Four-time premiership coach Alastair Clarkson ... and spend some time with the guys that he coached from Hawthorn," Mitchell said. The Hawks celebrate a goal against the Tigers.

By the end of next season, he had played in Hawthorn’s first premiership – aged just 22 years and 75 days. He was 36 days younger than Macdonald will be on Sunday when the Hawks play Richmond ...

FOUR-TIME premiership ... when the Hawks' 13 premiership cups were paraded for the crowd. Sunday's win won't be remembered as fondly as any of those Grand Final triumphs, but was another box ticked on ...

The Hawthorn Hawks take on the bottom-placed West Coast ... suffering back-to-back defeats against premiership rivals Port Adelaide and Geelong Cats. They are currently 4-2 in the season and ...

They struggled to keep it upright in the blustery conditions, but the GWS banner read “Two teams on different levels, forget the Hawks where are the Devils?” Hawthorn recently extended its ...

The Hawks have raced to 3-0 — a feat they achieved in premiership seasons 2008 and 2014. Franklin was Hawthorn’s best player in one of those years (2008) while Mitchell was the club captain.

The combination of Brisbane wobbling and Hawthorn winning again has to make them flag favourites at this point, which marks a remarkable 12-month turnaround. But you can make the case the Hawks ...

But it doesn’t mean the Hawks won’t be the worthy premiership favourites by September ... Picture: Michael Willson/AFL Photos via Getty Images Hawthorn’s wannabe brat-packers that day ...