Hawthorn 17.15 (117) Defeated Melbourne 8.13 (61) Goal Kickers Hawthorn: Brown 3, Roughead 3, Moss 2, Osborne 2, Hooper 2, Hodge, Ladson, Morton, Mitchell, Peterson Melbourne: Green 2, Petterd 2, Jamar, Miller, Miller, McKenzie Best Players Hawthorn: Hodge, Lewis, Birchall, Ladson, Mitchell. Gibson, Roughead Melbourne: Bruce, Moloney, Trengove, Jamar, Green, Scully INJURIES Hawthorn: Renouf (groin) [...]

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 [...]

Here is an interview from Alastair Clarkson on 3AW’s Sports Today.

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 [...]

Sam Mitchell had to leave the day early as he had Baby Classes to attend. Luke Hodge had a brief interview and here it is:

As always happens, Hawks President, Jeff Kennett gave a speech at the start of the Official Presentation session at the Hawthorn Family day 2010. Here it is:

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 [...]

Earlier this week, the AFL and AFL Players Association, during a joint press conference, announced the 2012 would see the introduction of Free Agency. The plan involved (as a basic summary) the unrestricted ability for a delisted player to pick his own new club, the middle tier of players to also pick there own club [...]

Thought I would add some points from our Round 1 NAB Cup 2010 win against the Tigers.

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 [...]

The man some Hawks think could be in for a tilt at the Brownlow if all goes well for the Hawks was on 3AW Sports Today the Wednesday 10th Feb 2010. Discussed the Hawks better fitness base, some of the new players and other matters! Enjoy

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here are the Players that the Hawks have picked up: Pick Player From 39 Sam Grimley Northern Knight 46 Benjamin Stratton East Perth 57 Jordan Williams Bendigo Pioneers 58 Rhan Hooper Brisbane Lions (AFL) 69 Taylor Duryea Murray Bushrangers 70 Matt Suckling Promoted Rookie   Matt Suckling Benjamin Stratton Jordan Williams Rhan Hooper Taylor Duryea

This year the Hawks are doing something a bit different with there yearly Christmas event. They have done a lot of different things over the years from having their own evening and carol to having a clinic and even a cricket game. This year they are further developing their relationship with the eastern suburban community [...]

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!

Here are more photos including in the background a couple of runners that got some attention of the people that where at training. Here are the runners (above)

(NOTE: Hi to those coming from HHQ forum. I am still locked out of it. If you wanted to suggest they let user mollyfud back in, would be very helpful. TIA) Open training. Was moved to 8am due to the heat and I was able to make it down twice. Got some great Videos to [...]

More training shots (not many, got there late) from Hawks Preseason training including the unveiling of the Hawks new ruck coach, Damian Monkhorst. I haven’t seen this officially announced yet but I guess this photo sort of makes it official. If you have training shots from your teams training sessions you are okay with me [...]