Match thread, round 2, Swans v Hawks.

[Foreign Legion]

Some good umpiring for Hawthorn

[dejavoodoo44]

A lot of home town umpiring this quarter.

[dejavoodoo44]

Needed that.

[Dow]

Chol destroying McCartin - but a bloody fast tempo game and quite enjoyable to watch

[stevoswan]

Free 16 to 9....who is surprised?

[Hotpotato]

Choi is a clumsy log.
Someone has to play in front of him tho.

[mcs]

Horrendous umpiring in that quarter, and we are lucky the Hawks didn't take advantage of it on the scoreboard. We seem to need to bow towards Mecca for 10 minutes before getting a HTB call, while they can't wait to blow the whistle when its on the other foot.

Funny old game but at least its a close one so far and entertaining watch. Mills very busy, Blakey doing well, and Chad more involved than he has been. Corey Warner doing a lot right but he has absolutely burnt 3 or good chances for goals through shoddy disposals/delivery into forward 50. Want it to click for him but that element doesn't appear (on very limited evidence thus far) to have improved much. Really struggling to get our talls into the game so far.

Could easily be 4 or 5 goals down at half time, so hopefully we can reset and come out firing.

[imuninformedtwo]

Free 16 to 9....who is surprised?

Both the frees against Grundy in the centre square for crossing the line at the throw up were because the umpire didn’t throw it up straight. I mean, how freaking hard can it be.

We still miss Sam Reid’s ability to take that down the line kick on the wing when we’re struggling.

[Foreign Legion]

They may very well win this but I think they are overrated. Away from Melbourne they will only beat WC and maybe Port

[dejavoodoo44]

Horrendous umpiring in that quarter, and we are lucky the Hawks didn't take advantage of it on the scoreboard. We seem to need to bow towards Mecca for 10 minutes before getting a HTB call, while they can't wait to blow the whistle when its on the other foot.

Funny old game but at least its a close one so far and entertaining watch. Mills very busy, Blakey doing well, and Chad more involved than he has been. Corey Warner doing a lot right but he has absolutely burnt 3 or good chances for goals through shoddy disposals/delivery into forward 50. Want it to click for him but that element doesn't appear (on very limited evidence thus far) to have improved much. Really struggling to get our talls into the game so far.

Could easily be 4 or 5 goals down at half time, so hopefully we can reset and come out firing.

Yeah, so many times that quarter Hawthorn players took on the tackler, got tackled, then dropped the ball or shoved it out one handed: no free.

Blakey 537 metres gained that quarter. Seems a lot.

[imuninformedtwo]

12-1 frees that quarter alone. Just garbage.

[Blue Sun]

12-1 frees that quarter alone. Just garbage.

Par for the course.

[UUaswan]

I think we need to play another ruck so Amartey and Logan can be link ups

Their time in the ruck is taking away their fwd craft

[Daisi]

How Lizard is still on the field after being thrown on his head I don't know...The umpiring is appallingly biased, reminds me of a certain grand final...Nice goal from the centre. I think if this was fairly umpired we would be winning by quite a lot...but you know- VFL will VFL.

[dejavoodoo44]

More turnovers like that please.