Hawks Insiders

It was the long awaited hit-out that Hawk fans all over the country have been waiting for - the first official meaningful match practice in the 2023 pre-season calendar. The scene was set at Latrobe University in Bundoora, and in beautiful conditions we were on hand to get a good look at our young chargers in match sim for the first time this year. How did our draftees fare? Did our new recruits s...

Hawthorn’s new High Performance Manager Peter Burge has only been at Hawthorn for a few months but he likes what he sees. Speaking to Hawks Insiders on the eve of the club’s intraclub hitout on February 15, Burge gave an update on the players who have caught his eye since he joined from Richmond after a successful, Premiership-winning stint. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this...

To celebrate the pre-season kicking up a gear with the announcement of intra-club and practice match dates over the coming weeks, we sat down for a chat with Hawthorn dual Best and Fairest and member of our Team of the Century, Paul Salmon. We touched on a host of topics with one of the greatest ruckmen to ever don the brown and gold, including: * Winning three night premierships, a Michael Tuck m...

Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses and more exclusive content. Another week and things were certainly ramping up on the footy front ahead of an upcoming three-week patch of footy action. We started the pod discussing the team photo circulating across social media and assessed if we could read anything into where the ‘leadership group’ was standing. We paid...

Thursday night Safe Spaces are back in 2023 and we had our first one to celebrate the the fact that the Summer holidays are over, and footy is officially BACK! A nice cosy crew of fans joined us to discuss the pre-season news - of which there has been plenty doing the rounds. We delved into the captaincy debate and looked at who the candidates are for the top gig, the vice-captaincy position/s and...

It’s summer, but that doesn’t mean the content stops here at HI. We continue our Summer Series by discussing which players of Hawthorn past have given us all the feels - our top five favourite players of all time. Andrew Weiss, Daniel Prins and Simon Morawetz list their favourite footballers of all time and the reasons why, as well as discussing which numbers they have had on their own jumpers thr...

Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses and more exclusive content. It’s summer, but that doesn’t mean the content stops here at HI. We continue our Summer Series with a look at some of the favourite games that our Insiders have attended - outside of Grand Finals or the 2013 Prelim. Ashley Browne, Brad Klibansky and Andrew Weiss wind back the clock to talk abou...

Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses and more exclusive content. It’s summer, but that doesn’t mean the content stops here at HI. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be getting together to discuss all things HFC — from unforgettable players and games from the past to crystal ball looks at the season ahead. For the next instalment of our summer podcast, Ashley Bro...

Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses and more exclusive content. It’s summer, but that doesn’t mean the content stops here at HI. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be getting together to discuss all things HFC — from unforgettable players and games from the past to crystal ball looks at the season ahead. For the first instalment of our summer podcast, Ashley Br...

Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses and more exclusive content. And just like that, in what felt like one fell swoop, the winds of change have rustled through the Hawthorn Football Club. Immediately following on from the Hawthorn Football Club 2022 AGM and the final formal commitment in Jeff Kennett’s reign as President, Hawks Insiders hit up Twitter Spaces...

In a refreshing change of pace from the upcoming election and the 2022 AFL National Draft, the Hawks Insiders sat down with our AFLW coach Bec Goddard to discuss the incredible 2022 season. We touched on a range of topics with Goddard, covering a number of topics around on field performance while also delving into questions relating to the club and playing group off the field. In the chat Bec spok...

The Hawks Insiders team reconvened live on Twitter Spaces after an action-packed second night of the 2022 AFL Draft. Perhaps unexpectedly, the Hawks drafted three players on the night, taking our draft haul to FIVE for the first time in recent memory (someone please let us know about the last time this happened and you'll win ... something). ICYMI our second round picks were: * #37 Henry Hustwaite...

Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses and more exclusive content. Well, that was unexpected. The Hawks were only supposed to have one pick (#7) on night one of the 2022 AFL Draft, but we ended up trading up to pick 18. It was a decision that polarised the Hawks Insiders’ group chat — you can probably guess Angry Brad’s reaction — but ultimately a night where...

It was a return to the lighter side of things on Thursday night as the Insiders stepped away from the Board Room and into the Draft Room. Hundreds tuned in to listen as we worked our way through the options on the table with our number one pick at the draft on Monday night. We had a good chat about leadership at the club, and the continued mass exodus to North Melbourne. Resident training spy Shan...

You’ve heard from all the candidates ahead of the 2022 AGM, so now a slight change of tact as we sit down for a frank discussion with current Board Member, Richie Vandenberg. Vandenberg needs no introduction to the brown and gold faithful, and we were able to get some incredible insight from an out-and-out Hawthorn person who has worn many different hats at the club over the years. Our former capt...

With things heating up at board level, Hawks Insiders is committed to bringing you balanced coverage ahead of one of the most important AGMs in recent history on December 13. Consider a paid subscription to Hawks Insiders to support our efforts. Here are at Hawks Insiders , we’ve committed to interviewing each of the candidates running for Board positions in the lead up to the club’s AGM on Decemb...

Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses and more exclusive content. The HI team reconvened at our usual space, usual time for another action-packed live conversation on Twitter Spaces. We touched on the upcoming AGM and our interviews with the Board candidates (most recently Katie Hudson ) and the recent announcement about the Kennedy Community Centre and Dingl...

With things heating up at board level, Hawks Insiders is committed to bringing you balanced coverage ahead of one of the most important AGMs in recent history on December 13. Consider a paid subscription to Hawks Insiders to support our efforts. In our next instalment of our AGM Files, we spoke to current Hawthorn Football Club Board member Katie Hudson in her push for re-election. Hudson — the da...

With things heating up at board level, Hawks Insiders is committed to bringing you balanced coverage ahead of one of the most important AGMs in recent history on December 13. Consider a paid subscription to Hawks Insiders to support our efforts. In the next of our special pre Annual General Meeting podcasts, we chewed the fat with aspiring Board hopeful Maria Lui. Lui is currently the Chair of the...

In the next of our special pre Annual General Meeting podcasts, we had a sit down discussion with HFC President nominee, Peter Nankivell. Nankivell currently sits on the Board and was put forward as the preferred candidate by the current Board, before Andy Gowers put his nomination in. In this episode, Nankivell discusses: * Becoming the preferred President candidate of the Board;* The nomination...

Another Thursday night and another great discussion with hundreds of Hawk fans. But tonight we were in a footy mood - so we strayed from the recent spate of political, AGM and election news and covered a lot more footy talk. Howard Kotton (@HPKotton59) dropped in to give us his Navy Blue opinion on the addition of Kade Simpson to our coaching panel, while we also discussed what we should do with p...

In the next of our special pre Annual General Meeting podcasts, we were lucky enough to have a lengthy chat with President candidate and nominee, Andy Gowers. Gowers’ Hawthorn background is fairly common knowledge, but after chewing some fat off a few dusty memories, we were able to get into a host of important election issues including: * Hawks4Change;* Good Governance;* The Family Club;* Members...

With things heating up at board level, Hawks Insiders is committed to bringing you balanced coverage ahead of one of the most important AGMs in recent history on December 13. Consider a paid subscription to Hawks Insiders to support our efforts. In the next of our special pre Annual General Meeting podcasts, we hit the record button with Board Nominee James Merlino. After learning about Merlino’s...

Thursday nights are heating up as we approach the 2022 AFL National Draft and the HFC 2022 AGM - both of which we are starting to cover in-depth, On this edition of the Space / pod we had the wonderful Ed Sill (@ed_sill) join us to talk about his love of the brown and gold and his nomination to become a member of the Hawthorn Board. Ed took us through his views on membership, the Box Hill partners...

Another wonderful hour plus of chatting with the brown and gold faithful as our first post trade week Safe Space took to the airwaves. And while we covered plenty throughout our Thursday night discussion, it was the visit and chat with Hawks Insider’s very own Akec Makur Chuot (@AkecMakur) that again stole the show. An avid listener and often contributed of the Space, Akec checked in to talk Bec G...