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Season 2006 is just around the corner. Something sticking in my mind is what our club CEO, Ian Robson, wrote in the club’s 103rd Annual Report last December -
Over the years, starting with our first premiership in 1961, as a schoolboy free membership holder, I proudly witnessed the Hawks having eras of being an absolute power possessing all the ingredients of skill, toughness and pride. So much so, I was at a stage in my life when I thought the Hawks had given me so much joy it was enough to see me through my lifetime. But it hasn’t turned out that way.
After the 1991 premiership the winds of change zyphered through Glenferrie Oval which heralded our club’s turn at being mediocre. But our involvement in the AFL’s planned perennial rotation system: that is, for all clubs to share the good and the bad, has been for us far too long. The winds of change must waft back from the opposite direction, albeit via our new environment out at Waverley.
Heed what Ian has said and through your patience observe the expected U-turn in 2006, slow and gradual as we will surely find it.
Consider we had every chance of winning 3 -4 losing games last year, and if we could have added them to our five victories, it behooves a belief that with the added experience gained by our eight 2005 debutees, blended with a good number of hard at it senior players, our team should have the ability to win 10 to 12 games this season.
Depending on our strike-power, such a tally could see us arrive in the final eight. I just hope that we do better than my forecast of ending up in 12th possie Anything lower and we will be off-track, imo.
Over the years, starting with our first premiership in 1961, as a schoolboy free membership holder, I proudly witnessed the Hawks having eras of being an absolute power possessing all the ingredients of skill, toughness and pride. So much so, I was at a stage in my life when I thought the Hawks had given me so much joy it was enough to see me through my lifetime. But it hasn’t turned out that way.
After the 1991 premiership the winds of change zyphered through Glenferrie Oval which heralded our club’s turn at being mediocre. But our involvement in the AFL’s planned perennial rotation system: that is, for all clubs to share the good and the bad, has been for us far too long. The winds of change must waft back from the opposite direction, albeit via our new environment out at Waverley.
Heed what Ian has said and through your patience observe the expected U-turn in 2006, slow and gradual as we will surely find it.
Consider we had every chance of winning 3 -4 losing games last year, and if we could have added them to our five victories, it behooves a belief that with the added experience gained by our eight 2005 debutees, blended with a good number of hard at it senior players, our team should have the ability to win 10 to 12 games this season.
Depending on our strike-power, such a tally could see us arrive in the final eight. I just hope that we do better than my forecast of ending up in 12th possie Anything lower and we will be off-track, imo.
