Hawthorn – 11.7 (73)
West Coast – 7.14 (56)
In a hard-fought victory, Hawthorn prevailed in the last quarter against a West Coast team that made them work for it. Gary Moss was the story of the game with 4 goals in a low scoring wet and greasy game.
Turning points of the match
The game was in dispute for a good 3 and a half quarters until Darren Glass was unfairly adjudged to have pushed Franklin in the back during a one-on-one marking contest. Franklin duly converted and that was the game settled at the 26th minute mark of the 4th quarter.
Key Players for the Hawthorn
• Chance Bateman – Gathered 22 possessions whilst also restricting Daniel Kerr’s influence. The importance his role in the victory cannot be underestimated.
• Gary Moss – 4 goals in a low-scoring game, most of them from being in the right place at the right time. Excellent game.
• Brad Sewell – 28 possessions, 8 tackles and 10 clearances – How much have Hawthorn missed this guy?!?!?
• Sam Mitchell – 40 possesions in the backline and 9 rebound-50’s for the Captain who stepped up after the impressive Eric Mackenzie managed to curtail Luke Hodges influence. Most of his possesions were short ones but you can’t argue with the sheer number of them.
Key Players for West Coast
• Darren Glass –Beat Lance Franklin. What more can you say?
• Dean Cox – Dominated the ruck and around the ground. He did this whilst also competing against 3 name’ Hawks ruckman.
• Matthew Priddis – Doing his usual bit gathering 32 possessions, 10 tackles and 9 clearances.
• Ben McKinley – Providing West Coast with a genuine goal-kicking threat. Two of his three goals were pretty simple but when you kick three of your teams seven goals, you are doing pretty well.
Musings from the match
• It was an ugly win but it was a win that the Hawks so desperately needed.
• West Coast should be given credit for running the reigning premiers so far in a game that they were given no chance to win in at all.
• Matt Rosa had 35 possessions was also pretty good for the Eagles with his hard running and his efforts of moving the ball forward.
• The Hawks played it well though by putting all of their attention into Daniel Kerr, pretty much letting Rosa get the ball without an opponent.
• Cyril Rioli, whilst not as good as last week, continues to provide the footy world with moments of magic.
• To be perfectly honest, I thought that Darren Glass was finished after his horrid year last year, but after his performance against Franklin it’s fair to say I was wrong.
• Good to see Jarryd Roughead lift himself out of his mini-slump with 4-goals.
SuperCoach news
• Thank god I picked up Dean Cox! – Why didn’t I make him captain though…..He finished with 163pt’s.
• Considering it was a wet, greasy and windy, there were a heap of high scores – 9 players who scored 110+pt’s.
• Gary Moss. “Who?!?!” You ask? With his performances since round one, he’s a fair chance to retain his spot throughout the year. His price will be increasing from $155 400 to $227 508 with his latest 134pt effort
• I think it’s time to pounce on Luke Hodge now. 111pt’s against West Coast but he needed 136pt’s to break even which means that his price is going to be a nice price of $533 413.
• Mitch Brown is continuing to be an excellent bench player with a nice haul of 78pt’s. If you got on him, you wouldn’t be disappointed at all.
SuperCoach price information from TooSerious
Tags: Ben McKinley, Brad Sewell, Chance Bateman, Cyril Rioli, Darren Glass, Dean Cox, Gary Moss, Jarryd Roughead, Matt Rosa, Matthew Priddis, Sam Mitchell
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