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 and [...]
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 Taylor
14 Grant Birchall
15 Luke Hodge
16 Beau Dowler
17 Beau [...]
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 come [...]
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 [...]
