Paige Scott draws opponents.
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■■■■■!
I had to do a double take at this photo.
Thought I saw Shiel in a Hawthorn jumper.
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Oi! No picking on ex-Essendon players!
(Jess “#1” Trend)
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Hawks have got their game report up. They say we scored 33… waiting for the replay!
Our Hawks suffered defeat at the hands of the Bombers in our Round 8 clash, 1.9 (15) to 5.3 (33).
It was 18-points the difference come full time at Box Hill City Oval, with the Hawks unable to put a stop on the Bombers flow and convert our opportunities.
A highlight of the game was Eastern Ranges young gun, Alyssia Pisano boosting a magic left-foot snap, for our first and only goal of the match.
While we missed chances in front of goal, our Hawks battled relentlessly across the ground and showed consistent effort for the duration of the game.
Check out how the game unfolded below.
Q1
The game was relatively level in the opening stages, with a lot of back and forth play between the arcs. The Hawks had chances early in front of goal, but it was minors rather than the preferrable majors. Before Essendon managed first blood of the game with a goal at the other end, followed by a second ten minutes later. It was Alyssia Pisano who opened the goal tally for the Hawks, slotting our first and only goal off her left boot with a snap in traffic. The Hawks went into the first break trailing by four points, after a closely contested first term.
Q2
The Bombers seemed to gather and maintain momentum, managing a goal and two behinds in the second quarter. While our Hawks had our lowest scoring quarter with just the one behind going through. Grace McRae’s pressure was a standout, having laid a game-high 14 tackles throughout the match. While Jordan Misfud was everywhere racking up 20 disposals, and Matilda Van Berkel managed five rebound 50s. 11 points separated the two teams at the main break.
Q3
The third was a tussle of a quarter with neither team slotting a goal until inside the 17-minute mark, when the Bombers snuck one through. We had a few opportunities up forward but couldn’t find the big sticks. Our Hawks battled with consistent effort, with skipper Nic Garner providing a strong and guiding voice from the backline to assist with structure up the field. It was a 15-point deficit with one quarter to go.
Q4
The Hawks had a final burst of effort in the last quarter, which saw them go down fighting. Essendon booted their fifth major midway through the term, while the Hawks managed to gain more possession of the ball late, converting to just three behinds and one rushed. Laura Stone, another Eastern Ranges product, showed consistent effort across all four quarters, managing a team-high 14 kicks, was the second highest disposal getter for the Hawks with 17, laid nine tackles and had five clearances.
REPLAY IS UP (finally).
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Q1
- Courtney starts on the wing, defensive side. Now to see how she goes a quarter without a disposal…
- Ha, you can hear Cloke (and others) clearly right from the start (he was at the bench with others up high elsewhere). It’s not a good ground to see what’s happening far away.
- Yes, it was above the knee.
- Nice toe tap by Sutton out of the pack to Radford at 1:20.
- Takes 4.5 minutes for them to go forward, and from here they’ll control much of the quarter. Luckily they can’t convert.
- Yay for Scott not doing the hard thing, and just putting it over to Mia for the goal.
- This video is hard on the eyes during rapid movement.
- Prpic gets a go at the next centre clearance.
- 9 minutes in, and twice Mia has been the release valve via marks on the wing.
- I mentioned it at the time, but what sensational work on the mark by Dani at 10:30. The Hawk got the scare of her life when she leaped up! It’s a good thing this ump thinks the whole STAND thing is bullshit.
- For not the last time, Hurrell does something good and then immediately bad: mark and kick in this case.
- Another sensible ump, not pinging Grace for fifty due to the kick away a fraction of a second after the whistle.
- At 12:30 I think it’s the first of many times Cloke micro-manages the forwards creeping too close/staying too far away.
- Find someone who loves you as much as Ryan loves putting her hand up to nominate for the ruck.
- Hurrell busy down back this quarter.
- Matser vs Ryan is a pretty even contest physically, though Matser is 6+ cm taller.
- After marking at 16:30, Manfre never even thought about passing off. And the kick shows why.
- I think the withering glare from Molan explains what she thought of the free at 18 minutes in. Soft.
- Hawks will need more than a kid debuting in #95 kicking their only goal for 3.5 quarters to be taken seriously.
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Q2
- Wales Radford Molan and Dicker is the default centre clearance team.
- Molan has been busy inside.
- The Dicker kicking photo above is from 2:40… and the ball stumbled inside fifty before going out, so I guess effective
- Poor Jess Trend copping the “mount and pound”. And then Ryan shoulder-blocks her at 5:40.
- Blatant walking through the mark not paid immediately after that (would have been a goal for Froggy). The Hawk walks a metre in front of the ump and he doesn’t see her
- Luckily Radford is a soccer player, and puts through our third goal shortly afterwards.
- Courtney now on, back at the far wing again.
- Hurrell is pretty slim, but strong enough to take down Kendall.
- It’s nice being able to see the play on the far wing this time around (no binoculars and the steeply mounded ground).
- Gamble kills their run forward via tackle, and hits up Ryan.
- Hurrell gets the head over the ball, extracts it under pressure, and hits up Willo in the middle.
- Sutton had a team-leading 10 tackles, including one at 12:05 that leads to the next Manfre set shot.
- Pearso(n) got relatively limited time on the ground, but was a decent contested player. Here she hits up Clifford.
- The Sutton kick is not improved by re-watching… kick that, and the game is over before halftime.
- Pearson also lays a good tackle at 16:35; looked opportunity-ish…
- Awesome dancing in the pack by Radford at 17:25!
- Poor Mia at 18:00: gets screamed at to rotate, gets to the interchange gate, and we realise we already have 5 on the bench. GO BACK ON!
- Mia does get a useful out mark at 18:50, from a nice chip by Radford under pressure.
- I am disappointed at 19:20 that Dani did not indeed do a power slide on wet grass. Just lots of delicate steps.
- Crook takes sooooooooooooo long to do the kick-out, and thus gets us to the halftime siren
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Q3
- Sutton replaces Dicker in the middle to start the quarter. Both teams are backing their ruck to win the tap.
- Janet Baird (#2) goes alright. Hopefully she can have more than 1 disposal in the next AFLW season!
- I definitely didn’t see anything at 7:10 in, or the victim holding her head afterwards.
- Baird ends up with one shoe shortly afterwards. Is that better than one disposal? Stands on the outside of the stoppage holding her shoe, no time to get it back on; has to go on a chase and throws the shoe away before tackling.
- Hurrell has class; just has to tidy up those disposals. Her kicking style is fine, so should be doable.
- As can be heard, Sutton stays on the ball all quarter, with Molan swapped forward for Dicker.
- Scott’s candy-selling and everyone laughing is at 11:00
- Ump doesn’t appreciate Ryan tossing Boyd aside easily. Boys is nowhere near as strong in the ruck as Matser.
- Sophie VDH is critical for us in this quarter on the near wing.
- I FORGOT I WAS LOOKING FOR THE SCORING MIX-UP.
- It appears that when the Hawks kicked the first first of this quarte, the scoreboard granted both teams a point. You can see we have jumped from 19 points to 20 at 4:30 in.
- The big lever of Killer casually chips the ball 50 metres to the goal square at 16:20, and GreatScott does the rest.
- I never quite worked out who Gamble was on, but they weren’t a threat and let her take useful intercept marks.
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Q4
- After three quarters they swap VDH and Ugle’s wings. Weird.
- Starting in the middle are Wales (19yo, still pretty new to footy), Radford, Sutton (18yo) and Prpic (18yo). To be fair, the Hawks weren’t running a bunch of their 30-somethings in the middle at this moment.
- Unnecessarily complex Scott mark at 3:00
- Pressure and tackle at 4:50 by Courtney is — and so is the audio at this time. And the photo above is NOT of this, so now I do not know how she got in that position of hugging the ball and a leg.
- LOL, I wrote the above too soon: that photo is in the very next segment of play. And Courtney gets pinged for diving on it, not for the low tackle.
- Manfre’s run with the ball to clunk is at 8:55. OK, the opponent was “only” little Trend, but it was still great work and hopefully installs confidence in Liv.
- Umps again ignore that whole “protected area” thing at 9:10, just waiting 5m away to stop Grace playing on. Cloke is not impressed.
- Sutton may be small but she lays nasty tackles (and gets a free not much later when 88 McRae gets annoyed and bulldozes her).
- Mia yelling encouragement to Pearso(n) for her tackle. Pearson had waited forever at the gate before finally getting on for the last ten minutes.
- OK, Courtney’s kick at 11:20 wasn’t as bad as we thought… but yeah, she was not trying to hit Manfre
- Manfre has a longer run-up than Joel Garner… but hey, if it works, all good.
- If you watched The Front Bar last week you’d have heard Fevola talking about how the right hand does all the work and the left hand is just there to look pretty. Manfre demonstrates that perfectly here (from 11:45).
- Georgia Clarke has a bit of the Mitch Browns about her: a wiry frame, can play back and forward, good kick.
- Prpic is steadily improving: 18yo in for the hard stuff, composed, moments of class.
- The tall backs rotated a lot: I didn’t give Crook enough respect for her work including on Boyd (even if she concedes a mark in the closing seconds).
Net summary: yeah, the Hawks were impotent for much of the game, and while our end score was not exactly huge, there were a lot of individual and team wins.
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Scoring accuracy this year by the two teams is nuts: Hawks have saved their worst for us, and we’ve saved our best for them.
| Games | EFC | BHH |
|---|---|---|
| Against each other | 9.5 | 4.18 |
| Against other teams | 18.41 | 31.38 |
| TOTAL | 27.46 | 35.56 |
18.41 by us vs other teams, holy ■■■■. And that has got us 4 wins from 6 games, and helped to place us (till tomorrow) top of the ladder 
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)Elsewhere: just after halftime the Saints score a behind to make it 14-21 against them. A Port defender also just got pushed through to Cabo Verde.
Saints lose, we have a six-point lead on them and don’t play them again so likely don’t have to worry about them. Port lose, we move up the ladder and strive for at least one home final.
Where that home would be, I’m not sure…
(not paying much attention, halfway through Eurovision)
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De Angelis, freed by not playing us, kicks her second goal to put the Saints in front.
23-22 at the final break.
Dang it, missed this game. Will have to find some time to watch the replay.
What a marking collision on the wing. Four players hurt, two slow to rise.
Port very late debuting a two-goal (so far) full-forward is worrying.