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Autopsy Round 18, 2025: Hawks fall short

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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.
 

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 

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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.
 

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Autopsy Round 18, 2025: Hawks fall short

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