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Hawthorn's online merchandising department like to espouse the virtues of their merchandise, which is quite unusual for a capitalist enterprise, but how good is the stuff really?
To provide a few working examples...
TRAINING TOPS - I splashed on a couple over the summer and they're not nearly as flattering on me as they look on Hodgey in the ads! Its really quite outrageous that Hawthorn can be freely flogging apparel that makes me look overweight.
KIDS FOOTBALLS - WTF! Flogging kids footballs, how childish is that!
THONGS - Fair dinkum, are they ghastly or what?! Who is head of marketing down there, Richie Vandenberg?! I mean to say, you have a bit of brown, a bit of gold, an image of an unlicensed hovercraft hooning Hawk to top off the splendour, and even then they can't make the bloody things look classy!
PERFORMANCE INHIBITING SUBSTANCES - Just like a Victorian club to be trailling in the wake of the interstaters. These are all the rage out west and yet you can't even purchase as much as a suspicious looking tablet from the HFC website! Appalling!
Its all good and fine for the Hawthorn merchandising department to be talking a good game and for the Hawk fanbase to be lauding them uncritically, but IMHO they need to lift big time or they'll not be remembered for anything other than wasted potential (and, perhaps, some spiffy Josh Thurgood tea towels).
To provide a few working examples...
TRAINING TOPS - I splashed on a couple over the summer and they're not nearly as flattering on me as they look on Hodgey in the ads! Its really quite outrageous that Hawthorn can be freely flogging apparel that makes me look overweight.
KIDS FOOTBALLS - WTF! Flogging kids footballs, how childish is that!
THONGS - Fair dinkum, are they ghastly or what?! Who is head of marketing down there, Richie Vandenberg?! I mean to say, you have a bit of brown, a bit of gold, an image of an unlicensed hovercraft hooning Hawk to top off the splendour, and even then they can't make the bloody things look classy!
PERFORMANCE INHIBITING SUBSTANCES - Just like a Victorian club to be trailling in the wake of the interstaters. These are all the rage out west and yet you can't even purchase as much as a suspicious looking tablet from the HFC website! Appalling!
Its all good and fine for the Hawthorn merchandising department to be talking a good game and for the Hawk fanbase to be lauding them uncritically, but IMHO they need to lift big time or they'll not be remembered for anything other than wasted potential (and, perhaps, some spiffy Josh Thurgood tea towels).

