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Hank93
Brownlow Medallist
12 points felt like 50 points at the end of the game. It was clear that one team is still a premiership contender; the other a solid team that can compete with the best but is still years away from genuinely fighting for the flag.
Hawthorn were just a little bit better in all areas.
· Better ball use.
· Efficiency going inside 50.
· Sticking tackles.
· Applying more pressure on the opponent.
· Less fumbles.
· More effective use of handball.
Brad Crouch
What a gun. His ability to win an enormous amount of ball, make good decisions and take the pressure off Danger/Sloane is hugely beneficial to our side. Shame Macrae had 43 disposals today to take the attention away from how amazing Crouchy is for a 20 year old. Currently averaging 23.9 disposals a game after just 18 games in his career.
Handball Happy
I actually liked our desire to use the handball more to create more run. I’d prefer to make mistakes doing this then being stagnate and going no where.
But it showed that when you play risky, fast break footy, you need to be ultra clean with disposal and avoid fumbling the ball, and we weren’t quite up to it.
Some of the handball use was good, but still too much of it was used when under pressure, or to stagnate teammates which created pressure. This then led to an unbelievable amount of smothered kicks.
Tippett who?
OK, we’d clearly be a better side with him here, but the new number 4 is certainly turning it on this season. 5 goals straight, currently 11th on the coleman medal charts with 34 goals this season. With still 6 games remaining, he could kick 50 goals which would be a huge achievement for someone with just 42 games under his belt. He’s fast, athletic, can now take a strong mark and is clearly getting more accurate in front of goal. Good signs in the post Pods era.
Selection:
It may not have decided the game, but again I think we missed a massive opportunity to give players like Luke Thompson and Matt Crouch (Or Lyons/Grigg) to play on the big stage. Porps’ two disposals gave us nothing towards this game, and clearly didn’t benefit us in the future. He’s an absolute lock to be delisted. Grigg had 33 disposals, 11 marks, 5 tackles and 2 goals against South. Lyons 23 disposals and 2 goals, Crouch 24 disposals and 1 goal. Surely, SURELY these players can’t do any worse than what Porplyzia is providing. These players are the future, and playing at least one of them won’t be detrimental to the result.
I’m still dumbfounded at the lack of faith in Luke Thompson. He plays in a Semi Final, performs well. He plays in a prelim, again holds his own. The Powers two tall forwards contribute three goals in the showdown, a good result for our backline without Truck. We need to prepare for 2015 and beyond, and currently Talia is the only tall that is a lock in our backline. If we don’t start fast tracking Thompson, Hartigan or even Shaw, we’re in massive trouble.
Stat sheet:
We had 39 more disposals than the Hawks and still had a poorer disposal efficiency, 74 to 76%. This shows the difference in class between us and them. We lost the tackle count (Pressure on the ball carrier), the 1%ers (pressure again), marks (Ball use), marks inside 50 (Ball movement going forward), clangers (composure), stoppage clearances (Smahed 35-25 concerning, set up around the ground).
Other points:
· Gunston is annoyingly good
· Eddie had a stinker
· The t-shirts were awesome, shame Eddie couldn’t step up for the big occasion
· Another awesome crowd, more 50,000 attendances at Adelaide Oval this year than the entire history of AFL at Football Park.
· Razor Ray actually explained the siren stuff up fairly well (He could have left out saying retarted). If he’s told to call the end of the quarter when he his audible sound in his earpiece, then that’s what he should do. Not his fault, just a stuff up that he couldn’t control.
· 70 uncontested marks to our 43. Too many loose men, and when they kick it as well as they do, it’s going to kill you.
ADELAIDE 3.0 7.4 11.4 14.8 (92)
HAWTHORN 4.3 8.4 13.9 15.14 (104)
GOALS
Adelaide: Jenkins 5, Podsiadly 2, Walker 2, Wright, Betts, Lynch, Smith
Hawthorn: Gunston 4, Breust 3, Simpkin 2, McEvoy 2, Ceglar 2, Burgoyne, Duryea
INJURIES
Adelaide: Jenkins (rolled ankle), Thompson (hamstring)
Hawthorn: Nil
SUBSTITUTES
Adelaide: Scott Thompson replaced by Jason Porplyzia in the final quarter
Hawthorn: Will Langford replaced by Ben Ross in the final quarter
Reports: Nil
Umpires: Nicholls, Chamberlain, McInerney
Official crowd: 50,321 at Adelaide Oval
POTY:
5: Dangerfield
4: Crouch
3: Jenkins
2: Sloane
1: Smith
Match replay:
http://www.afl.com.au/video/smart-replay?round=CD_R201401417&matchId=CD_M20140141701
Sando’s presser:
http://www.afc.com.au/video/2014-07-12/sando-post-match-presser-round-17
Pictures
Hawthorn were just a little bit better in all areas.
· Better ball use.
· Efficiency going inside 50.
· Sticking tackles.
· Applying more pressure on the opponent.
· Less fumbles.
· More effective use of handball.
Brad Crouch
What a gun. His ability to win an enormous amount of ball, make good decisions and take the pressure off Danger/Sloane is hugely beneficial to our side. Shame Macrae had 43 disposals today to take the attention away from how amazing Crouchy is for a 20 year old. Currently averaging 23.9 disposals a game after just 18 games in his career.
Handball Happy
I actually liked our desire to use the handball more to create more run. I’d prefer to make mistakes doing this then being stagnate and going no where.
But it showed that when you play risky, fast break footy, you need to be ultra clean with disposal and avoid fumbling the ball, and we weren’t quite up to it.
Some of the handball use was good, but still too much of it was used when under pressure, or to stagnate teammates which created pressure. This then led to an unbelievable amount of smothered kicks.
Tippett who?
OK, we’d clearly be a better side with him here, but the new number 4 is certainly turning it on this season. 5 goals straight, currently 11th on the coleman medal charts with 34 goals this season. With still 6 games remaining, he could kick 50 goals which would be a huge achievement for someone with just 42 games under his belt. He’s fast, athletic, can now take a strong mark and is clearly getting more accurate in front of goal. Good signs in the post Pods era.
Selection:
It may not have decided the game, but again I think we missed a massive opportunity to give players like Luke Thompson and Matt Crouch (Or Lyons/Grigg) to play on the big stage. Porps’ two disposals gave us nothing towards this game, and clearly didn’t benefit us in the future. He’s an absolute lock to be delisted. Grigg had 33 disposals, 11 marks, 5 tackles and 2 goals against South. Lyons 23 disposals and 2 goals, Crouch 24 disposals and 1 goal. Surely, SURELY these players can’t do any worse than what Porplyzia is providing. These players are the future, and playing at least one of them won’t be detrimental to the result.
I’m still dumbfounded at the lack of faith in Luke Thompson. He plays in a Semi Final, performs well. He plays in a prelim, again holds his own. The Powers two tall forwards contribute three goals in the showdown, a good result for our backline without Truck. We need to prepare for 2015 and beyond, and currently Talia is the only tall that is a lock in our backline. If we don’t start fast tracking Thompson, Hartigan or even Shaw, we’re in massive trouble.
Stat sheet:
We had 39 more disposals than the Hawks and still had a poorer disposal efficiency, 74 to 76%. This shows the difference in class between us and them. We lost the tackle count (Pressure on the ball carrier), the 1%ers (pressure again), marks (Ball use), marks inside 50 (Ball movement going forward), clangers (composure), stoppage clearances (Smahed 35-25 concerning, set up around the ground).
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Other points:
· Gunston is annoyingly good
· Eddie had a stinker
· The t-shirts were awesome, shame Eddie couldn’t step up for the big occasion
· Another awesome crowd, more 50,000 attendances at Adelaide Oval this year than the entire history of AFL at Football Park.
· Razor Ray actually explained the siren stuff up fairly well (He could have left out saying retarted). If he’s told to call the end of the quarter when he his audible sound in his earpiece, then that’s what he should do. Not his fault, just a stuff up that he couldn’t control.
· 70 uncontested marks to our 43. Too many loose men, and when they kick it as well as they do, it’s going to kill you.
ADELAIDE 3.0 7.4 11.4 14.8 (92)
HAWTHORN 4.3 8.4 13.9 15.14 (104)
GOALS
Adelaide: Jenkins 5, Podsiadly 2, Walker 2, Wright, Betts, Lynch, Smith
Hawthorn: Gunston 4, Breust 3, Simpkin 2, McEvoy 2, Ceglar 2, Burgoyne, Duryea
INJURIES
Adelaide: Jenkins (rolled ankle), Thompson (hamstring)
Hawthorn: Nil
SUBSTITUTES
Adelaide: Scott Thompson replaced by Jason Porplyzia in the final quarter
Hawthorn: Will Langford replaced by Ben Ross in the final quarter
Reports: Nil
Umpires: Nicholls, Chamberlain, McInerney
Official crowd: 50,321 at Adelaide Oval
POTY:
5: Dangerfield
4: Crouch
3: Jenkins
2: Sloane
1: Smith
Match replay:
http://www.afl.com.au/video/smart-replay?round=CD_R201401417&matchId=CD_M20140141701
Sando’s presser:
http://www.afc.com.au/video/2014-07-12/sando-post-match-presser-round-17
Pictures
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