Autopsy Round 23, 2024: Hawks smack Tigers

[macdaddio]

Clarko played finals in his 3rd year as coach and won the flag in his 4th.

Sounding familiar

 

[MtGHawk]

Not all wins are going to be perfect. That's all we needed to do.

 

[StillAtLarge]

 

[Fastback]

If we win Freo/Port is pretty irrelevant for us.

Yep, but if they lose we can rest a few

 

[NewkTheLot]

**** sake, no he wasn’t. He wasn’t his very best but nor was about 3/4 of the side today. He had 9 marks and 9 score involvements today. How involved does Chol have to be to shake this bullshit tag exactly?

Well he could have been laconic, it’s hard to know watching the game on TV how much he talks during the game.

What he wasn’t was lackadaisical, which is the word I assume the person you’re quoting was actually looking for.

End of language lesson.

 

[Ned Ryerson]

Well he could have been laconic, it’s hard to know watching the game on TV how much he talks during the game.

What he wasn’t was lackadaisical, which is the word I assume the person you’re quoting was actually looking for.

End of language lesson.

I knew the language was wrong but the overall accusation was bullshit so I was going to focus on that.

Chol did some not so great things in front of goals today but he still worked his ass off and did a lot of team first things. Really weird that someone can have 9 marks and 9 score involvements and still not shirk this ‘lazy’ tag no matter which word they want to incorrectly apply to it.

 

[tommyk72]

I know what you are saying SYL, but I feel that we are leaving a lot of goals out there, last week and this.

We don’t want to be in that habit. Doing that will lose us games during the finals.

 

[Bedi]

Worst 10 goal win ever

I loved the win and had a great day but slightly dampened by injuries and bloody Carlton prolonging things by another week

 

[checkraiseulite]

My thoughts are as below

. Shocking game to watch. Wouldn't have beaten a half decent side
. Ginnivan has been poor for a few weeks
. Sicily is a good player but when he has a stinker, he really has a stinker!
. Watson. Played well but should have had a couple more. Still needs huge work on his kicking.
. Mabior was awful but he was overdue for one.
Amon and Mass were the cool heads we needed. Both were fantastic

Fingers crossed Day can play again this season. Our midfield really needs him for finals
Newcombe and Scrimshaw hopefully ok too.

i was at the game and i reckon mabior was good. made some mistakes, but competed all day and was in a lot of stuff.

think awful is harsh.

 

[saaam]

Yep, but if they lose we can rest a few

Nah, not required and would never happen anyway. With the extra time between the last round and the first final plenty of time to shake off any little niggles.

 

[vanders]

Watson and Dear just keeping improving every week. Such an exciting future for the both of them.

 

[OhhhhhCyril]

Tough game to decipher, on face value and overall winning margin we would take that every day of the week. In saying that I thought our second and their quarter efforts were poor and a much better side would expose us. Still
Lots to work on moving forwards

It was ok… good news about day

 

[Bedi]

i was at the game and i reckon mabior was good. made some mistakes, but competed all day and was in a lot of stuff.

think awful is harsh.

100% agree, could have easily kicked 3-4 goals, but didnt have his kicking shoes on today.

 

[Hawko1979]

1st quarter was absolutely brilliant, the game was over at quarter time.

2nd and 3rd quarters we were poor, but I'm ok with it. The team has been on fire for 12 weeks, they are allowed to have a flat patch. The crowd was getting restless but I'd rather have a crap patch now vs having a bad quarter in a final

I thought the Wiz sparked us in the last quarter with his energy, and the rest of the team lifted.

Onto the next game vs North. Just need to get the job done.

 

[Ned Ryerson]

i was at the game and i reckon mabior was good. made some mistakes, but competed all day and was in a lot of stuff.

think awful is harsh.

Yup. If someone wants to say he was inaccurate - that’s a valid criticism. Anything along the lines of ‘awful’ or ‘lazy’ is not in the ballpark.

 

[triangulation_squared]

Congrats to Harry Morrison

1

Harry Morrison

Age

25

Ht

184cm

Wt

79kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.1

4star

K

8.5

3star

HB

5.6

4star

M

4.3

4star

T

2.9

4star

CL

0.9

3star

D

13.4

3star

K

9.8

4star

HB

3.6

2star

M

4.2

4star

T

1.6

3star

CL

0.8

3star

D

18.4

5star

K

11.4

4star

HB

7.0

5star

M

5.4

5star

T

2.2

4star

CL

2.0

4star

on 100 games. Thought he was serviceable today.

What a difference a year makes . This time last year they ran over us in the last quarter and I had a crying 4yo. Today, doing cartwheels on the ground afterwards!

This time last year there was no
Wiz, Gunston, Dear, Ginnivan, Chol, D'Ambrosio.

Some great recruiting puts us into the mix.
9 Goals in the first quarter was ridiculous.

We weren't brilliant after that, but I thought some.of the Ruchmond players were putting in hard. Everyone is playing for a list spot at this stage. Some great aerial marks from both sides.

Gunston 5 straight, Wiz and Calsher 3 apiece were my highlights. I thought Moorey tore them up early.

 

[Ned Ryerson]

How do “we rest a few” based on a Freo loss….. when we have played our game 26 hours earlier?

 

[Bedi]

1st quarter was absolutely brilliant, the game was over at time.

quarter2nd and 3rd quarters we were poor, but I'm ok with it. The team has been on fire for 12 weeks, they are allowed to have a flat patch. The crowd was getting restless but I'd rather have a crap patch now vs having a bad quarter in a final

I thought the Wiz sparked us in the last quarter with his energy, and the rest of the team lifted.

Onto the next game vs North. Just need to get the job done.

It really was done and dusted in the first. Just a stunning display. Was surprised how well Richmond played in the 2nd. Marked everything and kicked everything so just relieved we managed to right the ship in the 3rd to set up the win.

 

[Simon Crawshay]

You know obviously I hate the scum to the bottom of my heart but as a playing group is there a bigger group of dead set snipers and low down dirty thugs than Richmond?

They got away with multiple cheap shots today, poor umpiring that they weren’t pulled up on them.

 

[Bedi]

Thought Scrimmers and Hardwick were awesome today.

Both ran in hard straight lines at the footy and marking contests. Hardwick had that one shocker but these two were awesome across the game I thought.

Moore is the other one i would add to that list

 

[Simon Crawshay]

One more thing, just how good a footballer is Jack Gunston

19

Jack Gunston

Age

32

Ht

193cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

15.5

4star

K

10.5

4star

HB

5.0

4star

M

5.7

5star

T

2.2

4star

G

1.9

5star

D

10.6

3star

K

8.0

3star

HB

2.6

2star

M

4.3

4star

T

1.7

3star

G

1.6

5star

D

11.2

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

4.2

4star

M

3.2

4star

T

2.6

4star

G

0.6

3star

?

Just a class act on the field. His low ball gathers, kicking for goal and reading of the play were beautiful to watch today.

 

[seysearles]

Yep, but if they lose we can rest a few

No we can’t because we don’t want to finish 8th and have to make the trip up to Brisbane.

 

[TylerDurden]

No we can’t because we don’t want to finish 8th and have to make the trip up to Brisbane.

Surely this is motivation. Would be a nightmare.

 

[flamin_heck]

Gunners was superb.
Must go around again.
His leadership is vital for the forward line.
He’s only 12 months older than Jez Cameron btw.

Wow- when you put it like that.. it’s funny how any Hawk player I assume to be traded out/ broken down and retire post 32 YO but Geelongs stars are all like Freddy Krueger and keep coming back after you think they’re dead til what seems like their 50s..

 

[humid hawk]

You know obviously I hate the scum to the bottom of my heart but as a playing group is there a bigger group of dead set snipers and low down dirty thugs than Richmond?

They got away with multiple cheap shots today, poor umpiring that they weren’t pulled up on them.

So true.

The flogs cant play good footy these days so they just played the man.