New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI think in front of goal some polish was a bit of an issue,\u201d Mitchell said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought we gave ourselves a lot of good entries, a lot of good chances \u2026 and didn\u2019t make the most of our chances.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of our best footy was played tonight and some of our worst. They really took their chances and we didn\u2019t take ours.\u201d<\/p>\n
But with a bye ahead, Mitchell said he believes his team are still in a great spot.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhen I look at this game and I look at the first half of the season, we go into our bye now … and we\u2019ll be in the top four with a missed opportunity right in our rear view mirror,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI get more mail about goal kicking than anything else, but we probably do more work on goal kicking than anything else. So, disappointing night tonight but we\u2019ll get refreshed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a few days off now and we\u2019ll recharge and get ready to go again after the bye.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll get better. We\u2019ll assess … and make sure that we\u2019re going to be an improved side in the second half of the season because right now, we\u2019re not the best side in it and we need to be by the time September rolls around.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge said his backline was \u201csupreme\u201d as his side came from 29 points down to knock off the Hawks. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure the numbers will say that Hawthorn should have won the game, but I thought our backline were supreme, outstanding,\u201d Beveridge said.<\/p>\n
\u201c(They) just weathered a pretty big storm all night. To keep them to that total in the second half as far as the scoreline goes was pretty significant.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beveridge talked down suggestions of a brewing rivalry between the two sides after the fiery clash, but said they arrived knowing the Hawks had their measure previously.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat eats at you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s great rivalries every week. I think it\u2019s great for our players to experience tension, some hostility. Hopefully that\u2019s all above board.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re coaching you don\u2019t pay too much attention (to the melees). You just hope that you don\u2019t give away undisciplined free kicks and I think we held ourselves together with that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawks coach Sam Mitchell says his side\u2019s inaccurate goal kicking will keep him \u201cup for a couple of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,348142,12167,348144,307190,42251,7492,348145,348143,663,4873,189120,12936,85,9833,698],"class_list":["post-717754","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-brewing-rivalry","tag-disappointing-night","tag-grim-flaw","tag-harvey-constable","tag-hawks-coach","tag-hawthorn-hawks","tag-inaccurate-goal-kicking","tag-inaccurate-goalkicking","tag-luke-beveridge","tag-post-match-press-conference","tag-rear-view-mirror","tag-sam-mitchell","tag-sports","tag-watson","tag-western-bulldogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717754","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=717754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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