Hawthorn had been held to their lowest ever halftime rating towards Carlton because the Blues careered to a thumping 60-point victory over the Hawks on the MCG on Sunday.
Michael Voss’ males piled on the primary 9 targets of the match, proscribing the Hawks to only 5 behinds within the first half, which was additionally their lowest halftime tally since they might solely muster 0.3 (3) towards Port Adelaide six years in the past.
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The bye didn’t put the brakes on Carlton’s new-found high-scoring capabilities both, backing up their 18-goal return towards Gold Coast with one other 17 majors within the complete 17.10 (112) to 7.10 (52) win.
In truth, Carlton have kicked extra targets of their final two video games (35) than they did of their earlier 5 matches mixed (33).
The Blues additionally registered back-to-back scores of not less than 100 for the primary time since Round 10 final yr, and just lately they’ve regarded each bit just like the staff that set the footy world alight within the first half of 2022.
However, the consequence might come at a price for Carlton with star defender Jacob Weitering reported for putting Lloyd Meek within the third quarter. Grainy imaginative and prescient appeared to point out Weitering use a forceful elbow/forearm to the chest of the massive Hawthorn ruckman a great distance off the ball.
Hawthorn appeared to go into the sport with a transparent benefit within the ruck as Ned Reeves and Meek went up towards Carlton who had been lacking Marc Pittonet and Tom De Koning because of knee accidents.
The Blues needed to make do with the makeshift tandem act of Jack Silvagni and Lewis Young, however regardless of comprehensively dropping the hitout battle 62-36, Carlton completed on prime in clearances 39-34 and inside 50s 54-48.
And whereas Reeves and Meek ensured hitout domination, they solely mixed for 12 disposals, whereas Silvagni (17) and Young (13) mixed for 30 and had rather more of an influence across the floor.
Voss would’ve been more than happy by the even contribution from his facet as Adam Cerra (27 touches and two targets), Patrick Cripps (28, 15 contested possessions and eight clearances), Sam Docherty (26) and Blake Acres all had a huge impact in the course of the bottom.
Carlton additionally had 10 particular person goalkickers, led by Charlie Curnow (three) and Jack Martin (three), and Weitering was additionally influential down again.
BLUES BURST OUT OF THE BLOCKS
The Blues arrange the win early on the again of their domination of contested possessions, which they led 47-30 at quarter-time, and territory as they nearly doubled the Hawks for inside 50s within the opening time period (16-9).
The Blues utterly owned the ball as effectively within the first interval with 51 extra disposals (125-74), and by the 19-minute mark of the primary quarter, 9 Hawks had been nonetheless but to the touch the footy. When Hawthorn did get their arms on the ball, they had been usually let down by poor ball use.
The Hawks had been extraordinarily disorganised in defence as Carlton gamers often discovered far an excessive amount of area of their attacking zone, which resulted within the Blues tripling the Hawks for marks inside 50 by halftime (9-3). Carlton would end up dominating that stat 20-8.
POOR ENTRIES HURT HAWTHORN
And when the Hawks managed to get common ahead entries, not solely was the standard of their disposal poor and misguided and not using a threatening focal goal to kick to, however Fergus Greene missed three set pictures earlier than they lastly kicked their first main 5 minutes into the third time period.
Carlton’s pace and stress completely overwhelmed the Hawks and maybe the most important indictment on Hawthorn’s first half was that the Blues had way more of the ball (218-150), but additionally laid extra tackles (43-33).
HAWK RESURGENCE SHORTLIVED
After Docherty made it 9 targets in a row for the Blues, the Hawks lastly sparked to life by booting the subsequent three majors and really outscored Carlton within the third quarter. But it was too little too late and the Blues reasserted their dominance by kicking six targets to 2 within the ultimate time period to seal the massive win.
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