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Hawthorn
12.7.79
Gold Coast
13.17.95
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Hawthorn
Gold Coast
Q1
2.3.15
3.4.22

    Hawthorn Events

  • 3 mins - Behind, P.Puopolo
  • 3 mins - Goal, J.Gunston
  • 5 mins - Behind, T.O'Brien
  • 14 mins - Goal, R.Henderson
  • 23 mins - Behind, J.Roughead

    Hawthorn and Gold Coast Events

  • 7 mins - Behind, M.Barlow
  • 9 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 11 mins - Goal, G.Ablett
  • 16 mins - Behind, T.Lynch
  • 18 mins - Behind, B.Matera
  • 25 mins - Goal, T.Lynch
  • 27 mins - Goal, B.Matera
Q2
4.4.28
6.7.43

    Hawthorn Events

  • 8 mins - Behind, S.Burgoyne
  • 20 mins - Goal, T.Mitchell
  • 26 mins - Goal, K.Stewart

    Hawthorn and Gold Coast Events

  • 2 mins - Goal, M.Barlow
  • 3 mins - Behind, M.Barlow
  • 4 mins - Goal, P.Wright
  • 14 mins - Behind, A.Saad
  • 17 mins - Behind, B.Matera
  • 28 mins - Goal, T.Lynch
Q3
7.6.48
11.14.80

    Hawthorn Events

  • 2 mins - Behind, J.Gunston
  • 15 mins - Goal, J.Gunston
  • 16 mins - Behind, B.Hartung
  • 28 mins - Goal, I.Smith
  • 31 mins - Goal, B.McEvoy

    Hawthorn and Gold Coast Events

  • 3 mins - Goal, S.Lemmens
  • 4 mins - Behind, A.Hall
  • 7 mins - Behind, B.Ainsworth
  • 10 mins - Goal, J.Lyons
  • 12 mins - Goal, G.Ablett
  • 18 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 18 mins - Goal, J.Martin
  • 20 mins - Behind, G.Ablett
  • 22 mins - Goal, B.Matera
  • 24 mins - Behind, B.Matera
  • 25 mins - Behind, B.Matera
  • 32 mins - Behind, J.Lyons
Q4
12.7.79
13.17.95

    Hawthorn Events

  • 2 mins - Goal, T.O'Brien
  • 3 mins - Behind, R.Henderson
  • 7 mins - Goal, T.O'Brien
  • 16 mins - Goal, J.Gunston
  • 19 mins - Goal, J.Gunston
  • 29 mins - Goal, J.Gunston

    Hawthorn and Gold Coast Events

  • 10 mins - Behind, A.Saad
  • 11 mins - Behind, J.Lyons
  • 22 mins - Goal, B.Ainsworth
  • 26 mins - Goal, P.Wright
  • 31 mins - Behind, J.Lyons

Scorers

Hawthorn
Gold Coast
Goal Scorers Hawthorn Gold Coast
Goals and Behinds Gunston (5.1), O'Brien (2.1), Henderson (1.1), McEvoy (1.0), Mitchell (1.0), Smith (1.0), Stewart (1.0), Burgoyne (0.1), Hartung (0.1), Puopolo (0.1), Roughead (0.1) Matera (2.4), Ablett (2.1), Lynch (2.1), Wright (2.0), Lyons (1.3), Barlow (1.2), Ainsworth (1.1), Lemmens (1.0), Martin (1.0), Saad (0.2), Hall (0.1)

Team Statistics

Hawthorn
Gold Coast

Statistics

Hawthorn Gold Coast
Goals 12 13
Behinds 7 17
Scoring shots 26 35
Goals/scoring shots 46 37
Disposals 370 424
HawthornGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
K.Brand 9 3 3 6 5 1 0 0 0 0
S.Burgoyne 24 9 9 15 6 1 0 0 0 0
R.Burton 19 9 1 10 8 4 2 2 0 1
J.Cousins 13 5 1 8 5 1 0 0 0 0
T.Duryea 14 6 4 8 5 6 2 1 0 0
J.Gibson 9 2 0 7 2 0 1 1 0 0
J.Gunston 19 16 12 3 5 4 1 0 0 2
B.Hardwick 10 6 4 4 2 7 2 0 0 1
B.Hartung 25 12 6 13 2 3 0 1 0 1
R.Henderson 22 14 8 8 3 2 0 1 0 0
D.Howe 16 8 1 8 4 2 1 3 0 0
W.Langford 17 9 3 8 7 8 0 1 0 3
B.McEvoy 11 5 4 6 5 3 1 0 32 2
T.Mitchell 39 13 5 26 11 8 0 1 0 6
T.O'Brien 17 13 6 4 4 3 2 0 1 0
P.Puopolo 11 4 1 7 6 5 2 1 0 0
J.Roughead 21 10 5 11 14 4 0 1 3 4
L.Shiels 19 8 3 11 6 10 0 1 0 3
J.Sicily 13 7 3 6 3 2 0 0 0 0
I.Smith 24 15 4 9 6 3 0 0 0 3
K.Stewart 5 2 1 3 1 6 1 1 0 0
B.Whitecross 13 5 3 8 3 6 0 0 0 1
Gold CoastGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
G.Ablett 37 21 2 16 15 10 2 1 0 8
B.Ainsworth 18 8 2 10 5 4 0 0 0 1
M.Barlow 24 11 7 13 6 7 1 1 0 2
A.Hall 23 10 3 13 6 2 0 1 0 2
P.Hanley 19 13 9 6 5 0 0 2 0 1
J.Joyce 17 7 4 10 5 1 0 0 0 1
K.Kolodjashnij 20 15 6 5 5 2 1 0 0 1
S.Lemmens 12 5 5 7 3 4 0 0 0 2
J.Leslie 12 5 8 7 3 1 0 2 0 1
J.Lonergan 22 6 3 16 8 6 1 0 0 3
T.Lynch 18 13 10 5 7 2 0 0 0 0
J.Lyons 28 13 4 15 12 7 0 0 0 4
J.Martin 15 9 4 6 7 1 2 1 0 1
B.Matera 16 11 2 5 7 4 3 0 0 0
S.May 24 18 13 6 4 3 1 0 0 1
M.Rosa 20 7 4 13 10 3 0 1 0 2
A.Saad 17 9 3 8 5 2 0 0 0 0
A.Sexton 12 6 2 6 5 1 2 0 0 0
D.Swallow 27 11 1 16 11 6 0 2 0 6
M.Willis 12 7 4 5 3 3 0 1 0 1
J.Witts 17 9 5 8 7 4 1 2 46 5
P.Wright 14 7 10 7 5 0 1 1 6 0

Match Details

Hawthorn
Gold Coast
START TIME
1:45PM
WEATHER
Cloudy morning Sunny afternoon
VENUE
MCG
Umpires
Simon Meredith, Leigh Fisher, Curtis Deboy, Ray Chamberlain
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Gold Coast Suns hold off Hawthorn after desperate last-quarter fight

GOLD COAST 3.4 6.7 11.14 13.17 (95)
HAWTHORN 2.3 4.4 7.6 12.7 (79)
GOALS: Gold Coast -
 Matera 2, Ablett 2, Wright 2, Lynch 2, Ainsworth, Lyons, Martin, Barlow, Lemmens. Hawthorn - Gunston 5, O'Brien 2, McEvoy, Smith, Stewart, Henderson, Mitchell.
BEST: Gold Coast – Ablett, May, Hall, Saad, Lynch, Swallow, Hanley. Hawthorn – Gunston, Burgoyne, Mitchell, Smith, O'Brien.
INJURIES: Gold Coast – Miller (illness) replaced in selected side by Lonergan. Hawthorn – Gibson (groin), Hodge (groin) replaced in selected side by Stewart.
UMPIRES: Simon Meredith, Ray Chamberlain, Curtis Deboy, Leigh Fisher.
CROWD: 27,392 at MCG.

Hawthorn gave Gold Coast a nasty scare at the MCG on Saturday, and but for a controversial 50-metre penalty that broke a run of six Hawks goals might even have snatched an heroic victory. Compute that summary of a match between these two teams a year ago, or even two months ago, before the Suns smashed the Hawks by 86 points at Metricon Stadium to establish a new reality for both of them.

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The Gold Coast Suns held off Hawthorn in a tense final quarter at the MCG.

Now, they're living it. For the Hawks, that means still just the four meagre wins for the season, a scattering of fans, the bare 27,000 of them, in what was once their impregnable Saturday afternoon domain, all howling at the umpires. Don't they remember when "free kick, Hawthorn" was a bit of an AFL in-joke, all of 12 months ago? But this is life in footy's nether regions.

And yet, the Hawks were gallant this day. They lost Luke Hodge and Luke Breust before the match, and had Isaac Smith and perhaps Josh Gibson operating at less than peak fitness during it, setbacks that would have stretched them even in the halcyon days. Still  they gave it a shake. Jack Gunston's five goals were a throwback, but might also act as fresh start.

As coach Alastair Clarkson was keen to footnote at match's end, this wasn't really Hawthorn as we have come to know them anyway. Out there were only 12 players from last year's qualifying final, nine from the flag team the previous year. The balance were as Gold Coast are, with no laurels to rest on, out to make their own history.

Every now and then, other aspects of the old Hawks showed through, and just as quickly, they were snuffed out again. Symbolising this was a play mid-way through the third quarter when the Hawks were running the ball in their patent manner through the middle of the MCG, only for Will Langford to run unsighted and smack-bang into a Sean Lemmens tackle, hurting him and making Hawthorn ache, too.

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But the Hawks were undaunted. Late in the third quarter and early in the last, they began to win this match in the clinches, and suddenly the goals flowed. A brace each for Tim O'Brien and Gunston brought victory within reach, only for it to recede again. But here's an open question: which of these teams would you prefer to coach henceforth? Perhaps Clarkson fancies a bit of sun, sand and surf next year?

Not so fast, Rodney Eade would say. He still has work to do, a job to complete. In lots of ways, the Suns dominated this contest: more clearances, more of the ball generally, 30 scoring shots to 19, which was about the size of it. They would always have the advantage in run anyway, as demonstrated early in the first quarter when Adam Saad ran three-quarters of the length of the ground to thwart Smith, and a teammate, with a goal begging. It never was kicked.

The Suns' pillars of Hercules, Steven May and Tom Lynch, were what they have become, a constant threat at one end, a stumbling block at the other. Their ruckmen, Peter Wright and Jarrod Witts, were mobile midfielders. At times, they looked a complete team.

But a chronic laxness in defence let the Hawks in for simple marks and soft goals. The Suns were also too easily pushed onto the back foot as the desperate Hawks came at them, reducing a 43-point margin to nine with half the last quarter to play. If Hawthorn are a team whose self-belief has not quite died, the Suns are one whose belief has not yet solidified.

Crucially, Gary Ablett was marooned on the bench for eight minutes as Hawthorn rushed at the Suns. His belated return was the game's last juncture. In the end, his ageless poise and a bit of happenstance saved the Suns. Ben Ainsworth marked in the forward pocket, missed with his jittery kick, but was given a 50-metre penalty for some sort of Hawthorn encroachment into the protected area, and kicked again from the goal line.

Now the Hawks fans' anguish knew no bounds. Nor did Clarkson's, though he bit down hard on diplomacy. It was the sort of stroke of ill-fortune that befalls struggling teams. It was the sort of stroke that used to befall the Suns every other week.

But the boot now is on the other foot.

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