game thread Hawks

[saintbob]

Well I think that's a raasonable effort, a 60pt loss to the reigning premiers

[8856brother]

Hartung over acres?? Should we have done that??

No thanks. Easy to look good in a great side. Blake will be a very good player for us, when we are at the pointy end.

[Devilhead]

350 possessions to 305 in our favour

Just shows you how efficient they are

Turnovers again have killed us and its amazing how much space they find

At least we are going to keep it under 100 pt margin

A team containing all of Geary, Ray, Dempster, Delaney, Shenton and Longer is always going to be killed by turnovers. You can carry 2-3 guys who can't kick if their defensive ability/leadership warrants it, but we've just got way too many in the team today.

Disposal Efficiency

Geary - 83%
Ray - 79%
Dempster - 100%
Delaney - 73%
Shenton - 86%
Longer - 87%

Our overall disposal efficiency was 79%

Unfortunately whenever we turned it over they punished us hard

406 to 355 disposals in the end - our way
Frees - 19 to 10 - their way

10 free kicks for the whole game - thats 2 and a quarter per quarter

[Devilhead]

Well I think that's a raasonable effort, a 60pt loss to the reigning premiers

We have improved by 82pts

[sasaint]

They tried hard but got smashed out of the centre. Which means Hawthorn had bigger bodies. Umpiring was very poor.

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[saintsRrising]

Disappointing result..but same thing happened last time when we played in the heat and humidity up north.

[8856brother]

Smashed out of the middle. Time to give Hickey a go. I'm not sure we're doing him any favors the way we're playing him atm.

[Toy Saint]

Hartung over acres?? Should we have done that??

Reckon Acres is a much better footballer, he did a couple of polished things toward the end of the match

[saintsRrising]

Smashed out of the middle. Time to give Hickey a go. I'm not sure we're doing him any favors the way we're playing him atm.

Agree. Longer has gone backwards after the Blues game. Can hardly touch it around the ground or put pressure on. So opposition is always one up in the midfield.

[Teflon]

If only we had access to a few more A Grade mids from somewhere....but where?.......I just dont know how we'll get em.......!

[Bunk_Moreland]

If only we had access to a few more A Grade mids from somewhere....but where?.......I just dont know how we'll get em.......!

You can get them from a number of places.

Tell me how do we get more A grade midfielders through the draft in the last couple of years?

because you cant get them mid season.

We got rid of Dal, Goddard, and McEvoy and traded Stanley. We mainly got mids from those trades.

We picked McCartin " No.1 last year and Billing " No.3 the year before.

So tell us how do we suddenly pick up these A grade mids. Oh thats right by having a culture of losing and tanking and hoping that a mid you pick @ 3 will be better than a pick @5 in about three years time.

The ONLY way of picking up a known and guaranteed A grade mid is through FA.North got Dal Santo, Essendon got bj, we need to get a Sloane or Dangerfield or a Treloar or Sheil. They are already A grade mids and we dont have to wait for some short sighted mythical promised land in about 2019.

But you must have been wrapt to see the team thumped by ten goals tonight, I mean you dont want the Saints to win, you want us to tank.

Will you have your Melbourne scarf on next week?

[bergholt]

Bunk, you didn't answer my post in the other thread about FA. Any comments?