"That was a strange set of circumstances." | Kane and Kingy review Hawthorn vs Adelaide (22.05.26)
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What are the highlights of the Hawks vs Crows match?
All right, ballers, it is a big good morning to you. If you are just waking up to us at 7.01, we had a lot of fun in the first hour, including launching maybe our first ever competition on Fireball. Shout out to Kingy and Sharon and Level 5 for working extremely hard to get this up. 70 Fireball branded Sharons to give away, 10 each to a club. you've just got to register, check out our socials on how to do that. What is to come? Andrew McWalter, the Eagles coach, is going to wake up early for us, or he might even be in Melbourne, actually, as they take on Collingwood tomorrow in the record-breaking game. We'll chat to him, Sammy Edmund, with all the news. And each of the segments that you know and love, the best analyst in football is alongside of me, as the Hawks got it done in Tassie by nine points in front of 8,000 people in six degrees last night.
Kingy, good morning. Where do your first thoughts take us?
Well, I think we're going to do a Twitter poll in a moment. Is last night's result enough to put a line through the Adelaide Crows as a contender this season? Not that they won't make the finals or still be a dangerous team and all those sorts of things and probably cause an upset or two on the way home, but is it enough for you to say at round 11, I just don't think they're there this year?
Yeah, I think I was prepared to do that some weeks ago with their midfield and lack thereof. Now, it started to turn the corner a little bit with Rankin back into form and turning the corner in the last fortnight. The injury fallout we'll get with Sammy Edmund a little bit later on. But yes, I just don't think their midfield is potent enough. With Riley Filthorpe looking like an absolute shell of himself, as you and I have discussed for the last month, then, yeah, I think we can officially put a line through the crows. They'll make the finals. They'll be somewhere, but they're not winning the premiership this year.
When do you think they'll realise that Riley Filthorpe isn't Luke Jackson? If he goes in as an on-baller, as an extra on-baller, it just doesn't work. And I know they're down on midfield talent, but there are other options than your gun, key, positioned, centre-half forward or full forward being in at a centre-bounce.
Yeah, we saw this in the preseason. And you go, well, I'm not sure about this. Unless you're just going to start there and sprint forward and try and do a bit of a trick and get a mismatch forward. That's the only reason he would be in there. They went huge on ball in the centre-bounce at one point there. It was Curtin who went in there and had a nice clearance. I don't mind him going in there, but it was Curtin and it was Thilthorpe. They went massive in the centre-bounce. no he's not a midfielder but i guess they're just out of answers with him kingy like he's just i don't know i called him timid a fortnight ago and everyone said well it's his back it's his back well if he's out there he's fit and he's yeah just nowhere near the uh all australian six to go forward that he was last year yeah and i look they tried the handball game last night it didn't work for them was slippery conditions and
I don't know whether that's going to be their mode or not, but it probably wasn't the night for it. When you look at the way the Hawks played and we saw Sam screaming down the microphone, down the phone, you know, come on, guys, just take territory, get it in, get it in. And they just scored at will in that second quarter. And that was where they built their lead and really went on with it from there. But now you have to marvel at what they've been able to do with their makeshift forward line without Gunston there.
Mm-hmm.
The more you look at it, if you stop Watson, do you stop the Hawks?
Well, that's where Hardwick was so important. That was one of the great moves. We know he's done it before, but not for a long time. And Hardwick looked like Gunston at that stage. He pretty much played the same structure as Gunston. He went real deep. They cleared out the space for him.
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