Four Points: Mitchell’s message to Hawks, AFL integrity issues, the Dons’ deal with Neale | ANALYSIS by Michael Gleeson
and sent a message to the team about effort, reward and reputations counting for nothing. Often when statements like this are made it is in the knowledge there will be short-term pain. There wasn’t.Mitchell has Jack Gunston and James Sicily both fit and in form.
Why? Port also had more turnovers. That was partly on Hawthorn, partly on them. Port butchered the ball. Hawthorn were as clean as Port were dirty.The goals Hawthorn scored running the ball out of their defensive 50 told the story of the night. Firstly, Port Adelaide beat them around the ball and scunged - yes, scunged - the ball inside 50, but they could not mark it or keep it in there. Hawthorn were able to run the ball out with clean possession.
OK, West Coast had enough good players to be competitive, but that was against last year’s wooden spoon team. The league was lucky the Eagles were not drawn to play Melbourne. Next week the Eagles have a derby. The AFL will be hoping their players recover as much as coach Adam Simpson does.delivered an immediate first quarter response to last week’s poor effort but could not sustain it.
Essendon don’t like to tag. Last week it was Paddy Dangerfield running out of the front of the square unchecked who tore them apart. Some coaches don’t like taking one player out of a system to run with one opposition player but when that player is torching you , surely you have to consider putting more work into him.
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