Game Day Round 5, 2020: GWS Giants v Hawthorn, 6.10pm

[Hawk_francais]

Patton? Lewis? O'Brien?

Give me McEvoy!

 

[Dazza the Viking]

Surely the 2 ruck experiment has come to an end, McEvoy is No. 1 ruck play him there

 

[VandoHawk]

I think the damage has been done but the fight was promising. Hope we show some more fight in the last quarter maybe, just maybe claw our way back

 

[MinerBoy]

Which frees are those? Haven't seen any come our way yet. Umps teaching Clarko a lesson.

We haven't laid too many tackles that have stuck that I recall.

 

[westhawk]

Great thing about Big Boy forward besides his goals, is that he makes their defenders accountable and frees up Gunston and others.

 

[The Spirit of Cricket]

also Harry Jones been ok, 9 touches 3 clearances operating at 100% efficiency. would probably want 5 more touches to call it a good debut but certainly been more useful than a few!

 

[JoeHawk]

19-9 frees against. Same s**t different game

 

[Bardo State]

Does everyone still think we need a total 6 year rebuild?

 

[Lickmesocks]

Get a kick O’Brien or you will be in for a very long boring month in the hub champ.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

We miss punky, that much is clear, but geez, having a bloke who can clunk it 30m out from goal goes a long way to winning games of footy.

who’d have thunk it.

 

[Mrzohs]

Great lil fight back! Lets see if we can rattle there cage in the last
,Bigboy,Gunners,Shiels,Jom. stood up

 

[Baz_hawk]

Last 5 minutes was good. We showed similar fight in the second quarter but they came out and banged on 4 goals. Break might have come at a bad time for us

 

[Spursfan]

Everything would need to go right from here. I think they have 11 goals from 19 inside 50s or so. Need to be better there

 

[Hawk_francais]

O'Meara looking good, we need Worpel and Mitchell to crack in like they did in the second quarter

 

[TylerDurden]

Unbelievable what happens when the shackles get released and you let them play with some instinct.. Jags huge clearance was key.

That clearance was pr0n.

 

[hk89]

McEvoy forward showing just how dysfunctional our tall forwards have been. We are basically a gun tall forward away from dominating. No wonder we went all in on Lynch. Looks like Patton will be back in the side next week, hopefully he can build some momentum, we desperately need a tall forward to put their hand up. Looked like Lewis was starting to at the end of last year, but hard to be excited from what we've seen of him the last two weeks.

Will be interesting to see if we avoid our end-of-game fadeout this week. Probably a bridge too far now with the short quarters, but hopefully we make it close, our percentage is already not very flash.

 

[KOLOKOTRONIS]

You can’t get 40 points down in a match this season. Too many lapses that quarter. Hopeful not to get blown away in the last.

A shame to see scrim down. Really solid player and well beyond his years.

If we manage a come back it would be the greatest in our history given the circumstances. Unlikely..

KOLOKOTRONIS

 

[Billyc]

19 inside 50’s for 11 goals. What happened to our backline??? McEvoy and Gunston taking marks in front, not rocket science!

Our game style is to prevent inside 50s. Once sides get it in (which is the hard part), they tend to score with ease. We are the opposite - get it in but do so by bombing it in hope and the forward set up is a mess. McEvoy finally giving a target who actually looks like either marking it or at least not getting out marked

 

[Lickmesocks]

19-9 frees against. Same sh*t different game

As I said last week, clarko should never have said what he did in the presser. He was hot under the collar after a poor last qtr and it spilled over.

It was a poor tactical error and was never ever going to do anything positive for us.

 

[The Jet From Poowong]

9 free kicks for 3 quarters. For all you opposition supporters reading this and bleating all week, this is par for the course and the reaming we cop every week.

Did Smith miss the flight?

 

[mickmaster]

Bring on the snow, play the kids

 

[Hodgey09]

Think damage is done also but hats off to McEvoy.

Had a rough night and hasn’t dropped his head once, gone forward and given us an outside chance.

Brilliant attitude.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

How many first round draft picks are they rolling with tonight, btw? Anyone care to know?

 

[In2theWild]

I usually couldn't GAF about umpiring but can some stat guru please provide us with a season free's for and against for us this season thus far. I'm sure it's gonna be well lopsided.

 

[SSSSSS]

Think damage is done also but hats off to McEvoy.

Had a rough night and hasn’t dropped his head once, gone forward and given us an outside chance.

Brilliant attitude.

Should be captain.