hawks v eagles...

[lasher]

can we repeat the dose we gave the dockers and knock off the other WA team...????

the eagles had a good win against an inform geelong but that was at subi and we will take them on in tassie...i think we are a good showing this week...we have hodge back in the team which will be a boost and i'd expect barlow and mitchell to be better after a run last week...i think joel smith is playing his 100th game for the hawks this week so good luck to him...

GO HAWKS .....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BulldogMike]

I hope the Hawks can have a win and dent the Eagles finals hopes.

 

[The Candy Man]

All I hope for is we get back in the habit of being competitive. If we do that we are in with a chance.

 

[Hawk4Life]

Originally posted by lasher
can we repeat the dose we gave the dockers and knock off the other WA team...????

Close, but no cigar...wasn't out of our reach either. Oh well, on to next week....

 

[The Candy Man]

A win would have been nice, but that's a start!!! We need to be competitive, and we were today. Now what we need to do is believe we can do that every week.

 

[andrew coombs]

Tough loss to take especially given the efforts of Spider and Thommo. If Thommo can get back to presenting himself as he did today he just might become the player we desperately need. As always it was the lack of class of several of our players that dealt the fatal blow. The basic skills of most of our midfielders continue to let us down. If Schwab is doing his list assesment properly we should not see the names Dixon, Greene, Clarke or Campbell around next year. If Ball and Sewell dont/cant improve their foot and hand skills over the pre season they should be terminated after the 2005 season. Sick and tired of turnovers. Been killing us for five years.

 

[Altum Volantes]

Bad luck guys, the effort was there today, best I've seen from you guys since you beat Freo, but the polish was a bit lacking. I thought Thompson was great today, really used his height advantage well against Big Quinten. If you guys are kicking to a guy on song, all is not lost. I thought Spider and Thompson might spend more time up forward together, they would have been a bit tall for the Eagles but Campbell may have been out of his depth against Cox.

Good luck for the rest of season, hope you can snatch a few (but not too many right guys?) and find some positives out of the season.

It sucks I know but hang tough, your mob won't stay down for long.

 

[The Candy Man]

Originally posted by Black JuJu
Good luck for the rest of season, hope you can snatch a few (but not too many right guys?) and find some positives out of the season.

It sucks I know but hang tough, your mob won't stay down for long.

Thanks Black Ju Ju, and all the best to the Weagles for the rest of 2004 and maybe the finals.

I believe you are right, but if you listen to some of the Hawks posters on here we will be in the cellar for years to come.

Both you and I know that ain't gonna happen right?

 

[The Candy Man]

Originally posted by andrew coombs
Sick and tired of turnovers. Been killing us for five years.

This is one area I will agree with you 100%. I bet Schwabby's head would be nodding in agreement as well.

 

[andrew coombs]

Originally posted by The Candy Man
This is one area I will agree with you 100%. I bet Schwabby's head would be nodding in agreement as well.

And after he has finished nodding in agreement maybe he can explain why the serial turnover merchants like Clarke, Greene and Dixon are still AFL players.

 

[Yardie]

Disappointing that we lost but we had a crack.

I didn't get to see most of the first half but was listening on the radio at the start of the second and picked the point that we fell over. I said to my wife that the Eagles had changed there game plan and we wouldn't respond in time. I watched most the second quarter at home and thouhgt I was correct in my assessment.

Funnily enough my mate (a west coast fan) called me up at the end of the second quarter. His first words to me were "I totally understand your frustration with Schwab as a coach".

After a general discussion I did say that I thought we have lacked tactical nouse since Connolly left the club. I also wondered if Schwab has surrounded himself with the best assistants. Maybe we can keep Schwab for another year but get some better assistant coaches. Just a thought.

 

[mulhollanddrive]

That's what we did last year. On the lack of skills, it's as much a recruiting issue as a coaching/development issue.

 

[Ramma]

Originally posted by Yardie

Funnily enough my mate (a west coast fan) called me up at the end of the second quarter. His first words to me were "I totally understand your frustration with Schwab as a coach".

After a general discussion I did say that I thought we have lacked tactical nouse since Connolly left the club. I also wondered if Schwab has surrounded himself with the best assistants. Maybe we can keep Schwab for another year but get some better assistant coaches. Just a thought.

Agree Schwab's biggest flaw is his apparent lack of tactics, but imo, I thought he got almost as much as he could out of the group on Saturday...the only puzzle was why he left Ossie in a FP (Wirrupunda) for so long, and left Williams on the bench. Willo totally altered Wiira's play when he finally did come on.
As shown, we certainly missed a CHF - time and time again we would run the ball from the back-line, square up to the top of the 50m. only to find an unattended Eagle taking an uncontested mark. Generally, I felt there was a game-plan, and for the most the players stuck to it, just some ordinary on-field decisions* and lack of quality on the park.

* I still cannot believe I saw this.... ( 2nd quarter) - Barlow marks in the defensive goal-square, passes on to Mitchell in the BP, in turn he passes on the left (being pressured by Morrison) to Lekkas leading towards the HBF/wing boundary line...ball goes OOF by about a metre. Mitchell keeps running past Lekkas standing on the mark, past the Eagle player about to kick the ball back into play and off the ground...Eagle player kicks back over Lekkas' head to a now unattended Morrison who casually centres the ball to the goal-square where it is promptly marked by Seaby(?) who then goals. Surely a player must know EXACTLY when he should come off, regardless of the coaches instructions? It was just common-sense for Sammy to stay put for another 30 seconds to make sure his immediate opponent was covered!
Please excuse the missing of a couple of the Eagle players (I had a few ales!), but that to me was inexcusable of Mitchell to do - nothing Schwabbie could do about that, except (hopefully) give him an earfull!

 

[Yardie]

Originally posted by Ramma
Agree Schwab's biggest flaw is his apparent lack of tactics, but imo, I thought he got almost as much as he could out of the group on Saturday...the only puzzle was why he left Ossie in a FP (Wirrupunda) for so long, and left Williams on the bench. Willo totally altered Wiira's play when he finally did come on.
As shown, we certainly missed a CHF - time and time again we would run the ball from the back-line, square up to the top of the 50m. only to find an unattended Eagle taking an uncontested mark. Generally, I felt there was a game-plan, and for the most the players stuck to it, just some ordinary on-field decisions* and lack of quality on the park.

I don't disagree with what you say here. But I find that when the opposition coaches make changes to their game plan to negate ours it takes us way to long to work it out and implement a change in our strategy. This happened in the second quarter and cost us the game. And it can be negated by a simple man on man approach while they work out what needs to change.

As for a CHF we should (IMO) choose either Barker or Holland and play them there for the rest of the year. Instructions are to run forward straight down the corridor, mark, turn and kick to the forwards. NO waiting and NO sidewards passing.