REBUILT HAWKS NOT FLYING AT TOP SPEED YET
read … we’re two games out of the eight, so we’re certainly not out of it,” Smith said yesterday.
“We’ve got some pretty special players that are injured at the moment.
“I think as you saw last year, it doesn’t matter where you finish at the end of the year, as long as you give yourself a chance.
“It has turned around a little bit but it’s still not exactly where we’d like to be. We felt like in the first month of the season we were playing some pretty good quarters of footy but we couldn’t put a game together.
“We’re slowly building to playing a more consistent four quarters of footy but I probably can’t put a finger on (what’s changed).”
“Challenges are good fun, we’re finding the positives in it and working forward.”
Hawthorn have one of the longer injury lists in the competition, which includes stars Cyril Rioli, James Frawley, and Ben Stratton, who are forecast not to return for eight weeks, six weeks and four weeks respectively.
The Hawks next head to Adelaide to take on Port Adelaide on Thursday, with the eighth-placed Power (5-4) coming off a close loss on the road to Geelong.