Autopsy Round 18, 2024 : Hawks sink the Dockers

[Mr Lizard]

still so pumped... love these Hawks.

Watto you little champion!

 

[Bugs1977]

Dear should get a nomination, surely. Body of work has to kick in at some stage.

This weeks nom will go to Lawson Humphries

 

[big footy cyril]

David King 2nd quarter: "MeeK is winning the ruck battle, but it's having no influence."

David King 4th quarter: "The ruck battle is the game, whoever wins it, you feel their team will win the game."


Shoot enough shots, and you'll get one right.

Sums up King the porridge eater perfectly

 

[JoeHawk]

We won that on guts and attitude. Individually few of our players were at their best. So many skills errors and poor decisions. Lots to work with.
Beat the Pies and we will sneak into 8th.

yes, but still have Crows (away), GWS (away) and Carlton which will be difficult, but the others Pies, Tigers, Roos are all winnable. Will need at least 13 wins to make 8....14 a lock in given our poor %. Still a very big ask.

 

[Bugs1977]

I feel good, who else feels good?

 

[KermitJagger]

This weeks nom will go to Lawson Humphries

That isn't a real name!

 

[The hands of stone]

We have played a lot worse. I honestly think Freo just outplayed us. I am stunned we won

The sign of a developing good side

 

[triple treat]

Best win off the year for me, umps where against us and we didn’t play very good for 3 quarters ( big last quarter), and still got the win.

Onya boys

 

[triangulation_squared]

Amazing team effort - so pumped! The Wiz has officially arrived. Sicily, Chol, Dear, Wiz a really unpredictable forward unit. No wonder we're about to break the membership record. Meek and Weddle turning the clearances to our ad is just massive. Will Day won't have many days that quiet, the ceiling is high.

 

[Walshawk]

yes, but still have Crows (away), GWS (away) and Carlton which will be difficult, but the others Pies, Tigers, Roos are all winnable. Will need at least 13 wins to make 8....14 a lock in given our poor %. Still a very big ask.

We can drop two. Will enter all games bar Blues and GWS as favourites.

 

[Buzz Hawk]

Meek was awesome in that last quarter. Jackson got on top in the third but big Lloyd was immense when it mattered.
Shout out to the duke too, relatively quiet in the first three quarters but dominated the last.
Love the wiz!

 

[Gaston]

That was a steal. Let’s be honest about it. We were chasing the ball all afternoon with the exception of two bursts in the second and last quarters. If you looked at the stats you would think we got rolled by 30-40. They had 27 more marks than we did. It was won through smart coaching, some fortune and the inability of Freo to capitalise on their dominance. You don’t complain about wins but I hope we also don’t think that we played to a high standard today. They need to keep working on the game plan and pressure intensity if we are going to improve.

When they kicked 2.4 in the first half of the 3rd quarter they really should have ended the game there.
Even in the last quarter, worked hard and had the forwards miss some gettable set shots.
Yes, you could say we were lucky, but even in high level footy, your forwards poor misses can permeate across the entire teams mentality.

 

[hawkman]

Dear should get a nomination, surely. Body of work has to kick in at some stage.

Needs to get to 3 goals. 7 disposals and 2 goals probably is never going to be enough

 

[Kanga Commando]

looking forward to watching this later - thanks for the updates

Does anyone know what happened to Massa ?

 

[KermitJagger]

Needs to get to 3 goals. 7 disposals and 2 goals probably is never going to be enough

2 goals and 2 contested marks as an underdeveloped 18 year old should be enough. He doesn't get cheap ones.

 

[hawkman]

looking forward to watching this later - thanks for the updates

Does anyone know what happened to Massa ?

Ankle

 

[Billyc]

yes, but still have Crows (away), GWS (away) and Carlton which will be difficult, but the others Pies, Tigers, Roos are all winnable. Will need at least 13 wins to make 8....14 a lock in given our poor %. Still a very big ask.

Beat depleted Pies next week and its the Giants in an elimination final of sorts. Adelaide, Richmond and North are bottom 4 sides. Blues I think will be too strong. Beat both Pies and Giants and play finals I reckon.

 

[Liverbird]

Great win.

Good bounce back after poor performance last week.

We are showing great signs of being a very competitive side going fwd.

Freo tried their best, bought the heat and defenders marked many fwd thrusts. But we are a good team also and lifted in last quarter to overrun them.

This was one of the best wins of the year for me, these guys are starting to believe.

Ginni in for Bruest and onto chopping down the Woodsmen next week !

 

[JD888]

Is this really bad to say, and I’m genuinely sorry for the guy, but is Mitch Lewis’s injury a win for us?

 

[seysearles]

You'd think we got belted by 30 or 40 off... 4 more inside 50s?

Just look through the stats. They had 27 extra marks and they weren’t cheapies either, they were across the whole ground and many contested. Fremantle had 6 of the top 8 rated players on the ground. It will be interesting to see the coaches votes. I suspect they will get the majority of them.

It was a great grinding win where struck at the right time but we shouldn’t fool ourselves that it was a convincing win. I suspect if that was played in WA the result would look more like the Cats game.

 

[SSSSSS]

Is this really bad to say, and I’m genuinely sorry for the guy, but is Mitch Lewis’s injury a win for us?

I'm sure Dear and Chol would love to be playing with Mitch at the moment.

They both had to do it tough today.

Freo's talls barely gave us an inch.

 

[Breustiful]

Another arm wrestle down there. Thought we were gone at the end of the third, our mids didn’t seem interested. 7 clearances to Nash… thought he did well.


Hope Mass is okay.

 

[Endorphin Machine]

Oh and btw , that was out first top 4 scalp since downing the pies and lions in 23 . Cant wait to see how we look when McCabe is holding down a spot. We couldnt get any relief “down the line” marks at all

 

[MistyAvalon]

The belief in this team is ridiculous!!
Freo had us on the ropes multiple times but they just dug deep and refused to give in.
Banged up skipper stood tall to lead the team.
Meek was huge against Jackson
Weddle had a great game - took on many different roles.
Worpel, Nash, Day and Newcombe were all huge in the last quarter.
What about Sam Frost’s corridor kick to Jarman Impey opened up an opportunity to get the ball rolling!

thanks for saying all that.....just what I feel

 

[KermitJagger]

Just look through the stats. They had 27 extra marks and they weren’t cheapies either, they were across the whole ground and many contested. Fremantle had 6 of the top 8 rated players on the ground. It will be interesting to see the coaches votes. I suspect they will get the majority of them.

It was a great grinding win where struck at the right time but we shouldn’t fool ourselves that it was a convincing win. I suspect if that was played in WA the result would look more like the Cats game.

They outplayed us for most of the game but at no stage should it have been 30 or 40. Idk what you mean by marks either because marks have no bearing on score. They had 1 more mark inside 50 than we did. We beat them at clearances and contested ball. It's just differences in play style.

I'm not sure that the difference between the two clubs was ever as big as you're saying.