2026 Ladder Predictions

[hawkinoz]

Now that trading & draft is done, we all have a fairly good idea of each teams list. Love to see how Hawks fans see the season turn out and who will win the flag and who will take spoon.

My ranking at end of H/A season & flag will be from one of top 4( likely top 2, hopefully Hawks)

Hawks - P
GWS
Lions
WB

Suns
Geel
Freo
Stk - could be 8-10

Swans
Coll
Crows could be 8-11
Port
North
Carlton - hoping they slide more
WCE - will win 5-6 games given they play half at Optus.
Rich
Melb
Scum - deserved SPOOOON, sad for the top talent of 2026.

 

[Hawkk]

Wouldn’t surprise me if we took a small step back to go forward. Over the space of the last five years our experience / age profile:

2022 23.6 years old (16/18), 58.6 games (14/18)
2023 23.0 year old (18/18), 40.7 games (18/18)
2024 23.7 years old (17/18), 56.9 games (16/18)
2025 24.6 years old (10/18), 71.7 games (7/18)
2026 24.4 years old (12/18), 71.4 games (12/18)

By comparison, Collingwood (25.93), Geelong (25.58), Brisbane (25.53) and the Swans (25.43) are still much older and more experienced than us. Fremantle, GWS, Adelaide and the Gold Coast are the clubs that are really in the same bracket as us…

Hawthorn Playing List for 2026 - Draftguru

www.draftguru.com.au

I don’t actually see this as a bad thing long term for us though…