Hawthorn have made it four wins in a row by knocking off the previously unbeaten Western Bulldogs by 40 points.<\/p>\n
The Hawks were far too good tonight for the Dogs, who could not cover the absence of injured ruckman Tim English.<\/p>\n
Ned Reeves and Lloyd Meek won the hitouts in a landslide, 64-17, against debutant Louis Emmett and Rory Lobb. Lobb gave the Dogs added bite in the third quarter, but it was fleeting.<\/p>\n
The Hawks controlled clearance, turning the Bulldogs\u2019 strength into their weakness. They outscored the Dogs by 31 points at stoppage. In fact, they exposed all the Dogs\u2019 weaknesses.<\/p>\n
Even with Mabior Chol hamstrung for the last three quarters, the Bulldogs could not contain the Hawks\u2019 tall forwards. Mitch Lewis and Jack Gunston combined for six goals against Buku Khamis and James O\u2019Donnell, while Dylan Moore and Nick Watson were constant threats at ground level.<\/p>\n
This was the Bulldogs\u2019 biggest loss since round 17, 2024, when Port Adelaide beat them by eight goals in Adelaide.<\/p>\n
Final: Hawthorn 15.14 (104) def Western Bulldogs 8.16 (64)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawthorn have made it four wins in a row by knocking off the previously unbeaten Western Bulldogs by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-600372","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600372","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=600372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}