{"id":50351,"date":"2025-08-07T12:18:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50351\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:18:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:18:04","slug":"red-hot-hawks-crush-slumping-pies-to-close-in-on-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50351\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-hot Hawks crush slumping Pies to close in on finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The Hawks have dismantled the Magpies in a key win at the MCG\n <\/p>\n

\n By Phoebe McWilliams at the MCG\n <\/p>\n

Jai Newcombe celebrates a goal during Hawthorn’s clash against Collingwood in round 22, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n

HAWTHORN has impressively crushed Collingwood by 64 points to take a giant step towards sealing a finals berth.<\/p>\n

The Hawks ripped the Magpies apart with a seven-goal second quarter and never looked back on their way to a 17.8 (110) to 6.10 (46) win at the MCG on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

HAWKS v MAGPIES Full match coverage and stats<\/a><\/p>\n

With its win, Hawthorn improved to 14-7 and climbed into fifth, while the Pies (15-6) have now lost four of their past five games, falling to defeat in Steele Sidebottom’s 350th AFL match.<\/p>\n

Jai Newcombe (28 disposals, seven clearances and a goal) starred for the Hawks, Jack Gunston kicked four majors and Nick Watson (14 disposals and two goals) lit them up early.<\/p>\n

Nick Daicos (24 disposals and six clearances) worked hard for the Magpies in what was a disappointing defeat, with important defender Jeremy Howe concussed in a collision with Newcombe in the opening minutes.<\/p>\n

More to come<\/p>\n

HAWTHORN\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03.3\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a010.3\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a014.5\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 17.8 (110) \u00a0
COLLINGWOOD\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2.3\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a03.6\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a04.9\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a06.10 (46) \u00a0<\/p>\n

GOALS
Hawthorn: Gunston 4, Meek 3, Chol 3, Watson 2, Worpel, Newcombe, Moore, Lewis, Dear
Collingwood: Mihocek 2, Schultz, Membrey, Lipinski, De Goey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hawks have dismantled the Magpies in a key win at the MCG By Phoebe McWilliams at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-50351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50351","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=50351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}