Autopsy Round 22, 2021: Hawks walk the Dogs

[The German Hunter]

Just wanted to point out that Hartigan played on one of the hottest forward talents in the AFL today and kept him to 2 shots on goal, and 1 of them was when he was absolutely in the right spot, but was simply out-reached for the mark from behind.

#delist

 

[Mitchell Madness]

Anyone LOL when Underwood called Hartigan 'Puopolo'. Dead ringer I reckon

I laughed more after hanrahans goal, where the camera fo used on Morrison for 30 seconds, and the commentators were unsure if Harry may have kicked instead

 

[Lebbo73]

We really love leaving our imprint on the top four without really being there.


‘Hawthorn sends their regards.’

If only we could’ve played Geelong and knocked them off in the final round. That would’ve been the icing on the cake.

 

[The Ghost Of Glenferrie]

Kane Cornes can EAD

Kane Cornes - the Hunter Biden of the AFL Media Fraternity.

 

[Nick the Pig]

Lewis is a Boss when played from CHF, getting up the ground.

Anyone want to comment on his work ethic & 2nd efforts?

Lewis has been really good in that role since he came back from concussion. He is such a big lump with long arms that he is hard to outmark when on the move roaming up the ground. And his disposal is surprisingly good.

Kosi at this stage is more value closer to goal as he is very aggressive and competes for everything like his life depends on it. Better at halving a contest and bringing the smalls into play. Kosi's work rate is also huge at helping keep the forward pressure on

I though earlier in the year that they would be in the swapped roles compared to what they are doing now. But it has worked well together this last month

 

[Yardie]

it was too hard to change gameplans midseason when the dour, defensive, conservative, choking the opposition, boundary line hugging wasn't working.

You are spot on here. A masterstroke by Bevo to show how you can change a gameplan. You could see how the Bulldogs completely changed their gamestyle and continually went dour, defensive, conservative, choking the opposition, boundary line hugging gameplan.

Or maybe the opposition made them play that way.......

 

[FactsNotBS]

Mitchell Lewis

2

Mitchell Lewis

Age

25

Ht

199cm

Wt

99kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

9.5

2star

K

5.9

2star

HB

3.6

3star

M

3.4

3star

T

1.3

3star

G

1.2

4star

D

4.3

1star

K

2.8

1star

HB

1.5

1star

M

0.8

1star

T

0.3

1star

G

0.3

3star

D

8.6

3star

K

4.6

2star

HB

4.0

3star

M

2.6

3star

T

1.8

4star

G

0.6

3star

10 marks (career high)
5 tackles (career high)

I can see 2022 him and Kosi will just take off!


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[Howe Amazing]

Howe was amazing. I noticed that we really looked for that corridor kick from half back or the wing and we had players loose in the middle. Also helps to have a 197cm mid who can take a mark there between 2 doggie players. Great win! I finished the game thinking is it good we are changing coaches or not but will definitely jump on Sam for next year. The comp is that close that we don’t need to go silly with the rebuild, maybe Mitchell if the deal is good but otherwise keep him and get another 3 more good kids. Getting Newcombe and Bramble already for nothing means this year has been worthwhile

 

[Roddy]

I think we can safely say, depending on how well the players respond to Sammy’s message, that we bottomed out in 2020. I wouldn’t be surprised if we bounced back into finals next year. 6 weeks ago I would have thought that was completely nuts.

 

[hawkman]

Again Hartigan has done his job, but still so many want him gone.
He's been very serviceable this year. Much better than we would of got from Frawley, who is absolutely cooked

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Has had maybe 2-3 poor games all year. For the many entries we have conceded this year the biggeat bag kicked against us is 4

 

[Carl Spackler]

Won off of effort, daring and hardness. Good old-fashioned footy. Loved it.

 

[Judd2Sewell]

No youth?

No, youth!

 

[Jazzfan]

People who just have to say negative things dont last long…Ill give Cornes 1-2 yrs and no media co will employ him.


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Unfortunately not mate. It's the only reason they do employ him.

Take anything this guy says with a grain of salt. Who cares.

 

[Slainte]

Strangely a more defensive mindset in the middle has led to an easier offensive transition and spread.

I don't think the mindset is defensive. It is more that we are applying pressure. The aim is to win the ball and press forward.

 

[Jazzfan]

I think we can safely say, depending on how well the players respond to Sammy’s message, that we bottomed out in 2020. I wouldn’t be surprised if we bounced back into finals next year. 6 weeks ago I would have thought that was completely nuts.

Hmm... not sure. Irrespective of the past five weeks, I think Sam is going to be pretty aggressive in getting more young talent in.

It's a win-win for me really. Mitchell's past six weeks are back to his Brownlow form. Value madly increased. Wingard has been brilliant the past month. Again, value increased.

Howe, gee, he has increased his value across the year, today I hope is super fresh in the minds of any rumoured suitors. Ceglar has also put up some pretty decent footy.

Like everyone thinks, Bramble is just a jet. What a steal. Newcombe adds such hardness around the contest for us. Nash to. Kosi just competes and Lewis got the opportunity to do what I know he has seen as his best role, he pushed up at the ball between the arcs and made plenty of us believe again he can make it.

I don't expect to make finals next year, as I think we are truly rebuilding now. Over rating your list is what has got us to where we are now, and what kills clubs.

We still need much more talent in, but we have far more talent then anyone externally thought. We also have some trade chips that have gone from silver to gold, or nothing to silver in the case of Howe.

 

[Mercy Seat]

Love it

 

[Dewyyyyy]

Hmm... not sure. Irrespective of the past five weeks, I think Sam is going to be pretty aggressive in getting more young talent in.

It's a win-win for me really. Mitchell's past six weeks are back to his Brownlow form. Value madly increased. Wingard has been brilliant the past month. Again, value increased.

Howe, gee, he has increased his value across the year, today I hope is super fresh in the minds of any rumoured suitors. Ceglar has also put up some pretty decent footy.

Like everyone thinks, Bramble is just a jet. What a steal. Newcombe adds such hardness around the contest for us. Nash to. Kosi just competes and Lewis got the opportunity to do what I know he has seen as his best role, he pushed up at the ball between the arcs and made plenty of us believe again he can make it.

I don't expect to make finals next year, as I think we are truly rebuilding now. Over rating your list is what has got us to where we are now, and what kills clubs.

We still need much more talent in, but we have far more talent then anyone externally thought. We also have some trade chips that have gone from silver to gold, or nothing to silver in the case of Howe.

We aren't just gonna get rid of good players for picks sorry.

 

[Dewyyyyy]

Hmm... not sure. Irrespective of the past five weeks, I think Sam is going to be pretty aggressive in getting more young talent in.

It's a win-win for me really. Mitchell's past six weeks are back to his Brownlow form. Value madly increased. Wingard has been brilliant the past month. Again, value increased.

Howe, gee, he has increased his value across the year, today I hope is super fresh in the minds of any rumoured suitors. Ceglar has also put up some pretty decent footy.

Like everyone thinks, Bramble is just a jet. What a steal. Newcombe adds such hardness around the contest for us. Nash to. Kosi just competes and Lewis got the opportunity to do what I know he has seen as his best role, he pushed up at the ball between the arcs and made plenty of us believe again he can make it.

I don't expect to make finals next year, as I think we are truly rebuilding now. Over rating your list is what has got us to where we are now, and what kills clubs.

We still need much more talent in, but we have far more talent then anyone externally thought. We also have some trade chips that have gone from silver to gold, or nothing to silver in the case of Howe.

Overrating our list, we have 9 best 22 players that are injured to go with 3 picks inside around top 25. We've won 3 in a row. Hardly "overrating" for someone to say we could push up and compete.

 

[TazHawk15]

A great day at the footy.

To think we beat one of the Premiership favourites convincingly without arguably 10 of our best 22 missing, is unreal.

Everyone did their bit today and I thought two whipping boys in particular were great, in Cegs and TOB.

Although I have been on a pretty big downer about Mitch Lewis and his lack of intent, to my eye that was the best game I have seen from him by a mile, as far as intensity and effort goes.

Off the top of my head we were missing

Backline: Day, Impey, CJ, Sicily, DGB.
Midfield: JOM and Worps and an up and coming tap ruckman in Reeves.
Fowards: Gunston, Bruest, Moore.

That’s a shitload of talent to come back into the side next year.

I managed to get right next to the race when Clarko and Silk was given a rousing send off and you could see Clarko in particular was chuffed with the love and admiration he received.

The future is so bright never mind sunglasses, we will all need welding goggles.

 

[Judd2Sewell]

Hmm... not sure. Irrespective of the past five weeks, I think Sam is going to be pretty aggressive in getting more young talent in.

It's a win-win for me really. Mitchell's past six weeks are back to his Brownlow form. Value madly increased. Wingard has been brilliant the past month. Again, value increased.

Howe, gee, he has increased his value across the year, today I hope is super fresh in the minds of any rumoured suitors. Ceglar has also put up some pretty decent footy.

Like everyone thinks, Bramble is just a jet. What a steal. Newcombe adds such hardness around the contest for us. Nash to. Kosi just competes and Lewis got the opportunity to do what I know he has seen as his best role, he pushed up at the ball between the arcs and made plenty of us believe again he can make it.

I don't expect to make finals next year, as I think we are truly rebuilding now. Over rating your list is what has got us to where we are now, and what kills clubs.

We still need much more talent in, but we have far more talent then anyone externally thought. We also have some trade chips that have gone from silver to gold, or nothing to silver in the case of Howe.

Yep, suddenly the guys that have been hanging around years and playing from absolutely terrible (Nash) to poorly (TOB, Howe and Ceglar) suddenly have some currency - either for us moving forward (Nash in particular) or maybe for another team that could potentially be interested in a trade.

At the least it gives Mitchell some option moving forward.

 

[TassieGrown]

And 400-500m of them were dump kicks down the line without looking. Got a lot of ball but don’t think he was that damaging.

Poor call, clearly BOG

 

[Buttonsticher]

Link to the presser because the AFL website is so well laid out

Clarko: We're well-positioned for next year

Watch Hawthorn's press conference after round 22's match against the Western Bulldogs

www.afl.com.au

 

[burger09]

Don't know whether to laugh or cry.

There has been a massive shift in our intent to take the game on, take risks and attack through the center corridor.

We are even hitting leading forwards!

We played a terrific brand of footy today. Out worked the Dogs and thoroughly deserved the win.
The pressure we applied on their mids and in general play was fantastic. They wanted to play easy, pretty football and we just didn't let them.

You know you've had a day out when your players are playing career best games.

 

[stonehawk]

Scrimshaw needs a mention. He has come on in leaps and bounds this year. His disposal is now elite. His intercept marking crucial. His run and carry reminds me of Birchall



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[TheFourPillars]

I think where we are excelling and where it’s all clicking is not as much the midfield as it is the is the half backline. We are setting up extremely well, pushing up a lot higher and just dominating that territory. Players like Scrim and TOB are just made for this sort of football and because they have good disposal, we are able to move it really quickly to our Wingards and Brambles.

It’s so great to watch.

Nailed it mate when we setup well defensively we r always in the game its a springboard to attack in the modern game. It was a dour struggle with not much scoring. But we stopped them from scoring