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So my boys and I traveled down to Skilled Stadium and saw the Hawks beat the Roos 99 – 70. It was a great day and I was joined by my Coaches Box DreamTeam and SuperCoach Podcast co-host, Monty. I may get up some of the videos (that were mostly not great) I took on my phone on this site later this week, but here is a review of the game by main Monty and Patty (with me throwing in my two cents).
Wander down to training this morning and the boys looked good. I took some photos mainly of skill work rather then of structure work as I could understand the club being a little touchy about that. Everyone looked good. I think most were on the field in one form or another. Comments in the photos below. By the way, if I have a name wrong, please let me know in the comments below. ENJOY! GO HAWKS
Bruce in a kicking drill
Buddy shapes for goal from boundary in contest with Cameron Bruce and Jordan Lisle
Cam Bruce shooting for Goal in contest with Buddy & Lisle. He scored!
Jordan shots in the contest but missed!
Sam shooting from the middle. Put it through.
Mitch Hallahan kicking for goal. No tongue in his shot. Wonder if this is as he is a rookie?
David Hale photo. With the new Ruckman that is going to make Hawks debut on weekend have a few photos
Haley shooting on goal
Haley about to kick. Notice the tongue action!
Lado marking in a drill
The forgotten member of the Hawks training squad, ruckman, Paul Johnson
Birch running laps. Looked to be moving fine
Mitch kicking in a drill
Clarko looking on at training. I have been really impressed in what I have seen from Clarko lately. Gut feel is has been more involved or maybe I have just noticed it more
Hodgy just working up to more training and if you believe the paper, last two games of NAB series
Jordan kicking at goal
Shoey in the training squad
Pop kicking out
Brad Sewell, Luke Breust and Chance boxing in the background.
Jordan in the orange top at training
Leon Cameron instructing the forwards and backs
Bateman at training
Buddy snapping a goal
Roughy shooting for goal. Kicking action looked fine to me, but I think we all think his kicking issues in his head
Derick Wanganeen looking at the result of his kick.
Buddy watches on eagerly at the shot of Jordan Lisle. There is a coffee riding on this!
Buddy was keen to win that coffee but Bruce still slotted it
First training back after the Tassie community camp and main Intraclub match, and the boys were out in force. Not the most exciting session but here are some of the photos of the boys.
Liam Shiels looking for a target
Gbbo, Langford and Young on the run
Brent Guerra doing kick out drills
Shuan wanting the ball
Buddy on the move
Clarko guides training
Cyril off a run
Buddy on the lead. Did a lot of hit up work
Will Langford taking things over with the coaches
Sewell with total dedication
Kyle Cheney running support for Stephen Gilham
Adam Simpson. Possibly telling a fishing story
The Rock!
Hallahan and Wanganeen
Kicking concerntration
Menegola (I think)
Renouf marking
Hale getting in position
Kyle Cheney (running with Jordan Lewis) will wear 13 after AGM Jumper announcement
At the Hawthorn Annual General Meeting, on top of the announcement of another 2 million dollar profit, a final membership tally of 54,473 (a rise of 2.9%), a further 5 year extension to their Tasmanian Deal, the club announce new player numbers for both the new players comming in and a few changes of the young players.
Kyle Cheney got number 13 and fellow tradey David Hale got number 20, while Cameron Bruce got Michael Tuck’s old number 17. First round draft pick, Issac Smith with carry around 16. Fellow National drafty’s Paul Puopolo (28), Mitch Hallahan (38) and Angus Litherland (42) all got higher numbers.
The Rookies also got their numbers with Sam Menegola (44), Tom Schneider (45), Derrick Wanganeen (46), Will Langford (48) and Jack Mahony (49) got the really high numbers.
Two of the famous numbers at the club were also given new backs to sit on with Luke Lowden getting the number 30 left free with the defection of Campbell Brown to the Gold Coast. Hawks best first year player of 2010, Ben Straton will get the great honor of wearing the number 24 that became free when Trent Croad retired this season. Full player list with numbers below.
On top of this, Jason Dunstall, Geoff Harris and Richard Garvery all were re-elected to the board unopposed. The Club Constitution dictates that there must be 3 vacant Director positions every year.
A number of other life time awards were handed out with Campbell Brown, Chance Bateman, Bruce Stevenson and Trevor Randall all being awarded the Clubs Life Membership Award. Club Life Service Awards were received by Darren Wallen, Carol Wallen, Alex Davis and Robert Hancock for there continued service to the club. Football Service Awards were given too Michael Susnja and Mark Pelchen.
2011 player jumper numbers
1. Max BAILEY
2. Jarryd ROUGHEAD
3. Jordan LEWIS
4. Rick LADSON
5. Sam MITCHELL
6. Josh GIBSON
7. Michael OSBORNE
8. Xavier ELLIS
9. Shaun BURGOYNE
10. Chance BATEMAN
11. Clinton YOUNG
12. Brad SEWELL
13. Kyle CHENEY
14. Grant BIRCHALL
15. Luke HODGE
16. Isaac SMITH
17. Cameron BRUCE
18. Brent GUERRA
19. Jarryd MORTON
20. David HALE
21. Shane SAVAGE
23. Lance FRANKLIN
24. Ben STRATTON
25. Ryan SCHOENMAKERS
26. Liam SHIELS
27. Stephen GILHAM
28. Paul PUOPOLO
29. Tom MURPHY
30. Luke LOWDEN
31. Matthew SUCKLING
32. Riley MILNE*
33. Cyril RIOLI
34. Brent RENOUF
35. Sam GRIMLEY
36. Jordan LISLE
37. Brendan WHITECROSS
38. Mitch HALLAHAN
40. Jordan WILLIAMS
41. Taylor DURYEA
42. Angus LITHERLAND
43. Will SIERAKOWSKI*
44. Sam MENEGOLA*
45. Tom SCHNEIDER*
46. Derick WANGANEEN*
47. Luke BREUST*
48. Will LANGFORD*
49. Jack MAHONY*
* Rookie listed player
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)
Melbourne: Green (neck), Rivers (ribs)
My thoughts
Video Highlights part 1
Highlights Part 2
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.
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!
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.
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: [Read more...]
