Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell has addressed concerns about the side's form after going down to Brisbane by 33 points at the MCG on Saturday. 

Mitchell spoke about the midfield battle, and particularly the clearances around the ground, as well as highlighting the pressure in the match. 

We summarised the key points from his press conference below. 

On the midfield battle 

“Centre bounce in particular, that's two weeks in a row we've been really torched in there. We've been pretty good in that area for the last 18 months. So centre bounce is an area where we know we can be potent ourselves if we can win the ball. We had some significant issues around that area for now two weeks, so there's a bit of work to do around centre bounce.”

On the pressure in the game 

“I think we had nine players who didn't lay a tackle today. I mean, the way they (Brisbane) play is they're very good at taking pressure off themselves. That's a big strength of theirs. So, not being able to get enough pressure onto them. We sort of chatted about that before the game and we scouted it and we suspected that they would play that way. We weren't able to get enough pressure on them at key moments in the game.”

On James Sicily's performance

"I thought Sis (Sicily) was really good tonight. He had nine or ten intercept possessions. It looked like he had his marking hands back, so it was good to get him back into a bit of form. Obviously, discipline late in the game, it was an enormously frustrating game, and they need to learn from that and be better. Obviously, the umpires have got a very, very difficult job, and giving away 50s for dissent is far from what we expect of ourselves.”

Watch Sam Mitchell's full post-game press conference below