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Photos – Super Saturday training before round 3

Mollyfud — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:14:39 +0000

A few years ago the Hawks started up Super Saturday training on the days before they played on a Sunday in Melbourne. It is a great day for the family with Hawka, BBQ and players training and signing autographs. Here are photos from this weeks version. (More photos over here too!!!)

Hawks team for Round 2, 2010 – Stratton to debut

Mollyfud — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:01:35 +0000

Benjamin Stratton gets his chance to play AFL after 3 players missed out, 2 due to suspension and 1 injury. Hooper got injured early in round 2 and Ozzie and Shiels were suspended.

Here is the sides (rest of the teams from around the league available here):

Hawthorn
B: Josh Gibson, Stephen Gilham, Tom Murphy
HB: Rick Ladson, Ryan Schoenmakers, Brent Guerra
C: Jordan Lewis, Sam Mitchell, Grant Birchall
HF: Jarryd Morton, Lance Franklin, Chance Bateman
F: Campbell Brown, Jarryd Roughead, Cyril Rioli
Foll: Brent Renouf, Luke Hodge, Xavier Ellis

Interchange: Moss, Peterson, Stratton, Suckling

Emergencies: Duryea, Kayler-Thomson, Whitecross

In: Moss, Stratton, Whitecross, Kayler-Thomson, Duryea, Suckling
Out: Osborne (suspended), Shiels (suspended), Hooper (hamstring)

New player:
Ben Stratton, 21 years old, 189cm, 82kg – selection 46 in 2009 AFL draft. Drafted from East Perth (WA).
Taylor Duryea, 18 years old, 179cm, 74kg – selection 69 in the 2009 AFL Draft. Drafted from Murray U18/Caulfield Grammar.

Western Bulldogs
B: Jarrod Harbrow, Brian Lake, Dale Morris
HB: Ryan Hargrave, Tom Williams, Lindsay Gilbee
C: Brodie Moles, Matthew Boyd, Ryan Griffen
HF: Robert Murphy, Mitch Hahn, Shaun Higgins
F: Daniel Giansiracusa, Barry Hall, Jason Akermanis
Foll: Ben Hudson, Adam Cooney, Daniel Cross
I/C: Andrejs Everitt, Josh Hill, Will Minson, Liam Picken
Emg: Dylan Addison, Jordan Roughead, Easton Wood

No change

Hawks team for Round 2, 2010 – Buddy, Bateman and Rioli

Mollyfud — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:52:28 +0000

Three good ins (Buddy, Bateman and Cyril) but no outs. Three players are going to be unlucky to miss out. Here is the squads for Mondays games (Rest of the AFL Teams for Round 2, 2010 here):

UPDATE

Final teams named. Three big ins for the Hawks which will add a lot of pace to the Hawks. Three unlucky outs in KT, Mossy and Suckers. You can see the Hawks are getting much stronger just by the outs alone.

HAWTHORN v GEELONG CATS

Hawthorn
B: Grant Birchall, Josh Gibson, Tom Murphy
HB: Brent Guerra, Stephen Gilham, Rick Ladson
C: Jordan Lewis, Sam Mitchell, Xavier Ellis
HF: Michael Osborne, Ryan Schoenmakers, Rhan Hooper
F: Lance Franklin, Jarryd Roughead, Campbell Brown
Foll: Brent Renouf, Luke Hodge, Chance Bateman
I/C: Jarryd Morton, Carl Peterson, Cyril Rioli, Liam Shiels
Emg: Jarrod Kayler-Thomson, Garry Moss, Matthew Suckling

In: Rioli, Franklin, Bateman
Out: Jarrod Kayler-Thomson, Garry Moss, Matthew Suckling

Geelong Cats
B: Josh Hunt, Matthew Scarlett, Harry Taylor
HB: Corey Enright, Tom Lonergan, Andrew Mackie
C: James Kelly, Jimmy Bartel, Joel Corey
HF: Steve Johnson, Tom Hawkins, Paul Chapman
F: Gary Ablett, Cameron Mooney, Shannon Byrnes
Foll: Brad Ottens, Cameron Ling, Joel Selwood
I/C: Mark Blake, Mitch Duncan, David Wojcinski, Steve Motlop
Emg: James Podsiadly, Nathan Djerrkura, Ryan Gamble

In: Motlop
Out: Darren Milburn (hamstring)

New: Steven Motlop (Wanderers, NT)

Hawks win means I win!

Mollyfud — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:53:02 +0000

Review of the game to come later, but just wanting to point out a win in a bet I had. Former Demon ruckman, now on the Gold Coast, Jeff White is a pretty big user of Social Media site, Twitter.

I have been following his tweets for some time and was surprised when in his tips for the week, he picked Melbourne (okay, so not that strange).

I decided to challenge him to a little twitter bet. The bet being, if the Demons win, I change my logo on twitter to the Demons logo. If the Hawks win, Jeff wears the Hawks logo on Twitter for the week.

Jeff saw me tweet and gracefully accepted the bet. I have to admit a slight bit of nervousness about the game, but the boys came through. Jeff came through with his bet and tweeted this after the game:

@mollyfud good win by the hawks. I will commit to the bet and change my avatar

He then changed it and tweeted this:

Lost the bet with @mollyfud so this is my new profile pic for 1 week ONLY. Bad luck to the demons, great courage AGAIN from Greeny.

Jeff took a little bit of flack for the change in logo from Demon fans (including one joking that they would unfollow him for the week, but might have a better way around the issue:

This bet is only for this week. You know the way to fix it..no tweets for a week, haha. Don’t worry, I thought it through

I want to thank Jeff for agreeing on the bet and going through with it (which I had no doubt he would).

If the Hawks are playing your team coming up and you want to make the same twitter bet, let me know.

UPDATE:

Jeff White is a bet welcher! By Monday morning (the bet was for a week) he had already changed his logo back. While I applaud him for changing his logo so quickly, I am disappointed he didn’t follow through the bet. If you want to let him know your disappointment you can by sending your message on twitter by using @jeffwhite34 ! I would (and have before) changed my logo for the week if the Hawks had of lost, which makes Jeff’s actions more disappointing!

Photos – Hawks training before Round 1, 2010

Mollyfud — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:57:32 +0000

Public training was held Friday before the Round 1 clash with the Demons. Here are some photos (more available here and you can Click for larger copies). Who looks impressive?

Teams – Round 1 v Melbourne – Gibo, Hoops, Carl and KT!

Mollyfud — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:07:13 +0000

Can’t wait! Footy is back and only one sleep away. I don’t know about you but apart from just seeing the boys in the full flight of competition, I think the other exciting thing about round 1 is seeing the new guys, and we have 4. Josh Gibson comes to us after a stellar career so far at North. He will slot into the backline and I see him taking the dangerous forwards that aren’t monsters. He had a rough game against Barry Hall in the NAB Cup, but from all reports, improved in the NAB Challenge. Rhan Hooper comes after a ruff few years in Brisbane. He shows flashes of brillance but trouble off the field and with efforts on the field probably mean he hasn’t reach his full potential.

Then we have the upgraded rookies. Carl Peterson, who we probably saw as a fillin for Rioli, now (to me anyway) looks like the answer to the question “who will replace Willo in the side”. He is 3cms taller and has the speed and leap. Injury/fitness will be the concern, but I think he is a sneaky pick to hold his spot through out the year. Jarrod Kayler-Thompson is a mature age recruit orginially from Victoria but who comes to us after playing well in the WAFL. He looks (even down to carrying the number 45) and plays a little bit like Clinton Young and could fill in that spot for a few weeks.

A quick couple of game notes. It is a replacement game, so Hawks members get in free and the big one, as I understand it, we will be able to go onto the field after the game and have a kick on the MCG. What a great move as long as it happens!

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Anyway, Onto the side:

Hawthorn
B: Grant Birchall, Josh Gibson, Tom Murphy
HB: Brent Guerra, Stephen Gilham, Rick Ladson
C: Jordan Lewis, Sam Mitchell, Xavier Ellis
HF: Michael Osborne, Ryan Schoenmakers, Rhan Hooper
F: Jarryd Morton, Jarryd Roughead, Campbell Brown
Foll: Brent Renouf, Luke Hodge, Garry Moss
I/C: Jarrod Kayler-Thomson, Carl Peterson, Liam Shiels, Matt Suckling
Emg: Taylor Duryea, Ben Stratton, Jordan Williams

New: Josh Gibson (North Melbourne), Rhan Hooper (Brisbane Lions), Carl Peterson (St Mary’s), Jarrod Kayler-Thomson (Perth)

And our oppenents:

Melbourne
B: Jamie Bennell, Matthew Warnock, Jared Rivers
HB: Jack Grimes, James Frawley, Joel Macdonald
C: Aaron Davey, Cameron Bruce, Nathan Jones
HF: James McDonald, Matthew Bate, Ricky Petterd
F: Brad Green, Brad Miller, Jack Trengove
Foll: Mark Jamar, Lynden Dunn, Brent Moloney
I/C: James Strauss, Jake Spencer, Jordie McKenzie, Tom Scully
Emg: Addam Maric, Rohan Bail, Clint Bartram

New: Joel Macdonald (Brisbane Lions), Tom Scully (Dandenong), James Strauss (Oakleigh), Jack Trengove (Sturt)

Video – Hawks membership ad 2 – Jeff is doing what?

Mollyfud — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:23:14 +0000

So after the viral success of the first Hawks membership ad, they have released a second one. Again centered around hawk fan and comedian, Lemo. This time Lemo is joined by some famous Hawk people. I also love the way they also incorporate some of the Hawks sponsors in a sutle kind of away. Here it is:

What the Ruck?

Mollyfud — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:45:04 +0000

Just a week after learning that Simon Taylor would miss 4 months with a broken leg and knowing that Luke Lowden (developing ruckman who was placed on the Long Term Injury list) and Max Bailey (who injured his knee in round 22 last year) would both not be available till well into the season, more bad news has been released.

In a press release today, the Hawks have announced that Rookie upgrade target, Wade Skipper, thought to be inline for the second ruck position, has gone down with a serious hamstring injury. After leaving the field in the first half of the Hawks final NAB Challenge match compalining of knee instability, it was found that he had injured his Hamstring Tendon.

He will be off running for the next 2 weeks and the club is reporting that he will not be available for selection for 6-8 weeks.

This will probably mean that Renouf will have to spend more time on the field. Apart from this, Beau Dowler and Jordan Lisle could be used as a mobile ruckman, something that I think Alistair Clarkson would like to have in the side or they could throw long term option, Sam Grimley to the wolves and hope he can learn on the job, although you would think he would be badly pashed around. The intriguing option is to use Jarrod Roughead who is mobile enough and big enough to do the job but is so valuable up forward.

To me this run of injuries is another reason I believe that the AFL should look at having Free Agency into the season. I believe clubs should be able to bring in players from outside there club in such a special situation, as long as the player being brought in was available to be selected in the most recent draft.

Video – Hawks membership Ad pokes fun at Myki

Mollyfud — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:12:51 +0000

Check out the Hawks membership ad poking fun at Victoria’s struggling Myki ticketing system!

Love your work Hawks! If you haven’t already, go get your memberships now!

Training Photos – The Factor is back!

Mollyfud — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:58:09 +0000

I am writing this report of training last week after the bad news about Simon Taylor and Brad Sewell‘s injuries from the weekends game. But during the week there was excitement that the man, I like to call “The Factor”, Clinton Young rejoined the main group for parts of training. There is a still a long way to go for Young to return to the team, but it at least is positive news.

So the injury to Taylor (4 months) will mean its almost certain that Wade Skipper will be upgraded and it will probably mean that KT (Jarrod Kayler-Thomson) will also get upgraded along with Garry Moss. To my calculation there could be one more spot and that might be a battle between Carl Peterson and Luke “Punky” Breust. (a few more photos available here).

Photos from NAB Cup, Round 2 vs Bulldogs

Mollyfud — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:55:46 +0000

So we didn’t quite Perform the way we hoped, my feeling is that the Hawks had a younger side then the Dogs. Some good signs from some of the young players (including KT and Straton). Don’t forget that you can checkout other photo galleries in the pages above under “Photo”. Enjoy and Go Hawks!

Video – Jumper Presentation From Hawks Family Day, 2010

Mollyfud — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:06:04 +0000

This is the first in the group of videos from the Hawks Family Day 2010. This first video is the first 44 players recieving there jumpers. They did a nice thing were they had a member that had been to every MCG game presenting the player with their Jumper and the fan got the players training top. More videos to come (Second half of the presentation here):

Teams – Squad for NAB Cup Round 2, 2010 vs Bulldogs

Mollyfud — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:41 +0000

After a good performance in Round 1 against the Tigers, w should have a harder task against the Dogs in round 2. The 3 guys likely to come into the side that interest me most are Sam Grimely (Ruckman and sneaky backman option), Josh Gibson after moving to the Hawks from the Roos in the offseason and Carl Peterson, Second year rookie that is impressing many at training and could be a smokey in fantasy terms especially if Hooper and Rioli are missing with injury. Anyway, here is the side:

2. Jarryd Roughead
3. Jordan Lewis
4. Rick Ladson
5. Sam Mitchell
6. Josh Gibson
8. Xavier Ellis
12. Brad Sewell
13. Simon Taylor
14. Grant Birchall
15. Luke Hodge
17. Beau Muston
18. Brent Guerra
19. Jarryd Morton
21. Shane Savage
23. Lance Franklin
25. Ryan Schoenmakers
26. Liam Shiels
27. Stephen Gilham
28. Garry Moss
29. Tom Murphy
30. Campbell Brown
31. Matthew Suckling
35. Sam Grimley
36. Jordan Lisle
39. Ben Stratton
43. Will Sierakowski
45. Jarrod Kayler-Thomson
47. Luke Bruest
48. Carl Peterson.

Training Photos – 17 Feb 2010 – Burgoyne joins Main Group

Mollyfud — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:45:52 +0000

After the good NAB Cup Round 1 win over the Tigers (I hope to write up my thoughts soon) the boys returned to Melbourne and back at training. Their were some extra guys in the rehab group from the game (Franklin, Mitchell and Gilham to name a couple) but shouldn’t be too much worries on these guys. The good news was the guys that were in the main group (for the first hour of training that I saw anyway). The guys I was excited to see most were 3 new guys and one young guy that we haven’t seen a lot of. Josh Gibson, Rhan Hooper and Shaun Burgoyne along with second year rookie, Carl Peterson (who is looking lean). I am trying something different with the photos. I will include some photos here and then there is about 100 of them on the following page that you can check out. On these posts I try not to have too many of the same player where as on the Page there are some players that there are many photos of (Shaun Burgoyne just to name one). Here are the photos:

Squad for NAB Cup Round 1, 2010

Mollyfud — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:24:45 +0000

Shane Savage - One to watch in Round 1 of 2010 NAB Cup

The boys will be having an Open Training tomorrow morning before heading out to Tassie to take on the Tigers in the opening Round of the NAB Cup. Here is the Squad:

2 Jarryd Roughead
3 Jordan Lewis
4 Rick Ladson
5 Sam Mitchell
6 Josh Gibson
8 Xavier Ellis
12 Brad Sewell
13 Simon Taylor
14 Grant Birchall
15 Luke Hodge
16 Beau Dowler
17 Beau Muston
18 Brent Guerra
19 Jarryd Morton
21 Shane Savage
23 Lance Franklin
25 Ryan Schoenmakers
26 Liam Shiels
27 Stephen Gilham
28 Garry Moss
30 Campbell Brown
31 Matthew Suckling
36 Jordan Lisle
39 Ben Stratton
42 Wayde Skipper
43 Will Sierakowski
45 Jarrod Kayler-Thomson
47 Luke Breust

The boys I am most looking forward to seeing are:

Josh Gibson – One of the two prize recruits (along with Shaun Burgoyne). How goes Gibson might be how goes the Hawks. Brad Sewell claimed that he will be playing Full Back this year. May not actually play.
Shane Savage – Like what he has done both late last year and in the last two training sessions I have been too. Could be a Smokey to make the Round 1 side v Melbourne
The Cobbler (Ryan Schoenmakers) – One of the players with the most excitement around him this year from the Hawks faithful. With Croad’s retirement, big things are hoped from him. Would be suprised to see him wear the 24 by the start of 2011.
Liam Shiels – Another Popular player. Has finished school and word is that he is killing it on the track, leading all the runs. With his outstanding fitness, could find himself as the Hawks number 1 tagger this year.
Matthew Suckling – Another fan fav for his work at Box Hill last year. Great kick and that is something that the Hawks coaches love.
Wade Skipper – Sneaky chance for round 1 with the burns to Brent Renouf. I have a strange feeling that Clarko is a big rap for the mobile ruckman and he should be on all DreamTeam and SuperCoach Benches!
Rick Ladson – Back from injury and another Fantasy hot item. Has been talk that he is injured but has looked good in the last few weeks.

Who are you looking forward to seeing? Comment below!

Don’t forget to checkout the article on the Hawks site: “Pre-season Report: New faces”

Training Photos – 10 Feb 2010 – Where is everyone?

Mollyfud — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:41:59 +0000

Got down to training this morning. Really enjoyed seeing the drills this morning. A few boys stepped it up and others in the rehab group. Unfortunately won’t be at Open training Friday before they go to Tassie for the NAB Cup opener against Richmond (if anyone does and wants to share commentary/photos, let me know, would love to put them up).

Enjoy the photos below! Who looks good. Don’t hesitate to comment below (have made it easier but will moderate to stop spam).

Hawthorn’s Intra-club Match – 5th Feb 2010

Mollyfud — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:10:10 +0000

Wander down to Waverly this morning and what did we find but a bit of a hitout for the Hawks. It was like the good old days at Waverly with misty rain rolling in (not too windy though) so the skills weren’t as good as you would expect in the dry. There were players missing but most of the team was out there (as you can see from the photo below taken after the 1st Quarter). Enjoy. Also, if you wanted to name players in photos at the bottom of the post, would be very helpful for me and others! GO HAWKS (and make sure you are Proud, Passionate and (most important) Paid up)!

Training 1/2/2010 – What’s your decision

Mollyfud — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:39:35 +0000

Went down to Waverly today on my way to other things and thought that there was no chance of training as the community camp in Tassie was meant to start toady (Monday). To my suprise the guys were training and in fact had a guest down there. There guess was an AFL Umpirer present. He addressed the team and then addressed the forwards. After they did this, the forwards split up in to groups of two with players kicking it to the other two for a contest with the Umpirer watching on. Most of the photos are from this training were of these contests but some others are here including a sticked together Photo of the group. On to the Photos:

Audio: Johnny Barker interview on SEN

Mollyfud — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:36:33 +0000

SEN’s Drive program, The Run Home with David Schwarz & Francis Leach have been doing previews of the up coming AFL season by interviewing someone from each club. They got to the Hawks recently and the man they interviewed was Johnny Barker. I thought it was a really good interview where Barks gave up enough for the fans without giving up to much inside information. Talked about the troubles last year. Talked about players on the rise and thoughts on where players where going. Enjoy!

Training 27/1/2010 – Its been a while for me!

Mollyfud — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:29:31 +0000

After life (i.e. family committments) had prevented me from getting to training, I was able to get down for 30 odd minutes of training this morning. My son (Patrick) and I were down at Waverly for a training kickoff about 9:30am, with players coming down in two waves (including Hodge sneaking down late (see photo below)). One of the nice sights to see and hear is Max Bailey taking a very active role in the rehab group (okay, I mean I would rather him not in the rehab group but you know what I mean)! Anyway, I am sure your not here for my report, there are better around, on with the photos!

HawksTV – Chris Pelchen’s review of Drafted players

Mollyfud — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:37:36 +0000

Here is video of Chris Pelchen talking about the players we drafted.

Enjoy

Training 25/11/2009 – More Running

Mollyfud — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:04:07 +0000

Second post form the 25th November 2009. Mostly running although there is one of Jordan Lewis doing kicking practice. Not sure the reason for this as its the second time that while the rest of the group ran, he was doing kicking practice. Amoungst the photos is one of Wade Skipper, formerly of the Bulldogs, who is hoping to be picked up in todays draft. From the phantom drafts that have come out, it appears he might be waiting for the Rookie draft to be picked up as a Mature Aged Rookie.

Campbell Brown and Lance Franklin

Matt Suckling

Thomas Murphy and Garry Moss

Wade Skipper

Liam Shields

Jarrod Roughead and Luke Hodge

Riley Milne

Beau Muston, Grant Birchall and Ryan Schoenmakers

Brad Sewell and Xavier Ellis

Jarrod Lewis

Training 25/11/2009 – Main Session

Mollyfud — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:24:31 +0000

Another open session this morning. I got there after 10:30am and the team was involved in a match simulation. I was asked by the coaching staff not to video it, so no video this week. But a couple of photo posts (and perhaps a music video style video of the photos). Hope you enjoy. The man that seems to be attracting a lot of interest and excitement at the moment is young backman, Ryan Schoenmakers

Ryan Schoenmakers

Simon Taylor battling draft hopefull, Dean Putts (thanks to all those that pointed it out!)

Rick Ladson

Jarrod Roughead

The Man, Lance “Buddy” Franklin

Cyril “Junior” Rioli

Trent Croad doing rehab drill

New recruit Shaun Burgoyne doing a Rehab Excerise that involved walking down the stairs to the ground on the side, balance beam style!

Part of the ground coming off to get ready for there running session

Another rehab participant, Cameron Stokes, now out of the sling

Carl Peterson (rookie list) and Noble Park’s own, Shane Savage

Riley Milne (rookie list)

Training Video – Running Laps

Mollyfud — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:02:28 +0000

Last couple of videos from the Wednesday 11th November training. This one is mainly the players running laps but also a bit of kick to kick work.

Jeff Kennett’s membership message

Mollyfud — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:07:57 +0000

The Hawks membership site kicked off this week with the news the Hawks are past 20k. Big push for the Hawks HeadHunters scheme where by you get a reward for finding new members.

So if you haven’t got your membership, what are you waiting for? Go out and get it!