TBH I love Hawthorn smashing sides like this because it's utterly meaningless, yet the footy media will lap it up.
Don't get me wrong, I respect them, they are a super side and if we are to win the flag we will have to go through them. But watching them be the best offensive side and blow bottom sides away with ball movement and chains of uncontested kicking, it's clear they won't be able to do that against the good defences like Geelong and Freo (if they regain form) and Port and Collingwood, as we saw when we played the Hawks two weeks ago.
So other than ladder position and getting them top 2, these sort of wins tell us nothing about whether they will succeed in September, yet the media will lap it up and install them as raging favourites and we will in all likelihood go under the radar in terms of coverage, which I would be very happy with.