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Hawthorn
14.15.99
West Coast
7.11.53
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Hawthorn
West Coast
Q1
4.4.28
0.2.2

    Hawthorn Events

  • 6 mins - Goal, B.McEvoy
  • 13 mins - Behind, P.Puopolo
  • 14 mins - Goal, J.Gunston
  • 20 mins - Behind, J.Sicily
  • 22 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 23 mins - Behind, L.Breust
  • 24 mins - Goal, C.Rioli
  • 26 mins - Goal, J.Sicily

    Hawthorn and West Coast Events

  • 2 mins - Behind, J.McGovern
  • 16 mins - Behind, L.Duggan
Q2
7.8.50
4.5.29

    Hawthorn Events

  • 2 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 3 mins - Goal, J.Sicily
  • 11 mins - Goal, J.Sicily
  • 13 mins - Behind, J.Gunston
  • 17 mins - Goal, J.Lewis
  • 21 mins - Behind, W.Langford
  • 23 mins - Behind, J.Ceglar

    Hawthorn and West Coast Events

  • 4 mins - Goal, J.Kennedy
  • 7 mins - Goal, J.Darling
  • 9 mins - Goal, J.Redden
  • 16 mins - Behind, J.Cripps
  • 25 mins - Behind, J.Cripps
  • 26 mins - Goal, J.McGovern
  • 28 mins - Behind, J.Hill
Q3
11.11.77
7.8.50

    Hawthorn Events

  • 6 mins - Goal, C.Rioli
  • 8 mins - Goal, J.O'Rourke
  • 11 mins - Goal, L.Breust
  • 16 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 24 mins - Behind, L.Breust
  • 28 mins - Goal, C.Rioli
  • 30 mins - Behind, J.Sicily

    Hawthorn and West Coast Events

  • 4 mins - Goal, J.Darling
  • 14 mins - Goal, J.Darling
  • 19 mins - Behind, J.Kennedy
  • 23 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 27 mins - Goal, J.Cripps
  • 31 mins - Rushed Behind
Q4
14.15.99
7.11.53

    Hawthorn Events

  • 4 mins - Behind, J.Gunston
  • 4 mins - Goal, C.Rioli
  • 12 mins - Behind, R.Schoenmakers
  • 14 mins - Goal, J.Gibson
  • 18 mins - Goal, J.Sicily
  • 27 mins - Behind, R.Schoenmakers
  • 27 mins - Rushed Behind

    Hawthorn and West Coast Events

  • 8 mins - Behind, M.LeCras
  • 20 mins - Behind, E.Yeo
  • 23 mins - Behind, S.Lycett

Scorers

Hawthorn
West Coast
Goal Scorers Hawthorn West Coast
Goals and Behinds Sicily (4.2), Rioli (4.0), Breust (1.2), Gunston (1.2), Gibson (1.0), Lewis (1.0), McEvoy (1.0), O'Rourke (1.0), Schoenmakers (0.2), Ceglar (0.1), Langford (0.1), Puopolo (0.1) Darling (3.0), Cripps (1.2), Kennedy (1.1), McGovern (1.1), Redden (1.0), Duggan (0.1), Hill (0.1), LeCras (0.1), Lycett (0.1), Yeo (0.1)

Team Statistics

Hawthorn
West Coast

Statistics

Hawthorn West Coast
Goals 14 7
Behinds 15 11
Scoring shots 30 21
Goals/scoring shots 47 33
Disposals 458 293
HawthornGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
G.Birchall 26 11 8 15 2 4 0 1 0 0
L.Breust 18 11 5 7 7 5 1 1 0 1
S.Burgoyne 24 16 5 8 5 2 0 0 0 2
J.Ceglar 10 3 2 7 7 3 2 2 15 2
T.Duryea 22 15 4 7 9 3 1 0 0 0
J.Frawley 17 10 7 7 4 6 1 2 0 1
J.Gibson 44 19 9 25 12 4 4 1 0 4
J.Gunston 21 14 9 7 7 3 1 0 0 0
B.Hartung 32 14 2 18 6 2 1 0 0 1
D.Howe 10 5 2 5 3 5 0 1 0 2
W.Langford 23 13 4 10 12 11 0 1 1 7
J.Lewis 28 10 4 18 9 6 1 1 4 3
A.Litherland 13 5 2 8 2 3 0 0 0 1
B.McEvoy 8 2 1 6 4 3 1 0 15 3
S.Mitchell 37 22 8 15 12 6 2 0 0 9
J.O'Rourke 18 8 1 10 9 1 0 0 0 2
P.Puopolo 11 4 2 7 4 3 1 2 0 0
C.Rioli 20 12 4 8 12 7 2 2 0 4
R.Schoenmakers 14 6 2 8 8 2 0 1 1 0
J.Sicily 15 6 6 9 9 1 0 1 0 0
I.Smith 33 12 8 21 12 4 1 0 0 1
B.Stratton 14 8 6 6 8 5 0 0 0 1
West CoastGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
J.Bennell 5 3 0 2 4 4 1 0 0 0
S.Butler 12 7 3 5 3 3 0 0 0 1
J.Cripps 11 9 3 2 2 5 0 2 0 0
J.Darling 12 7 3 5 7 6 1 1 0 2
L.Duggan 7 5 0 2 7 2 1 1 0 2
A.Gaff 30 19 4 11 9 5 0 0 0 2
J.Hill 14 7 3 7 7 1 0 0 0 1
S.Hurn 15 7 2 8 6 3 1 0 1 2
L.Jetta 8 6 1 2 2 3 0 1 0 0
J.Kennedy 18 14 4 4 9 6 2 0 0 1
M.LeCras 16 11 4 5 9 4 1 3 0 5
S.Lycett 9 6 2 3 7 3 1 0 16 2
E.MacKenzie 14 6 6 8 6 2 2 1 0 0
J.McGovern 14 13 7 1 3 3 1 0 0 0
N.Naitanui 9 4 1 5 8 3 0 1 42 4
J.Nelson 9 6 1 3 4 4 2 0 0 1
M.Priddis 19 4 1 15 15 6 1 1 0 3
J.Redden 19 8 3 11 9 6 1 2 1 4
W.Schofield 5 3 2 2 1 1 0 1 0 0
B.Sheppard 9 6 2 3 1 2 0 0 0 0
L.Shuey 25 10 4 15 13 7 1 2 0 5
E.Yeo 13 5 3 8 6 2 0 3 0 1

Match Details

Hawthorn
West Coast
START TIME
3:20PM
WEATHER
Unknown
VENUE
MCG
Umpires
Robert O'Gorman, Simon Meredith, Shaun Ryan

Hawks make a sorry mess of Eagles

 HAWTHORN    4.4      7.8  11.11 14.15     (99)
WEST COAST  0.2      4.5    7.8    7.11     (53)

GOALS Hawthorn: Rioli 4, Sicily 4, McEvoy, Gibson,  Gunston, Lewis, O'Rourke, Breust. 
West Coast: Darling 3, Cripps, Kennedy, McGovern, Redden.
Umpires: Ryan, Meredith, O'Gorman.
Official Crowd: 42,977 at the MCG.

Football world to Hawthorn, muttered through gritted teeth: "Sorry." Hawthorn: "Louder!" Football world, head still lowered, eyes darting: "Sorry. SORRY, damn you." Hawthorn: "That's better."

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Hawthorn have made light work of their grand final opponents, romping home by 46 points.

Hawthorn had come for grand final redux. West coast were intent on grand final reset. On paper, it was going to be different. Hawthorn were changed by eight players from the grand final. Some of the absentees won't be back for a long time, some never. West Coast was changed by six players, but mostly for the better, or so it seemed. Paper? This paper ended up in the recycling bin.

You know how it goes. Here's Josh Gibson again. They say he's behind the ball, but actually, he's where the ball always is when it comes into Hawthorn's defence, which is his running joke on the football world, because the whole idea of attack is to give it to the attacker, not the defender. He had 44 possessions. Here's Sam Mitchell, where he's unfailingly been these last 10 years or so, no further than arm's length from the ball, lightning fast hands, mega-fast mind, 360-degree AND 20/20 vision. Who has that? He had it 37 times. "Solid contributions," said coach Alastair Clarkson. That's the standard the Hawks work to; that's what we forgot.

Front runner:  Hawthorn's Paul Puopolo puts on a burst of speed as Josh Kennedy gives chase.
Front runner: Hawthorn's Paul Puopolo puts on a burst of speed as Josh Kennedy gives chase. Photo: Quinn Rooney

Here's Jack Gunston, threading one from the forward pocket. For variation, here's James Sicily, doing the same. Three more would follow. Sicily is true to his name, small, but looms large, just the thing for end of a boot. Here was a Cyril Rioli tackle, a Paul Puopolo mark on the lead, a Jordan Lewis touch of class. These are the game's givens, staples like bread, milk and toilet paper. How did we ever doubt? Sorry, Hawks.

So running is where football is at, yes? But why run when you can kick like Hawthorn? Kicks get to their destination sooner, with the laces already out, and once they're in the air they don't make bad decisions. Runners slow down. Kicks don't.

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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.

This wasn't some perennial also-ran, a no-hoper, Brisbane. This was last year's runners-up and this year's premiership favourite. "Dose of reality," said coach Adam Simpson. Hawthorn phobia? MCG phobia? Lesson in expectations? Simpson did not deny any of it. Mostly, though, he said it was that the Eagles couldn't get the ball. They had given the Hawks a quarter's head start, when everyone knows you can't even give them a toenail's start.

Getting to grips:  Billy Hartung handballs while being tackled by Jack Redden of the Eagles.
Getting to grips: Billy Hartung handballs while being tackled by Jack Redden of the Eagles. Photo: Quinn Rooney

West Coast did improve. Andrew Gaff put a bit of stamp on the game, Josh Kennedy toiled honestly and Jack Darling kicked a few goals. Without ever really looking like it, they crept to within four goals late in the third quarter. Asked if Darling's goals were a little consolation, Simpson held up thumb and forefinger, a couple of millimetres apart. Without ever really looking like it, West Coast crept to within four goals late in the third quarter.

But that was it. Here was a Rioli goal, off a step, and an O'Rourke goal, off not even a step, and Rioli again, pouncing. No-one ever has pounced quite like Rioli, whether on an opponent or a goal. And here, as a matter of poetic justice, was Gibson, rolling up out of defence to attach himself to the end of a Bily Hartung handball and kick a goal, his first ever for Hawthorn. Justly, the Hawks mobbed him. Now there was a tick in every column.

Up and over: Young gun James Sicily flies high for the Hawks.
Up and over: Young gun James Sicily flies high for the Hawks. Photo: Quinn Rooney

By final siren, the Hawks had had the ball 165 times more than the Eagles. Combing more finely, they had it in uncontested play twice as much. They marked it twice as often. They had it forward twice as often. They were on the end of their own handballs twice as often. If the statisticians had counted the kicks when the crowd tumbled onto the ground at match's end, they still would have come up with a lesser number than Hawthorn's tally.

At day's beginning, the Hawks had unfurled their flag. Actually, they unfurled three, the way they won them, one after another, fluttering down from the grandstand roof. Of the 2008 pennant, there was no sign. It has become Hawthorn's spare premiership, to be talked about when sick of the other three. Or will it be the other four?

On the bounce: Ben McEvoy takes on Nic Naitanui in the ruck.
On the bounce: Ben McEvoy takes on Nic Naitanui in the ruck. Photo: Quinn Rooney

For the rest of the football world, this was sobering. West Coast just took one for the side. So, Western Bulldogs, it's over to you. Meantime from the rest of us, growling, scowling, but also bowing: "Sor-ree. Hawthorn."