Hawthorn AFLW Senior Coach Bec Goddard was thrilled to see her young side get rewarded with a four-point win over Sydney following a difficult start to their inaugural season.

The Hawks have been making progress in each game and have seen positive signs from young stars like Jasmine Fleming and Lucy Wales but in Goddard's eyes, nothing beats a win.

Her mood was quite different at quarter-time though, delivering a fierce address after the Hawks conceded the first four goals of the game. From there, the young side booted five unanswered majors while absorbing the pressure from the persistent Swans throughout the match.

But after the siren, Goddard's emotions spilled out as she guided her childhood team to a maiden AFLW victory. 

“The first 12 seconds feel like you’ve just won a grand final, and we know we’re many, many seasons away from that potentially happening,” Goddard said.

"But in the moment when you haven’t had a win and you’re trying to find little ways to get the team up, that was one of those top moments for me and my football coaching career for me.”

On that quarter-time address, Goddard was impressed with how the players responded.

“I was quite shocked when I came down at the quarter time break,” Goddard said.

"It was probably the fiercest I’ve been with the playing group, I was very strong and quite direct with my messaging at the quarter-time break. They are such a resilient young group of players that they responded immediately and that really is a credit to them, where they’re at, and their desire and their fight to win.”

One player who epitomised the Hawthorn desire and fight to win was 17-year-old Jasmine Fleming. 

The star midfielder finished with 16 disposals and 10 tackles in another stellar performance. 

“She’s a remarkable young player,” Goddard said.

"I felt that Sydney really attacked her tonight. They wanted to chop into her, bang into her at every contest they could to see if they could put her off her game but she just kept standing up for more.

“She never stayed on the ground and 16 touches, 10 tackles, including a really big effort in that last quarter. She just runs the full length of the ground and she is one hell of a player and is going to be an absolute superstar of the competition and long may she play at Hawthorn forever.”

In previous weeks, the Hawks have struggled to hit the scoreboard despite constant pressure around the ground.

After kicking five goals for the game, Goddard took confidence from the inside 50 performance and hoped her side could build on it in future weeks.

“I think it’s finally some reward for the progress we’ve been making,” Goddard said.

"We’ve actually felt that we have been playing some pretty good football over the first four rounds of the season despite not getting a win. We’ve played four teams in the top eight and tonight was a real opportunity for us to start to kick some goals with the inside 50s that we were having and that was the difficulty that we were having, so to get the reward for that work was really exciting.”