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We've had some magnificent ones over the last century and a half+, but I think we have to proclaim this bloke the best of all time now. Agreed?

There's been a real trend recently of teams losing their absolute best player, or at least an absolutely vital player at the very pointy end of their talent pool, and then going on to win a flag, or even multiple flags. Or at least making a GF. Cats lost Gaz Jnr and won the next flag. Hawks lost...

Is anyone else as continually astounded as I am about our record of taking players from other clubs and making them 5-20% better players? I'm not saying we get it right every single time (Hello Ty Vickery!), but I reckon our record overall would be the best in the league. In the last 15 years or...

Which H&A game from the 08-15 era comes quickest to mind when you think of us at our absolute best? Which game saw us at our sublime, unstoppable best? Someone mentioned the ‘Harlem Globetrotters’ game against Collingwood in ‘12 the other day. And yes, that was indeed a ripper. I was there. But...

Our seniors are in between dynasties at the moment, so what does this club do? Goes out and wins not one, but two other premierships on the one day! We may very well be taking a Charlie home tomorrow. It's actually easy to see why supporters of other clubs are so 'out of their minds' jealous of us.

Who is the greatest ruckman of all time? Who is the most mobile? Who is the best at the moment? And the most mobile right now? And why?

We are celebrating the anniversaries of these three years of glory in our magnificent club's history, I though I'd have a crack at picking a best 22 from those three Premiership teams: Collins Langford Ayres Birchall Knights Hodge Eade Crawford Dipper Rioli Brereton Buddy Dew...

How about a tribute thread to the great man. One of my favourite Hawks OF ALL TIME. This will be his last year, yeah? I just love the fact that, all things being equal, he: a) will have played WAY more games for us than for Port; b) will play his 200th game for us in 2018; c) will play 350...

Has anyone else noticed how we don't actually garner that many individual awards? We've had relatively few Charlie winners (and even two of those were won in highly unusual circumstances, rather than via the count on the night), relatively few AAs, we get duped on things like today's RS award...

Just a bit of fun. Who had the better career? Or if you were a junior, just joining the ranks of an AFL club, and could choose to have the exact same career as one of them, whose would you choose? Both have 4 flags. Both captained flags, but Hodge got 3 and Mitch 1. Both have 300 games, but...

Are there any statistics on the number of close finishes in a year? I've been watching footy avidly for over 40 years and I've never seen anything like this year, in this regard.

In fact, you could almost say the opposite is the case. When you think about it, most of the great coaches were not what you'd call superstars on the field, and many of the on field champions who've gone into coaching, especially recently, haven't exactly been great successes. Of course, there...

Friday night may or may not be the end of our latest era of glory. We looked tired and overly gorged on success the other night, and that is absolutely understandable. However, I wouldn't be at all surprised if we re-grouped, turned it round, and used this year as motivation to go again next...

Do you think anyone will retire at the end of this year? I will be incredibly pleasantly surprised if we see the Rough out on the field again. Gibbo has at least 2 more seasons left in him I reckon. At least 2 more for Burger. Sammy looks like he could go 4-5 more I reckon. Hodgey, I'm not sure...

I reckon that Big Boy and Cegs have, slowly but surely, lifted themselves from just a serviceable duo to quite a good one. Still not exactly the most powerful combination in the league, but then again we virtually have never had that. They were both very good against Richmond and building...

Seriously, I think they need to officially form a new category of disposal of the ball for Australian football: the 'flick pass'. It's not quite a throw but it's definitely not a handpass. Every team does it. And it's rife.

That's what this magnificent football club is all about. Whether it was rising above our horrendous early days as the perennial cellar-dwellers, the rule changes and shake-ups designed purely to curb our dominance in the 80s, the club as we know it almost dying in the mid-90s, and more recently...

I know the season is only 3 rounds old, but what do you think has been the best game this year? Feel free to add to this thread as the year goes on. I reckon today's game was the best I've seen so far this year, and much respect to the Dogs. I didn't see the North/Dees game though, looking at...

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/hawthorn-coach-alastair-clarkson-in-great-company-20160220-gmz6j3.html Great article overall, but the tone was brought down significantly by his utterly pathetic parting shot, 'parasitic exploitation' of Tasmania. Shwoing the true, envious, bitter colours...

Chances of the 'fourplay' just took a massive hit. http://www.hawthornfc.com.au/news/2016-01-31/roughead-to-miss-first-half-of-2016 :(

If you had a crystal ball, what do you think you would see, come late September this year? Are we going again, or will we run out of puff? Will age finally catch up to some of our great warriors? And if so, if we do drop off this year, how much will you actually care, given what's happened in...

Surprised it doesn't have a thread by now. This thing is so big it deserves its own. I am a MASSIVE Star Wars freak from way back. I saw Ep IV at the drive-in in 1977. My tiny impressionable 7 yo mind was blown for ever. I have loved every one of the six. Yep, I am even in the 0.005% of the...

Don't know about you, But I LOVE watching Hawk highlight videos, so I thought I might make a thread on it. I'd love to see if there's any more good ones out there that I haven't seen. So post your favourite bits of Hawk play from this glory period, 2008 - 2015. I love this piece of play from...

1137 by my calculations. Maths ain't my strong point however. Silly thread? The Bay comes to the Hawthorn board? Just kill it or let it drop like a stone if so.

Can I just say, that after watching several replays from '15 in a far calmer and more relaxed fashion, that he is just about the most underrated player in the AFL. Truly flies under the radar, even for myself, a massive Hawk fan, let alone for followers of other teams. Does a bulk of work, does...

In the hyper-serious world of AFL football, in its most serious week, it's good to have some satire to lighten the mood. This is really quite hilarious... http://www.thermocow.com/articles/afl-club-songs-ranked-by-ambition-and-boastfulness/

(Can someone please check my maths on this, it ain't my strong point) A good, and underrated, way to measure a club's success is to divide the number of flags won by the number of years in the Comp. This removes the whole 'selective stats' thing. It's a completely objective way of measuring...

These things seem to very much go in cycles. Between 2000 and 2007, we had all non-Vic premiers. 2007 to 2014 we had 6 Vic premiers out of 7. Are we about to enter another 6-8 period of non Vic-domination? Port are strong, the Swans are strong, Adelaide seems like they may be resurgant. Freo are...

Stewy Dew in the '08 GF or Nick Davis in the '05 SF? Both stunning individual performances, in vitally important games. Neither of their respective teams would have won those important games without their individual brilliance. Of course it's all subjective, but who do you think was better or...

If you had someone from overseas, or indeed even the Northern states, come to you and say 'I like what I've seen of Australian Football, show me a replay of a game that is the best showcase of your game and could convert me to your sport'. Obviously we know it's the greatest spectator sport in...