3 days ago by thetoydepartment

By ASHLEY BROWNE Injury-riddled former North Melbourne defender Jesse Smith has started training at Hawthorn, as part of the exodus from Arden Street to Waverley Park that this summer alone has seen Josh Gibson and Adam Simpson change their blue-and-white stripes to those of the brown and gold. Of c ...

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4 days ago by Molly

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 sessi ...

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69 days ago by halfbackflanker

The League announced the finals schedule during an ad break on Channel Seven’s Dancing With The Stars… …and it looks like Tim Watson grabbed one of the latin dancers from the show to help him! And just like that, the AFL home-and-away season is done and dusted. It only seems like yesterday that Rich ...

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103 days ago by thetoydepartment

By ASHLEY BROWNE During the midst of the all the self-righteous indignation directed from out Essendon way towards Hawthorn in the aftermath of the infamous ‘line in the sand’ match in 2004, Essendon chief executive Peter Jackson used the media to offer one piece of advice towards the Hawks. “Fix yo ...

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104 days ago by halfbackflanker

Hawthorn thought they had the upper hand over rivals Geelong…until Bartel’s point after the siren changed everything! Rivalry round. It kinda snuck up on us a bit…probably because the League didn’t seem to dedicate a lot of time on promoting the event. They did create a web page where you can spend ...

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111 days ago by halfbackflanker

Nathan Buckley is interested in coaching? He has kept that quiet… Half Back Flanker would like to take this opportunity to apologise and correct what appears to have been a poor lapse in editorial judgement. It has become quite apparent that this site has failed to give due consideration to the impo ...

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134 days ago by thetoydepartment

By ASHLEY BROWNE In a prescient piece in Saturday’s Age, Rohan Connolly had it about right when he compared Hawthorn of 2009 with Essendon of 1994. He reported on how the ‘Baby Bombers’ simply couldn’t come up the year after their stunning flag win and now the Hawks appear set to follow suit. Adelai ...

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159 days ago by halfbackflanker

Ben Cousins filming the latest promo for One HD, Ten’s new 24 hour sports channel. Ten was the magic number last weekend. St Kilda won its tenth straight game to start the season while Geelong matched them to also remain unbeaten after ten rounds of footy. They appear to be set on a collision course ...

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178 days ago by thetoydepartment

By ASHLEY BROWNE Friday night Fremantle v Hawthorn (Subiaco) Just the sort of game the Dockers traditionally lose – just as a few start climbing aboard the purple bandwagon. Interesting ploy by Al Clarkson on Thursday, seemingly not too fussed if the Hawks drop this one. Hodge is a massive loss, but ...

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