News Hawthorn in the media 2026

[Atch]

Yeah, we put all our eggs in the Zac Merrett basket. Our eggs got rejected. If we'd bet less or walked away from the Essendon hand, perhaps we could have placed a bet on Petracca, but I think Gold Coast ultimately had a stronger hand in that play too - their eggs were higher quality. As it is, we kept our eggs and traded well for them (eggs in for next year in our basket) and got some potentially handy players for the future.

Analysing the outcomes of the egg metaphor.
Essendon - kept their aging but excellent rooster
Hawthorn - upgraded some future eggs, and hatched some eggs for the future
Gold Coast - got one of the best roosters of the first two rounds in 2026.
Melbourne - hatched some eggs for the future

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

 

[stevehawkington]

I also like it kingy

 

[Suntory Boss Coffee]

Can someone post the non paywall of the herald sun cmac article? Refuse to pay for Murdoch owned media

 

[Big Hotdog]

as I said a month or so ago, I'll bet Petracca starts like an absolute shooting star and fades from there.
reckon Sam feels like that will happen too.
IMO, Trac is cooked, might not look like it now, but it will soon.

He will definitely faced over the five year deal butv week still offer good service but not to the value of his contract.

 

[Atch]

Can someone post the non paywall of the herald sun cmac article? Refuse to pay for Murdoch owned media

It's extremely hard to cancel aswell once your subscribed.

 

[SpanishBrowne]

Can someone post the non paywall of the herald sun cmac article? Refuse to pay for Murdoch owned media

archive.md is your best friend! https://archive.md/FWuJZ

 

[Bedi]

I also like it kingy

Some brilliant insight as usual from David King

 

[Bedi]

Jack Gunston

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Jack Gunston

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5.0

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2.2

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1.9

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10.6

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8.0

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2.6

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4.3

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1.7

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1.6

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11.2

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7.0

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3.2

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2.6

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0.6

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to kick 100 this year according to Gary Lyon

 

[Buzz Hawk]

Some brilliant insight as usual from David King

I wouldn't be surprised if he had said, "They're using ChatGPT! They're using ChatGPT! That's almost cheating and gives them an advantage the rest of the competition doesn't have. I don't like it".

 

[Elhawko]

Some brilliant insight as usual from David King

He also said elsewhere in that show that the Hawks premierships of the 2010s were based on us using free agency to 'pick apart the carcasses of other clubs' and went on to give three examples of our doing this - Hale, Gibbo and Gunners. None of whom were free agents, all of whom we traded for. He hates us for some reason which is fine, but I wish he'd be held to account for the BS he talks about us, given he also repeatedly says we got Hodge with a priority puck from the AFL. How does he keep his job?

 

[unitedhawk2]

archive.md is your best friend! https://archive.md/FWuJZ

Ralphy reckons Reeves is a "leaping ruckman"... no surprise there then.

 

[kazzooka]

He also said elsewhere in that show that the Hawks premierships of the 2010s were based on us using free agency to 'pick apart the carcasses of other clubs' and went on to give three examples of our doing this - Hale, Gibbo and Gunners. None of whom were free agents, all of whom we traded for. He hates us for some reason which is fine, but I wish he'd be held to account for the BS he talks about us, given he also repeatedly says we got Hodge with a priority puck from the AFL. How does he keep his job?

Unbelievable this Free Agent nonsense is still going. We got slaughtered by free agency.

Frawley and Simpkin were the only premiership hawks that were free agents. Frawley only free agent due to melbourne underpaying him so he was UFA instead of RFA AND then low balling him because they knew that they'd get pick 3 for him.

Losing Buddy far far out ways that. Then you add Suckling, Duryea, Campbell Brown*, Clinton Young, Xavier Ellis who all left in the 2010-2016 period as Free Agents/expansion club signings.

 

[unitedhawk2]

I stopped watching First Crack midway through last season. Not listening to mediocre muppets like Kingy and Joey has increased my enjoyment of the AFL season immensely.

 

[cryptor]

Unbelievable this Free Agent nonsense is still going. We got slaughtered by free agency.

Frawley and Simpkin were the only premiership hawks that were free agents. Frawley only free agent due to melbourne underpaying him so he was UFA instead of RFA AND then low balling him because they knew that they'd get pick 3 for him.

Losing Buddy far far out ways that. Then you add Suckling, Duryea, Campbell Brown*, Clinton Young, Xavier Ellis who all left in the 2010-2016 period as Free Agents/expansion club signings.

Simpkin was a DFA. Hardly worth mentioning in the discussion really.

 

[The Gulden Child]

Well Brendan Gale, you just lost 4 Devils Members. Won’t be paying up to join if that’s your attitude towards my life long team.

How disrespectful. Hawks have been fantastic for Tas.

 

[hawk1955]

Can someone post the non paywall of the herald sun cmac article? Refuse to pay for Murdoch owned media

Same here.

 

[Suntory Boss Coffee]

I stopped watching First Crack midway through last season. Not listening to mediocre muppets like Kingy and Joey has increased my enjoyment of the AFL season immensely.

it was alright when anthony hudson hosted it. for some reason that moron jay clarke is now host and just talks absurd trade stories instead of analysis

 

[Ned Ryerson]

I think Mary is a Hawks fan, that's why this visit with the club was organised.

Sadly she's a Blues supporter. No wonder she left the country.

 

[grumbleguts]

archive.md is your best friend! https://archive.md/FWuJZ

archive.is is better, because it isn't blocked by as many work servers.

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

Sadly she's a Blues supporter. No wonder she left the country.

No wonder she wanted nothing to do with them while here either.

 

[Malik90]

Has anyone checked in on Joey Montagna and David King for their thoughts?

 

[CHUBBSS]

He also said elsewhere in that show that the Hawks premierships of the 2010s were based on us using free agency to 'pick apart the carcasses of other clubs' and went on to give three examples of our doing this - Hale, Gibbo and Gunners. None of whom were free agents, all of whom we traded for. He hates us for some reason which is fine, but I wish he'd be held to account for the BS he talks about us, given he also repeatedly says we got Hodge with a priority puck from the AFL. How does he keep his job?

What do you mean, he looked pretty happy after the game last night

 

[hr_23]

The boys on Fireball just gave TB another meat tray

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

Has anyone checked in on Joey Montagna and David King for their thoughts?

Kingy picked us to win by about the margin we did. And he was right that Heeney and Gulden out made it too hard for them to win. Joey picked us as well.