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Hawthorn vs Sydney

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Round: 7   Venue: M.C.G.   Date: Sat, 11-05-2013 7:40 pm   Crowd: 54,725  
Hawthorn 5.3.3311.3.6914.6.9018.11.119 C:  Alastair Clarkson
Sydney 1.4.104.5.297.7.4912.10.82 C:  John Longmire
  HAW by 23HAW by 40HAW by 41HAW by 37  
Weather
min temp  13.5°C      max temp  24.9°C
rainfall  0mm    humidity  43%    air pressure  1021.8mb
wind speed 17km/h      wind direction  N
Brownlow Medal 3 Luke Hodge (HAW)2 Jarryd Roughead (HAW)1 Sam Mitchell (HAW)

Match Report

If there was any residual doubt about Hawthorn being a genuine contender for the 2013 premiership, the Hawks surely eliminated that at the MCG on Saturday with a comprehensive victory over reigning premier Sydney. Alastair Clarkson's team jumped away to an early lead and were never seriously challenged by the Swans in front of nearly 55,000 fans.

Hawthorn has now completed a tough first stanza of the 2013, in which it played all seven of the other finalists from 2012, and passed the test with flying colours. They won six of the seven games, losing only to Geelong, narrowly, in the opening round of the year.

If the Hawks had any concern leading into this match, it would have been the fact that Lance Franklin had gone two weeks without a goal. But that concern was brushed aside almost immediately, with "Buddy" kicking two of the first three goals of the match in the first eight minutes. The other was kicked by teammate Jack Gunston, and when Max Bailey kicked his first at the 13-minute mark, Hawthorn was already 22 points to the good. Luke Breust gave the Hawks their fifth as the clock ticked into time-on, and only a late goal from Mike Pyke prevented the opening term from being a complete disaster for the Swans.

The Hawks continued on their merry way at the start of the second quarter, two goals to Jordan Roughead opening up a 35-point lead for the brown and gold. A long goal from Josh Kennedy momentarily halted the Hawks' charge at the three-minute mark but two minutes later Franklin kicked his third and the margin was again six goals. Ryan O'Keefe and Ben McGlynn turned the tide with goals at the 11- and 14-minute marks, but Hawthorn dominated the last part of the first half with Gunston kicking another two goals and Roughead getting his third and the lead at the long break was a massive 40 points.

Hawthorn showed no signs of relaxing when the second half began and after Luke Breust just missed a set shot, captain Luke Hodge kicked his first to give the Hawks a 47-point lead. The remainder of the third term was relatively tight, with Sydney goals to McGlynn, Kennedy and Luke Parker punctuated by two David Hale goals for Hawthorn and the margin at the final change was 41 points.

Play opened up in the final term and the Swans did peg the margin back to 25 points at one stage but Michael Osborne and Shaun Burgoyne closed out the match to give Hawthorn an impressive 37-point win.

Hawthorn's best included captain Luke Hodge (32 disposals and a goal), Josh Gibson (27 touches) and Jordan Roughead (27 disposals and four goals), while Sydney were well served by Josh Kennedy (two goals, 30 disposals) and Adam Goodes (26 possessions and a goal).

The Hawks head to Launceston next Saturday where they'll take on the winless GWS, while Sydney will return home to face Fremantle. The Swans and Dockers have both won five of seven matches so far this year.

GOALS
Hawthorn: Roughead 4; Franklin, Gunston 3; Hale 3, Bailey, Breust, Hodge, Osborne, Burgoyne
Sydney: Kennedy 2, McGlynn 2, O'Keefe 2, Pyke, Parker, Lamb, Bolton, White, Goodes

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Hawthorn: Hodge, Gibson, Roughead, Birchall, Puopolo, Gunston, Mitchell, Lake
Sydney: Kennedy, Goodes, Jetta, Parker, McGlynn

BEST - THE AGE
Hawthorn: Hodge, Bruest, Gibson, Birchall, Lake, Mitchell
Sydney: Kennedy, McGlynn, Goodes, Pyke, McVeigh, Jack

COACHES' COMMENTS
Alastair Clarkson (Haw): Full credit to our players. We had a really tough summer, preparing knowing full well that we couldn't ease our way into the season at all [playing 2012 finalists in the first seven rounds], so we've been pleased with the contribution that our players have made. It puts us in a good position at this point in time but we know that we've still got a lot of hard work to go.

John Longmire (Syd): We kicked one goal four in the first quarter - it certainly didn't help. To let a team like Hawthorn get away he way they did put us behind the eight-ball a bit. I thought our ball use in general wasn't great compared to theirs and we didn't put enough pressure on when we needed to. When it was our turn [with the ball], we didn't use it as well as we should have, particularly when we were licking it into our forward line.

INJURIES
Hawthorn: Guerra (knee) replaced in selected side by Bailey
Sydney: Mumford (groin) replaced in selected side by White

SUBSTITUTES
Hawthorn: Jonathan Simpkin replaced Bradley Hill in the last quarter
Sydney: Jed Lamb replaced Marty Mattner at three-quarter time

UMPIRES: Dalgleish, Nicholls, Meredith

Source

Match report by Andrew Gigacz

Footnotes

Video sourced from YouTube, courtesy of AFL Media.

Match stats

Hawthorn Match Stats Career
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
39 Bailey, Max 4 1 1 5 1 0 32 0 2 1 26y 200d 30 7
14 Birchall, Grant 16 4 10 26 0 1 0 0 0 0 25y 103d 159 20
22 Breust, Luke 11 5 11 22 1 2 0 5 1 0 22y 181d 48 89
9 Burgoyne, Shaun 12 6 3 15 1 0 0 1 0 1 30y 202d 228 213
41 Duryea, Taylor 9 6 8 17 0 0 0 2 1 2 22y 17d 4 0
23 Franklin, Lance 'Buddy' 5 1 4 9 3 1 0 3 0 0 26y 101d 168 538
6 Gibson, Josh 16 12 11 27 0 0 0 1 2 2 29y 59d 131 2
19 Gunston, Jack 11 7 7 18 3 0 0 3 0 0 21y 207d 39 67
20 Hale, David 9 6 5 14 3 1 15 2 2 1 28y 354d 180 169
10 Hill, Bradley 7 1 2 9 0 0 0 1 0 3 19y 306d 12 10
15 Hodge, Luke 24 4 8 32 1 0 0 5 0 2 28y 330d 211 148
17 Lake, Brian 12 8 6 18 0 0 0 1 0 0 31y 73d 200 32
3 Lewis, Jordan 9 4 8 17 0 1 6 5 0 0 27y 17d 176 94
5 Mitchell, Sam 15 5 15 30 0 0 0 4 1 1 30y 211d 228 54
7 Osborne, Michael 5 3 6 11 1 0 0 5 0 1 30y 286d 167 110
28 Puopolo, Paul 9 4 12 21 0 0 0 7 0 1 25y 160d 48 34
2 Roughead, Jarryd 18 8 9 27 4 2 0 2 0 1 26y 108d 166 310
12 Sewell, Brad 10 3 11 21 0 0 0 8 1 1 29y 98d 173 26
26 Shiels, Liam 9 2 4 13 0 0 0 5 0 1 22y 12d 71 19
32 Simpkin, Jonathan 5 5 4 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 25y 195d 6 1
16 Smith, Isaac 8 4 8 16 0 1 0 1 1 2 24y 132d 45 41
24 Stratton, Ben 9 10 14 23 0 0 0 3 0 1 24y 71d 59 1
  Rushed   2  
  Totals 233 109 167 400 18 11 53 64 11 21 26y 106d 2549 1985
Sydney Match Stats Career
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
19 Armstrong, Tony 7 2 4 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 23y 224d 28 2
14 Bird, Craig 10 3 4 14 0 0 0 4 1 1 24y 110d 92 37
24 Bolton, Jude 7 3 8 15 1 1 0 1 2 0 33y 57d 308 180
37 Goodes, Adam 21 7 5 26 1 0 0 4 1 0 33y 123d 326 399
39 Grundy, Heath 13 7 7 20 0 0 0 4 1 0 26y 343d 121 21
4 Hannebery, Dan 9 4 10 19 0 0 0 2 0 1 22y 76d 84 32
15 Jack, Kieren 11 2 12 23 0 0 0 10 3 0 25y 317d 121 83
32 Jetta, Lewis 13 6 7 20 0 0 0 4 1 0 24y 7d 72 65
12 Kennedy, Josh 10 3 20 30 2 1 0 7 1 0 24y 325d 93 61
11 Lamb, Jed 4 1 1 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 20y 204d 2 1
9 Malceski, Nick 10 3 1 11 0 0 0 2 0 0 28y 269d 133 56
29 Mattner, Martin 13 6 3 16 0 0 0 5 1 0 30y 278d 222 40
21 McGlynn, Ben 11 5 3 14 2 3 0 6 5 0 27y 278d 111 123
3 McVeigh, Jarrad 11 2 8 19 0 0 0 3 1 2 28y 34d 201 153
5 O'Keefe, Ryan 8 4 10 18 2 0 0 2 0 0 32y 107d 264 254
26 Parker, Luke 7 1 12 19 1 0 0 10 1 1 20y 198d 39 21
38 Pyke, Mike 5 4 5 10 1 1 26 3 1 3 29y 48d 53 21
43 Rampe, Dane 6 4 3 9 0 0 0 1 0 0 22y 343d 5 0
20 Reid, Sam 4 4 5 9 0 1 0 1 0 0 21y 135d 53 60
25 Richards, Ted 6 6 4 10 0 0 0 0 0 1 30y 120d 188 32
40 Smith, Nick 6 5 9 15 0 0 0 3 1 1 24y 333d 81 8
18 White, Jesse 6 2 4 10 1 1 11 4 1 1 25y 122d 57 54
  Rushed   1  
  Totals 198 84 145 343 12 10 37 76 21 11 26y 151d 2654 1703

Match highlights

Josh Kennedy had 20 handballs for Sydney vs. Hawthorn (AFL, Premiership Season, R7)
Kieren Jack had 10 tackles for Sydney vs. Hawthorn (AFL, Premiership Season, R7)
Luke Parker had 10 tackles for Sydney vs. Hawthorn (AFL, Premiership Season, R7)
Brian Lake played his 200th V/AFL game: Hawthorn vs. Sydney (AFL, Premiership Season, R7)
54,725 attended Hawthorn vs. Sydney at M.C.G. (AFL, Premiership Season, R7)
Adam Goodes set a new club games record for Sydney vs. Hawthorn (AFL, Premiership Season, R7)
Martin Mattner played his last game for Sydney (AFL, Premiership Season, R7)

Footnotes

* Behinds calculated from the 1965 season on.
+ Score at the end of extra time.