Autopsy Round 1, 2025: Hawks shoot down Bombers

[VandoHawk]

Absolute sour grapes from Scott. “Beaten by a more efficient…(sour face and a three second delay)…probably at this stage a classier side.” Couldn’t even be complementary without gritting his teeth.

 

[Malik90]

Chol: 8 disposals - 6 marks (3 contested) - 2 goals - 2 behinds

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

Thought our;

Forward line beat their defence
Defence beat their forwards
Midfield struggled against theirs.

Really missed Worpel. Going to miss Scrimshaw next week.

Frost replaced him as a defensive Tall but he doesn't provide anywhere near as much offensively as Scrim. He will be a big loss. It means Sicily will stay back to provide that flair with ball use until he returns.

 

[The hands of stone]

2-0 . Take that everyday of the week

Challenged both games. Stood up and got it done .

You don't want to be playing your best now . We have new additions to the backline that still needs to gel .

It's a terriffic start all things considered.
How far we have come in 12 months

 

[TylerDurden]

Frost struggling as a sub. Either start him or drop him.

Surely CJ comes in for Scrim.

 

[HedgeFund]

Impressed with Hardwick and Maginness having to play essentially as KPFs against McKay.

For extended periods of that game we had a forward line of 6 guys between 170 - 186cm.

Worked well didn’t it!

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

Absolute sour grapes from Scott. “Beaten by a more efficient…(sour face and a three second delay)…probably at this stage a classier side.” Couldn’t even be complementary without gritting his teeth.

He's not wrong though. They played well we were just way more clinical. You don't usually win games with the stats the way they were.

 

[Mitch75]

Absolutely smashed in the contest in the second half. Looked like blokes didn't even want to take possession a lot of the time.

Take the four points.

Totally agree. There were a few blokes that looked for the easy receive in the second half. We were a clearance player short tonight, really missed Jimmy Worpel. I’d be playing Hustwaite next week

 

[bungholes_premiers]

Job done but lots to work on, some key stats don't look good for us

 

[Leather Poisoning]

Essendon should be completely disheartened by that.

They threw absolutely everything at us in terms of effort and still fell more than 4 goals short

 

[Dipper]

Absolute sour grapes from Scott. “Beaten by a more efficient…(sour face and a three second delay)…probably at this stage a classier side.” Couldn’t even be complementary without gritting his teeth.

I don't think he can not have a sour face.

He's got an upside down smile mouth like a perma-sad cartoon character. It takes a lot of muscle effort to even get it running east-west let alone making the classic 'U' shape, it's muscle memory, a lifetime of being a sinned against victim.

I bet him and his brother ruined a few Christmases when they thought the other got better presents.

 

[Iceman!]

Honestly the skill level of this team is just scary, every time we have the ball i just feel like we are going to score. The confidence we play with as well is just amazing to see. When you can comfortably win a game getting smashed in the contest it shows you can really put a team to the sword when you get your chances.

 

[madhawksfan]

Great to get the win but Essendon made us work hard for it. We counter punched most of the second half. We were fortunate with a couple of umpiring decisions as well.

Amon, Moore, Sicily, Croc, Chol, Frenchie, Impey and Battle were strong across the game.

Ward and Finn were immense in the last when many others had stopped. Harry M also was very solid.

Nash, Day, Ginni and Watto had good patches throughout the game.

Meek lowered his colours tonight, Barrass wasn’t as sharp as last week, Mass was fumbly and Frost looked very shaky.

Our balance in the back half is still not right. We looked a runner short again. CJ must be a good chance to come back in

Will be a lot of sore bodies after that one. Short turn around and an opposition with wounded pride could make it tough.

 

[hawkman]

What was the humidity? Felt like we fumbled the ball constantly in the 2nd half like it was a cake of soap

 

[Mrzohs]

Totally agree. There were a few blokes that looked for the easy receive in the second half. We were a clearance player short tonight, really missed Jimmy Worpel. I’d be playing Hustwaite next week

Spot on especially with the attention teams are putting on Daisy at the moment.
I thought Ward and Frenchie both showed some really good signs tonight but both didn't have that physical domiance in Worpel absence.

 

[CaptainWorpedo]

2 wins, from 2 games! We have our eyes on the prize.

Ward and Mackenzie had a good game!

 

[Judd2Sewell]

Absolute sour grapes from Scott. “Beaten by a more efficient…(sour face and a three second delay)…probably at this stage a classier side.” Couldn’t even be complementary without gritting his teeth.

He was pretty complimentary, I think you're seeing ghosts there.

 

[CaptainWorpedo]

What was the humidity? Felt like we fumbled the ball constantly in the 2nd half like it was a cake of soap

Both sides had issues with slipping over and fumbling the ball.

 

[rdhopkins2]

My Hawthorn barracking sister took her son tonight. His poor Dad barracks for *.
The kid had no hope in life being indoctrinated into Jimmy & The Injectors brethren.
Needless to say I’ve had to call DHS.
Poor kid just witnessed his first Hokball win.
Bad timing with our recent record against them.
Never forgiven her for marrying *.
Haha.

 

[Hawk Vision]

Sign of a good side, losing most of the major stats and winning. Good to see Watson doing the hard stuff first and sorting out his running patterns.

 

[VandoHawk]

He was pretty complimentary, I think you're seeing ghosts there.

In fairness he did get better as the interview went on. I posted that after he said that, and immediately started talking about how a “lot of the stuff they did worked.”

Probably jumped the shark there.

 

[Judd2Sewell]

How long is Scrimshaw going to be out for? One week with the concussion protocol and potentially a suspension?

CJ should probably come straight in for him against Carlton.

 

[Long Live HFC]

Meant to say last week - **** Nash has started kicking the football like someone who grew up with the game.

 

[Delecate Des]

Never in doubt to be honest

 

[OhhhhhCyril]

Average, honestly happy to take the win and move on. There is a lot of improvement to come