Finals Week 2 – Hawthorn v Melbourne: My emotion overwriting analyses

 

Hawthorn versus Melbourne
Friday, September 14, 2018, 7:50 pm
Melbourne Cricket Ground

 

It’s been raining this week in Kyoto and I have to cancel my own drills sadly.

 

My feelings are downhill this week, but I found I would have time to watch the last half of the game. Having finished working just after 8 pm, I went straight  to a Starbucks cafe where I was able to access free wifi.

 

Before I left work, I had checked the score and it was a low scoring game and Demons led by 23 points (at half time).

 

I was not happy.

 

As I have said here on the Footy Almanac, I dislike Melbourne Football Club. They didn’t play properly against St Kilda in 2009 in order to get an early draft pick.

 

Sorry Dees fans, but they were a pissed footy club. I can’t stand such behaviour.

 

I don’t care if their early draft pick improve their on field performances or not. Also having them not played finals for 12 years doesn’t matter. I think they were against integrity.

 

St Kilda should have played finals earlier than them.

 

As my footy mate Brian Lake has played at Hawthorn for three seasons, I wanted Hawks to win.

 

Being unable to access Watch AFL on my Tablet was really annoying and deepened my negative emotion. I dislike Android.

 

Then all I saw was Demons dominating for a while.

 

Their ball uses (kicking and handpassing) were good. Unfortunately they were better than us, Saints.

 

Paul Roos is a great coaching legend. He rebuilt that struggling club by implementing trusts with great relationships and making all feeling valued. Then Simon Goodwin was taught coaching skills by the former senior coach.

 

Players must have gained confidence by former and current head coaches.

 

Hawthorn demonstrated experiences with good ball uses too. Isaac Smith and Gunston were good goal kickers. But Demons were better.

 

Ben McEvoy demonstrated good performances not only in the centre but also at forward pocket. I wish he could still be a Saint. None of Savage, Dunstan or Hickey can perform as good as McEvoy.

 

My life improved, but is much far behind to where either club was. Such realising prevented me from analysing the game and taking players notes.

 

I was no longer able to see Demons being better than my Saints, so switched off at the half way at last quarter.

 

It is good to see underdogs winning, but Dees are not included in my view. A  club that behaved as they did, should never have a fairytale story like  the Bulldogs had in 2016. At least not for another 10 years.

 

I hope the Eagles win next week in Perth and can take some players points of views.

 

HAWTHORN 3.1 3.7 6.9 10.11 (71)
MELBOURNE 3.1 6.2 12.5 16.8 (104)

 

GOALS
Hawthorn: Gunston 3, Schoenmakers 2, Roughead 2, Worpel, Puopolo, Smith
Melbourne: T. McDonald 4, Weideman 2, Brayshaw 2, Melksham 2, Spargo 2, Petracca, Gawn, Neal-Bullen, Hannan

 

BEST
Hawthorn: Gunston, Mirra, Howe, Shiels, Mitchell, Henderson
Melbourne: Viney, T.McDonald, Petracca, Jetta, Hibberd, Oliver

 

Umpires: Rosebury, Stevic, Nicholls

 

Official crowd: 90,152

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