Have a couple of videos of some friendly competition goal kicking. Firstly it was from in front and then the second one is from the boundary line with a lot of banter.

Here are the runners (above)

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 later. But here are some photos (again more to come later):

Enjoy

Molly

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Molly

Enjoy

Molly

See ya there

Hawthorn Family Day
Don’t forget Hawthorn’s Family Day this Sunday 18 March at Glenferrie Oval from 11am-4pm.
Entry is free for members and a gold coin donation for non-members.

Buy a raffle ticket on Family Day for your chance to win a $2000 TasTravel voucher for accommodation and holiday products in Tasmania, thanks to TasTravel.
Signing marquees (players subject to change)
11.30am – 12.30pm
Marquee 1 – Crawford, Jacobs, Hodge, Clarke
Marquee 2 – Mitchell (11.30am-12pm), Bateman, Franklin, Ladson

12.45pm – 2pm
Marquee 1 – Vandenberg, Croad, Osborne, Birchall
Marquee 2 – Williams, Smith, Brown, Campbell
Main stage activities (times subject to change)
11am
Big band
11.30am
Johnny Young Talent School

12pm
Fireman Sam

12.30pm
Hawk demonstration
1.15pm
Crows Feet performs

2.30pm
Players’ jumper presentation

Don’t forget to grab your Box Hill Hawks voucher from your Hawthorn membership pack and swap it for a Box Hill membership on Family Day.
For more information contact the events team on 03 9535 3069.

Molly

WHERE & WHEN: Telstra Dome, 6.10pm AEDT, Sunday 25 February. TV & RADIO: Fox Sports, SEN, Triple M, 3AW, 5AA (Adel).

Source: Sportal.com.au – AFL Football

I hope the Hawks have a good win but its going to be tuff.

Don’t forget to keep up with the hawks news at FIG – AFL News site and in the specific Hawks category.

GO HAWKS

Molly

Chance Bateman and Lance Franklin have been selected to play in the Indigenous All-Stars Team, which will take on Essendon Football Club in Darwin next month. The two Hawks are part of a 30-man squad selected by a panel that includes Essendon legend Michael Long and former Footscray and Brisbane champion Michael McLean who will also coach the team.

Source: Official AFL Website of the Hawthorn Football Club

An interesting omission in my opinion is Mark Williams. My understanding is that he wasn’t available for selection. To my knowledge he doesn’t have any injury but I believe that he became a father recently (but could be wrong) and maybe he wants to send the time at home with his family.

Best of luck for the boys and hopefully the All-Stars kick the bombers ass.

Molly

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Source: Hawks Nest – Product

So if you have some spare money and would love to be kicking around the same ball as your Hawks heros or if you want to put up on the bar, this could be just the thing that you are after.

Don’t forget to get your membership and support the club, its going to be a great year.

GO HAWKS

Molly

He had a scan this after noon and it showed the worst. Max has ruptured his right the ACL in his right knee and will have surgery some time next week.

Max would have been competing with Simon Taylor for the Backup Ruck job but that’s going to have to wait a year as he will be out the entire 2007 season. Max was given the honor of wearing number 1 but maybe this is another case of the curse of the number 36 at Hawthorn.

We wish Max all the best in his recovery and hope for him to come back bigger and better in 2007. I know my son will be disappointed as he was taking on Big Max Bailey as his favorite player after Spider was traded away.

Molly

I have since been informed from the club that didn’t roll his ankle but in fact had someone stand on his foot and in fact “He resumed the session”.  Will be interesting to see if he trains at the next section. Ladson had a terrible run of injures at the start of his career but in the last few years is really starting to show the promise the club saw in him when they took him at 18 in the 2001 superdraft.

Good luck to Lado, as well as the rest of the boys for that matter. I have insert a group of photos of the injury that HFC082 (from The Mighty Hawks Forum). It is easy to see why they thought it was a ankle injury with Lado and the Medical stuff looking at the ankle.

Molly

PS. Thanks to the club for a swift response to the request for information. Don’t forget to get your membership as it is going to be an exciting year for the club with lot of young players maturing together as well as the older greats like Crawf and Vanders.

When I arrived Clinton Young had just finished training (looked spent) followed soon after by Bob and Dowler. Josh was there trying. (1 player you just cannot miss ). Training during pre season certainly different to training once the season has started. During the season it is short 5-10 minute skill drills handball, short kicks, long kicks, long handball and then some training on moving the ball from backline to forward line. Fast, fast fast.

Source: They’re back – BigFooty

Also over at the break Hawks site, Mighthawk.net, there are a lot of Photos from the session.

Perhaps the big news of the day is that Rick Ladson looks to have rolled his ankle. If I am able to find anything out about this, I will let you know.

Molly

Enjoy.

Molly

Hawthorn Football Club announced at its Annual General Meeting tonight that the Club will be captained in 2007 by Richard Vandenberg with vice-captaincy duties going to emerging leaders Sam Mitchell and Luke Hodge.

Source: Official AFL Website of the Hawthorn Football Club

The Fact that there is a debate about this issue is an absolute massive improvement for the club over the point that they were at a few years ago when they where struggling to find a leader. Now we have a leadership group of Richard Vandenberg, Sam Mitchell, Luke Hodge, Chance Bateman, Tim Clarke, Shane Crawford, Ben Dixon and Danny Jacobs. We also have guys like Max Bailey who are reported to be strong leaders. I saw Max at the Hawthorn Family day and in fact he was involved in the clinics that they held for the kids (that was a fantastic idea by the club by the way) and definitely stepped up and took control of the group of players and kids (which isn’t an easy thing with a bunch of 6 year olds).

The clubs future is in good hands.

What do you think? Are you happy with Vanders as Captain for 2007? What about beyond? When should Hodge (or Sammy) take over?

Molly

Another video from the family day. Well actually its more like an Audio of the Last Part of Alistair Clarkson’s speak from the Family day. This guy is really, really impressive. Again sorry about the quality of the Video but I had run out of room on the camera

Molly

After the re-drafting of Josh Thurgood (unfortunately I missed the talk about Josh, some of the comments are available here), Hawks list manager talked to Kevin Bartlett of SEN about the re-drafting, the Hawks rookie selections, list management and last years picks.

Its a great listen and the talk about how the Hawks go about list management is outstanding!

Enjoy
Molly

Josh started on the Hawks rookie list and was elevated for the 2005 season in which he played 9 games in 2005 and a further 2 in 2006 including 1 goal.

There has never been any question that Josh has the courage to play AFL footy but sometimes his courage is almost his own worst enemy. He had injury trouble in both his years including getting smashed by Matthew Lloyd and missing a lot of footy. There have also been question marks on his body and the need to add weight to his frame.

Still to come (at this time) is the rookie draft and it will be interesting to see if the Hawks try to slip another one or two of their discards (Brennan or Miller) back on via the Rookie draft.

Good Luck for Next year to Josh.

Molly

If there is anything you want to see or hear, let me know and I will see what I can do. This is an unofficial site although if things go well, maybe I will be able to get a couple of interviews with Hawks players and staff (but this is unlikely).

So welcome and let the fun begin!

Molly