Game Day Round 1: Hawthorn v Essendon, MCG, Friday 14/3/25 7.40pm AEDST

[mike14]

Jones done a lot of running early

 

[Beerfish]

 

[Its Manbearpig]

The difference is their players are always in the best position

Faster across the ground too. We look were in the mud

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

Jones working back hard has helped us out 3 or 4 times.

 

[Schnitzengruben]

Archie Perkins you good mate?

 

[mike14]

Kakko's goal was nice.
We don't look good but it's always hard to get a read on rnd 1, more so when one team has already played

 

[B4dg3r]

Super frustrating but at least the effort was mostly there. Gotta learn our structures better. Hawks players constantly in better position both on attack and defence.

 

[doug85]

kinda usually what happens when one team is slaughtering the other....

I’ve never really understood this as a complaint. The issue really is that we’re a dreadful team

 

[JayJ20]

One team looks like they are playing in dry weather. The other looks like they are competing for a bar of soap in mud.

 

[Learntopray]

Amon is running past players jogging. Same old transition defence.

 

[Zach Package]

Mason Redman: inside midfielder is the punishment this club deserves

 

[eth-dog]

Pressure shizenhousen so far

 

[quotemokc]

This is the difference, even if we take a mark where do we go? Hawks already have 3 players in defense ahead of us.

 

[nylexbandit]

Feels like we have actually done ok but broken down when it matters. I reckon they’ve kicked a few you would ordinarily expect a miss from which is flattering them

 

[sacka]

All goals from defensive chains. Yep glad we rectified that over the summer. Should give the coach another 2 years and maybe he can get it right ny then.

 

[sameolds33]

Ducked straight into that. Shit call ump

coached by the master ducker

 

[Phone]

Mason Redman: inside midfielder is the punishment this club deserves

look, if you've gotta play your dumbest player in the team somewhere, it's at the centre bounce

wait I'm hearing you don't gotta do that

 

[ghostdog]

Yeah nah. Good defensive endeavour early but the Hawks' have kept their feet and run harder.

 

[ScrappyCoCo]

My kid has not started cricket finals yet (tomorrow) and here we are playing in humid conditions where the players cant stand up, ball slipping off boots when kicking and heaps of fumbling. AFL are DHs sometimes.

 

[bommer16]

Who do we play next week?

 

[Blind Turn]

There’d better be a boot change at qtr time. I reckon every single Essendon player slipped at a critical moment. McKay’s lack of judgement was appalling, especially for the Chol goal where he should’ve punched the **** out of it rather than have it land at the feet of a few Hawthorn forwards.

 

[BratPack]

Who do we play next week?

Crom. Another 10 goal based on this garbage

 

[mike14]

Who do we play next week?

Adelaide

 

[MiguelM]

Who switched the boots to ice skates?

Hard to watch.

 

[Westlo]

Mason Redman: inside midfielder is the punishment this club deserves

Ross Lyon just called one of his assistants at the end of the qtr and said travaglia is staying on the half back flank forever now.