Morton Park is a football and cricket ground located on Central Road in the suburb of Blackburn, Victoria , Australia . The ground has two ovals, and is home to the local Blackburn football and cricket clubs.
76-453: The top oval is where the senior football and cricket sides play, while the junior teams play most of their home matches on the bottom oval. The bottom oval has four cricket nets, and both grounds run north–south (for both football and cricket). The Blackburn Football Club's Auskick program is conducted on the top oval. Morton Park is located along the Belgrave and Lilydale railway lines, and
152-412: A clearance by Port Melbourne ; and, as a result, spent the season playing for Port Melbourne while coaching Hawthorn during the week. Twice that season, he had the unusual situation of playing a VFA game against the club that he coached. In one of those matches, a Port Melbourne teammate had to be restrained from striking Walton over Walton's vocal support for the player's opponent. In 1922, the club missed
228-506: A far greater margin; souring the final game of club legend Leigh Matthews. Playing alongside him was young Jason Dunstall , from Coorparoo , Queensland; he was recruited after winning the QAFL goalkicking in 1984. Their second premiership came the following year in the 1986 Grand Final , with Hawthorn 16.14 (110) defeating Carlton 9.14 (68) convincingly, with Gary Ayres winning his first of two Norm Smith Medals. 1987 saw Hawthorn finish second to
304-438: A goal could have put them 17 points up. The Hawks went on to dominate play after this incident and never looked back. Their greatest era was arguably the 1980s, when the team won four premierships and played in the grand final seven years in succession, including three in a row against arch-enemy Essendon . The decade started poorly, with Hawthorn failing to finish in the top five (as it was then known) and seen by most critics as
380-400: A grand final. North Melbourne were competing in their fifth successive grand final and were the reigning premiers. At half time North Melbourne led by four points but Hawthorn finished victors by three goals thanks largely to a strong third quarter which saw them kick 7.6. The turning point occurred when two North players spoiled each other in the goal square at the 6-minute mark, when a mark and
456-601: A position as Principal of Stawell High School so Graham Arthur became captain-coach in 1964. The Hawks lost the penultimate game to Melbourne and dropped to fifth – had they won they would have finished on top of the ladder. They fell to last in 1965 with only four wins, and rebuilt the team for the rest of the 1960s. 1966 saw the debut of Peter Crimmins , Des Meagher , Michael Porter and Ray Wilson . John Kennedy returned to coach in 1967. Don Scott , Ian Bremner and Geoff Angus were local recruits. The club convinced Peter Hudson to join them in 1967 and he immediately became
532-516: A season and Leigh Matthews won his first of eight club championships. Matthews gained notoriety by shirt fronting Barry Cable in an Interstate Game in Perth. The 1971 Grand Final was between Hawthorn coached by Hawthorn legend John Kennedy and St Kilda coached by Allan Jeans (who would later move to Hawthorn and enjoy success as the Hawks coach in the 1980s). The match was played before 118,192 people at
608-558: A spent force. Coach David Parkin left and agreed to coach Carlton and captain Don Scott would shortly retire after playing his 300th game. In a surprise appointment, Hawthorn persuaded former St Kilda premiership coach Allan Jeans to coach the team. Jeans had not coached in the VFL for five years. 1982 would mark the start of Hawthorn being in the finals for 13 years in a row. Hawthorn returned to finals football in 1982, finishing second after
684-418: A superior Carlton team. The fact that Hawthorn even made it to the grand final is still the centre of some controversy; with Gary Buckenara's after the siren kick in the 1987 Preliminary Final breaking the hearts of tens of thousands of Melbourne supporters. Ill health to coach Allan Jeans meant that Football Operations Manager Alan Joyce took the coaching position for 1988. The Hawks lost only 3 games for
760-651: A year at their second home ground of York Park in Launceston, Tasmania , with most of the remaining home games usually played at the MCG and one usually played at Marvel Stadium . Hawthorn also fields a women's team in the AFL Women's competition. It joined the league for its seventh season and played its first game on the 27th of August 2022 at Marvel Stadium. Initial ticket allocations sold out within 24 hours. The official club history books and many supporters strongly believe that
836-556: Is spectemur agendo , the English translation being "Let us be judged by our acts." Hawthorn have competitive rivalries with a handful of teams, but their two fiercest and longest-standing are with Geelong and Essendon . Upon inception and until 1973, the Hawks played home matches at Glenferrie Oval in Hawthorn; they subsequently shifted home matches to Princes Park in 1974, lasting until 1991 when Hawthorn moved to Waverley Park . Later
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988-690: Is a professional Australian rules football club based in Mulgrave, Victoria , that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club was founded in 1902 in the inner-east suburb of Hawthorn , making it the youngest Victorian-based team in the AFL. Hawthorn is the only club to have won premierships in each decade of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. In total, it has won 13 senior VFL/AFL premierships. The team play in brown-and-gold vertically striped guernseys . The club's Latin motto
1064-704: Is an Australian rules football club located in Blackburn, Victoria . They play in Premier Division of the Eastern Football Netball League . They are known as the Panthers or the Burners, and play their home games at Morton Park . The club has a Senior Side, Reserve Side, Under 19 side and Under 19 Development Side in conjunction with Whitehorse Pioneers. Football was played in the area as early as 1890 and
1140-541: Is in close proximity to St Thomas the Apostle Primary School , Blackburn Lake Primary School , Blackburn Lake , Blackburn Railway Station and the Blackburn Library. A children's playground is also located to the south east of the ground. 37°49′20″S 145°09′23″E / 37.82222°S 145.15639°E / -37.82222; 145.15639 This article about a sports venue in Australia
1216-543: Is stated that "The Hawthorn Club having disbanded, all engagements for the ensuing season have been cancelled." In 1889, the Riversdale Football Club (formed in 1880) is reported to have changed its name to the Hawthorn Football Club. This club also ceased in 1890. No Hawthorn club existed from 1890 to 1892. A new representative club, called the 'Hawthorn Football Club', was formed in 1893. It competed in
1292-506: The MCG on a cool and wet Melbourne day. Hawthorn went into the match without inspirational centre half-back Peter Knights who had suffered a severe knee injury two weeks earlier. It was a hard and tough game played out with the Saints leading the Hawks by 20 points going into the last quarter. Hawks 5.7 (37) to the Saints 8.9 (57). For the Saints, however, as coach Allan Jeans was to comment, "The season
1368-546: The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) became the home ground when Waverley was redeveloped. The club moved its training and administration facilities from Glenferrie to Waverley Park in 2006, which by that point was no longer hosting AFL matches, and continues to be based at the park, which is located in an area of the club's major supporter base in Melbourne's outer-eastern region. Since 2007, Hawthorn have played four games
1444-593: The Victorian Junior Football Association (VJFA) until 1898. Without a ground to play on, however, the club was disbanded in 1899. In March 1902, Alf Kosky formed a club from the various district clubs under the banner of Hawthorn Football Club to compete in the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA). Hawthorn's first win was in round 4, 1902 , with an 18-point victory over Celtic . The club finished sixth on
1520-429: The 1980s the club struggled to get 10,000 members. The team won the 1999 pre-season competition but missed out on the finals of the premiership season. Ken Judge resigned at the end of 1999 to accept the coaching job at West Coast Eagles . Peter Schwab was appointed coach of the Hawks for the 2000 season and the team played a more attacking style than the "accountable football" discipline of Ken Judge. The Hawks reached
1596-486: The 1992 summer, the Hawthorn players' T-shirts had "Too old. Too slow. Too good" written on them. After having shared Princes Park with Carlton as a home venue since 1974, Hawthorn began to move its home games to Waverley Park in Mulgrave in Melbourne's south-east in 1990. The club played five home games at Waverley Park and the balance at Princes Park in each of 1990 and 1991, and played all home games at Waverley Park from 1992. To further strengthen their links with
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#17328510000711672-529: The 2019 season, playing off in the Premier Division Grand Final. Blackburn's jumper is black with red stripes. The club's senior jumper changed in 2008, with a white patch added to the back of the jumper with a black number, similar in style to AFL club Hawthorn . We're a happy team at Blackburn, We're the Mighty Fighting 'Burns, ( 2,3,4 ) . We love our club and we play to win, Riding
1748-720: The Eastern Suburban FL until it closed down in 1962. Half of the clubs joined the Croydon-Ferntree Gully FL to form the Eastern District FL while the rest went to the new SE Suburban FL . The club entered Division 1 of the EFL in 2003, having won the Division 2 Premiership in 2002. It has remained in the top flight of the Eastern Football Netball League in the years since with their highest ladder finish being 3rd after
1824-541: The Hawks' performance was that its two best players—Paul Dear and Stephen Lawrence—were from the team's younger brigade. It was Michael Tuck 's last game and he bowed out with the league record for games (426), finals (39), grand finals (11) and premierships (7). At the end of 1991, Hawthorn selected a young Shane Crawford with pick 13 in the National Draft, who eventually became the only surviving link between this era of success and its next triumph 17 seasons later. During
1900-486: The League. Roy Cazaly was the non-playing coach of Hawthorn in 1942 ; he was reported to have given the club its nickname the "Hawks" on the suggestion of one of his daughters. Cazaly thought that it was tougher than their original nickname the "Mayblooms" , and 1943 turned out to be the club's best season since joining the VFL, in which the club missed the finals only by percentage. However, Hawthorn immediately returned to
1976-646: The Peter Crimmins Medal and also came second in the Brownlow Medal by a single vote. During the 2004 pre-season Hawthorn coach Peter Schwab declared that the Hawks would "win the premiership" although this statement would be followed by a horrific season for Hawthorn as the Hawks managed just four wins and eighteen losses. The club imploded, and by mid-season coach Peter Schwab was sacked, and Captain Shane Crawford broke his arm, and eventually relinquished
2052-442: The VFL's finals revenue making the club more competitive financially – despite no Hawthorn team in any grade playing VFL finals to that point —this proved the decisive step in the movement of Hawthorn away from the bottom of the ladder. He eliminated the casual attitude that prevailed at the club during its first thirty years in the VFL and made the club less accepting of defeat than before. Although Hawthorn finished last in 1953, from
2128-555: The area a second social club was established nearby at the Waverley Gardens shopping centre. The club, which operates as a gaming venue, has also been a lucrative source of revenue for the club. The end of the 1993 season saw the first cracks in the Family Club facade; coach Alan Joyce was replaced by Peter Knights and club legends Gary Ayres and Dermott Brereton departed. Chris Mew injured his achilles tendon and retired. Behind
2204-426: The bottom of the ladder, consistently competing with St Kilda for the wooden spoon . Between 1944 and 1953, the club finished last or second-last in every year but one. Half-back flanker Col Austen tied with South Melbourne 's Ron Clegg for the 1949 Brownlow Medal but was not awarded it based on the "countback" system in place at that time. The League later changed the system for tied results, and, in 1989, he
2280-451: The bumps with a grin, at Blackburn. Come what may you'll find us striving, Teamwork is the thing that counts ( 2,3,4) All for one and one for all, The way we play at Blackburn, We are the Mighty Fighting 'Burns. *(Sung to the tune of ''The Yankee Doodle Boy'', and similar to AFL club Hawthorn ). Hawthorn Football Club The Hawthorn Football Club , nicknamed the Hawks ,
2356-460: The business or political patrons available to Carlton , Richmond and Collingwood —were not able to even pay their players the match payment then allowed by the Coulter Law . Despite the presence of a number of players of true class—such as Bert Hyde , Bert Mills , Stan Spinks , Alec Albiston , and Col Austen —Hawthorn never won more than seven games in a season in its first seventeen years in
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2432-408: The captaincy. Following the collapse of the club on the field, many players either left or were sacked from the club. Nathan Thompson left the club citing a fresh start following his admission that he suffered from depression. Rayden Tallis , Mark Graham , Kris Barlow and Lance Picioane were also released from the club. More than 700 games of experience left the club following the season. After
2508-627: The club continued to be known simply as Hawthorn. In 1912 , the club merged with the Hawthorn Rovers , a successful junior club, changing to a gold guernsey with a blue "V" of the Rovers, and again renaming officially to "Hawthorn City". The council then applied to the Victorian Football Association (VFA) for inclusion, which was granted in 1914 when Hawthorn replaced the disbanded Melbourne City Football Club . The first task for
2584-409: The club he wanted to return to Adelaide. Falling on-field and off-field fortune saw the club almost merge with Melbourne in 1996. The resulting club was to be known as the " Melbourne Hawks " – a fusion with the Melbourne nickname of "Demons". A groundswell of support led by former champion Don Scott scuttled the proposal, with Hawthorn members voting strongly against it. Melbourne members supported
2660-605: The club held its first official AGM in 1903. Once formalised, it played in the Reporter Districts Football Association on the same oval used today. In 1907 the club joined the Reporter District FA, a football competition sponsored by a local Box Hill newspaper. In 1910 the club went though the season undefeated and won their first premiership. In 1922 the club won its second premiership with the Seniors,
2736-511: The club jumper at the time was black with a red hoop. Further premierships in this competition were in 1930, 1933 & 1935. Blackburn transferred to the Eastern Suburban FL in 1937 after standing down for a year after being rejected a transfer from the Ringwood DFA. The move was almost successful as they finished runners-up to Surrey Hills. They lost again in 1940 but premierships were to follow in 1941, 1950 & 1952. Blackburn remained in
2812-443: The club to finish last in 1915. The VFA then went into recess in 1916 and 1917, and Hawthorn did not compete when resumption occurred in 1918. Upon Hawthorn's resumption in 1919, it was more competitive, winning eight games and finishing sixth out of ten teams. Hawthorn dropped to eighth in 1920, but in 1921 they won seven games and finished sixth. Bill Walton was appointed captain-coach of Hawthorn in 1922. He was, however, refused
2888-513: The club was to decide on club colours; their jumper of blue and gold was already taken by Williamstown , so a change was required. At a Special General Meeting held on 17 February 1914, a Mr J. Brain proposed brown and gold as the new colours, and the motion was carried. The Mayblooms won three games and had one draw in their first season in the VFA. The consequences of players enlisting in World War I caused
2964-409: The club while Nathan Thompson was traded to North Melbourne . In turn, the Hawks took Jarryd Roughead , Lance Franklin and Jordan Lewis at picks 2, 5 and 7 respectively in the 2004 AFL Draft . With Clarkson at the helm, the Hawks made solid progress and instituted a culture of discipline at the club. During the 2005 season, Hawthorn won only five games and finished in 14th position. Despite this,
3040-489: The club's origins date back to its founding in 1873 at a meeting at the Hawthorne Hotel. Although a Hawthorn Football Club did indeed form at this time—and the region has since continuously been represented by a football team—it was not the Hawthorn which competes at AFL level today. It is likely that today's club is actually the third club to carry the name 'Hawthorn Football Club'. In The Daily Telegraph of 12 May 1883 it
3116-500: The competition's leading full-forward. In 1968 he kicked 125 goals, the first centurion since John Coleman, and again in 1969 with 120 goals. Despite this, Hawthorn still failed to make the finals, but the acquisition of the powerful Mornington Peninsula recruiting zone gave the club a huge boost in its quest for success and permitted the club a much more powerful list than ever before. In 1968, Kevin Heath and Norm Bussell become members of
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3192-434: The day and as a result, it was not surprising that John Hendrie was voted best on ground by radio and newspapers of the day. Hendrie had kicked two goals and eight behinds for the day. After the disappointment of losing to North Melbourne in the 1977 Preliminary Final, the Hawks were back to play in the 1978 Grand Final , again against North Melbourne. It was the third time in four seasons that these two sides were to meet in
3268-408: The decade was in the 1983 Grand Final , with Hawthorn 20.20 (140) defeating Essendon 8.9 (57) This was at that time a record margin in a grand final; signifying the juggernaut that Hawthorn was to become during the 1980s. Hawthorn competed in the next two grand finals against rival Essendon, losing the 1984 Grand Final due to Essendon's famous final quarter charge, and losing the 1985 Grand Final by
3344-501: The final quarter, with Keddie kicking four, to run out winners (12.10.82) to the Saints (11.9.75). The final term saw ten goals being scored. A skinny lad from Berwick made his debut in 1972. Michael Tuck played the first of a club record 426 games after Hawthorn lost champion full forward Peter Hudson to a knee injury in the first game of the year. Hudson had kicked 8 goals before being injured before half time. John Hendrie whose grandfather played in Hawthorn's first VFL game and played
3420-491: The finals altogether in 2002, finishing tenth, which was considered a very disappointing result for the club. Shane Crawford won the Peter Crimmins Medal after another strong season. Players that made their debuts that year, Luke Hodge , Sam Mitchell , Campbell Brown , Robert Campbell and Mark Williams would all play in the 2008 premiership side. In the off-season, the Hawks again proved to be big players and gained
3496-468: The finals by percentage and Hawthorn set a new record score in the VFA, scoring 30.31.211 to Prahran 6.9.45. In 1923, Walton was granted his clearance, and the club made the finals by finishing in fourth place, losing to Port Melbourne in the first semi-final. 1924, the club finished fifth, missing the finals by four points. Since 1919, the VFL had nine clubs which caused one team to be idle every Saturday. The VFL
3572-576: The finals. The Hawks bowed out in the Elimination Final to Melbourne. Alan Joyce replaced Allan Jeans as coach for the 1991 season, which began with the Hawks winning the pre-season cup, before they suffered an embarrassing 86-point loss to AFL newcomers Adelaide at Football Park in the opening match of the season proper. However, on the back of the recruitment of skillful South Australian Darren Jarman and with improvement from young players, such as Paul Hudson , Ben Allan and Stephen Lawrence
3648-547: The first 197 games for the club. During the 1970s a strong rivalry grew with North Melbourne and they met in three grand finals with the Hawks prevailing twice. The 1976 Grand Final team was inspired by the illness of former Captain Peter Crimmins who died 3 days after the victory from cancer, and by the humiliating defeat of the 1975 Grand Final loss to the North Melbourne Kangaroos. The Hawks greats such as
3724-417: The first semi-final long remembered for the freak hailstorm after half time. It was a surreal look of the MCG covered in golfball-size hailstones. They were outclassed by Melbourne in the preliminary final. It was a great thing for people who had followed the club through all the bad years. Until then, before and through the match, I had been absorbed with the conviction that we were fighting for something that
3800-500: The following year improvement was steady. Hawthorn had their first recruitment coup in 1954 by signing Clayton "Candles" Thompson from South Australia. Thompson was the glamour player from the 1953 National Football Championships , kicking ten goals against Western Australia. Fresh from school, teenagers John Peck , Allan Woodley , Noel Voigt and Brian Kann started at Hawthorn and the club won eight games. Gifted schoolboy from Sandhurst , Graham Arthur , arrived in 1955 and became
3876-557: The greatest grand final of the modern era occurring in this year. The Hawks defeated Geelong in the 1989 Grand Final. The match is now legendary for its amazing toughness, physicality, skill, massive scoring and tension. The Hawks jumped out to an enormous lead as Geelong attempted to unsettle the Hawks through rough physical play. However, the physical toll on the Hawks began to show as the match wore on; with John Platten being concussed, Robert DiPierdomenico puncturing his lung, Dermott Brereton breaking his ribs and Michael Tuck splitting
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#17328510000713952-459: The home and away season, Hawthorn fans saw Subiaco champion Gary Buckenara for the first time and also a cameo appearance of Gary Ablett in a Hawthorn jumper and Dermott Brereton who was a skinny kid from Frankston made his debut in the semi-final against North Melbourne and kicked five goals. Hawthorn lost the Preliminary Final to Carlton by 31 points. The first of four premierships for
4028-572: The ladder at the end of the 1902 season with six wins from its 16 games. On 30 April 1905, prior to the start of that year's MJFA season , Hawthorn merged with the Boroondara Football Club and adopted Boroondara's colours of a black guernsey with a red sash, but retained the "Hawthorn" name. Hawthorn changed its official name to the Hawthorn City Football Club in 1906 as a result of Glenferrie Oval opening, although
4104-429: The main scoreboard end and kicked the opening four goals. However, from that point the Hawks began to gain the ascendancy and, if not for inaccuracy in front of goal in the second term, they would have had a significant half-time lead. Having maintained the half-time margin, against the wind, in the third term, the Hawks scored 8.4 (52) to 1.3 (9) in the final quarter, to win a fifth premiership in nine seasons. A feature of
4180-410: The merger by a small margin. The failure of the merger led to the resignation of the board and its replacement, led by businessman Ian Dicker. After fighting off the merger the new board launched the "Proud, Passionate and Paid Up" campaign in a bid to get more members. 27,450 memberships were bought by supporters, more than doubling the memberships from the previous year. Even in the successful years of
4256-482: The new coach and gave Albiston and Austen open clearances. Without the club's best two players, the team did not win a match in 1950 . New captain Kevin Curran was suspended for striking Austen on the first occasion Hawthorn and Austen's new club Richmond played. The club decided to change its playing jumper to the brown and gold vertical stripes. Two positives were the arrival of John Kennedy and Roy Simmonds . Over
4332-503: The next ten years, Kennedy would play 169 games for Hawthorn, serving as Captain from 1955 until his retirement in 1959, and winning the club's Best and Fairest award four times (in 1950, 51, 52 and 54). Simmonds would play 192 games and win the club's Best and Fairest award in 1955. In 1952, Jack Hale took over as coach, Hale had been Bob McCaskill 's assistant, but McCaskill's health was failing and he died in June 1952. Aided by dividends from
4408-527: The prolific goal-kicker Michael Moncrieff , rover Leigh Matthews , ruck rover Michael Tuck, ruckman Don Scott , full back Kelvin Moore and centre half-back Peter Knights played through this era. The Hawthorn North Melbourne clash was a close encounter, but injuries to champions such as Keith Greig and Brent Crosswell made North's chances of winning difficult. However, when Hawthorn looked threatened, they replied quickly and kept their lead intact. The forward line won
4484-491: The question of expanding the competition from nine clubs to twelve; and then, at a further (full) meeting on 16 January 1925, the VFL decided to admit the three Victorian Football Association (VFA) clubs: Hawthorn, Footscray and North Melbourne . The Mayblooms , as they were then known, became the perennial whipping boys of the competition. Hawthorn had an almost casual attitude towards playing football and—lying remote from major industrial areas and consequently devoid of
4560-406: The scenes the Hawthorn board began to spend large amounts of money that the club didn't have, board members flew first class to games interstate and $ 1 million was spent renovating club offices by a company owned by the then-club president. Despite a decade of onfield success, the club failed to attract supporters who would become long term backers of the club. Loss of key players continued, Ben Allan
4636-405: The second player to win the club's Best and Fairest in his first year, the other being John Kennedy. Brendan Edwards followed Arthur to Hawthorn in 1956 and, although the seniors showed a slight decline to seven wins and a draw, the reserve grade side gave Hawthorn a first finals appearance in any grade. In 1957 the senior team broke through for their first finals appearance, defeating Carlton in
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#17328510000714712-520: The semi-finals before losing to the reigning premiers, the North Melbourne Football Club . The team made steady progress all over the field. Daniel Chick and Nick Holland were the joint winners of the Peter Crimmins Medal. Chance Bateman became the second Indigenous Australian to play for Hawthorn. In 2001 the Hawks again enjoyed a successful year, but it was to be their last for several seasons. The Hawks won eight games straight at
4788-482: The senior team and in 1969 two teenagers, Peter Knights and Leigh Matthews , were recruited. Hawthorn started the 1970s missing the finals even though Peter Hudson kicked a home-and-away record of 146 goals in 1970. The team's spine was strengthened with the arrival of full back Kelvin Moore and centre half-forward Alan Martello . In 1971 the Hawks finished on top of the ladder, the first time since 1963, Peter Hudson equalled Bob Pratt 's record of 150 goals in
4864-478: The services of St Kilda ruckman Peter Everitt . After a poor start to the 2003 season, the Hawks went on to finish the second half of the year strongly and finished in ninth position, narrowly missing the finals. Sam Mitchell shone for the Hawks and won the AFL Rising Star award. This form had punters excited and the team was early favourites for a top four finish the next year. Shane Crawford once again won
4940-498: The start of the season and, despite faltering late in the home-and-away season, had a close win in a semi-final against Port Adelaide and made it to the preliminary finals in when they narrowly lost to Essendon . In the off-season, Hawthorn traded Trent Croad and Luke McPharlin for the Number 1 draft pick, Luke Hodge , no. 20 (Daniel Elstone) and no. 36 ( Sam Mitchell ). Croad would return to Hawthorn two years later. The Hawks missed
5016-582: The sustained dominance of the Hawks in the late 1980s, having played in a record seven successive grand finals. Leading players of the 1980s included Dermott Brereton , Gary Ayres, Chris Mew , Michael Tuck , Jason Dunstall , Gary Buckenara , John Platten and Chris Langford . The Hawks ended their era of dominance which included eight grand final appearances in nine seasons (1983–1991). Injuries to key personnel hampered Hawthorn's 1990 campaign. Jason Dunstall and Dermott Brereton both missed many games, others like Robert DiPierdomenico carried injuries into
5092-421: The team bounced back to reach the 1991 Grand Final . Grand Final Day 1991 was a historic occasion. It was the only grand final played at Waverley Park and featured the first-ever appearance by a non-Victorian team. West Coast had dominated the home and away season but Hawthorn, written off by many early in the season, won the match. West Coast began the match kicking with the aid of a strong wind blowing down to
5168-500: The turmoil of the 2004 season Hawthorn produced a surprise move by appointing Alastair Clarkson , a little known Port Adelaide assistant coach, to his first senior AFL coaching role for the 2005 season. Clarkson was selected over the higher profiled former players Terry Wallace and Gary Ayres and embarked on a rebuild of the team, delisting older players and instituting a youth policy. Club veterans Rayden Tallis , Mark Graham , Kris Barlow , Luke McCabe and Lance Picioane left
5244-498: The webbing on his hand. By midway through the final quarter the Cats were charging; with Hawthorn desperately trying to hold off the Cats' avalanche of goals while containing the brilliance of Ablett who ended the match with a grand final record of 9 goals. Hawthorn's experience and determination allowed them to hold off Geelong just long enough, scraping through to victory by one goal. Other clubs have had success since but none have matched
5320-449: The year; Jason Dunstall kicked 132 goals and the team would win the 1988 Premiership 22.20 (152) against Melbourne 6.20 (56); a then-record margin in a Grand Final of 96 points. Gary Ayres won his second Norm Smith Medal. The 1989 season was viewed as one of the most spectacular VFL/AFL seasons to date; with Dunstall again kicking a century of goals, the resurgence of Geelong and dominating play of Geelong great Gary Ablett Sr. , and
5396-494: Was acknowledged as the best player for the Grand Final. However, Hawthorn fell back in 1962, winning only five games and finishing in ninth position on the ladder as the club's modest support base and lack of wealthy supporters limited its ability to compete for the growing number of country recruits joining the VFL. In 1963 the club finished on top of the ladder only to lose the grand final to Geelong by 49 points. Kennedy accepted
5472-459: Was awarded the medal retrospectively, a year before his death. 1950 started with the club in turmoil. The club appointed Bob McCaskill as coach, and he wanted Kevin Curran to be captain. Outgoing captain-coach Alec Albiston was angry as he was told by a member of the board that he would remain as captain. Brownlow Medallist Col Austen sided with Albiston and a split occurred. The board sided with
5548-400: Was just 25 minutes too long". "Kennedy's Commandos" (the term given to the team after the coach's tough physical training program and loudly proclaimed in the huge banners that swept around the MCG (now sadly replaced by advertising signs)) came into force. The Hawks moved Peter Hudson out to centre half-forward and Bob Keddie into the goal square. The Hawks slammed on seven goals to three in
5624-509: Was keen to do away with this bye via the admission of a tenth club. In 1924, a group calling itself the Hawthorn Citizens' League Campaign Committee began gathering support for the football club's admittance to the VFL. Other representations came from Brighton , Brunswick , Footscray , North Melbourne , Prahran , Camberwell , and Caulfield . On 9 January 1925, a committee meeting of the VFL, chaired by Reg Hunt of Carlton , examined
5700-420: Was offered the captaincy of the new Fremantle Dockers and left at the end of 1994, as did Andrew Gowers , who went to Brisbane . After a promising start in 1995 the Hawks lost their last seven games to finish fifteenth and missed the finals for the first time since 1981. The board sacked the coaching staff and appointed Ken Judge who was an assistant to David Parkin at Carlton. Club Champion Darren Jarman told
5776-516: Was our right, to be up there with the best of them. After three seasons in mid-ladder Hawthorn appointed John Kennedy as coach in 1960. Kennedy and 1960 Club Champion Brendan Edwards believed that footballers were not fit enough so a training regime was implemented. John Winneke , Phil Hay , Malcolm Hill , Morton Browne , Ian Mort and Ian Law made their debuts in 1960. Kennedy took the Hawks further than ever before in 1961, winning their first premiership by defeating Footscray . Brendan Edwards
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