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. Lots of non-Hawker fans are saying don’t get excited about Buddy’s performance against the Tigers as they aren’t that good. There is some truth to that but I think the most exciting thing that I saw from Buddy [...]

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 [...]