Only a dramatic one-point defeat to Port Adelaide last September<\/a> denied Sam Mitchell\u2019s side a preliminary final berth in 2024, after a whirlwind premiership tilt despite starting the season 0-5.<\/p>\nSicily looks dejected after a loss during the 2024 AFL Second Semi Final match between the Port Adelaide Power and the Hawthorn Hawks at Adelaide Oval on September 13, 2024 (Photo by Michael Willson via Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cWe feel as if we\u2019ve been really consistent across all four quarters the last eight weeks. We probably had one bad quarter against Freo in the last, so we feel as though we\u2019re quite consistent,\u201d added Sicily.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Last year\u2019s finals) was really awesome. Because of that, we were able to play some bigger games on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at the MCG … in terms of preparing for occasions, I feel as thought we\u2019re quite comfortable with that now in some bigger games. Touchwood, it doesn\u2019t spook us!<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be good to finally break the hoodoo at ENGIE, we haven\u2019t won there so surely we\u2019re due … we\u2019re going to have to be at our best.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hawthorn\u2019s elimination final with the Giants kicks off at 3:15pm AEST on Saturday, broadcast live on Foxtel Channel 504 and Kayo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawthorn captain James Sicily has opened up on his \u201cmentally draining\u201d past 12 months with injury as his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,689,55,639,27716,78903,47822,19099,78908,13659,2105,78906,78909,7492,78911,52194,69832,51310,69830,12096,78912,78907,7198,78904,677,6082,19095,64903,78913,672,12936,71353,27724,78905,1124,85,26493,78910,5338,78914],"class_list":["post-110287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-box-hill","tag-consecutive-finals-campaign","tag-dial-up-internet","tag-finals-campaign","tag-game-day-sore","tag-geelong-cats","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-groin-issues","tag-hawthorn-captain","tag-hawthorn-hawks","tag-home-and-away-campaign","tag-injury-troubles","tag-insufficient-intent","tag-josh-weddle","tag-karl-amon","tag-lloyd-meek","tag-load-management","tag-mentally-draining","tag-michael-willson","tag-modified-training-program","tag-oceania","tag-port-adelaide","tag-preliminary-final","tag-qualifying-final","tag-reconstruction-surgery","tag-richmond-tigers","tag-sam-mitchell","tag-season-reviews","tag-senior-recall","tag-sore-heading","tag-south-australia","tag-sports","tag-statement-win","tag-straight-finals-campaign","tag-the-gabba","tag-whirlwind-premiership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}