Game Day Round 18, 2021: Hawks v Demons, MCG 7:25pm Sat'd 17th July

[westhawk]

Shiels, Mitch, Omeara, Phillips, Cousins, Howe, all have one thing in common. They absolutely butcher the ball. Time to weed them out. You can get by with one or two, but not your whole midfield.

 

[Brant]

never has been a good kick

Decision making is horrible tonight

 

[Lickmesocks]

B for effort
E for skill level

 

[robiecampbellbrown]

Effort is there, skill is not

 

[Ridingthebumps]

Sicily. Day and Wingard our only good ball users All not playing.

 

[Mappa]

For all the heat our forwards cop our delivery into the 50 this game has been diabolical.

Don’t you mean for the past 5-6 years ?

 

[The hands of stone]

As expected , effort decent , skills etc well below par .
They are just a lot better than us ...hoping it doesnt blow out too much .
Be nice if we can level or win the quarter

 

[Gaston]

Bar a bad 5 minutes that wasn't to bad.
Effort and desire to move the ball with confidence were good to see.

 

[Big Hotdog]

Young teams pressure on and tackle. Sometimes it is all they have. Which makes it really frustrating when the umpiring does not reward the successful efforts.

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[robiecampbellbrown]

Are Jason Horne and Finn Callaghan watching?

 

[detox]

We are having a crack. Just lacking polish.

Great courage by big boy in that contest.

Apparently you can run through the centre, get run down from behind, incorrectly dispose of it, and it be play on.

 

[Jaeger007]

What’s happened to Mitch Lewis ? Looks an amateur footballer

 

[Brant]

Sicily. Day and Wingard our only good ball users All not playing.

Scrimshaw does ok. Sicily handy. Gunston above average as well.

 

[jenniferHAWKinS]

Gawn in disbelief playing a Hawk ruckman he can’t dominate in the air or at centre bounces.

 

[westhawk]

Are Jason Horne and Finn Callaghan watching?

At least they know they will be getting a debut in round 1.

 

[Wingnut19]

Shiels, Mitch, Omeara, Phillips, Cousins, Howe, all have one thing in common. They absolutely butcher the ball. Time to weed them out. You can get by with one or two, but not your whole midfield.

100%. I wouldn’t even care what we got back for them to be honest. Can’t believe I’m saying this but out of that lot I think I would keep Howe first.

 

[GinniAndTonic]

Sicily. Day and Wingard our only good ball users All not playing.

Bramble means nothing to you?

 

[TheExtractorFactor]

Clarkson/Mitchell needs to retrain the arrogant tap on. We used to be so good at that in our three peat era.

Unfortunately this describes too many of our players.

 

[NicW]

We are having a crack. Just lacking polish.

Great courage by big boy in that contest.

Apparently you can run through the centre, get run down from behind, incorrectly dispose of it, and it be play on.

Ridiculous

 

[local hack]

Just settle guys! Far too many rushed kicks. Way in this - just need a few more things going our way.
Btw - As I told my 10 year old daughter, the supporters that blame umpires are the worst type of supporters.

 

[hawksfan71]

could have sworn at least twich melbourne players dropped the ball when tackled

 

[Lickmesocks]

Anyone read the piece earlier today saying Howe was weighing up his options With preferred clubs Richmond or Sydney lol.

seriously someone must be making that garbage up.

would be lucky to have a WRFL club interested.

 

[Jaeger007]

Endeavor and effort is there unlucky not to get rewarded with some holding the balls.

Jeka leading well and keeping Lever honest

howe jaeger and bramble our best for the quarter

 

[The Spirit of Cricket]

Don’t you mean for the past 5-6 years ?

bramble is unironically probably our best kick playing

 

[Ridingthebumps]

Scrimshaw does ok. Sicily handy. Gunston above average as well.

Very true. And all missing plus Impey