Autopsy Round 13, 2024 : Hawks slay the Giants

[arupist]

While we are in the "airing of the grievences" faze of the autopsy thread....

Dear AFL, Yellow and Orange are too close to each other on the color spectrum to ever not be a f@#king jumper clash!

How f#$king hard is it to work out!

Old Man over and out.

I don't see this as a problem at all. Did you, at any stage of the game, confuse players because of the jumper colour?

Complain about the orange eyesore if you will, but carrying on about a jumper clash is silly because there really wasn't any clash.

 

[PenAndPaper]

Ch 9 tfs almost nutting over hawks this morning. Even damo with a semi

Damo having a hard on over a team that was tanking

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

 

[SSSSSS]

The heartbreak loss to Port Adelaide must have been worth 20 games of development alone.

Our resolve is iron now.

 

[SSSSSS]

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Air Chol

 

[DogDaySonny]

To be fair to Derm, Mabs isn't exactly loquacious from what I've heard. Perhaps he's both laconic and (occassionally) lackadaisical.

 

[HedgeFund]

The heartbreak loss to Port Adelaide must have been worth 20 games of development alone.

Our resolve is iron now.

Still baffling though.

 

[arupist]

Air Chol

When I first saw vision of that mark, I thought it wasn't so special. Then you realise just how far off the ground he was.

 

[SSSSSS]

When I first saw vision of that mark, I thought it wasn't so special. Then you realise just how far off the ground he was.

He was the only thing flying in Tassie yesterday.

Air control can't ground him.

 

[peetoo]

When I first saw vision of that mark, I thought it wasn't so special. Then you realise just how far off the ground he was.

Maybe it’s just expected from certain types

Our game is going to get a whole lot better as more of these ‘athletic’ types grow up here

 

[Bedi]

Hardwick's one on one defensive effort in the last was a huge moment to repel what was a lightning quick GWS forward entry

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

 

[Sizzlesilk]

Rewatching the last quarter and the psyche of this group can’t be undersold.

We seriously believe and want to just keep fighting now.

When Calsh touched that ball on the goal line you can actually see Weddle immediately move through shock, disappointment and then re-focus in an instant, telling himself that “we go again”.

Go have a look at the footage.

I went back and watched that moment.
I’m sure Calsher when “celebrating” Wedds goal tells him “I’ve touched it”.

The way Weddle responds at what could’ve been such a deflating moment & the way the group responded to Calsher after the siren shows so much care for each other.

 

[KermitJagger]

We'd get a nice nickname for this running, unfortunately the Brown tsunami sounds a bit more like a gastric diagnosis than a game plan

 

[Sixpence]

Our first 4 qtr game for season 2024? Keep it up Hawkas!

We kicked 2 goals in the first half, what are you talking about? We won that game through our 3rd and 4th quarter efforts!

North, Dogs, Crows and even the Lions games were 4 quarter games. This one, not so much.

 

[Liverbird]

1. People whinge about commentary, maybe just concentrate on the game as commentary teams are not receiving any premiership points?

2. Umpiring for both sides poor. Not sure why bump after the Sicily kick, that is a clear free kick, is controversial?

3. Bashing Kellie Underwood and Dermie is poor form. OK u don't think she is great ... listen the majority don't care either way !

Onto the game after above whinging has been addressed to keep the glass half empty readers in this thread happy

A. Sicily was very important in last 3 minutes when his play led to winning goal. Did he throw his hands up when bumped yes, did he get the winning free kick yes, was this smart yes. Rember Geelong's great teams milking frees in last qtrs v Hawks - well it's out turn to milk now.

B. Weddle could be anything. Trading up for him a masterstroke. Awesome prospect. Goal kicking mid that goes fwd ala Adam Goodes is prototype. This kid will be a star. Getting extra key back support (e.g. Battle) could unlock / release him next year.

C. Newk, Nash, Day, Worps won it for us in 2nd half. Shut out Green and nullified the Briggs supposed ruck advantage.

D. Chol has arrived, was a headache all day for Giants and was important in 3rd qtr turnover and beating Taylor in a contest at start of 4th that led to 2 crucial goals. He is a big reason for our improvement.

E. Scrimshaw and Impey are a key reason our backline has held together. Cadman, Frost and Riccardi did not dominate the air and the backline competed hard all day. O'Hallaran had a Ronke day out and will need to be reviewed for match ups, as was the anomaly.

F. Hardwick was huge in 3rd and 4th qtr playing down back. Importantly he allowed Weddle to be release on ball and fwd that worked a treat.

G. Dear Vs Cadman. On yesterday's and this year's performance I would take Dear. This kid will turn out to be the best leading / leaping fwd of the Hawks future. He has transformed our fwd set up and structure. His tackling (won game at end by hurting Haynes on wing) was awesome. Kid is a high leaping, straight at ball leading, competive beast that tackles hard. Develop his goal kicking skills a bit more over summer, but we have a more exciting prospect than Cadman who went pick #1 - think about that.

Lastly - we are back. Back to a finals worthy side in this even competition, even this year bar our 0-5 start. There may be a few more bumps along the road that will lead to the whiners picking on players and coaching again, but have no doubt about this statement, we are back and the general football public will absolutely hate it...

Sam Michell... "this club is built to win premierships". "We are in performance not development stage" he was right all along ... oh yee of little faith

 

[CaptainWorpedo]

We kicked 2 goals in the first half, what are you talking about? We won that game through our 3rd and 4th quarter efforts!

North, Dogs, Crows and even the Lions games were 4 quarter games. This one, not so much.

Kicking goals isn’t a true indication of a 4 qtr effort. We were inaccurate in the first half and our endeavour to be in the contest made it a 4 qtr game in my opinion.

 

[grumbleguts]

This is a bit cringe but also a bit fun.

 

[OnTheRocks]

We'd get a nice nickname for this running, unfortunately the Brown tsunami sounds a bit more like a gastric diagnosis than a game plan

A gold wave?

 

[KermitJagger]

A gold wave?

The golden shower? Golden stream?

Can't win

 

[unitedhawk]

We'd get a nice nickname for this running, unfortunately the Brown tsunami sounds a bit more like a gastric diagnosis than a game plan

How about Brown and Gold-Rush?

 

[Nugett]

I’m hoping that next week’s autopsy will be Hawks Dust the Tigers…

 

[Blackhawk42]

That was an eight pointer for us….and we play them again in canberra

Think I'll be attending this one too. Will be my sons first Hawks game. Hopefully the same result!

 

[Sixpence]

Kicking goals isn’t a true indication of a 4 qtr effort. We were inaccurate in the first half and our endeavour to be in the contest made it a 4 qtr game in my opinion.

We missed some very gettable shots and our skills were off in the first half. But even if I did agree, saying this was our first discredits some of our other wins.

 

[eldorado]

We'd get a nice nickname for this running, unfortunately the Brown tsunami sounds a bit more like a gastric diagnosis than a game plan

Golden Tide