult, and as the ball went away and resulted in a goal to the Suns he was clearly dirty on himself, he needs to find some Dermie mongrel, he seems too nice for a bloke that’s seven footI would love to see Ned play 2-3 games at Box Hill and play the Gawn role a kick behind the play, and see if he can clunk 6-8 marks for a game and get some confidence.
At the minute outside of attending the centre bounce or throw in, the rest is really difficult to watch unfortunately.
I agree, based on what I watched tonight mate, don’t think he could do it. In the second quarter he was beaten easily by Casboult, and as the ball went away and resulted in a goal to the Suns he was clearly dirty on himself, he needs to find some Dermie mongrel, he seems too nice for a bloke that’s seven foot
no need to abuse other hawthorn supportersFMD, there are a lot of downhill skiers on this board.
This year was not about making the finals. It is a development year. Games like this were always going to happen. And there will be more.
Win a game or two and you think we are ready for finals.
And guys like Mitchell Madness - man, you are a piece of work. Total s**t for brains.
It is a fair point. Teams that can explode out of midfield hurt us. None of the teams that we have beaten have midfields that can do thatWe have a couple of speedy forwards and defenders.
In the middle we are really slow though. That’s where teams can really hurt us.
We can play a strong contested game in the middle. But once the ball gets to the outside we have no way of slowing the opposition down.
We should win or at least have a much better showing against Carlton. In part because of their lack of leg speed.
David Hale was as hard as a cats forehead though.David Hale was a terrific overhead mark and ruck/forward so there is hope for us.
Nailed it, exactly how it felt/looked at the ground.I found that the most frustrating game of the year becuase we just could not string together more than 2-3 possessions at a time.
As soon as the sun went down and it got a bit dewy we just forgot how to kick the ball. And after a few misses and a few broken chains of play we went back into our shells and played hesitant survival mode footy.
Their midfield is really hard in the clearances. We looked a bit shell shocked at times and after a good first quarter Nash was pretty much unsighted offensively and defensively.
We just couldn't take a mark.
Players started looking for free kicks instead of second efforts or next possesion.
We fumbled and miskicked in every play.
The Suns weren't that good to be honest. And got a run of goals at the end that flattered them - but we were so far off our best.
I thought Day was really good. The only one who played with any assertiveness or the belief that he would win a contest or take a grab.
I can't remember Frosty having any disaster moments which is pretty good actually.
Scrimshaw was really good - but was under siege all night.
Breust and Lewis were great with the few chances they had.
Don’t mind me, just being facetious. Of course we’re tracking well ahead of the WCE, even if it was a little hard to see today. We’ll no doubt put in a far better showing next week.Rubbish
We have been consistently bad playing interstate sides on their home ground.Hawks are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get.
Just add it to the long list of poor post bye performances by teams and move on.
I do wonder if we have a game plan issue at grounds away from the G and Tassie. We seem to need wide grounds to get our game going - otherwise we get too easily clogged up and when we dump kick down line everything unravels.