Hawthorn v Melbourne live scores, stats and updates<\/a><\/p>\nDylan Moore was awarded the first goal of the match – despite telling officials the footy was touched. Moore was adamant the Dees got a hand to his snap, which is what Fox Footy replays appeared to show.<\/p>\n
But the goal review cleared the snap, and the six points stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the Hawks already said it\u2019s been touched \u2013 they\u2019re setting up a zone,\u201d Nick Dal Santo said at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is where the honesty system should just come straight in. The player kicking the football says it\u2019s touched.\u201d<\/p>\n
Four-time premiership Hawk Jordan Lewis added: \u201cDon\u2019t waste your time (reviewing).\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s called a goal so you need vision that shows definitively that it\u2019s touched so that will be the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark Howard described Moore as \u201chonest Dylan\u201d and questioned if players should be honest in those scenarios.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d Lewis answered. \u201cLet the officials make the decision.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I was a player, absolutely not, I\u2019d take whatever I can get,\u201d Dal Santo agreed.<\/p>\n
Despite Howard believing the score review could be \u201cswayed\u201d by Moore\u2019s honesty, the goal was confirmed moments later.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh wow!\u201d Lewis said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe score counts! Perfect start to the Hawks,\u201d Howard said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere must have been no vision to overturn the umpire\u2019s decision.\u201d<\/p>\n
That alone left Dal Santo concerned.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s an immediate concern with that \u2013 the players, both clubs, say it was touched,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe technology is not up to the same level as the honesty of the players.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Moore goal started a Hawks spark with Jack Gunston slotting the next two goals to open up an early three-goal buffer.<\/p>\n
The Hawks (14-7, 121.2%) can give themselves one foot inside the top eight with a win over the Demons, aided by Fremantle\u2019s slip-up on Friday night. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Demons (8-13, 80.5%) will be hoping to jag their first four premiership points since parting ways with Simon Goodwin and a valiant effort last Sunday.<\/p>\n
Sam Mitchell\u2019s side will go in unchanged for the duel, while caretaker Demons coach Troy Chaplin has swung two changes. <\/p>\n
Steven May returns from suspension and Harry Sharp has been recalled, while last week\u2019s debutant Jed Adams has been dropped. Caleb Windsor will miss through injury.<\/p>\n
The first bounce whit the MCG turf at 4:15pm local time in Melbourne, with both sides opting to name a veteran as the sub – Luke Breust for the Hawks and Jake Melksham for the Dees.<\/p>\n
Watch it live on Fox Footy (channel 504), and streaming on Kayo, from 4pm AEST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawthorn are within touching distance of a September berth this Saturday evening, as they lock horns with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,689,55,639,54309,7802,2105,34711,7492,14380,47097,12096,5093,12097,647,7804,677,10127,28008,12936,85,8018,56551,40098,660],"class_list":["post-72296","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-dark-horse","tag-final-teams","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-harry-sharp","tag-hawthorn-hawks","tag-hawthorn-v","tag-jed-adams","tag-lloyd-meek","tag-match-centre","tag-max-gawn","tag-melbourne","tag-melbourne-demons","tag-oceania","tag-premiership-points","tag-quinn-rooney","tag-sam-mitchell","tag-sports","tag-steven-may","tag-touching-distance","tag-troy-chaplin","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72296","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=72296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}