Autopsy Round 18, 2025: Hawks fall short

[Nash88]

Extremely disappointing performance overall.
Went to water in the last term under pressure. CJ is a massive defensive liability and is scared to bodyline the ball, out for Scrimshaw ASAP and trade bait in the off season.
Mackenzie straight out of the team once Day is right to go.
The game plan is a mess I can’t understand for the life of me why we use the left flank time and time again when exiting D50..way too predictable.
Pushing shit up hill this season anyway we are nowhere near the best sides just making up the numbers.

 

[EightyNineChamps]

every time there was a turnover in our forward line...it seems a goal was going to happen for them, this is something that we just don't defend well. the cats do this to us all the time...

 

[Mitchyy]

We are being exposed for having no elite talent midfielders. No Day, No Hawks.

Players have believed the hype and now our season is over

2026 here we come

Our season is not over.

 

[SA HAWK]

Bye, bye finals?

50/50 i think either one of us, freo & maybe dogs miss.

Gws winning today was a bad result for us.

 

[ShoveYourCOLA]

Trying to think of positives…At least Geelong lost

 

[Franko Armani]

Fair play to Freo.... their pressure was immense and they stopped us from getting any flow on. They handled the intensity better than we did and most importantly kicked straight. Lets see if we can rebound v our nemesis Port next week. We are very much in a street fight to make top 8 now.

Only team I’ve seen not stop us get a flow on was nth melb. Everyone stops us.

 

[Nugett]

Umps were fine

Agree to disagree. There were calls that could have gone either way, or just let play on. Every time that whistle went, it always went Freo’s way.

 

[Wingnut19]

Get Worpel and Sicily out now. Scrim and Lewis in. Worps and Sic have to earn it back through box hill. They just kill us.

 

[bungholes_premiers]

Nice to hear we have tall fwd options now but none are contested marking bulls when u need it in that last q

 

[Kuuz]

For a club who have an absolute steaming Box Hill side, we have a lot of players well below the grade in the seniors.

Honestly, tough calls need to be made - because CJ and Sic are liabilities. Chol had a mare too today as well, who has otherwise been awesome this year.

That being said, I feel like the lack of a class mid to complement Newk will be the nail in our coffin this year. It's just happening to often this year that we get overpowered in the coalface. Worps has dipped in form compared to last year and Nash is still quite inconsistent. French is way off his best and Wardy has been good, but goes missing in patches.

Urgh that last quarter was awful. Scored two behinds - which is just abysmal. Boys deserve an absolute roasting in the review on Monday, because they crapped their dacks to the extreme.

 

[Goats]

Sicily still not right

He cant be played anymore until his cherry ripe

CJ out for Scrimma ASAP

CJ was particularly shit tonight. Definitely deserves to be dropped.

 

[GAS PANIC]

Disappointing loss to a very vanilla Fremantle.

Experience is always great but it feels like if we make the finals we are very much just making up the numbers this year.

Also, Sicerly is an absolute liability at the moment despite his recent rest.

 

[SA HAWK]

Our season is not over.

Not over and we may make finals but we haven’t looked that good all year.

Be surprised if we win a final if we make it.

 

[Suntory Boss Coffee]

Clearly a mid short, especially with Frenchie barely giving a yelp

 

[flamin_heck]

Issues still start in the midfield. We’ve been ordinary and gone missing there too often.
I’ve backed in Sicily until this point but I think it’s time to ‘put him in for early surgery’, he’s proven himself unfit for a team looking for a finals birth- love ya mate but rest up and come back for 26.
Selection will be interesting this week, can’t hold back Lewis any longer, Chol having an off night in a finals like game. I think he gets the benefit, looking foward to seeing a fit Lewis and Scrim back.

 

[Sleutheren]

Just never seemed likely all night, even when in front. And then the last quarter was a bad way to finish

Still learning how to deal with high pressure levels from opposition teams, Freo came to play and we were a step off it unfortunately

I have us winning if Chol kicks that set shot early in the last quarter.

 

[triple treat]

I’m not one to blame umpires but shit there was some bad calls in that last quarter!

 

[Jethro!]

Just ran out of tickets I think. Had a chance to put scoreboard pressure on in the last and we fluffed it.
I think CJ needs a spell in the 2s. He slipped easy tackles, only had 1 kick as a line breaking defender and 1 mark. Need more from him.
Midfield clearly needs another dimension and Day can't come back soon enough.
Marbs and Gunner been great all year but not their night.
Really need to make amends and come out big against Port but I just really feel like we're just floating through this year so far.

Not all bad. We tried and just couldn't keep going. Still lots of room for improvement.

 

[Franko Armani]

you are weird

Nah , he’s right . Newcombe is our only good mid out there tonight, and it shows.

 

[Viddiot]

Good effort from all kept us in it until final quarter. But a night where everything in the air and bouncing was just out of reach. Bad kicking through the middle was what put me in a bad mood in the 3rd.
We left them alive all night and so they went into the last quarter with real hope. Beaten on the night. It happens.

 

[Leather Poisoning]

The umps won it for them in the last quarter

I would suggest looking more at the skills, decision making and intensity for the last 30 minutes of the game.

 

[Gut Runner]

We are not a contender. Simple.

We go to water when the heat is on.

McKenzie and CJ cannot tackle and should not play until they learn/want to.

Captain and Vice Captain look cooked.

The rest played pretty well but ran out of legs.

 

[Since 2001]

Our season is not over.

Port, Carlton, Crows, pies, Melbourne and lions.

At best we win 3 of these games on current form

 

[Yardie]

Sicily still not right

He cant be played anymore until his cherry ripe

CJ out for Scrimma ASAP

Sicily out for Scrimshaw. And CJ should have been the sub.

 

[Wingnut19]

Sam not tagging Serong with Finn. Get what we deserve.