Review Hawks v Cats Match post mortem ...

[Shwab]

The Cats had one of the most experienced teams you'll ever see on the park which makes a difference in a tough and tight match. It's bloody impressive we were as competitive as we were!

Born before 1982
Geelong - Scarlett, Mooney, Ottens, Wocjinski, Ling, Enright, Chapman.
Hawks - Bateman.

Born after 1986
Geelong - Selwood, Duncan, Motlop, Hawkins
Hawthorn - Hooper, Franklin, Ellis, Birchall, Shiels, Schoenmakers, Roughead, Rioli, Renouf, Peterson, Morton

Looking at the teams, I don't think we will lose many games to Geelong over the next 5 years.

Shoenmakers is 11 years younger than Scarlett, Renouf is 8 years younger than Ottens, Birchall is 7 years younger than Enright, Roughead is 8 years younger than Mooney, even Cyril is younger than Selwood!!!!

 

[deeks]

Murph stands close to 190cms right, only reason he gets game time. I believe we have better options.

he cops a fair bit grief, because it is often he who does the team moral busting stuff up. surely we can get someone with a bit a height and weight down back. The players we have down there would be a solid unit.

Gilham - plays above weight division every week.
Goo - like the way he goes about it and has brought something to the club.
Shoo - really like is progess, marked him hard last year. will only get better
Birch - plays like a 27 year old and still only early 20s. super find.
Hodge - norm smith love him, think he makes the other defenders stand taller when he is down there.
Gibbo - happy the team drafted for him, adds to our defence

then have ladders/browny/muston/whitecross/suckling and alike helping out down back.

Croady was a massive loss.

Still our much better output than 09, boys are going in like they were in 08.

 

[Hodgepodge]

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Geez it sucked to lose on Monday but to see Shiels do a good job on Ablett and see him try to run through Peterson then Rioli only to fail miserably was a real shining point for us.

Shiels was playing on Ablett? I didn't really notice anyone was on him.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

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Couldn't agree more Galon. It has been happening for at least a full season now and I can't fathom how we haven't addressed it as a coaching/playing group. We have this enormous asset that we just fail to utilise correctly. Playing to his strengths Buddy would be nigh on unstoppable. Even when his kicking was off in 2008, he was getting that many shots on goal he was registering 6.7 or 7.5 or 4.8. A dozen shots on goal a game.

I posted this last season in a thread started by Mervyn Beasley and things don't seem to have changed.

Ok, so are you channelling me, or am I channelling you?

Surely there's not to be two supremely intelligent beings on the same board?

There can be only one!

Fight to the death?

Sorry, long day in the office. Started losing my shit at about 1pm much to my managers delight.

Our ball movement all through 2009 was a major problem in my eyes, and I chose to see the issue in our forward line as an extension of that. After watching on Monday, I'm starting to come around to the fact that it's certainly a bit from column A, and column B so far in 2010.

Sure we had numerous players missing who could push up and provide some run and carry to the forwards like Ladson, Young, Ellis, Guerra in2009, but we had those players on Monday and yet the forward line was still far too stagnant at times, even when a player was streaming towards the arc.
Morton pushed up at times, Peterson too. Rioli moved up the ground then streamed back. Yet we still never looked like a well drilled unit when it came to forward structure and movement.

We have the talent in the forward line that will get us by most weeks, regardless of whether we're running to the right spots or structuring up the best way possible. But gee it would be good to get that forward line humming, and push the advantage home.