Autopsy Round 6, 2024 : Hawks skittle Roos

[Crankyhawk]

Tas 28 is the plan.
$$$$$$

Fair few of the north posters on their board think they will become tas28

 

[The Spirit of Cricket]

North's recruiting has just been abysmal and their leadership is non-existent. You don't need to recruit stars (and it's really hard to do down the bottom of the ladder as we know) but it's like they just target whoever is on the market and have no real plan in mind for them. At least with some of our recent failed recruits you can see the vision. I don't understand what someone like Fisher and Stephens brings to them playing out of the D50 when neither can defend or use the ball well? They're just Aaron Hall

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Aaron Hall

Age

34

Ht

185cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.0

5star

K

11.8

4star

HB

7.2

4star

M

3.6

4star

T

3.3

5star

MG

268.3

4star

D

14.9

4star

K

8.9

4star

HB

6.0

3star

M

2.3

2star

T

2.6

4star

MG

268.3

4star

D

13.2

4star

K

8.0

3star

HB

5.2

4star

M

2.8

3star

T

3.6

5star

Jack Ziebell

7

Jack Ziebell

Age

33

Ht

188cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

D/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.1

5star

K

12.8

5star

HB

6.3

4star

M

3.8

4star

T

4.6

5star

MG

369.5

5star

D

8.0

2star

K

5.0

2star

HB

3.0

2star

M

3.2

3star

T

1.6

3star

MG

125.8

2star

D

16.2

4star

K

11.4

4star

HB

4.8

4star

M

5.2

5star

T

3.0

5star

replacements with the exact same deficiencies.

They have a nice midfield on paper but it's meaningless if they keep wasting their benefits on unproven midfielders/flankers and giving them primary defensive/forward roles

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

North's recruiting has just been abysmal and their leadership is non-existent. You don't need to recruit stars (and it's really hard to do down the bottom of the ladder as we know) but it's like they just target whoever is on the market and have no real plan in mind for them. At least with some of our recent failed recruits you can see the vision. I don't understand what someone like Fisher and Stephens brings to them playing out of the D50 when neither can defend or use the ball well? They're just Aaron Hall Jack Ziebell replacements with the exact same deficiencies.

They have a nice midfield on paper but it's meaningless if they keep wasting their benefits on unproven midfielders/flankers and giving them primary defensive/forward roles

They’re also ruining McKercher on the back flank.

 

[Hodgey 15]

Fair few of the north posters on their board think they will become tas28

They're dreaming.

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[Hodgey 15]

Fair few of the north posters on their board think they will become tas28

They're dreaming. Won't happen.
If they think they have a poor supporter base now it will only get worse if Tasmanians get them as their AFL team.

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[burger09]

North's recruiting has just been abysmal and their leadership is non-existent. You don't need to recruit stars (and it's really hard to do down the bottom of the ladder as we know) but it's like they just target whoever is on the market and have no real plan in mind for them. At least with some of our recent failed recruits you can see the vision. I don't understand what someone like Fisher and Stephens brings to them playing out of the D50 when neither can defend or use the ball well? They're just Aaron Hall Jack Ziebell replacements with the exact same deficiencies.

They have a nice midfield on paper but it's meaningless if they keep wasting their benefits on unproven midfielders/flankers and giving them primary defensive/forward roles

They are having to take what they can get.
Discards and expendables.
If their quality players don't hang around past 26 yo they are finished as a viable AFL football club.

They need their next Carey. Without a freakish talent I can't see how they find their way out of the abyss.

Reid might prove an unforgivable miss.

 

[Crankyhawk]

They're dreaming. Won't happen.
If they think they have a poor supporter base now it will only get worse if Tasmanians get them as their AFL team.

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I don't think they see it as a dream. More a we are on our way out, we can't see any improvement, the younger generation have no reason to follow us, our mature players want to leave - LDU, Zurhaar - they are predicting a sub 5k crowd for their next home game in Melb vs GC - and they are coupling it with the issues around the Tasmanian stadium and getting the team - they feel/ fear that if there is no stadium AFL may be happy to send the Roos to Tasmania permanently.

 

[peetoo]

That's interesting, I didn't realise that was the case. He obviously didn't learn from Mark Williams when he was at Port Adelaide. Williams absorbed most of the coaching cap and left little for his assistants. When Clarko came to Hawthorn, he took a lot of the coaching talent with him, and they were grateful to be paid well for a change.

As a result, Port Adelaide went into decline. Sounds like he's morphed into Williams.

It must irritate Williams that Clarko took a lot of his IP and made it extremely successful

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Not even kidding but the North loss is at least the 4th time in 5 years that a Clarko coached side has handed a winless side their first win.

 

[peetoo]

Not even kidding but the North loss is at least the 4th time in 5 years that a Clarko coached side has handed a winless side their first win.

Remembering 2001 too

 

[Alite]

North's recruiting has just been abysmal and their leadership is non-existent. You don't need to recruit stars (and it's really hard to do down the bottom of the ladder as we know) but it's like they just target whoever is on the market and have no real plan in mind for them. At least with some of our recent failed recruits you can see the vision. I don't understand what someone like Fisher and Stephens brings to them playing out of the D50 when neither can defend or use the ball well? They're just Aaron Hall Jack Ziebell replacements with the exact same deficiencies.

They have a nice midfield on paper but it's meaningless if they keep wasting their benefits on unproven midfielders/flankers and giving them primary defensive/forward roles

Recent recruits for North have been Awesome. Their later recruits … not so much
Will Philips (SYL’s choice) has not come on.