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Blog log from R16 of 2025: Hawthorn vs North Melbourne

Blog log for Hawthorn vs North Melbourne, R16 of 2025

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Newcombe roves a smothered Amon kick and passes to Ginnivan 40m out on the flank who splits the middle with the set shot for the first goal of a dewy night in Launceston. (Q1 2:16)
Moore chooses to stay down instead of contest with Daniel for a speculator by Ward to the hotspot, crumb falls for him as Pink spoils, give via McDonald to Gunston, goal Hawks. (Q1 6:01)
Jiath coughs up a blind handball to Curtis on outer wing, Darling provides the link mark on the HFF, long ball to the square where Larkey sucks a contact free on Barrass, goal. (Q1 9:00)
Watson bursts away from the next bounce, does a one-two with Newcombe, fumbles, regathers and goals from 20m to thrill the crowd! (Q1 11:42)
Gunston snaps his second goal from 15m after a long speculator by Newcombe falls over the back where he is somehow unattended. Dawson the man who left his post. (Q1 14:12)
O’Sullivan rolls a snap from 30m across the face to the left. (Q1 15:15)
Chol leaps over a pack to mark a high Impey kick to 20m on a slight angle and steers through his first goal. (Q1 16:47)
Davies-Uniacke clears from the next bounce to the lead of Zurhaar 40m out on the flank in front of Battle. The Bull hits the near right post. (Q1 18:22)
Sheezel gets a contact free on Weddle 30m out on a slight angle but misses to near side left. (Q1 20:27)
Nash feeds Butler who skids a snap narrow to the left from 25m on the flank. (Q1 21:38)
Mackenzie roves at half forward and gives outside to D’Ambrosio who hooks off his left to the right from 45m. (Q1 23:33)
Impey also just misses a long snap to the right. (Q1 24:27)
Larkey keeps a ground ball alive on outer wing after Barrass falls over, he feeds Fisher who gets dumped by Impey after contact but kicked the goal anyway from 45m on the flank. (Q1 25:47)
After a Davies-Uniacke kick clanger on outer wing, Ward wastes the counter attack chance with a poor snap from 35m on the flank that McDonald rushes easily. (Q1 29:30)
The Hawks zip away from a stoppage behind outer wing with pace, Amon bombs long to the hotspot where McDonald is outpositioned and gives away a contact free to Watson… miss. (Q1 32:23)
Watson did play up the minimal contact, footy gods don’t tend to like that behaviour. (Q1 32:45)
Gunston snaps narrow to the left from the pocket 20m out. (Q2 0:45)
Weddle runs through the centre on a switch play and goes long to the pocket where Chol is on his own 20m out to mark and convert. (Q2 3:16)
Ramsden is over the back of Logue to mark at the top of the square, takes too long on the set shot and is called to play on then hurries it and shoots to the right. (Q2 6:46)
North goes coast to coast up the guts, key play Was Davies-Uniacke marking and getting rid of Butler, long ball to Larkey for the 11-point play. (Q2 8:01)
Gunston flies over a pack but doesn’t mark 30m out, Watson is at the foot of the pack to rove and goal off his left. (Q2 9:04)
Ramsden bends down from a great height to rove a ground ball at the hotspot and skids through his first goal off the left to an empty square. (Q2 11:02)
Moore flies over McDonald for a link mark on outer wing, hits the ground running and goes quick to Ramsden who draws a front-on contact free on Pink at the hotspot, he converts. (Q2 13:04)
Jiath hits the lead of Moore in front of Pink in the pocket 25m out, Moore curls in the goal. (Q2 15:19)
A 50m penalty on Connor McDonald brings Larkey to 45m in front where he misses to the right. (Q2 19:35)
Parker kicks long from the HFF to the hotspot where Larkey marks and boots goal number three. (Q2 21:18)
Gunston marks Watson’s short pass and goals from 40m in the corridor, in what must now already be considered junk time. (Q2 23:39)
Mackenzie misses a mid-range snap. (Q2 26:37)
Amon hits the fat side with a nice pass from the centre for Watson to dive and mark 45m out on a slight angle. The Wiz runs in right, shoots left and fades it right for the goal. (Q2 27:32)
Zurhaar passes to the boundary 25m out for Curtis to slide and mark. Curtis curls in a lovely finish off his left. (Q2 29:16)
Amon smothers a Stephens handball on outer wing to start a counter, Ramsden passes to the pocket for Gunston who shanks OOTF from 25m. (Q2 31:57)
Gunston gets another set shot just inside 50m on the flank and thumps it through on the 3QT siren. (Q2 33:28)
Larkey misses near side right from hard in the pocket. (Q3 2:16)
Moore passes short to Connor Macdonald 40m out on a slight angle who misses. (Q3 6:44)
Powell tries to spoil a kick across half forward but only succeeds in punching it towards Chol who gives a Joe the Goose special to Gunston for number five. (Q3 7:57)
Chol catches Fisher HTB with a long chase on the HFF, then threads the tough set shot from 50m, and celebrates with the crowd! (Q3 11:34)
Newcombe receives from Gunston for a snap across the body from the hotspot but that one goes just to the right. (Q3 12:38)
Hansen jnr catches Jiath HTB and converts from 40m on a slight angle. (Q3 14:17)
Meek is unlucky not to be paid a mark at the top of the square for a Mackenzie speculator from the HFF, Gunston arrives to snap his sixth goal regardless. (Q3 19:05)
Connor Macdonald gets a whack across the chops from Xerri at a ball up 20m out in the pocket, he converts the free kick. (Q3 22:53)
Davies-Uniacke snaps to the left from a pack 40m out on a slight angle. (Q3 27:37)
Curtis gets another set shot from hard in the pocket 25m out, this one does not score. (Q3 28:20)
Hardeman is pinged for some fairly soft contact on Weddle whose set shot from 45m is short and rushed by Xerri. (Q3 30:51)
Davies-Uniacke runs through the centre and feeds Simpkin for the pass to Larkey 35m out in front… but he misses to the right. (Q4 0:37)
Simpkin hooks a left-foot snap on the turn from 40m in front. (Q4 3:18)
Ward finds Ginnivan in the pocket 35m out on the end of a switch play across midfield, Ginni screws in some garbage. (Q4 4:17)
Chol marks a centring ball from the pocket by Gunston to the HFF and swerves an inswinger for his third goal. (Q4 8:22)
Chol marks the next centre clearance kick by Ramsden at the hotspot for another cherry, five for him. (Q4 9:07)
Another centre clearance win to the Hawks, another junk time special from Connor Macdonald from 40m. (Q4 10:59)
Gunston bangs through another long set shot from the HFF for a personal best seventh goal. (Q4 14:02)
Konstanty marks in front of Battle in the pocket 20m out for some garbage. (Q4 15:57)
Xerri marks in front of D’Ambrosio 30m out on the flank, his kick is short but Larkey gets a holding free on Battle for some more junk. (Q4 18:50)
Newcombe gets a holding free on Davies-Uniacke at the next bounce, long ball to the hotspot where Ramsden marks over Hardeman and goals. (Q4 20:38)
Konstanty catches Amon HTB 40m out in the corridor for a miss. (Q4 22:23)
Weddle misses a left-foot snap from the pocket. (Q4 24:09)
Larkey shoots after the final siren from 30m in the pocket for some classic junk time stuff. (Q4 31:27)

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