Autopsy Round 2, 2022: Hawks disconnect the power

[extractasam]

What a game I really enjoyed watching them just having an absolute crack and being rewarded.
Gonna be hard to back up that physicality but loving the spread in the midfield at the moment. I don’t think putting the clamp on one particular person would’ve done much tonight whereas years prior sometimes one of Jaegar/Mitchell being tagged spelled danger for us.

Also prop to Maginness I am fairly sure he was locking down Motlop majority of the night and spent time on SPP after his little patch in the 3rd also and seemed to go well.

Lastly cheers to the Adelaide hawks supporters and the ones travelling for getting out there was actually a bit of noise coming from us particularly when Ward slotted that goal on the run.

 

[BlueWaterHawk]

Nash's field kicking! He's firing bullets now, where did this come from?

Will end up one of the top 5 Irish imports at the current trajectory.

Sent from my SM-G973F using Tapatalk

 

[SA HAWK]

Our future is in good hands that i am sure of.

 

[WillowSF]

That’s a real signature win! Well done Sam & the boys.

Add Koschitzke to that forward line and we again will have some real marking power.

Breust & Gunston are all class. All time Hawthorn greats…

 

[Dewyyyyy]

Let’s ****ing go

 

[Phil McCreviss]

Tone was set in the first 15 seconds. Mitchell hit really hard got straight back up. Made it to the next throw in. Boys all had their head over the ball from that point on.

 

[Dewyyyyy]

Genuinely unreal, Titch was doing well in the clearances and played a pretty good game, obviously not dominant best yet.

Worpel came back beautifully, showing real toe which is much improved, fend is working alot more just damaging asf.

Jaeger stood up, Jai was his hardnosed self, thing from this year to last is a pre season and he's gut running already, his pace is super too and his kicking is good, doesn't have many holes.

So many good, just a team game, ML was dominant up forward well deserved 5, Gunston, Breust. Class. Wingard went off early but he kicked 2 and looked good, hopefully it's not too bad and he's back in a week or two.

Wardy and CMac, class, composure, toughness, gut running it's unreal. Ward in particular, some of the things he did.. Wow.


Down back Sic was elite again, Scrimmer is just ultra consistent deadset elite talent, DGB was unreal tonight, Frost was superb again Dimma just phenomenal.

Everyone was great really.
-

 

[madhawksfan]

I’m still in shock this morning. That was the best performance we’ve put in since 2015 for mine.

Ward and CMac are going to be something special. Scrim and Morrison are becoming stars before our years. Reeves was excellent and Mitch Lewis is looking like a genuine quality key forward. Nash and Newk have added another dimension to the midfield. Denver played his best game also. Moore is playing AA level right now.

Great games from the leaders as well. Big Boy, Dimma, Mitch, Jaeger, Gunner, Frost and Sicily were huge.

Worpel looked like a different player tonight. Fast and skilful.

Important to keep the lid on expectations but it’s nice to see some light at the end of the tunnel.

 

[hawk for 37]

Couldn’t sleep. Remembered I hadn’t checked BF. Nice.
Thought we were a sneaky but couldn’t of predicted that. Highlight for me was the ability to counterpunch so effectively.
A couple of times Port put the acid on and the Hawks wobbled slightly and then they would produce an end to end play resulting in a goal and suck the air out of Port and their crowd. Great stuff.

Special mention to Hardwick. What a star small backman we have here. A classic Hawk style defender. Just so tough, reliable and never beaten. Others are rightly getting their time in the spotlight but Hardwick just turns up week in week out. Has done for years now. Deserves that No.15. I guess that in itself is high praise.

 

[Tassie Cryptik]

Nash in the ruck again.
That clearance and kick to Lewis was superb.
The run and gather for his goal was awe inspiring.
A great game.

 

[Wingnut19]

Scrimshaw is a genuine gun. Blows me away every game. Under rated tough nut. What was he pick 7? Looks every bit of that and some. Outsiders don’t factor him in when talking about our lack of high draft picks.

 

[The hands of stone]

For anyone who missed it because Fox Sports sucks - absolute pleasure to listen to this man talk about footy

Full post-match, R2: Hawks

Watch Hawthorn's press conference after round two's match against Port Adelaide

www.afl.com.au

Was disappointing after such a great win to hear individual players names constantly mentioned.
Hopefully the club engages media training asap to rectify this flaw in his press conferences .

 

[Rowie6]

How great is the connection between 2 of the smartest footballers we have had the privilege to witness all these years?Welcome back to the fold Jack and his little mate Luke!


On iPhone using BigFooty.com mobile app

 

[MinerBoy]

We've run 2km in a 22k marathon so a long way to go but haven't those first 2ks been fun.

On SM-G950F using BigFooty.com mobile app

As a runner, please don't call 22km a marathon lol... pet hate

But there's a saying ..the first 2k is the worst 2k, so it can only get better

 

[Sturty]

Waking up after THAT WIN.

 

[MinerBoy]

Darcy and Richo are both far better in BT’s absence than they are when they join in with his dickheadedness. Bennett and Darcy called a game recently that was really well done.

Richo seems like a rippa bloke and isn't annoying per se... but he is just a walking rip off of every footy cliche he's ever heard. Really gives no insight.

 

[Thrashor]

Such an enjoyable game to watch. The backs were awesome, I was wondering whether we were going to have too many intercepting defenders at the start of the season with Sicily coming back along side Scrim, CJ and DGB but they are making it work beautifully and are such an offensive weapon even without Day.

Love the work of the young guys - the composure and confidence of New, Ward, MacDonald defies their years. I sense that Sam is a great leader who knows how to empower people. Connor Nash and Morrison are playing with a lot of self belief and playing to their strengths.

Our list build has been intriguing. I think the disruption of Covid has allowed the recruiters to pick some gems - Newc, Bramble, MacDonald and probably Long for way unders. This has thrown the experts like Kingy and Kane as they think because we didn’t have a lot of top 10 picks we had no talent and no future.

Loving Mitch Lewis, so great to have a power forward again. Loving the work rate off Moore.

What is with this fast and low kicks into a leading forward? Who would have thought that would work.

Sam in the press conference highlighted our centre clearances as where we still have issues. This will be an interesting watch. You would think that having midfielders who are a Brownlow medalist and a mini draft pick 1 would be a good start but it doesn’t seem so. I see a real future though in Reeves, Newc, Ward and Nash in the middle and that will take some time but the journey is just as good as the destination. Go Hawks!

 

[Hong Kong Hawk]

Irrespective of where we finish the year, the start is showing us that the future is bright. Very happy this morning

 

[toomanysquibs]

Could this have been the turning point?

I'm sure there are some ups and downs to come, but the side looks balanced in terms of running power, ball winning, forward marking power, and an incredibly slick rebounding back 50.

The number of contests guys won when the ball was in dispute really stood out too.

It's easier to look incredible when you have a win like this, but it didn't let up, and it's the injection of young talent that's driving things for the first time in a long time.

The rebuild seems to have started with our back end, and now our midfield and forwards are showing signs too.

 

[Simon Crawshay]

So refreshing seeing us play with an attacking mindset. The new style must be completely liberating for the players.

This can't be underplayed.

Last couple of years I really think the players suffered mentally from playing Clarko's ultra defensive style of footy.

Also a reason why Ross Lyon never lasted at a club for too long. Not being given the opportunity to showcase your skills and why you were drafted in the first place must be so disheartening for a player.

 

[Tanami]

Thank you to the Board and Jeff for being bold ...backing yourself. Copped it from all angles. Yes we are paying 900k ....but seeing all the responses here tonight and seeing happy faces on players and coaching staff......it's been worth it. Watching Sam coach in the box the past few games he was meant to coach without doubt. I have watched C J hug Sam bout 3 times now ..it says slot about what the players are feeling and thinking.

 

[Pessimistic]

Also we gave Collingwood coach McRae and got mids coach Harvey back. Starting to look like a huge win for both clubs

 

[Blackhawk42]

I understand the anomaly of losing most stat categories and winning by so much, but I'm shocked at the clearance differential.

Lost by 25? It absolutely didn't feel that way. Felt like we were on top out of the centre and away from stoppages if i'm being honest.

I guess it just proves again how talented our defensive end is.

 

[Franko Armani]

Reeves was phenomenal for only having played a few games…. Will be one of the best going around by years end

 

[KermitJagger]

Richo seems like a rippa bloke and isn't annoying per se... but he is just a walking rip off of every footy cliche he's ever heard. Really gives no insight.

He's fine imo, he gets frustrating sometimes but boy was it fun to hear the jealousy in his voice with some of the delivery our forwards were getting in that game. He was great at pointing out what great kicking I50 we were executing. Bet he was thinking "if I'd got half of that I'd have kicked 1000 too" - Richo had a fantastic career for a bloke who never had decent delivery.