Autopsy Round 21, 2024 : Hawks snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

[Flukey!]

Their overlap and run was way better than ours today and scored very easily at times.

Oh well, another learning opportunity.

 

[Liverbird]

Negative tactics in last killed us ... went into our shells.

 

[undefined]

Way to knock the wind out of the sails. And on a Sunday afternoon no less.

Proud of the boys. Probably not going to feature in September, but it is what it is.

 

[CaptainWorpedo]

It’s a long season, the Hawks looked flat from the opening bounce.

We suck up the loss, learn and move onto Carlton. As our season still alive.

Time to bring Maginness and Mackenzie back from Boxhill.

 

[HeHateMe]

Ugh very disappointing. Earlier in the year we were snatching victory and we had nothing to lose. Now the title says it all everything to lose and we snatched defeat.

We are still only a game out but next week's 8 point game against Carlton is a must.

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

Serious ?? Over CJ and Wardy. I know they do a lot of defensive running but too fumbly.
Can’t carry Gunston and Breust against teams that run in waves from defence

Nash and Worpel unsighted.

Newcombe tried hard. Day too

 

[Argy]

Seasons done now. Had a bad feeling all day. Really disappointing we couldn't hold the lead.

We can still make it. But still disappointing. Agree that it had that feel all day.

 

[Simon Crawshay]

Losing two games in one season by giving up 4/5 goal leads at 3/4 time really isn't great TBH.

I think having Harry coming in on a sub halfway through the 3rd would have given us the extra run we needed to push through the last quarter.

 

[Jethro!]

Just my opinion but I don't like Breust as the sub. Feel he's better when playing 2.5 quarters the going off.

 

[I wanna pash Nash]

Example A for why we need to get Barrass in to free up Weddle. Will be an absolute game breaker for us for years. Jet.

Day was well held and Hogan played well, that's the difference. It hurts but we pushed a top 4 calibre team right to the end in a game that mattered. Great experience for the group.

 

[TylerDurden]

Season over now. They were just too good. You've gotta hand it to em. They went for broke. We looked absolutely cooked. Totally out of gas.

The Sicily last play was comical too.

 

[PenAndPaper]

This is what happens when we have Breust and Gunston in the same forward line.

It doesn’t work, they apply 0 pressure and the giants rebound game started when Breust came on.

5 goals between them lmao

 

[becalm]

McInness should have been in to tag Whitfield

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

Still got Carlton and they have a hard run home. As do GWS. Just have to win the last 3 and hope for the best

Not getting within 5 goals of them playing like this

 

[Hawkers Hero]

Once again showing you can't play Gunner and Breust at the same time. Both have their role and play it well but that game changed the second we brought Breust on and they just started running out of the backline at will.

Quiet game from Ginni and Wizard after half time really hurt.

 

[peetoo]

Knew we were done with that moment on the half forward flank with 6 minutes when we just kept handballing back 4 or 5 times until it fumbled out of bounds instead of trying to find a kick inside 50

Complete negative mindset for most of the last quarter again

Countering the gws flood and run? One goal came from a htm free against hawthorn, which was happening all quarter with no frees

 

[swampy]

Great game. Let’s admit the Giants played really well. Thought we were fortunate to be 28 in front it was always going to tighten up. In the end their mids got on top and we couldn’t prevent their run off half back. Missed a KP presence to give us the relieving mark down the line (not Dear’s day).

 

[Off The Couch]

Seems they didn’t learn anything at all from the port game
Went into preservation mode far too early and the cost is huge

I stand to be corrected but it did seem that there were some who weren't prepared to run as hard in the last quarter and a few who went missing completely

There will be some very disappointed boys tonight

 

[HedgeFund]

Dear competes. Sorely missed

Dear was nowhere near it before he got subbed out. Keeping Gunston on made complete sense. He kicked 4 goals FFS.

 

[CaptainWorpedo]

Season over. Awful last quarter. Concede 7 in 1 qtr after GWS only had to 5 to 3qtr time.

Mentally not strong enough. Had them on toast and got spooked by them freewheeling from defence again.

No one could win a contest in the last ... terrible way to lose again. After Port loss you would think it wouldn't happen again, but here we are.

Actually the season is alive still and if our young Hawks get one final in 2024 they will better for experience.

It’s a long season for a young team on the rise. We reset and look to our next game.

 

[hawkman]

Countering the gws flood and run? One goal came from a htm free against hawthorn, which was happening all quarter with no frees

Umpires had no influence

 

[Hawk1986]

Was it just me, or did the centre bounce after the Daniel’s goal, that then led to the Hogan goal, look like it went outside the centre circle by a metre or so?

 

[Gaborone]

Had that feel all day.

Breust and Gunston can not play in the same forward line again. They were just able to bounce the ball all the last quarter due to the lack of pressure

Had nothing to do with Bruest and Gunston. They played well. It was downfield and the unwillingness to take the game on in the last quarter a la Port Adelaide.

 

[Mrzohs]

Bitterly dissopointing we controlled most of the game. Honestly we should never have lost from that position, the Giants smelt the blood and took the Win.

Hogan was the difference, Dear was the tactical sub. You can see why the club is heavily investing into the spine.

We have bridged the gap and should be proud off our efforts none the less.

 

[Mitchell Madness]

Lack of leadership in the game today.
Noone telling the midfield to settle down (was back to rd 1 style of them overcommitting forward and exposing us on transition as a result)

Defence lost its way. Lots of finger pointing and no accountability. Sicily gets exposed for lack of leadership when things aren't going his way. He isn't vocal enough to get teammates to create space etc.

Ginnivan lost that spark today. Normally, while he isn't getting tackled, he is breathing down the opponents neck. Today he was miles off it.


Having said that though, we played very very poorly and only lost by 2 points, and it took until red time in the last, with the umps bending us over, for them to take the lead. There's a lot to like going into the future