Toast Farewell Graham Wright

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Hawks farewell Wright

The official AFL website of the Hawthorn Football Club

www.hawthornfc.com.au

Hawthorn Football Club Chief of Football Graham Wright has resigned from his position at the club to explore other opportunities.

Wright has been an important member of the Hawks football department since 2007, originally in recruiting and list management before stepping into the Head of Football role at the beginning of the 2018 season.

Hawthorn CEO Justin Reeves said the club was fully supportive of Wright’s decision.

“Graham has given this club incredible service and we will be forever grateful for his contribution and commitment to the brown and gold,” said Reeves.

“While it is always disappointing to lose someone of Graham’s calibre, we are also supportive of his decision and understand that the time is right for Graham to seek a new challenge.

“On behalf of everyone at Hawthorn I would like to wish Graham, Tracey, Ethan and James all the best for the next chapter of their lives.”

 

[Brucie Buffer]

Massive loss. Seriously shocked by this.

 

[daniel23]

Wow this is terrible news for the club

 

[Hawthorn23]

Wow this really sucks, wonder if he has a massive offer waiting or wanted something new

 

[Sturty]

FFS This sucks. HUGE HUGE LOSS

 

[Hawker1167]

Nooo shocked by this and must have his reasons but will be a huge loss and has been great for the HFC

Best of luck on your neat adventure and will be a huge gain at another club

 

[TheExtractorFactor]

May as well put Mitchell in as coach now. We’re in for some pain people, will need to build from the ground up again.

 

[PT Bar None]

Another announcement on a Saturday evening...

 

[Dewnior]

Hmmmm, the timing is interesting

 

[local hack]

Shocked by this. Has been great for us no doubt. Although recent history not so great.

 

[daniel23]

What the hell is going on at the club ? Timing seems horrible, there has to be something else to it .

 

[perrdan09]

Tom Browne reporting he's off to the Pies... I know it's Tom Browne, but figured i'd mention it anyway.

 

[Billyc]

Collingwood apparently. They were never going to cop their absolute list management disaster lying down. Big loss for us

 

[Rhayader]

Hmmmm, the timing is interesting

A few interesting things here: no comments from Wright in the statement, leaving immediately basically. Maybe been poached? Details will come out soon I guess ...

 

[theiaofseed]

Massive loss. Seriously shocked by this.

Why though? He was off a few years ago before we changed his position.

 

[Stickitupthem]

Huge loss for the hawks very important cog in the hawks dynasty if not the most important good mates with sos wonder where they’ll end up

 

[MadDawg]

Great servant Wrighty, but IMO we really needed some fresh ideas in that space.

I think this will work out for the best as long as we fill the position with a good candidate.

 

[HawksILove]

Massive loss
Big shoes to fill

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[rei154]

Massive loss for us. Has given us crazy service over the years- really thankful to GW for all he's done. Genuine changing of the guard moment- if he's off to Collingwood I'd imagine he's been offered the works and then some, which he deserves.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Not overly surprising because it’s not the first time that there has been suggestion that he might be leaving.

My initial thought when I saw the news was that the pies would be all over him.

Big loss, but not the worst time for it to happen considering we have plenty of time to get to work.

 

[eldorado]

Sizeable loss.

Oh well.

 

[Pessimistic]

Collingwood. s**t.

Not happy jan but thanks for the work Graham

 

[Pessimistic]

Collingwood apparently. They were never going to cop their absolute list management disaster lying down. Big loss for us

Yep not laughing at them so much now

 

[Falco131415]

We'll be right & find a more than capable replacement.
Think its probably for the best as out list management has been poor the last few years.

 

[TylerDurden]

Pies. It's done.

Wow.