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Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses and more exclusive content. Well it all came down to the final five minutes of action at Marvel Stadium, but like the deals or not, the Hawks managed to get them all done. As we welcomed in Lloyd Meek from Fremantle and Cooper Stephens from the Cats, we also farewelled Hawk legend (fair given a Brownlow and three B&F’s) T...

Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses and more exclusive content. The penultimate day of Trade Week has come to a close, and we gathered as a huge contingent with high hopes for what the final day of the period will bring. The Age’s Pete Ryan (@petryan) popped in to keep us updated on where we sit on the Tom Mitchell, Jaeger O’Meara and Lloyd Meek trades. Not...

Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses and more exclusive content. Night four behind the microphone for our HI Trade Week Safe Space series, and it was a cracker with hundreds again tuning in to hear the latest news. It may have had something to do with the REAL Mitch Cleary (@cleary_mitch) joining us to discuss the trade period with a tinge of brown and gold....

One more night spearheaded by Daniel Prins - our third episode of the trade period took a long hard look at the Bowes decision to choose Geelong, and the disappointment of missing out on pick 7. Prinsy was again joined by Andrew Johnston (@ARJ7X), as well as HI debutant Nat Martin (@NatMartin30) and the trio took control of the Twitter airwaves on Wednesday night. They talked the Bowes decision, s...

Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses and more exclusive content. No Ash, no Darren, no Weissy, no Brad, no Mora, no worries!! A huge changing of the guard leading the lines for the Insiders, with HI guru Daniel Prins sitting in the Director’s Chair for the second Safe Space of the Trade Period. Prinsy was joined by brown and gold Twitter superfan - Andrew Jo...

Well well welcome to the AFL Trade Period. After hitting refresh all day across social platforms to find out if Jack Bowes had made up his mind or not, we were drip fed other bits and pieces of brown and gold related fluff. We were updates with news of Tom Mitchell and the Pies trade, of Jack Gunston’s wish to move to Brisbane and how that might unfold, Jack Bowes and more. Join us for this half h...

Once again we had hundreds of people tune in to get some brown and gold happiness, and boy did we provide that with some fun discussion. Once we got the Geelong / Isaac Smith / Jack Gunston business out of the way, it was a great forum to look at free agents, draft picks, AFLW and more. We also read out some of the best Boy Band name suggestions for the image above which we shared to our followers...

Hundreds of people tuned in throughout our special 90 minute Safe Space which we held in conjunction with the Hawk Talk Podcast (@HawkTalkPod). It was a great way to come together to discuss, debrief, consider and digest all the different angles that the recent Hawthorn Racism Report has thrown up over the past 48 hours. Everyone had the chance to have their say and be heard, as we looked at the r...

It took some time because the Twitter gremlins we out in force… but after our HI gurus worked out that sunlight in fact kills gremlins, it was back to business as usual! When we did get back into the swing of it, the trade period and our list featured heavily in this episode. Plenty to think about, plenty to hypothesise over, and lots of innuendo doing the rounds at the moment. When we were done c...

Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses and more exclusive content. It was a little strange - no match to review, no good, no bad and no fan experience. But it was great to open the floor to those that joined us in the Space to have their say on player movement, list activity and a whole host of other talking points. Never fear if you missed out - hundreds of p...

The AFL men’s season may be over but we’re working hard to bring you all the off season trade and draft news, plus AFLW coverage from our inaugural year. Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for wall-to-wall Hawthorn coverage. The Hawks Insiders convened an ‘emergency’ Twitter Spaces to discuss this night’s breaking story - that 2018 Brownlow winner and three time Peter Crimmins medallist Tom Mitchell was...

Our last regular Thursday night Space for 2022 was a cracker, and despite being a few soldiers down there was no stopping the panel - or our listeners. We covered plenty on the agenda in just over an hour including all the regular segments from the match review against the Dogs, to the upcoming AFLW game against the Dons. The highlight of this show was definitely when our friend and regular listen...

In our final match recap of season 2022, hosts Ash, Darren and Andrew were in a positive and upbeat mood reflecting on the loss to the Dogs in Tasmania. Which players finished the year on the right foot? Which players do we think played their last games in the brown and gold? And which players have plenty of work to do in the months ahead? Semi game rating episode, semi questions to ponder as the...

Our last ‘in-season’ Thursday night Space for 2022 which tiptoed into most Hawthorn supporter’s favourite topics at this time of the year - trade and draft. There will be plenty more of it starting from next week and through the coming months as we look to be busy again in the player movement space this off-season. But among that we also had our regular segments - the good, the bad and the fan exp...

What could be more enjoyable that listening to three grown men rate and review every player in a 61 point thrashing on a beautiful day at the MCG. Right? In recognition of the fact that said scenario would be as uplifting to record as it would be to listen to, we have taken a change of tack. Who got a pass mark against the Tigers? Which players underperformed but remain integral to our team going...

Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses and more exclusive content. Thursday night with a twist this time round, as we were joined by unexpected guest and Richmond superfan Trout from Woodend (@TroutWoodend). It was good to discuss all things brown and gold leading into the final two games of the season, thought there was as much to discuss in terms of off-fiel...

Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for match recaps, exclusive pods, player ratings, and all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses. Hawks Insiders’ OG3 (Ash, Darren and Andrew) got the band back together to rate every player following Hawthorn’s narrow win against the Suns. Despite a very forgettable second half (from an attacking POV at least), a very young Hawks stood firm against an avalanche of in...

Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses and more exclusive content. Another week, another Thursday night safe space allowing Hawk fans the chance to come and be part of an hour dedicated to the mighty brown and gold. Why was this night different from all other nights? On all other nights you get the usual updates - the latest in the world of VFL and AFLW, as we...

Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for match recaps, exclusive pods, player ratings, and all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses. Not quit the four, or three, or even two quarter performance we were hoping for at Marvel Stadium against the Saints. It was a shocker of a first half - the worst type of footy imaginable… but that is tempered by the fact that we dug in led by the kids, who put up a kille...

Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses and more exclusive content. It was not just another Thursday night this week as we hosted our usual Twitter Safe Space - this was a ripper thanks to the one and only #34 Akec Makur Chuot (@AkecMakur). No actually - what a superstar and such an infectious personality, Akec dropped in to give us an update on the team’s rece...

Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses and more exclusive content. It was another Thursday night cracker this week as we celebrated the continuation of the brown and gold legacy within the Fleming family. Yes we talked about the Eagles, we discussed injuries, we dabbled in Pete Burge and we even had a look at our rising star nominee Josh Ward and his breakout...

Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for match recaps, exclusive pods, player ratings, and all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses. Another week, another win. The high flying Hawks posted back to back wins for the first time since the start of the year off the back of a Luke Breust six goal masterclass and a breakout game from our golden boy Josh Ward. In the hours following Hawthorn’s 25-point win ag...

Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses and more exclusive content. Back in the regular Thursday night slot, and boy was there plenty of brown and gold on the agenda to discuss. After ample time looking at the good, the bad and the fan experience in our win over the Crows at Marvel, we took a time to reflect on the sad news around Paul Dear and Willie Rioli Sen...

Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for match recaps, exclusive pods, player ratings, and all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses. Back on the winners list, and despite the season irrelevance in terms of wins and losses, boy did it feel good. So it made this week’s (slightly lengthy) player review pod significantly enjoyable to record. As we draw closer to our first ever game where EVERY single playe...

Subscribe to Hawks Insiders for all the news through Hawthorn-tinted glasses and more exclusive content. It was our final Wednesday night Safe Space before we head back to Thursday nights, and it was great catching up on the plethora of brown and gold news. We covered the Giants game in detail looking a the good, the bad and the rest, news from the VFL, the AFLW draw, discussed the Hawk injury lis...