View our live Hawthorn Hawks vs Adelaide Crows AFL scores, results, stats and dream team points. The match is being played at the MCG and is the second AFL semi final.
Adelaide commenced their final campaign as favourites but came up disappointingly short, losing (71-42) to the Sydney Swans but, by finishing the season in the top four, earned themselves a second bite of the cherry last week and made the most of it eliminating Fremantle (81-71). A concern for Adelaide Coach Brenton Sanderson will be the slow starts the Crows have produced in their two final appearances. A similar effort here and this game could be over well before half time.Which ever angle you look at this game, the Crows certainly seem to be up against it.
Hawthorn have failed only once to score in excess of 100 points in the past fourteen games – on the one occasion they didn’t, they registered 95 points, whilst the Crows have struggled in front of goal in the past two weeks with an aggregate of 17 goals and 21 behinds. That won’t be good enough against the Hawks and add to the mix that the Crows have lost their last five final games away from home, the short price about the Hawks is justified. It may be worth getting on them at the $1.55 to be 2012 premiers and wait until next week.
WHERE AND WHEN: MCG, Saturday September 22, 5.15pm
LAST TIME: Hawthorn 21.14 (140) d Adelaide 12.12 (84), round three, 2012 at the MCG
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Hawthorn Hawks
- B: Grant Birchall, Josh Gibson, Benjamin Stratton
- HB: Matt Suckling, Ryan Schoenmakers, Shaun Burgoyne
- C: Jordan Lewis, Sam Mitchell, Xavier Ellis
- HF: Jack Gunston, Lance Franklin, Isaac Smith
- F: Cyril Rioli, Jarryd Roughead, Luke Breust
- Foll: David Hale, Luke Hodge, Brad Sewell
- I/C: Clinton Young, Liam Shiels, Shane Savage, Paul Puopolo
- Emg: Max Bailey, Thomas Murphy, Kyle Cheney
- In: Jordan Lewis, Clinton Young
- Out: Brendan Whitecross, Thomas Murphy
Adelaide Crows
- B: Luke Thompson, Ben Rutten, Michael Doughty
- HB: Brodie Smith, Andy Otten, Brent Reilly
- C: David Mackay, Scott Thompson, Bernie Vince
- HF: Rory Sloane, Taylor Walker, Jared Petrenko
- F: Ian Callinan, Kurt Tippett, Jason Porplyzia
- Foll: Sam Jacobs, Patrick Dangerfield, Nathan van Berlo
- I/C: Richard Douglas, Graham Johncock, Ricky Henderson, Matthew Wright
- Emg: Brodie Martin, Aidan Riley, Josh Jenkins
- In: Andy Otten
- Out: Sam Shaw