Autopsy Round 2, 2020: Hawks go home early

[SA HAWK]

They'll s--t the bed at the MCG when it counts as usual

We can only hope.

 

[Dazza the Viking]

Geelong had the ten best players on the ground and that is being generous

 

[Dewnior]

Bye bye top 4

 

[Slysh]

This should be the game for Poppy, i love him but Clarko needs to tap him on the shoulder and let him know it's time.

It happend with Gibbo and it happened with Roughead. He is done, he is offering nothing and is not a part of our future.

 

[TheExtractorFactor]

Can't blame them for giving up in the third, I did too. Just finding it really hard to get into and care about the game this year. Even when we smacked the Lions I wasn't close to how excited I would have been in a normal season.

 

[Slysh]

Also Clarko needs to make a statement at selection, i know he is conservative but he gave players a chance and a lack of effort should not be accepted.

 

[Hodginator]

We’ll beat them in finals

 

[dcutter]

If running second to the ball was the instruction at half time that, absolute masterclass delivered to perfection.

Can't recall a Hawk side giving up so easily in years.

Pathetic.

 

[Franko Armani]

1.1 second half.

 

[Mercy Seat]

BB back made zero sense to me B4 tonight .....can’t believe it now makes even less sense

Him playing in the ruck doesn’t make up 11 goals. Some much bigger problems right now than this.

 

[burger09]

Rucks, mids and small defenders= absolutely slaughtered.

Clarko needs to give them a kick up the arse this week.

No leadership either.

We must bounce back next week. Good teams do. Are we a good team?

 

[Kuuz]

I don't know whats more concerning: the fact we were flogged by an ageing, declining team or the fact that Clarko thinks this is our strongest side with players left out not good enough to displace those on the park.

 

[detox]

People blaming defence.

Midfield got absolutely embarrassed.

I started typing them all out.. but then just deleted it to say everyone bar Mitchell.. and even he was a borderline pass.

One of the biggest midfield smokings I've seen

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[vanders]

This should be the game for Poppy, i love him but Clarko needs to tap him on the shoulder and let him know it's time.

It happend with Gibbo and it happened with Roughead. He is done, he is offering nothing and is not a part of our future.

Who replaces him though? Ross or Walker?

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

The midfield never turned up.

 

[Strattonsphere]

Can only laugh at that effort.. Mcevoy is 3rd best ruck in the comp and we waste him.


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[ShoveYourCOLA]

 

[Slysh]

Who replaces him though? Ross or Walker?

Yeah that or Wingard more forward (not a huge fan of it).

Anyone coming in can not offer any less but they may be something in the future.

 

[SA HAWK]

Didn’t take our chances in the 2nd quarter then they just destroyed us after half time.

Lack of fight was disappointin.

 

[Mercy Seat]

I don't know whats more concerning: the fact we were flogged by an ageing, declining team or the fact that Clarko thinks this is our strongest side with players left out not good enough to displace those on the park.

Who comes in, who goes out? We’ve got two talks IMO who come in, Lewis and Scrim, but we were way too tall tonight to begin with... we lost this game at ground level.

 

[savagelunchbox]

We went tall down back so Geelong used Brooke Satchwell as a decoy and used the smalls as the goal scoring targets knowing we were light on small defenders and midfield depth. Plus Hardwick was grossly underdone due to his injury and Stratton is having to defend an opponent and father time at the same time.

Meanwhile Patton continued to be the forward target when he was too slow and too immobile to get free from Taylor. When it wasn't kicked to Patton, it was kicked to the 40m area, and that's exactly where Geelong setup their backline against us. Like night follows day, we kicked it there time and time and time again where they had the numbers and got easy transition and we were chasing tail all game.

 

[Lickmesocks]

I was at training during the week for the main session. I still can’t believe Poppy played based on what I witnessed. Crazy decision.

Tigers have 1 Ruck in Soldo. We do not want Big Boy trying to chase T Lynch around.

Big Boy or Ceglar but not both against the Tigers.

Based on what I witnessed tonight one team was fit and hungry and ran out the game and one team was lethargic from the start and ran out of gas at half time.

It’s only 1 week but not a good look tonight for the Hawks.

 

[Dazza the Viking]

That has been our worst performance against Geelong in the last 25 years

 

[burger09]

This should be the game for Poppy, i love him but Clarko needs to tap him on the shoulder and let him know it's time.

It happend with Gibbo and it happened with Roughead. He is done, he is offering nothing and is not a part of our future.

We have no one to replace him. We didn't trade for or draft anyone ready to claim his spot. We only have Minch who obviously still isn't fit enough.

 

[mickmaster]

I would be dropping a ruck, morro, poppy and Hanrahan and putting in someone that can kick off half back and some pace around the park.