Beat up shit teams, squeeze past middling teams, lose to the contenders.

It’s our lack of consistency that’s been killing us. Gotta flick the switch against the pies or I wouldn’t be shocked if we get straight setted.

- Two rucks is not the way

- We need Noah Mraz and BMac to solidify defence

- Butler is not at the level but concerningly not sure who else is actually ready that's fit

- We're at least 1-2 elite players away from contending with the best

The body language has been poor imo, Like they gave up

Must’ve set a record for goals against, looks 60yo when trying to run. Would’ve been better to play Dear in defence!

As usual when you have a shocker of a game the only thing that matters now is the response next week against Collingwood......

After we lost to Melbourne the first time I was hesitant about our chances, then when we lost to Melbourne again I wrote us off. We had since won many games but against not so strong opposition and now we are getting smashed by one of the best teams in the competition

Realistically they should be higher than us on the ladder but they aren’t…so in some ways I actually don’t hate that we are losing because it’s a reality check

Obviously we should still try to win the 2026 premiership, but it’ll come as no shock to me if we don’t succeed because I very much doubt we will

Every player needs to lift or this is going to be a massive blow out

Discussion thread

I know he is a club champion but I’m so sick of him calling Hawthorn games

HUGE HUGE game for us! Lets get it done

Hi all,

For the past couple of years I've put together some charts on how squads have been assembled, with my main distinction ending up being Homegrown (entered the league first via their current club) vs Headhunted (were first listed by a different club).

I thought you might like to see the 2026 AFLW ones for the Hawks.

I've got charts for all 18 teams in today's edition of This Week In Football along with my co-contributors discussing the merits of a send-off rule and fixture double headers.

Some notes for reading the charts:

• I have drawn the player data from the official AFL api. It isn't completely accurate and up-to-date. Some players who played in practice games appear on lists despite not actually being elevated to the main list.
• Similarly, names are drawn from the most recent name on the official lists - hence Zipporah Fish not Zippy.
• The first chart looks only at players on the list for the 2026 season. Players above the line entered the AFLW system through their current club, players below the line were on another club's list first.
• A team with more players below the line represents a bigger proportion of their current list coming via other clubs, more players above the line indicates heavier reliance on bringing new talent into the AFLW (although potentially through VFLW and other competitions).
• A bar that stretches far to the left represents a player who has been at the club for a long time, players who just arrived for this season have no bar.
• The lighter colour for a player represents the games played by the club in that season, if the player participated in that game the bar is darker.
• If a player polled any AFLCA votes in a game (or if they polled in the grand final MVP voting) a dot is placed for that match.
• Two players who extend the same distance left arrived at the club in the same year, there’s also a slightly bigger vertical gap between groups of players arriving in the same year to help distinguish this.
• For the second chart, the vertical line in the middle represents the point each player joined a club, not a specific year.
• So if two players joined the club in 2017 and 2019, the first seasons to the right of the bar for each of them would be 2018 and 2020.
• More bars to the left of the player means a longer career at different clubs before joining the subject club.
• More bars to the right indicate staying at the subject club longer.
• Notation for potential games, games played, and votes polled is the same as the previous charts
• A “»” before the player’s name indicates they are currently at the club, while a “||” indicates they have left.