West Coast followers higher hope Harley Reid is pretty much as good as these within the know suppose he’s.
Just when the Eagles believed issues couldn’t worsen, Hawthorn embarrassed them in a 116-point smashing in Launceston on Sunday.
Adam Simpson’s males are actually firmly entrenched on the underside of the ladder and seemingly destined for his or her second picket spoon of their historical past.
To make issues worse Jamaine Jones was subbed out of the sport within the second time period with an ankle damage, whereas star ahead Oscar Allen (left knee) and stand-in skipper Liam Duggan completed the sport on the bench with accidents.
Both sides headed into the sport with only one win on the board, however any hopes of a good contest have been scrapped at quarter-time when the Hawks produced their finest time period for the 12 months to steer by 31 factors.
There was no reduction for West Coast, who have been held goalless after half-time as Hawthorn piled on the ache with 12 unanswered objectives, feasting on their distress.
From right here the inept Eagles have been outworked, out-pressured, out-run and outplayed on their technique to a 22.10 (142) to 4.2 (26) loss.
The numbers have been damning. It was West Coast’s equal third-lowest rating ever, their heaviest defeat underneath Simpson in 213 video games, and fifth-biggest loss within the membership’s historical past.
The hopes of selecting up Reid with the No.1 draft decide is the one constructive of their woes, however they’ve nonetheless received 13 video games to fret about earlier than they will even take into consideration his potential arrival at Lathlain.
Without an ailing Tom Barrass, the Eagles’ younger defence of Harry Edwards and Rhett Bazzo have been monstered by Mitch Lewis, who kicked a career-high six objectives.
Lewis was nicely supported by Jacob Koschitzke (two objectives), whereas Tyler Brockman (two objectives) and Luke Breust (three objectives) induced havoc at floor degree.
Josh Weddle had the very best day of his promising profession with 28 disposals and two objectives, whereas Conor Nash (30 disposals and eight clearances) and James Worpel (27 disposals and eight clearances) have been very good within the midfield, with Will Day and Jai Newcombe not having their common affect.
Trying to cease the Hawks’ midfield dominance, West Coast pushed their forwards as much as the competition, but it surely simply left James Sicily (30 disposals and 11 marks) to be the spare man in defence and he ate up any mistake going ahead.
As the sport wore on the Hawks’ capacity to unfold elevated and at occasions their overlap handball regarded extra like a coaching drill, with the Eagles’ stress nearly non-existent at occasions.
Unlike in earlier weeks, the Eagles didn’t even reply even for a minimum of 1 / 4 and held goalless within the third time period as Lewis ran rampant on Edwards, kicking all three of the house group’s majors
The last quarter was all one-way site visitors as even the Eagles’ little effort haltered because the Hawks.
Dom Sheed was West Coast’s finest with 30 touches, 5 clearances and two objectives in an terrible day for the Eagles.
HAWTHORN 7.1, 11.4, 14.8, 22.10 (142)
WEST COAST 2.0, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 (26)
Goals – HAWTHORN: M Lewis 6 L Breust 3 J Koschitzke 2 J Weddle 2 C Mackenzie 2 T Brockman 2 L Bramble S Butler D Moore J Worpel J Newcombe. WEST COAST: D Sheed 2 O Allen J Jones
Best – HAWTHORN: J Sicily M Lewis C Nash J Weddle J Worpel C Mackenzie L Bramble. WEST COAST: D Sheed T Kelly A Witherden.
Injuries – HAWTHORN: N Reeves (ankle). WEST COAST: J Jones (ankle) A Allen (knee) L Duggan (TBD).
Reports: S Frost (Hawthorn) for putting C West (West Coast) within the second time period.
Umpires: C Dore P Rebeschini B Wallace M Young. Crowd: 9135 at University of Tasmania Stadium.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
