Welcome Kyle Hartigan joins the Hawks in a trade from the Crows

[Spitting_Cobra]

Don't mind him making Hawkins earn it personally but I'd be shocked if he didn't get a week for it. Was marginally too late to be deemed accidental.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Don't mind him making Hawkins earn it personally but I'd be shocked if he didn't get a week for it. Was marginally too late to be deemed accidental.

He didn’t get a week for it.

 

[CHUBBSS]

Extremely underrated, has helped us stay competitive in every contest and bring other defenders into the game, all key forwards will kick goals with the new rules. He is doing all the right things for someone coming into a new club.

We might be having bags kicked on us every week if Frawley did the same injury here...

 

[Spitting_Cobra]

He didn’t get a week for it.

Whoops. Still got my vacation brain on, apologies.

 

[Brant]

In the Amazon series 'Making Their Mark' there is footage of Hartigan and another teammate at Adelaide engaging in a rather exuberant fisticuffs during a practice match; which means he is certainly up for the fight if needs be

Anyone that punches an Adelaide player is fine by me!

 

[HODGEYROAD]

According to Footywire it seems it was a 3 year deal for Hartigan, rememebr lots of talk as to if it was 2 or 3, his manager has done a very astute job.

 

[TylerDurden]

Surely it was only 2??

 

[HODGEYROAD]

Surely it was only 2??

Fingers crossed Footywire has made a mistake, it would seem mind boggling to offer a non in demand player 3 years.

 

[Jake_09]

Pretty sure a journo initially went with 3 years but then confirmed it was 2. Link...not here, here...no link.

 

[KermitJagger]

According to Footywire it seems it was a 3 year deal for Hartigan, rememebr lots of talk as to if it was 2 or 3, his manager has done a very astute job.

Footywire is historically pretty unreliable. They go with the first news posted and then never seem to update it.

Either way, I don't think he's been awful and our midfield has done our defenders no favours.

 

[4THAWN]

Seems to be struggling.

 

[burton5]

There was a bit play in the second half where he was running with Membrey only for Membrey to turn on the jets and put 20 metres on him to take the link up switch mark on the far wing.

Clearly plays best deep and didn't have a definite match up against the Saints (their leg speed hurts us all over the ground). Will likely have a better show of it this week with the Eagles tall timber.

 

[Judd2Sewell]

There was a bit play in the second half where he was running with Membrey only for Membrey to turn on the jets and put 20 metres on him to take the link up switch mark on the far wing.

Clearly plays best deep and didn't have a definite match up against the Saints (their leg speed hurts us all over the ground). Will likely have a better show of it this week with the Eagles tall timber.

His best match up is a big, slow and cumbersome forward that doesn't move or lead. Aka the typical local footy fat full forwards.

 

[MrPremiership]

His best match up is a big, slow and cumbersome forward that doesn't move or lead. Aka the typical local footy fat full forwards.

/ Tom Hawkins

 

[Judd2Sewell]

/ Tom Hawkins

Hawkins is great on the lead, more due to size than pace. He also had 6 shots at goal during the game, thankfully he was wayward though.

 

[The Spirit of Cricket]

Hawkins is great on the lead, more due to size than pace. He also had 6 shots at goal during the game, thankfully he was wayward though.

i think that's partially by design too, as I remember a lot of those shots were along the boundary which you can live with

 

[HODGEYROAD]

Footywire is historically pretty unreliable. They go with the first news posted and then never seem to update it.

Either way, I don't think he's been awful and our midfield has done our defenders no favours.

I agree our midfield has done him very few favours, he hasn't underachived I've got what I expected which wasn't very much.

 

[tommyk72]

Hawkins is great on the lead, more due to size than pace. He also had 6 shots at goal during the game, thankfully he was wayward though.

I thought Hartigan, and the team, held him well. From memory, most of the shots were from wide, as he had to lead a long way wide to get the kicks.

 

[KermitJagger]

I agree our midfield has done him very few favours, he hasn't underachived I've got what I expected which wasn't very much.

We're conceding as many inside 50s as North. The fact that we're not doing worse than we are is genuinely surprising.

 

[Toasted]

We're conceding as many inside 50s as North. The fact that we're not doing worse than we are is genuinely surprising.

When you say it like, how the hell have we won 2

 

[HODGEYROAD]

When you say it like, how the hell have we won 2

Well everyone else in the comp has scored 500+ where as North only have 379, so North basically don't score either.

 

[Pinoy Hawk]

Is Hartigan injured?
Haven’t played for Box Hill for so long either.

 

[TylerDurden]

He's not listed on the injury list. Strange.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Pretty sure I spotted him in the coaches box against the Cats with BigBoy.

 

[cryptor]

Not sure how anyone could really complain about what he gave us. Cost us nothing but a relatively tiny amount of cap space. Performed a role, did a few surprising things like that time he collected the ball, shimmied through traffic and then kicked an outside of the boot banana down the line that hit a target on the chest inside 50. And some not so surprising, but definitely endearing things like smacking Hawkins.

All things considered, he was a good recruit and an even better clubman.