Post match. Hawks down Pies - all comments

mudlark · Joined: 19 Mar 2002 Location: Maroochydore Qld

My observations of last nights game were that,first and foremost,is that Hawthorn,always will and always have been,untouchable ,in the eyes of the umpires.The 2 Franlink frees in a minute,not to mention the,"Natural arc"'?? movement that ONLY Buddy can perform,the non free kicks that ,in particular Collingwood DON'T get,like the Rioli/Maxwell drag down at half back in the 3rd qtr.How that was NOT a free will always elude me and what's more,never rated a "Mention" from the commentators" let alone a "I'd like to see that again",which resulted in a goal,not to mention when Franklin turned Keefe inside out in the back pocket and made Commetti wet his pants,Franklin CLEARLY had both hands in the middle of Keefes back.
Not 1 single free kick was paid to Collingwood for some of the best tackling I've seen from our boys.Josh Gibson was caught,in front of goals,all with prior,all GAWN!! no free. As for a Riolli the KFC king,anyone but Collingwood and he would have got at least a week.Enough ,I'm getting pissed thinking of it.
3 players who have impressed of late,Williams,Sinclair and Keefe,were clearly found out last night.Williams is developing a bad habit of turning back into play and has been getting away with it,but not against Hawthorn and he got hammered last night.Sinclair? Don't know if he got injured early or what but he didn't touch the ball and the one time he could have and helped us to a goal,He went half hearted and Hawthorn goaled. Even Bruce commented on this one.It was a defining moment I thought.
Keefe?? Well I'm still undecided,but Bucks should have swapped Reid and Keefe 1/2 way through the 3rd and maybe we could have seen a different result. Keefe looks bad when he is bad.He did some good things ,but he is a scary prospect at times.Mc Caffer ,if he played on Mitchel,probably had a win,but when Mitchell DID get free,it usually cost us.At least twice that I saw.
Sidebottom,for the second time in 2 weeks,failed to put his body on the line and it cost us a goal both times.Once in Sydney where he could have intercepted a Tippett mark,quite easily,I thought at the time and last night,a dive at the ball in front of Franklin at a crucial time cost us another and his dinky little kicks are getting,bothersome,for lack of a better word.Needs to improve in my book.Swan,Pendles,Beams,Ball and GRUNDY.Stars all of them.With Jolly and Thomas,"Hopefully" to come back to replace Lynch and either Williams or Sinclair,I think Thomas .J. has passed both of them,we are not far away.
Plus,as usual,our disposal was"POOR".

didick · didick Joined: 17 Jun 2009 Location: Brisbane

Thought we were a strong chance heading into the 3rd quarter. And we were up until about 7 minutes in. But we did ourselves no favours. Tackles not sticking, but mainly some butchering of the ball. One bad clanger killed it; Reid's out on the full with about 40 seconds to go. We should have been the only team with an opportunity to score yet it sails out on the full and as it usually happens with these pricks, they get it to the other end of the field and score at the death. Couldn't believe Marley wasn't freed for Rioli taking him out which also led to another of their goals. The Sack's shocker plus Steele coasting into the forward 50 with support with miles of space and he butchers it are other examples of simple things that cost us big time. Take out those four and we're possibly leading going into the last.
Hawks seem to be in a purple patch against us when the bounce of the ball and little things just seem to go their way. Maybe it's what happens when you're at the top of your game. It used to sort of happen for us back in 2010. I'm sick of it though against them.
Lynch is just too slow. Not in terms of running, but his fumbles and indecision. Seems too slow to match it with the intenstiy and pace of the modern game, especially against a mob like this.
Grundy. What can I say. Going to be a huge cult figure. I am starting to share DTM's man-crush.

mackasmatt · Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Location: Perth, WA

If you take out the 3rd quarter it would have been a very competitive game. We've had a few 4 quarter efforts of late.. this was 3 qtrs and thats prob not going to cut it against Hawks and Freo.

roar · Joined: 01 Sep 2004

Went into half time thinking we may lose this one but we'll smash them next time. Then I watched the 3rd quarter.

Positives: Grundy, Keeffe, Thomas

Negatives: Maxwell, Blair, Sinclair, Lynch, Goldsack, Reid.

September Zeros · Joined: 04 Oct 2012 Location: Behind you

neil · Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Location: Queensland

Your daughter is wrong. Get �$%$ed is always an acceptable greeting to a Dawks supporter.

And why have you let your daughter go out with a Dawks supporter in the first place? Laughing

jackcass · Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Location: Bendigo

RudeBoy · Joined: 28 Nov 2005

The simple fact is the Hawks were more polished in their use of the ball. Too many of our kicks were shanked and led to costly turnovers. This killed us. We need to get our players to lower their sights and deliver more short passes rather than long bombing it to contests. We also need to run and carry the ball more, like we did against the Swans.

Also we need to end Lynch's career now. He slows us down with his fumbling. Assuming Daisy gets through the VFL ok today he should be brought back in for the last 2 games before the finals, so he can get acclimatised to the pace of senior footy.

I'm not entirely convinced of the form of MaCaffer or Goldsack, but their strong bodies are probably needed in finals footy.

Ins: Jolly, Daisy, Seedsman

Outs: Lynch, Dwyer, Sinclair

Big T · Joined: 18 Oct 2003 Location: Torino, Italy

Jack before you blow a load over Paul Roos, let's see how he goes at a club with no salary cap allowance and missing the best facilities in the land. Based on his woeful commentary I would say he will be no better than Voss. For me he has proven very little this far.

And open your eyes, even though we lost it was by far our best game v Hawthorn for more than two years and we fought hard to the final siren. I was bloody happy with what I saw given it was clearly 18 v 21.

think positive · Side By Side Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Location: somewhere

Collingwood Crackerjack · Joined: 28 Jul 2008 Location: Canberra

swoop42 · Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 2:56 pm

JS back to his purile best once again after a loss.

As for Paul Roos oh please.

So overrated.

Mick's bitch.

Longmire is better.

And we (Buckley) just beat him.

rad · Joined: 12 Sep 2012

I have watched the game 3 times now and the key was our tackles didn't stick whilst theirs did. By slipping through our tackles it gave them an opportunity to chip to the teammate ahead of play and created links we were behind on.

They stuck their tackles which caused turnovers, they really hurt us on the scoreboard from these.

Also, they kicked a lot straighter than us.

PeterWH · Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 3:53 pm

Just watched it again on my iPhone,and even though we lost it appeared to me that the Dorks have the umpires at their backs,they are in the same park as the pussycats that they are untouchable.
Besides the few �langers' tonight it was a good game,BUT the guys werent BLOWN away by the Dorks.
The commentators even tell us that we will play the Bummers in the first week of the finals....OK but hey we arent there yet.
We should and will win the remaining games against Wet Toast & Kangas so that will put us in good stand for the finals,BUT the finals arent even settled with a cloud hanging over the Bummers