Geelong coach Chris Scott concedes Tom Hawkins could be “a little bit off” but insists the veteran forward is fully fit after he was again held goalless on Saturday night.
A Geelong champion has now gone the longest stretch of games in his 18-year career without a goal, but his coach is not concerned.
But he was disappointed by an overuse of the ball in dewy conditions as the Cats slipped behind Sydney on percentage to second on the ladder. “I don’t think there would be many of our guys that would be thinking they had very good days, but we were pleased with the way they hung in there. “My suggestion would be, you’ve watched him at the peak of his powers, and now the observation is ‘he’s not quite what he was’.
“We’ll manage him through the year. Again, given the slippery conditions, that we quite set up ahead of the ball as well as we could have, and that looked a bit better in the second half – I wouldn’t isolate it to Hawkins.”
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