Autopsy Round 12, 2025: Hawks get swooped

[ahhhhhh]

I think those expecting a meteoric rise like last year are setting themselves up for failure.

We are plain ordinary in 2025. Far too many players down on form and generally an unbalanced side. Whatever planning we did in the preseason did not work at all.

 

[grumbleguts]

Let's use this as an excuse all year.

That insane bye is a better excuse. Pre and post bye we've been a different team.

 

[Franko Armani]

they set up well with that v formation. The key to beating it is to play on immediately. They cant set it up if the ball is constantly in motion or by changing angles.

Think the reason we aren’t chipping the ball around immediately to change the angles this year is confidence. I don’t think they have any confidence in each others skills under pressure in this 2nd half the season so far. Most of the time the kicker/hamdballer fluffs it or the receiver fluffs it.

In 2024 we were quite defensively minded, all of our forwards pushed up the ground towards or in line with the player with the ball and once a contest forward of centre was won they would push hard back inside 50 to create a mismatch. That was Hok Ball.

If you look at our Hok Ball star half forwards last year compared to this year, it’s obvious that most, if not all are way down on output/goals and this is why. This change contributes to the horrible amount of turnovers when we are in possession off the half back line and diminishes space and scoring opportunities inside 50 .

The whole side is way too offensively minded this year, every mid and forward are already bolting forward of the ball looking for an easy touch rather than pushing hard towards our player in possession and back to create the overlap. Our mids are pushing forward too quickly and when we turn it over which becomes inevitable we are swiftly sliced apart resulting in easy entries in the opposition 50.

 

[chopflop]

just read our pressure rating was 155 for the match to go along with a handful of tackles..

I thought we were passed the mouth guard to training stuff.

Does anyone know what we were averaging earlier in the year? It seemed to me like whenever I watch earlier in the year, we were around 200. I don't recall it being so low in the past 1.5 years.