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| Round: 23 Venue: M.C.G. Date: Fri, 31-08-2012 7:50 pm Crowd: 50,023 | |||||
| Hawthorn | 7.1.43 | 10.6.66 | 11.10.76 | 14.11.95 | C: Alastair Clarkson |
| West Coast | 1.3.9 | 4.4.28 | 5.7.37 | 10.10.70 | C: John Worsfold |
| HAW by 34 | HAW by 38 | HAW by 39 | HAW by 25 | ||
| Brownlow Medal | 3 Sam Mitchell (HAW) | 2 Scott Selwood (WCE) | 1 Lance 'Buddy' Franklin (HAW) |
Match Report
A blistering opening term enabled Hawthorn to run out comfortable winners on against West Coast on Friday night and claim the minor premiership. The win ensured the Hawks finished at the head of the ladder for the first time since 1989, a premiership year.
The victory was set up by Lance Franklin, whose four first-quarter goals sent an ominous message to the coaches and defenders of the other top eight teams. Franklin's haul helped the Hawks to a 34-point lead at quarter time, which they comfortably protected for the rest of the evening. West Coast could take solace from the fact that they outscored the Hawks for the remainder of the evening but nevertheless, the loss means a fifth-placed finish, and the Eagles will face North Melbourne at home in a cut-throat final next Saturday.
Hawthorn will take on Collingwood on Friday night in the First Qualifying Final, a highly anticipated match following the Magpies' last gasp win against the Hawks in last year's Preliminary Final.
Best for the Hawks were Sam Mitchell, Grant Birchall and Franklin, while Scott Selwood and Beau Waters were good for the Eagles. West Coast's dynamic ruck duo of Cox and Natanui were kept quiet by the Hawthorn combination of Hale and Roughead. The win was soured for Hawthorn by what looked to be a relatively serious hamstring injury to Brent Guerra.
GOALS
Hawthorn: Franklin 4; Gunston 3; Breust, Burgoyne, Hale, Hodge, Puopolo, Rioli, Smith
West Coast: Darling 3; McGinnity, Schofield 2; Gaff, Hill, Waters
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Hawthorn: Mitchell, Birchall, Sewell, Suckling, Franklin, Gibson
West Coast: S Selwood, Waters, Darling, Schofield, Naitanui, Embley
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Hawthorn: Birchall, Mitchell, Franklin, Sewell, Hodge, Suckling, Gunston
West Coast: Scott Selwood, Darling, Waters, Shuey, Masten, Cox, Schofield
COACHES' COMMENTS
Alastair Clarkson (Haw): It was a finals-type intensity with lots of pressure, great tackling by both sides tonight. It was a fierce contest.
John Worsfold (WC): They [Hawthorn] scored too easily in the first quarter. For the rest of the game, we outscored them and there was not much in it across the board.
Umpires: Stevic, Nicholls, McInerney
Source
Match report by Andrew GigaczMatch stats
| Hawthorn | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 14 | Birchall, Grant | 19 | 3 | 10 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24y 216d | 149 | 16 |
| 22 | Breust, Luke | 9 | 2 | 7 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 21y 294d | 38 | 69 |
| 9 | Burgoyne, Shaun | 10 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 29y 315d | 218 | 204 |
| 23 | Franklin, Lance 'Buddy' | 9 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 25y 214d | 158 | 510 |
| 6 | Gibson, Josh | 10 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 28y 171d | 121 | 2 |
| 18 | Guerra, Brent | 7 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 30y 94d | 236 | 105 |
| 19 | Gunston, Jack | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 20y 320d | 30 | 53 |
| 20 | Hale, David | 6 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 28y 101d | 170 | 158 |
| 15 | Hodge, Luke | 15 | 4 | 7 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 28y 77d | 203 | 142 |
| 3 | Lewis, Jordan | 8 | 4 | 9 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 26y 129d | 167 | 90 |
| 5 | Mitchell, Sam | 14 | 7 | 14 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 29y 324d | 218 | 53 |
| 28 | Puopolo, Paul | 4 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 24y 273d | 38 | 31 |
| 33 | Rioli, Cyril | 5 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 23y 48d | 103 | 136 |
| 2 | Roughead, Jarryd | 9 | 7 | 9 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 25y 221d | 156 | 293 |
| 25 | Schoenmakers, Ryan | 12 | 8 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 21y 297d | 57 | 5 |
| 12 | Sewell, Brad | 13 | 3 | 13 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 28y 211d | 166 | 26 |
| 26 | Shiels, Liam | 6 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 21y 124d | 61 | 18 |
| 16 | Smith, Isaac | 11 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 23y 245d | 35 | 35 |
| 24 | Stratton, Ben | 7 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 23y 183d | 49 | 1 |
| 4 | Suckling, Matt | 15 | 5 | 9 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 24y 37d | 51 | 23 |
| 37 | Whitecross, Brendan | 14 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 22y 219d | 71 | 35 |
| 11 | Young, Clinton | 13 | 4 | 7 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 26y 197d | 114 | 59 |
| Totals | 219 | 86 | 147 | 366 | 14 | 11 | 19 | 60 | 13 | 19 | 25y 162d | 2609 | 2064 | |
| West Coast | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 34 | Brennan, Jacob | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 22y 220d | 14 | 2 |
| 1 | Brown, Mitchell | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 23y 258d | 51 | 10 |
| 26 | Butler, Sam | 10 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 26y 230d | 91 | 12 |
| 20 | Cox, Dean | 9 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 31y 30d | 249 | 146 |
| 27 | Darling, Jack | 15 | 9 | 7 | 22 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 20y 79d | 45 | 71 |
| 32 | Embley, Andrew | 20 | 5 | 8 | 28 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 31y 65d | 237 | 205 |
| 3 | Gaff, Andrew | 7 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 20y 76d | 39 | 16 |
| 23 | Glass, Darren | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 31y 109d | 240 | 8 |
| 33 | Hill, Josh | 7 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 23y 225d | 86 | 108 |
| 25 | Hurn, Shannon | 18 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 24y 362d | 120 | 37 |
| 17 | Kennedy, Josh | 5 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 25y 6d | 97 | 162 |
| 4 | Kerr, Daniel | 11 | 2 | 10 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 29y 107d | 208 | 116 |
| 7 | Masten, Chris | 12 | 2 | 11 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 23y 121d | 76 | 36 |
| 35 | McGinnity, Patrick | 4 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 23y 195d | 62 | 12 |
| 9 | Naitanui, Nic | 3 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 22y 119d | 75 | 52 |
| 11 | Priddis, Matt | 10 | 2 | 17 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 27y 163d | 128 | 40 |
| 31 | Schofield, Will | 6 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 23y 220d | 76 | 12 |
| 37 | Selwood, Adam | 7 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 28y 122d | 176 | 43 |
| 10 | Selwood, Scott | 15 | 5 | 20 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 22y 157d | 90 | 28 |
| 13 | Shuey, Luke | 15 | 5 | 12 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 22y 90d | 50 | 48 |
| 41 | Strijk, Andrew | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 24y 318d | 13 | 11 |
| 8 | Waters, Beau | 14 | 7 | 9 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 26y 154d | 112 | 25 |
| Rushed | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 200 | 82 | 159 | 359 | 10 | 10 | 52 | 74 | 19 | 13 | 25y 73d | 2335 | 1200 | |
Match highlights
Scott Selwood had 20 handballs for West Coast vs. Hawthorn (AFL, Premiership Season, R23)50,023 attended Hawthorn vs. West Coast at M.C.G. (AFL, Premiership Season, R23)