Autopsy Round 9, 2024 : Hawks slap the Saints

[H00t]

Holy hell to the saints play a boring style of footy. What was most impressive is our boys found the will to grind out the whole game. A great confidence builder going forward.

 

[peetoo]

How good was the goal from the Amon kick in to Impey, the Seamus kick to Breust was awesome after the Wiz lead out to create the space behind.

Footy pr0n

 

[christoff91]

I love Meek.

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[CHUBBSS]

Massimo one of the most underrated players in the side. His fit in perfectly.

Thought our structure has been a lot better and good to see a few stand up.

When nash is on everyone looks so much better

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

They won every stat. That's a serious win considering we kicked 2 goals in the 2nd half and none in the last.
We've got about 4 blokes to come back that will fix the structural issues.

The Ginni miss would have iced the game. But we managed the last 3 mins better than they did. That was the game.
That's best game you'll ever see from a ruckman, in Marshall, yet Meek still had 47 hitouts. He seriously stood up.

Also Gunner is fried. We need Chol back asap.

Statistically it was yes but did he influence the game as much as his stats suggest? Don't get caught up in stats, he took the ball out of the ruck countless times and bashed it forward any which way. He's an old fashioned ruckman and TBH I actually think he needs more of a chop out to be more effective.

 

[Dewyyyyy]

If this paints a picture.

Lloyd Meek had 46 hitouts with 14 to advantage (99 contests) win rate of 47% and HTA of 30%.

Marshall 35 hitouts with just 6 to advantage. 40% win rate and just 17% rate to advantage.

Meek dominated around contest. The game was just set up for Marshall taking it out and hacking it straight back to the intercept defenders.

 

[Bedi]

We need to change our song to be sung like this!

 

[Flukey!]

The outlook now looks so much better.
Lots to be optimistic about.

Well done Hawks.

 

[Yardie]

How's Ross Lyon - what a dickhead. Concedes 4 goals in the first quarter and goes with the only game plan he knows - destroying the game and hoping to win it with a 9 goal game

What's funny is that he cannot get his team up against a bottom four team and has to resort to these tactics for three quarters.

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

The outlook now looks so much better.
Lots to be optimistic about.

Well done Hawks.

It was always bright.

Gree shoots

 

[KermitJagger]

If this paints a picture.

Lloyd Meek had 46 hitouts with 14 to advantage (99 contests) win rate of 47% and HTA of 30%.

Marshall 35 hitouts with just 6 to advantage. 40% win rate and just 17% rate to advantage.

Meek dominated around contest. The game was just set up for Marshall taking it out and hacking it straight back to the intercept defenders.

Ya, 8 scrubby inside 50s and 0 score involvements. In a game that could have easily been won by the Saints he dumped it forward instead of looking for a better option.

 

[Brucie Buffer]

That Amon kick to Jars in the last.
Meek the freak will be regarded as a premier ruckman soon.
Frenchies best game for the club.
That tap on the arse by the wiz this kid is going to be AA before he retires and have a lot of kids wearing his number, he just has it in spades.
Scrim massive.

I could go on but I think I might crack a beer and head on over to the saints board for a bit to hear how bad of a side they were beaten by

 

[Nick the Pig]

How many would have picked us to be 3 - 6 today, a few weeks ago?

Kane

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

How many would have picked us to be 3 - 6 today, a few weeks ago?

Really should be 5-4, if not for terrible kicking against the bombres and the late miss by Croc when we had the Pies on the ropes. Wins that went begging.

 

[HedgeFund]

Edit: Worpel is only averaging 16.7 touches over the last 6 games. Maybe his role is changing.

As the team improves and hopefully becomes a finals candidate, it will be on the back of others taking over more central roles in between the arcs.

I think James will remain a constant, but the fact is, he played really well in our early losses and has been less prominent in wins.

That’s okay - as we still need guys like him to get the hard nut and distribute to the quality ball users.

 

[KermitJagger]

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Still extraordinarily young.

Gunners and Breust dragging up the averages significantly.

 

[jenniferHAWKinS]

Breust’s tackle at the death inside their f50 sums up how good a team performance that was. When’s the last time we won without both Sic and Mitch?

 

[TassieGrown]

Saints re-hiring Ross

His game plan

 

[Hawker_85]

Aints board is imploding.

 

[Franko Armani]

Thought Dears attack on the high ball and contested marking was so important early. Probably didn’t have many touches but also should’ve had a goal that he gave off to CMac. The boys are really a having a crack, physically which is making all the difference.

Rd 8 onwards huh

 

[Suntory Boss Coffee]

Our social media team taking the piss as per usual They're really hitting their straps

 

[RoughysMullet]

How's Ross Lyon - what a dickhead. Concedes 4 goals in the first quarter and goes with the only game plan he knows - destroying the game and hoping to win it with a 9 goal game

Same old Ross Lyon defensive gameplan that never stood up back then and still doesn’t stand up now…

 

[OnTheRocks]

Big shout out to Frosty.
Showed really good leadership and played another fine game.

 

[Simon Crawshay]

Honestly I take a lot more out of a scrappy, hard-fought win over a mid range team like StKilda than I do over a strong late season win over a top 4 team like the Lions / Pies.

These are the types of games you have to win to make the finals and I think it shows the progression of the sides maturity that we have done it two weeks in a row.

You can't always win by playing at 100%, you need to find a way to win ugly when the need arises.