Autopsy Round 13, 2026: Hawks get leashed

[HairyO]

30 scoring shots for 9 goals is ****ing awful. There are 10 players who should hand back their match payments out of pure embarrassment.

And I get shot down over Amon so often but he just does nothing except kick long poorly but it still counts as effective. He cant tackle, cant chase, cant mark and cant even make a contest.

Meek was shit. 3 gettable kicks for 1 behind and 2 OOF.

Ginnivan was surely about 8% effective. Just bad. Focus on football rather than taunting. Its soft and shit.

1 goal in a half of football but we had easily 12 or 13 scoring shots.

**** the umpires with their soft frees for the Dogs in their goal square but we deserved to lose.

That was just the worst game we have played in years and we have played a bunch of bad games this year.

 

[Holy Rioli]

Abused?

Do you mean someone disagreed with your opinion?

you mean lots of people did and negative reacted to it. but look what happened. Heaven forbid you don't submit to group think on this forum.

 

[SpanishBrowne]

Team needs to learn when they can actually put the cue in the rack intensity wise

Team needs to learn how to kick goals.

Fix those things.. Probably top the ladder.

Instead.. we're all just sick of seeing then happen more often than not.

 

[fabulon31]

At least I didn’t have to hear the songs in the second half.. thanks for that.

 

[jr4jane2004]

Meek had 3 easy shots at goal at pt blank range and scored 1 solitary pt . English kicked his....energy sapping ...

 

[Steven Tyler]

Weak as piss
Should be ashamed of themselves
Overrated and they’ve done nothing to be even rated
Piss weak

 

[Hawk88]

Mid team playing like a mid team. We are only shocked coz we were 4 goals up after some magic from Wiz

Soon as that fizzled out we had nothing

 

[hardway]

Did I mention that we kicked 1.11 in the second half.

The decisions going forward were far worse than the missed goals.

 

[MinerBoy]

I’d rename thread to hawks neck themselves, they weren’t leashed

It was the pies game without the draw..a million more disposals, inside 50s, scoring shots

How can you lead by 27 at half time, dominate the start of both the third and fourth quarters, have more inside 50s and scoring shots in the second half that you went in to with a good lead…. And lose?


We have legitimately become a team that throws away games

 

[Glebehawk]

Felt similar to the Collingwood game, when we’re off we can really stink it up. Too many players playing cute footy, not enough hard at it.

 

[Buzz Hawk]

Some of our alleged leaders such as Moore and Lewis were so poor.
Moore so often disappoints in big games.
We can’t carry both Meek and reeves much longer. Bite the bullet Sam and go with one.
We may have kicked ourselves out of this one, but that would only mask deeper issues.
Dimma having a shocker didn’t help.
Our reliance on gunners is a concern.

 

[KOLOKOTRONIS]

Officially I know zero about football hahah.
In all honesty, I mentioned to a mate of mine that the way we would lose this would be two things

A) an in game injury to a significant player
B) an unusual game where the scoreboard makes no sense

We were smashed in the clearances in the second half. So the dogs deserved it.

Our leadership but for Newcombe was sloppy.

When it mattered the dogs gave themselves more options.

Many will talk about our outs etc, however we looked great in the first half. Especially towards the second part of the second quarter.

Ultimately we simply didn’t have that killer instinct when it mattered.

Many teams do this when 25-30 up. We didn’t do the right thing.

Another mcg loss which isn’t a good pattern.

A week to think about it.

Stings hard

KOLOKOTRONIS

 

[Franko Armani]

welcome to another edition of Chooklotto! brought to you by the brilliant minds of the AFL and their umpires.

Ward and Frenchie only have a half of football in them, then they are non existent. Makes it pretty hard to win a clearance.

Don’t wanna hear Sam say it doesn’t help when you kick 17 behinds because the coaches could not orchestrate a single inch of space in our forward half all night. Very disappointed in our coaching team again not being able to work out how to open our forward 50.

Still have an average midfield that can’t go for 4qtrs.

 

[Leather Poisoning]

you mean lots of people did and negative reacted to it. but look what happened. Heaven forbid you don't submit to group think on this forum.

I think you're being really dramatic to refer to it as being abused hahaha.

I mean your opinion turned out to be correct - what more do you want?

 

[Wizard of Waverley]

There are games you win, games you get beaten, and then games you lose. It’s hard not to feel like hawks lost that game.

Well done Battle, Newk and Wiz

BMac not bad but Perez and Ryan not yet there. Rucks not having the same effect as the start of the year

Ward and CMac still trending in the right direction

Players will be frustrated. Terrible connection going inside 50. We need more goals from Ginni, Croc and Moore.

 

[Hawkas1988]

Don't think I've seen Ginni's skills as bad as that ever. But he also absolutely worked his arse off in that last quarter, as did Impey.

We shot ourselves in the foot.

It's not just the ones we missed - it was all the long bombs to lewis v 2 or 3 defenders with no crumbers around him.

I thought we'd recalibrate at three quarter time but we just didn't. Just played into the flood. It's a pattern,

Bit annoyed about that one.

Never seen Ginnivan use the ball so poorly. His decision making was just as bad. Love him but gee that was a hard night for him

 

[burger09]

Disappointing.

Dogs are really learning to scrap. We could learn a bit from them.
Less ego, more nose to the wheel.

Newk was exceptional.
Thought Lewis had enough of that one late. Just couldn't find a forward in that second half.

 

[Sonny Hayes]

Dogs were absolutely shithouse, that’s gotta be one of the worst wins a team has walked away with. Why tf are we bombing into the forwardline when we’re massively outnumbered? Happens in every one of our losses. Umps turned the tide when we were well on top and just capitulated after that. Disgusting effort in the second half

Because they lose all compsure when the game is on the line, they can not handle the flood. We have seen it for weeks now.

 

[Dewyyyyy]

Some of our alleged leaders such as Moore and Lewis were so poor.
Moore so often disappoints in big games.
We can’t carry both Meek and reeves much longer. Bite the bullet Sam and go with one.
We may have kicked ourselves out of this one, but that would only mask deeper issues.
Dimma having a shocker didn’t help.
Our reliance on gunners is a concern.

Lewis was on one leg and got man handled not really.

 

[Towmotar]

Sicily is an embarrassment, can play but not a captains bootlace, petulant idiot.
Demote immediately.

 

[Millsie69]

Drove 9 ****ing hours from Adelaide today for that shit….****ing piss poor effort kicking ourselves out of it

 

[CobberRodgers]

got abused for my thoughts that we lost it at selection, but we absolutely did and now we can kiss top 2 away and have to find a way to beat Freo and or Sydney to get any further than last year. To cute, too soft at selection.

Who would you have picked?

Was the best side we could put out there with what was available

 

[Hawkk]

Honestly a pretty embarrassing night, the comments from Watson at half time.

Sicily carrying on while the game is falling to bits (as always)

Goal kicking a joke

No answer for the flood again.

Spot on. No structure going forward too

 

[NewkTheLot]

This is an inconsistent team in an ordinary year. We’re a chance if we can finish top 4 because we could just blow teams away for 3 weeks if we play like we did in the first half. We could straight set just as easily playing like we did in the second.

 

[seysearles]

We saw some very bad signs in that game. In ability to convert. Inability to retain momentum. Inability to turn possession into a score. Inability to be composed under pressure. Inability to adapt to the oppositions game. Unfortunately some very worrying things were exposed tonight. The dogs really weren't particularly good either. We were just headless and had no composure whatsoever. We have 2 weeks to dwell on all of those now also. Pretty shit.