I am a bit pissed off at the moment:
Sicily is the only player in our back half who is creating the play.
McEvoy is a gun.
Lewis and Brand impressed.
Morrison, Mirra, and Nash are not helping us win.
Scully can't take contact. He overturns the ball with handballs if under pressure. Smith not much different atm, and doesn't tackle.
Poppy can't buy a free kick.
Roughy looking worn out.
Time to rotate our list, find out what we have got.
Good points, but this is the part where newer players have to learn the plan, we have got a but of disruption with players out. The fact that two prominant defenders are out, Shiels is out and Burgoyne, I think Wyngard was OK Scully simplt needs to get into the style and it is all very new for people with big reputations and a lot riding on them, it is not easy at this level, but Hawthorn have a potential it is always there, there is a mind set in that club that brings it all out and eventually it all comes about at the same time. There is little flashes of that now. There are some footballers who get nothing, Selwood used to, Dangerfield is the most looked after, then you look at Poppy who'd have to a target for a mafia hit to get a free, some as Buddy Franklin here at the Hawks and now in Sydney, don't ask me why it just is.
Sicily looks and over does his work sometimes, he's looking for a valuable kick to give to someone , they are right now not presenting like the drilled pros' we've known it takes time, like Carlton , they put it together they have to make that all the time.
So do we but we have an advantage we have that culture and that football smarts , we also have the fact that its the 5th round there is 18 games to come.
This is the year of the big big learning curve where our kids get to see how it works , when I say kids I mean blokes with 2 to 20 games under their belts, they will all come through.
Once again I know you know what your saying this is the year that we try out , and learn and rotate the list, we lost but we gave what we had today, other circumstance and Geelong not getting that 2 to 3 goal break, we had a chance , couldn't nail it.
This is our game, and for once , YES for once I saw us get some frees that were as bad as what Geelong got too, the frees that are ridiculous are still there , but maybe the umps are giving some thought to the accidentals, they are still pretty strict , I still demand full time professional umpires.
Then they will know the spirit of the game, practising and learning , with the people they control on game day! It'll make the AFL"s grey and some rules stupid , easier to put up with!