Scott\u2019s sobering admission after 62-pt thrashing… and crazy stat they conceded<\/a><\/p>\nAfter slamming his team\u2019s work rate in their season-opening loss to GWS last week, Mitchell was pleased with the response he got as his players torched Essendon in transition and on turnover.<\/p>\n
The Hawks more than tripled the Dons for marks inside 50 (23-7) and pummelled them in clearances (42-28), forward entries (68-40) and general marks (156-75) as well.<\/p>\n
Hawthorn also scored 59 per cent of the time they entered their attacking zone, well up on the league average (44 per cent).<\/p>\n
\u201cThe work rate needed to lift,\u201d Mitchell said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe players were really well aware of that. I thought they did a good job of owning up and saying, \u2018We didn\u2019t work hard enough. We didn\u2019t get it done\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd because of that, they took that responsibility and produced a really high-level performance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scott sees positives despite drubbing | 10:49<\/p>\n
As impressive as the Hawks were against struggling Essendon, Mitchell wasn\u2019t getting carried away.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis game is going to be about consistency of high performance and that\u2019s one week,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we\u2019re going to move on pretty quickly.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to play much more often in the way that we did tonight because we know that what we put up last week won\u2019t get it done often enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hawthorn\u2019s midfield looked light on heading into the new season with Will Day out injured for an extended period, James Worpel traded to Geelong and the failed Zach Merrett trade.<\/p>\n
But Josh Ward is putting his hand up to help pick up some of the slack and he, too, was a standout against the Bombers with 26 touches and eight inside 50s.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s probably one who doesn\u2019t get as many accolades as some of the other lads, but I think probably from around mid-season last year, he\u2019s been a high-level AFL performer,\u201d Mitchell said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s become a reasonably consistent midfielder. Probably for 18 games, I would say, he\u2019s been pretty good for us.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be interesting to see how his growth and how high his ceiling can be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell was rapt with the performances of Connor Macdonald and Dylan Moore on Friday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,2095,5888,64,63,55,639,696,485,218845,266758,267062,12111,267064,267061,42251,7492,1973,267065,2041,2067,668,1819,12936,264412,1820,85,267063,2614,15630,85398],"class_list":["post-538817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-brad-scott","tag-california","tag-connor-macdonald","tag-crazy-stat","tag-criminal-trespass","tag-dylan-moore","tag-emphatic-loss","tag-emphatic-victory","tag-hawks-coach","tag-hawthorn-hawks","tag-hollywood","tag-hollywood-hawks","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-press-conference","tag-ronny-lerner","tag-sam-mitchell","tag-scissor-lift","tag-score-involvements","tag-sports","tag-under-fire-pair","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-work-rate","tag-young-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538817","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=538817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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