AFL · Match ReportPublished · 2026-07-19
Match Report
Hawthorn manufactured 32 scoring shots to 22 against Richmond — the chances, not the finish, settled it
How Hawthorn earned it: 32 scoring shots to 22. The 122–52 was the fair end of it.
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Richmond 52, Hawthorn 122 — the first scoreboard, the one you already have. Below is the second: the 50 funnel, how each side turned the ball going forward into a scoreboard — inside 50s, then marks inside 50, then scoring shots, then the goals that count. It is where this game was actually decided.
This one was won up the ground, not at the goalface. turned it into 32 scoring shots to 22 — chances at a rate Richmond could not match. The second scoreboard and the first agree here; what the second one adds is *where* the game was won, which is a long way before the last kick.
Evidence Actual Sport IntelligencePublished 2026-07-19
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