Srs the question but how are the Hawks going to rebuild?
At the end of this year Micthell Hodge and Burgers will be gone. That leaves a midfield of Lewis Hill Harting Shield Smith Langford (lol). There are no decent FAs so the Hawks are going to have to give up 2 first rounders to get a young gun mid. Even that won't be enough to stop them bottoming out Free style.
No chance they will bottom out Freo style while they still have Clarkson. The end of the era is highly likely to come soon and the club put their eggs in the basket playing senior players and limiting opportunity to young players. It paid off 10 fold with 4 consecutive Grandfinal appearances and a 3 peat. The core senior group bagged 4 with the 2008 GF.
Some people are unfortunate enough to follow teams and have never witnessed premiership success, do you really think Hawks dipping and missing some final series will bother the most success spoilt fans in the competition?
Hawks youth at this stage is inexperienced, fair judgment cannot be made yet. Sicily is showing good signs, Obrien too looked good last night amongst others.
Not that bad an effort considering the news on Roughhead. Only a half dozen of the players had a decent game and it was still a contest down to the last 5 minutes. Still in the race this year.