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ALASTAIR Clarkson last night ruled star onballer Sam Mitchell out of Friday night's blockbuster against Lance Franklin's Sydney and said full-back Brian Lake would almost certainly join him on the sidelines.
The double injury blow was the only sour note in the Hawks' 145-point demolition, their greatest ever victory against St Kilda.
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Mitchell (hamstring) was substituted off at quarter-time while Lake was stung with another calf niggle in the third term, but Clarkson said the extent of the damage was not yet known.
"If they're injured then they won't play," Clarkson said, with both players already missing matches with soft-tissue complaints this year.
"As soon as you sub someone out by quarter-time with a muscle injury they're usually in a bit of strife. Just how severe (Mitchell) is, we'll have to wait and see.
"I'm not really certain with Lakey. It looked like he'd been shot and then he recovered really well when he got to the bench.
"He's got a niggle in a calf. You'd reckon he'd be in doubt too, he was unable to come back on the ground."
Brian Lake leaves the field injured. Picture: Colleen Petch. Source: News Corp Australia
"We're not even sure if Buddy will play, if he does he's just another guy we've got to come up against," he said, pointing to the knee injury which kept Franklin out of last night's match against Brisbane.
"We know him pretty well, but they've got 21 others we've got to worry about and he'll just be wearing a red and white jumper."
The Hawks scooped 26 percentage points yesterday, easily eclipsing their previous best win against St Kilda of 129 points in 1983.
The Saints also endured a scoreless quarter against Hawthorn for the first time since 1986 and twice went for periods of longer than 20 minutes without a forward 50 entry as the Hawks enjoyed their fifth-biggest win in history.
It adds to their merciless record after obliterating the Lions (131 points) and Melbourne (110) in the NAB Challenge and Brisbane (48), Fremantle (58), Gold Coast (99) and Richmond (66) this year.
Clarkson was pleased with the four-quarter performance but immediately turned the focus to the Swans clash.
"We were strong in all facets of the game today so we were pleased with that. But we know full well that it's not going to be that easy next Friday night," he said.
"It's not often that you turn up and get a day like today, but we know we've got Sydney next Friday night up at ANZ and that's going to be a tough assignment for us."
He praised the spread of goalkickers as 200-gamer Jordan Lewis became Hawk No. 11 to hit the scoreboard in the dying minutes as Hawthorn showed it is in a football galaxy far, far away from the rebuilding Saints.
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