Round 2 2016

Hawthorn v West Coast
Round 2, 2016

Redden and his teammates had no room to move. Photo: aflphotos.com.au

Date

Sun, 3 April 2016 (3:20 PM EST)

Venue

MCG

Attendance

42,977

Result

Lost by 46

Score

HAW 14.15.99 - 7.11.53 WCE

Brownlow

3 J.Gibson (HAW)
2 S.Mitchell (HAW)
1 C.Rioli (HAW)

Ladder

8th

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Given a chance of upsetting the Hawks in the much-vaunted Grand Final replay, the Eagles failed to match Hawthorn's intensity and went down by 46 points, coincidentally the same margin as the previous October. West Coast were blown away early and gave up far too much easy possession to the Hawks, and failed to score a goal in the first or last quarters. Andrew Gaff had 30 possessions and Jack Darling kicked three of his side's seven goals.

Summary

		1/4 time		1/2 time		3/4 time		Final
Hawthorn		4.4.28		7.8.50		11.11.77		14.15.99
West Coast		0.2.2		4.5.29		7.8.50		7.11.53

Goals: Darling 3, Cripps, Kennedy, McGovern, Redden

Best: Redden, Kennedy, Darling, MacKenzie

Injuries: Duggan (ankle)

Milestones: Jetta WCE debut, Bennell final appearance

Named side

	West Coast				Hawthorn
B:	25.Hurn	16.MacKenzie	26.Butler	B:	24.Stratton	12.Frawley	17.Litherland
HB:	5.Sheppard	31.Schofield	30.Nelson	HB:	9.Burgoyne	6.Gibson	14.Birchall
C:	8.Redden	11.Priddis	6.Yeo	C:	4.Hartung	3.Lewis	16.Smith
HF:	23.Jetta	20.McGovern	2.LeCras	HF:	22.Breust	25.Schoenmakers	28.Puopolo
F:	15.Cripps	17.Kennedy	27.Darling	F:	21.Sicily	19.Gunston	33.Rioli
R:	9.Naitanui	3.Gaff	13.Shuey	R:	7.McEvoy	5.Mitchell	13.O'Rourke
I:	44.Bennell	14.Duggan	33.Hill	I:	8.Duryea	41.Howe	18.Ceglar
	29.Lycett				29.W.Langford
E:	28.Cole	34.Hutchings	36.McInnes	E:	30.Brand	37.Hardwick	11.Whitecross

In: Jetta

Out: Ellis (Achilles)

New: Lewis Jetta (Sydney/Swan Districts)

From the coach

"We thought we prepared well but we had a lot of similar outcomes as last year, so we are really disappointed.

"I’m not quite sure how [Hawthorn] prepared. Obviously they outplayed us in every area of the game. We just didn’t put ourselves in any position to compete – inside, outside, ball use. I thought our defenders actually did okay considering the supply. Inside 50s were 34 to 68. They probably should have won by more.

"It’s really hard to cover individuals when there is so much poor areas that collectively we were doing ... Mitchell and Gibson and these guys are products of tough, hard footy and the more numbers we send to go help that the more open space they had. It’s a catch-22 with what you do, but good teams make you pay and they did.

"We were trying to put an extra forward in the midfield to help win that battle, to try and help that problem. One feeds into another. You also want to try and get back into the game by using the ball well and we just butchered the ball.

"We’ll learn from it; we will always learn from it. We are still developing and obviously, clearly, we are amongst many teams to compete for the top eight. Probably a dose of reality hit us today."

From the papers

The West Australian

"West Coast were lucky to only trail by 26 points at quarter time.

While they rebounded with three goals early in the second term, they never reduced the margin to under 15 points.

Every time the Eagles challenged, Hawthorn’s faultless system and relentless workrate helped them kick clear.

Key defender Eric Mackenzie stood out on a bad day for West Coast, who were found wanting again in a big match at the MCG."

The Age

"Every club has a defensive system, and a fancy name for it. Hawthorn's is Clarkson's cluster. But Hawthorn's winning tactic this day was Operation Starvation. Simply, they kept the ball off West Coast. In the first quarter, the Hawks doubled the Eagles for possession and tripled them for inside 50s. When finally the Eagles got their hands on the ball in the back pocket, Sicily intercepted what looked like a perfectly sensible handball and kicked the goal anyway. Sicily is supposed to be one of the ways the Hawks are not quite as good as last year. Jonathan O'Rourke's another. OK, we might have been wr .. wr ... wrong."

Herald-Sun

"If Hawthorn’s Round 1 failure against Geelong sparked debate over the end of its reign, alarm bells must be sounding in Perth.

Armed with incentive and opportunity against a supposedly weakened opponent, the Eagles were exposed as impostors.

Under siege, the Hawks simply reverted to type to humiliate the doubters.

They won more contested ball - 124 to 102 - and made 49 entries inside the forward 50 to West Coast’s 29.

And they blitzed the possession count - 337 to 209."

East Perth report

Round 3 (1 Apr)

East Perth continued their poor start to the season, falling to the ladder-leading South Fremantle by 40 points. Tom Lamb starred for the Royals with 4 goals from 23 touches, and Chris Masten picked up 28 possessions in limited minutes on his return from an ankle injury.

Appearing for East Perth: Allen, Barrass, Brophy, Colledge, Giles, Hutchings, Karpany, Lamb, Lucas, Masten (*first East Perth appearance), McGinnity, McInnes, Partington. Reserves: Adamson, Snadden

Injury list

In the leadup to the match the following players were listed as injured or unavailable:

Player		Injury		Expected duration
Sheed		Pectoral		8 weeks
Brown		Finger		8 weeks		(Placed on LTI list 24/3/16, replaced by Colledge)
Ellis		Achilles		6-8 weeks
Mutimer		Hamstring		4 weeks
Wellingham		Knee		4 weeks
Masten		Ankle		Test
Jetta		Calf strain		Test
McGovern		Shoulder		Test
Waterman*		Glandular fever		Indefinite
Tunbridge*		Back		4 weeks

References

http://www.afl.com.au/match-centre/2016/2/haw-v-wce

https://afltables.com/afl/stats/games/2016/101820160403.html