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AFL finals 2024 elimination final LIVE updates: Bontempelli launches last chance comeback against Hawks
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Should Naughton have let that ball go?
Bontempelli almost had two goals in a matter of minutes as his side won the ball from the middle and he launched a long shot for goal.
It was drifting and drifting and at the last moment, Naughton touched the ball on the goal line.
The Seven commentators thought he should have let it go but he clearly had a horrible angle and didn’t know which post he was in front of.
Weightman has just had a goal-bound shot touched by the Hawks.
Hawks 77, Dogs 49 with 16 mins to play.
Is this the boy Wizard’s coming of age?
By Marnie Vinall
Despite one of the main leaders of Hawthorn’s rascal pack already being a premiership player (hello, Jack Ginnivan), it feels as though this is a real coming of age game for the younger Hawks. Big stage, big occasion, and they are rising to the challenge. And perhaps no more so than Nick Watson, who struggled to kick straight in the first half of his first season but has wowed the crowd tonight again and again. He also has the crowd behind him, in wizard hats. He’s up to three goals but with the star aura and momentum behind him … he could easily get a few more in the final term.
Nick Watson celebrates one of his goals.Credit: AFL Photos
Cometh the hour, cometh the Bont
Marcus Bontempelli has booted a goal to open the last term.
The Dogs are five goals down and have 18 minutes to save their season.
Surely, they can’t make a comeback?
Hawks 77, Dogs 47 with 18 mins to play.
The Dogs have disappointed
Three-quarter time stats
3QT: Hawthorn 11.11 (77) to Western Bulldogs 6.5 (41)
The Wiz has kicked his third goal and given the crowd more reason to get hyped up.
Nick Watson has three goals and Calshar Dear has three goals – hands up who had those two pegged as leading goal kickers in an elimination final at the start of 2024?
The Bulldogs will need something historic to win it from here. You can never rule them out but they look well off the pace.
Harvey Gallagher of the Bulldogsis tackled by Massimo D’Ambrosio of the Hawks.Credit: Getty Images
Dogs use their sub
Bulldogs sub Jack Macrae is now into the game as the Dogs try everything to get back into this final.
Latham Vandermeer is the unlucky Bulldog who has been replaced.
Macrae is a classy performer but the Bulldogs will need a bunch of players to lift if they want to get back into this one.
Hawks 71, Dogs 41 with 90 seconds to go in Q3.
Niggle or tactics? Bont goes forward
I see it … but I don’t believe it
By Claire Siracusa
With apologies to Anthony Hudson … what did I just watch?
Nick Watson might be the Wizard, but that was a magic leap from Mabior Chol. The Hawks are literally flying high.
Not sure that’s how I’d be celebrating my goals. High risk, low reward in my opinion. It will shock readers to know though that I’m a) not a professional athlete and b) never wanted to jump the bollards like that when I was in primary school.
Is the Bont injured?
Marcus Bontempelli has been quiet by his Olympian standards. He appears labored in his movements and you wonder what and whether he’s carrying an ailment. The game is rapidly slipping away from the Dogs in the meantime.
Marcus Bontempelli (third from left) has not performed to his usual sky-high standards.Credit: AFL Photos via Getty Images
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