Demon Dynasty

And Kozzie, Gus and Clarry (from set shots). Clarry needs a foot up the [censored]. Spargo marks that ball in front of him and he's whining on the way out. Accept he probably didn't see you there and encourage. Awful awful look and hardly part of their so called 'team first' mantra. How bout you stop with the Hollywood over the head handballs mate and also learn how to kick a set shot (even an occasional one) from 30 to 40 out straight in front or on very slight angles!??? Tracc...for christ sake learn how to give off the first option instead of trying to break two to three tackles so often. You aren't Dusty mate. And any chance you could kick a ball softly coming inside 50 instead of drilling it into no man's land or over our forwards heads? Or even worse straight to the opp!! And as for Viney's kicking inside. My God. Don't get me started. He's an asset to the opposition here. Almost always straight to the opp even when surrounded by an opponent or two/three! No wonder we can't snuff teams out. With two kicks off HB from one of the worst teams in the comp, they split our defence apart both through the middle and inside 50 and were taking a shot at goal. Luckily they missed. Basic but smart/slick footy using hard leads with some skilled kicks and lowered vision. This is going to take a momentus change in attitude along with some super hard work with set ups/skills (particularly by foot and balance in the middle) to get this mob right, ripe and ready if we're to have any chance of not going out in straight sets. The forward line has always been a mess. And we've now been beaten in the middle by the 2nd worst team in the comp. Goodwin now making excuses that the opp needs to be respected & they've been playing really well of late. Come on mate who you kidding. Go take a long hard look in the mirror and stick a rocket up this team's arze on the track for christ sake. A few changes also. Time for softly softly Mr Nice guy is not now. Stick it up em mentally! They were soft as butter tonight bar a few and so was your preparation and game set ups. Anything less than a PF win/GF is a fail from here.

The experienced players all failed us tonight. Zero leadership across the board. Any way you look at it that's a huge win for the Hawks and a terrible loss for this club. Yet another to a bottom 4 club. Clarry has a chance to go wide to a possible advantage side when no one was straight ahead in front of the square and possibly lock the ball in our 50 with 3 min to go. Where does he go? Front of the square. Guess what....ball comes straight back out. Lever takes an intercept with 2 min to go. Player or two miles in the clear on his left that he could kick to and have us maintain possession on the fat side (MCC flank) but instead doesn't even look and goes straight down the line for a contest and the turnover. Back it comes for their goal to draw the game. Who would of thought. Second to the ball far too often at the ball ups/ins. Viney was constantly drawn to the inside of his opponent allowing him to get to the outside and clear the ball/run off into their forward half. He has lost half a yard (this season ...probably due to the injury) and is for the most part ineffective. AVB in was a fail for mine. He just doesn't have the legs at this level to damage anyone at any stage. He'll provide a contest when ball is in close but that's about where it ends. Bring Melk in and him and Kozzie can share the role. The sooner Harmes is available the better. He is a must in for Viney who unfortunately adds zero to our inside / outside mid set up (much needed requirement). I would bring Oskar in for Gus (anyone can play a kick behind and fill a gap...it's what you do with it from there that counts) and Chunk (if he can get fully fit) in for ANB who gave us absolutely zero tonight and had to be shifted off the oldest guy in the Hawks line up. I would also drop Lingers and give Joel Smith a few matches. Lingers is now playing losing footy (since returning) and needs a reset/rocket. Nice ride so far but too many holes and fumbly/second rate players when the heart is turned up. Too many who can't kick accurately and/or make the distance from 35/40 out . Finally, Goody was severely out coached by the master tonight. How you allow your two KFs to play mostly from the goal square and mostly from behind flying for the same long bombs time and time again tonight (especially at center square bounces) is beyond the pale. Same with the mids who were like bears to a honey pot and got sucked in to the contests far too often. But not only that very few were first to the ball. I reckon Maxy would have gotten to more contests than most today! On a PF day IF we were to make one, which i highly doubt, these are the poor set ups, methods that kill you. Along with a lack of desperation and clean ball use most of the night. Too much headless chook panic fumble footy to beat a decent opponent in a big final from here for mine.

Lever has a chance to hit a loose player out wide after that intercept. Instead...hang on to it and kicks down the line to a contest. What a dumb piece of play!!!

When will our forwards who can't kick beyond 40 from a set shot, recognise this and dish it off to a better kicker even if it's lateral!!!!??‽???????????????????

Kozzie can't kick beyond 40. Hand it off son!!!

Lever picks out a Hawk in all that

Viney another nothing tumble punt inside 50

Gus way too slowto react there. This team is soooo off tonight

All our tall forwards playing from behind there. Just dumb footy

If Lingers even bothered to look inside then he would've seen Kozzie loose as a goose. Instead he doesn't and goes for the safe option on the outside boundary who then dishes it off behind and that player (Petty) then looks inside and Kozzie was still loose!!!

10 players under 35 games in this Hawks team. That's an automatic loss 9 out of 10 times against another ordinary but much more experienced side.

Obvious free kick to Lever.... NO FREE!!

Showing us up as probable pretenders tonight. Good teams don't struggle this badly against a bottom two team.

Look at that. One kick to the 50 hits. Then another on the lead between a pack of 5 defenders. This has to be the worst game we've played this season. Just ahead of the Pies and then GWS. We'll be lucky to make a PF.

Any chance we can hit a leading target inside 50 or on the Arc???

At this stage they are just cleaner and more desperate. We are the reverse. O can't find one player who's been clean and damaging with ball in hand tonight. Fumble fumble fumble constantly handing it back and second to the ball aside from Maxy and Lever.

How many goals from Frees now???

Another awful Tracc kick inside 50

He certainly did. Breast lept into Petty's shoulder!!

Why are both T-mac and BB starting out of the square? By doing so we're allowing Frosty to command the CHB position when a quick kick comes inside 50 from a pressured kick in the middle???

I'm not sure he isnt P-Man. Unfortunately i reckon he might be but his kicking is so ordinary he probably can't do alot once he's free. Just a kick in hope most of the time. Great at getting to where the ball is, great at getting it. Not so good after that about 80% of the time. If he's super superatch fit and running on top of the turf....maybe improves that 80% down to 60% or so and then becomes viable and somewhat dangerous. Bringing AVB in for Harmes? I don't think he offers alot other than being solid around the ball, mostly on the inside. We needed some decent ball use on the outside with Harmes' replacement IMHO. Probably should've been Melk. We now look slow and easy to shut down defensively through the middle aside from when Tracc, Clarry or JJ get their hands on it. Having those three plus Viney and now AVB makes us a bit too ploddy and inside biased IMO.

No run from anyone aside from Hunt and Clarry. A bit from Lingers but then he just burns anyone ahead with his woeful mindless bombing (or OOTF on multiple occasions most matches). Bad kicking is bad footy. As are our entries inside 50. The whole comp has worked us out coming inside. 90% of kicks going to the left forward pocket. Most backs, particularly the key ones, head there knowing that's where we will almost always go. It becomes a massive shiiite fest in the air then same on the ground making it almost impossible to score. So that's all good if you defend that strat almost to perfection. But when you don't and the opp floods back (mostly to that area) and they're able to work it through our defence, over the back, and run it inside their 50. Provided they hold one or two deep, we are roasted on the rebound and they get relatively easy entries to shoot from dangerous spots from their hot zones. Imagine this outcome vs a bottom two club. We can't even put this mob away because of it. Any other top 6 team would be 6 plus goals up by now. Now imagine this same strat in a final against the best teams in the comp. Good luck! We might hold some of them to a low score. We might even win one of those. But you aren't even making a PF on the back of this. Let alone making a GF and winning one.

If this continues i would even take Melk over Viney in the middle for a while and let Viney try and find some connection/skills down at Casey. Problem is there's no Casey and probably won't be for weeks.

Our forward set up and our entries arei still a dogs breakfast. Too crowded. Lingers coming inside 50 ....must have had so many alternatives to just bombing it there but what does he do? Needs to find some poise and improve his kicking skills in general (other than,set shots at goal).

So far. Does Nibbler need to provide something a bit more than just two way coverage and the occasional goal once in a while? Or is that enough