Autopsy Round 1, 2024: Hawks fail against Bombers

[Glebehawk]

Will day?

That’s outside the last 4 years, but yea thank god for Will Day.

 

[almuz]

Nash is 1.98cm tall - can't understand how often he gets beaten in the air

Decision making (and execution) inside 50 was hit/miss - kicked it high and long way too often, not sure what the plan from Sam and co was with a relatively small forward line

Defense was okay - a lot of unpressured entries inside 50 from the *. We need more speed and skill out of the middle i.e. Will Day

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Memo to Ginnivan:

You’re a small forward, so your job is in this order
1. Chase, harass, tackle and annoy the opposition to try to cause turnovers
2. Link up with other Hawks, giving the ball to a teammate in a better position than you
3. Kick the odd goal

Try to wash the Collingwood stink out - it may take some time …


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Try watching football.

 

[Judd2Sewell]

Memo to Ginnivan:

You’re a small forward, so your job is in this order
1. Chase, harass, tackle and annoy the opposition to try to cause turnovers
2. Link up with other Hawks, giving the ball to a teammate in a better position than you
3. Kick the odd goal

Try to wash the Collingwood stink out - it may take some time …


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Of all the players to have a go at today you chose Ginnivan? Just lol.

Your collection of absolutely bewildering takes over the years is very enviable. You must be a BigFooty wide front runner. Don't change.

 

[Noel Gallagher]

Why are some people against making a big offer for Tim English? He's clearly a far better player than Reeves and would improve us a lot.

I’m with you. Pretty no much no chance of landing English but if we were half a chance, you would go all out and not give it a second thought. Reeves adds nothing up forward, down back or when the ball hits the ground.

 

[earthworms]

Really wish we had landed mckay, he kept mitch lewis to 1 goal.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Another 1 mark Reeves game. It's not his fault, but I hope we have a proper plan to replace him

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Goldstein had 1 mark too.

 

[almuz]

Feel like Mackenzie drifts through games. Not much intensity in anything he does

He missed Lewis off a turnover in the 2nd quarter which was a killer too - precise kicking should be his 1 wood

 

[Sixpence]

Really wish we had landed mckay, he kept mitch lewis to 1 goal.

Mitch Lewis kept Mitch Lewis to 1 goal.

 

[The hands of stone]

On English - we arent getting him , we arent really going to target him and he doesnt want to come to us ( thats not a slight on us either )
So its wasted breath wanting it to happen

Reckon we have more pressing and realistic targets also .

Must say it is funny Scott saying they dont want a sugar hit .....and they recruit Goldy .

Please move is not appropriate in this discussion .

 

[DannyJ]

Goldstein had 1 mark too.

We are comparing a bloke that is going to be amazing to Toddy? Wow

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[onthemoney]

Memo to Ginnivan:

You’re a small forward, so your job is in this order
1. Chase, harass, tackle and annoy the opposition to try to cause turnovers
2. Link up with other Hawks, giving the ball to a teammate in a better position than you
3. Kick the odd goal

Try to wash the Collingwood stink out - it may take some time …


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Ya wot m8?

He was great today.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

We are comparing a bloke that is going to be amazing to Toddy? Wow

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You wanted to play the game of saying Reeves had just 1 mark....which is exactly the same as his opponent.

 

[Mercy Seat]

Memo to Ginnivan:

You’re a small forward, so your job is in this order
1. Chase, harass, tackle and annoy the opposition to try to cause turnovers
2. Link up with other Hawks, giving the ball to a teammate in a better position than you
3. Kick the odd goal

Try to wash the Collingwood stink out - it may take some time …


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If you were at the game you’d see he was one of the few in our forward half who was running and chasing and trying to lock that ball in. The “Collingwood stink” which happens to include a premiership medallion is the least of our concerns.

 

[TylerDurden]

Memo to Ginnivan:

You’re a small forward, so your job is in this order
1. Chase, harass, tackle and annoy the opposition to try to cause turnovers
2. Link up with other Hawks, giving the ball to a teammate in a better position than you
3. Kick the odd goal

Try to wash the Collingwood stink out - it may take some time …


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This was his game. Brain dead comment.

 

[Buzz Hawk]

I think people have forgotten last year's game. We were blown out the park and never had a chance of winning that.

This game, we were beaten by ourselves. Nevermind how ordinary our midfield was in the second half, we lost it by kicking 17 behinds. Kick just 4 of those and we win. Even just 3 early on and put some scoreboard pressure and it changes things.

I wish I could be that optimistic but I don’t think it’s just a case of kicking straight. Goldstein’s domination with the centre hit outs showed we don’t have much of a clue when Ned doesn’t win the initial tap. The amount of times Essendon seemingly waltzed through the back of the circle was insane, it was like Moses parting the Red Sea, just waltz on through.
Must be a major focus during the week. Nash and Newk having poor games didn’t help in that respect. Unless Nash is throwing his weight around, using his size to our advantage, he can be a liability.

 

[Aeolus]

Good point re Worps.

Based on today's showing you'd be a crazy optimist to assume that Ward, Frenchie, etc are overtaking him anytime soon.

He's a bull at the contest and that's a valuable commodity to have given how important clearances are these days.

 

[Mercy Seat]

Are we gonna have to hear about Tim English after every game this year? We’ve not been linked to him, aren’t chasing him and not speaking with him. Our priorities are kpps.

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

Good to see when the game was there to be won we showed great leadership and a willingness to get down and dirty to win the game. I'm being sarcastic obviously. Thats my main frustration apart from the awful set shot kicking. There a middle of the road side ripe for the picking and right now we're not good enough to take advantage of it. Does not bode well for the rest of the year because we're playing some quality sides in the coming weeks who will kill us if we allow such a smashing in the middle. Writing was on the wall the first 2 games we played so we need to fix it ASAP and work out what the issue is.

 

[Judd2Sewell]

This was his game. Brain dead comment.

A Davo23 special. I think he must be a meme poster at this point, a veteran of the board that is just trolling everyone.

 

[TylerDurden]

I wish I could be that optimistic but I don’t think it’s just a case of kicking straight. Goldstein’s domination with the centre hit outs showed we don’t have much of a clue when Ned doesn’t win the initial tap. The amount of times Essendon seemingly waltzed through the back of the circle was insane, it was like Moses parting the Red Sea, just waltz on through.
Must be a major focus during the week. Nash and Newk having poor games didn’t help in that respect. Unless Nash is throwing his weight around, using his size to our advantage, he can be a liability.

They walked it out of there the whole last quarter. There's no denying this.

 

[The Kipster]

When our midfield does get on top, we’ll be dangerous. But they were comprehensively beaten by a young Essendon unit today, both at winning the ball and defending in transition. Not sure what the answer is.

Huh, a young Scum outfit, we cannot trot that crap out, we had a younger midfield and we were thumped.

 

[hawkmang]

Goldstein was made to look awesome today by our midfielders not being defensive enough and having no one blocking the oppo player running through us. We got opened up like (insert metaphor here) so often because we were too focussed on getting it forward

 

[DannyJ]

A Davo23 special. I think he must be a meme poster at this point, a veteran of the board that is just trolling everyone.

Goldstein was made to look awesome today by our midfielders not being defensive enough and having no one blocking the oppo player running through us. We got opened up like (insert metaphor here) so often because we were too focussed on getting it forward

No Ned beat him. He's amazing and don't argue it

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[extractasam]

Eh we’ll be fine. Beat ourselves today more than they did.

Interested to see what we change in regard to team balance, whether Phillips comes in for a mid to release Sicily a bit more to free roam. He was beaten but he looked like he was struggling to play his own way due to the necessity of needing talls deep.

Our mid transition first half was great, even right up till 3 qtr time we found ways to work it. This is part of the game so many teams struggle with. We know we are a great CTR bounce team but today, terribly below our own standard.

Frustrating to lose to this piss ass mob but we’re gonna play some good footy