Universal Love R.I.P Thaihawk

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Ned Ryerson said:
Gralin if the Poster of the Year thing is still being run is there a chance we can name it in Thaihawk’s honour?
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We didn’t have a poster of the year for 2018 as it stands.

I will be putting forward that Thaihawk gets this award.
 
Vale Thaihawk. May the rest of your journey include frequent hawthorn premierships, wins aplenty, and may you always forever be accurate in front of goal.

Get your spirit down to Waverley and infuse something into these injured players.
 
Abasi said:
We didn’t have a poster of the year for 2018 as it stands.

I will be putting forward that Thaihawk gets this award.
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So Thaihawk receives the inaugural Thaihawk Memorial Poster of the Year Award? I love it.
 

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thoughts with his family

always was a great contributor
 
Yeah this is really sad - not much on this forum rises above inane chatter (which is fine!) and you don’t see a great number of posters who are memorable for their deep club history, but TH was an amazing outlier. Real shame.
 
Sad news. Enjoyed reading his insightful posts.
RIP Thaihawk.
 
Very sad news. A lovely guy and a real loss. Also do i remember correctly he wrote a crime novel in recent years?
 
Bedi said:
Very sad news. A lovely guy and a real loss. Also do i remember correctly he wrote a crime novel in recent years?
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Yes. He approached me via pm to write a humorous novel/movie with him, but we could never find the time. :(
 
Very sad news indeed.

A wealth of Hawk's history passes with ThaiHawk. He really should have written a book about his experiences, I would have loved to have read it. Hopefully he did.

RIP legend.
 
Sad news.

RIP Thai.
 

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cryptor said:
As many have noticed over the the last few months, one of our most active, long standing and quality members of this board has been unusually absent this year. Combining small pieces of information throughout his posting history I was able to track down his profile on Facebook and use what is publicly shared there to get in contact with a family member.

It's with great sadness that I pass on the news that Thaihawk has unfortunately passed away. I'm told that he was admitted to hospital in early January with "quite a few issues" (which I'm led to believe were likely cancer related) and that in mid-March he passed away.

Most regulars here would know that Thaihawk grew up in the Glenferrie area in the 1940's and bear witness to many a thrashing of Hawthorn throughout his youth. He was lucky in the sense that he got to watch Hawthorn transform from the easy-beat Mayblooms into the powerhouse Hawks of today.

The man we knew from his time on BigFooty was an elderly (late 70's), Australian expat spending his retirement years living in Northern Thailand with his Thai family after having remarried later in life. He taught ESL (English as a Second Language) in Thailand for some years before fully retiring to enjoy spending all his time with his wife and his 3 year old granddaughter (who is now a keen Hawk fan herself). We also knew that his wife was fighting a very tough battle with cancer the last couple years and that she sadly lost that fight late last year. No doubt the pain and stress of that loss contributed to his own ill health.

Thaihawk has a long posting history here and it is rich with fantastic, first-hand accounts of the early days of Hawthorn from the late 1940's through until the modern history of recent years. With Thaihawk's background in teaching English his affinity for writing quality posts has been very evident, and I'm sure many reading this would have been schooled by him on the appropriate use of grammar at one point or another! Throughout his tenure on these boards he was consistently adding plenty of quality to discussions with his sharp wit, sage advice and the occasional grumbly, old man rant.

While this is terribly sad news I think we should all be happy in the knowledge that Thaihawk led such a long and happy life and that he got to see the rise to power of his beloved football club. Experiencing all 13 wonderful premiership wins to date, and topped off with a historical threepeat!

Rest In Peace, Thaihawk
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That is some serious sleuthing cryptor. Thank you for bringing some compassion to bigfooty.
 
I too enjoyed his posts and the insights he provided. I recall his pride of his family and pleasure that they too took from the Hawks and could clearly imagine him and his granddaughter watching the games though his posts.

RIP Thaihawk
 
Condolences and thoughts are with his family and friends

Can’t add much more than already been said , such a well thought, fair and measured poster.
Would have been a ripper of a person to know . Will be greatly missed around here.
 
Sad news but appreciate the efforts of cryptor very much for the share.
Vale Thaihawk
 
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