The race for the top 4

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SuperSub17

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Hawks in trouble now. Adelaide at AO, Collingwood, Sydney, Freo (Perth) and Geelong all still to come. Would have to win at least 3 of those 5 you would think.

They can beat any of those teams of course but can they win enough of them?
 

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who are they missing apart from Gibson, Rioli, McEvoy?

North Melbourne are winning without Ziebell, Grima, Wells or Tarrant
Hill was a late withdrawal then we lost Sewell in the first quarter tonight.

McEvoy not getting a game because of form.

Wouldn't have mattered because we were comprehensibly outplayed tonight.
 

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Hawks in trouble now. Adelaide at AO, Collingwood, Sydney, Freo (Perth) and Geelong all still to come. Would have to win at least 3 of those 5 you would think.

They can beat any of those teams of course but can they win enough of them?
If we play like we did against North we won't win any of them.
 

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Think there are a few concerns for Hawthorn.

David Hale looks done.

Can you carry McEvoy & Ceglar in the same team when a lot of your outside pace in Rioli is injured?

Sewell May not play again this year.
 

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Where ??? Gone from $3.25 to $4.50 ??? o_O
Yep - Sportsbet have them at $4.50, bet365 at $4.33, presumably general price is about $4.25-$4.50.

I imagine a reaction not only to the loss, but the additional (possible) absences of Lake, Hill and Sewell in the coming weeks.

Freo and Port prices have come in as a result, Sydney price about the same ($3.50-$3.75).
 

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Yep - Sportsbet have them at $4.50, bet365 at $4.33, presumably general price is about $4.25-$4.50.

I imagine a reaction not only to the loss, but the additional (possible) absences of Lake, Hill and Sewell in the coming weeks.

Freo and Port prices have come in as a result, Sydney price about the same ($3.50-$3.75).
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Difficult to assess top 2/top 4 confidently even at this stage, given the following matches are still to come:

Port v Sydney
Hawthorn v Sydney
Hawthorn v Geelong
Geelong v Freo
Freo v Port
Freo v Hawthorn

Plus games like tonight's where upsets happen. I wouldn't write the hawks off yet, although their absences could find them finishing 5th or 6th if it gets any worse.
 

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Think there are a few concerns for Hawthorn.

David Hale looks done.

Can you carry McEvoy & Ceglar in the same team when a lot of your outside pace in Rioli is injured?

Sewell May not play again this year.
All pretty fair points. Hale is simply giving us nothing at the moment. We'll have to bring in McEvoy. The loss of Hill makes it pretty easy to block the only other quality runner we have in Hill. Birchall looks to be struggling with injury and/or form. Suckling simply not hard enough at the contest.

Losing Sewell made our midfield very predictable. I had us at 5th using the predictor which will probably be around right.

Massive game next weekend for both Adelaide and Hawthorn.
 
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