Hawthorn Hawks odds

Hawthorn have risen from humble beginnings to become one of the most powerful clubs in the Australian Football League. No team has won more VFL/AFL premierships in the past 50 years, nor since the turn of the millennium.

After another improving season under coach Sam Mitchell, the Hawks rebuild appears to be coming along nicely, and they will be hoping to continue their rise up the ladder in 2024.

How will Hawthorn fare this season? Let’s see how the 2023 AFL betting markets are shaping up.

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Updated Hawthorn futures odds

All of the major online bookmakers in Australia will boast extensive futures markets on the Hawks, including premiership betting, team results, and individual player markets like the Brownlow Medal and Rising Star. We’ll keep you updated on the major Hawthorn futures markets as the year goes on.

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Best Hawthorn bets for the 2024 AFL season

There are dozens of AFL futures markets for Hawthorn, but where are they likely to return some real value?

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• Hawks 2024 premiership betting
  Although this young Hawthorn outfit is on the climb up the ladder, the top 10 teams that are expected to fight for the top eight spots should have the measure of the Hawks in 2024.
• Top 8 betting
  The Hawks recorded seven wins in 2023, which saw them finish five wins and 20 points off eighth spot. With several teams above them expected to fight for a top eight spot with better and more experienced lists in 2024, Hawthorn may have to settle for a position between 12th and 16th.
• Brownlow Medal betting
  Jai Newcombe continued to announce himself as one of the up-and-coming stars in the Hawthorn midfield, polling 18 votes in the 2023 Brownlow Medal to finish 17th overall. Newcombe will only improve in 2024 and should poll well again in his third full season.
• Rising Star betting
  The Hawks took somewhat of a punt on a smokey in the 2023 AFL Draft, picking Nicholas Watson at pick five. The livewire small forward was the leading goal-kicker at the Under 18’s Championship last season. With the likes of Luke Bruest and Chad Wingard to learn off this year, Watson could put his hand up to take out the 2024 Rising Star.

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Hawthorn players to watch in 2024

James Sicily

Born: 6/1/1995
Games: 134
Goals: 61
Position: Defender

James Sicily backed up his outstanding 2022 with a stellar 2023 season that earned him a spot in the 2023 40-man All Australian squad after averaging 26 disposals and 3.5 intercept marks from 19 games. After being named the captain of Hawthorn in the pre-season, Sicily led from the front and by example for his younger teammates throughout the year. However, if there is one aspect of Sicily’s game that could improve, it would be his availability throughout the season. The hot-headed defender has found himself in trouble with the match review officer a number of times during his 134-game career. If Sicily plays every game in 2024, he should be a lock for the All Australian team at the end of the season.

Mitch Lewis

Born: 14/10/1998
Games: 66
Goals: 120
Position: Forward

Mitch Lewis had taken over the reins as the leader of the Hawthorn forward line in recent years; however, he will have the help of returning veteran Jack Gunston and Luke Bruest in 2024. Although this 25-year-old key forward has kicked 120 goals in 66 games, Lewis has struggled to stay on the field and play out a full season across six seasons. As this young Hawks squad continues to build and improve as a football team, they will need Lewis to stay healthy and play the majority of the games in 2024 to give them their best chance to win more matches.

Finn Maginness

Born: 23/2/2001
Games: 32
Goals: 4
Position: Midfielder

Many believed that the role of a “tagger” was dead in the AFL, but Finn Maginness changed that narrative quickly after continued to rack up the victims with his negating role on several ball magnets throughout the year. With only 32 games under his belt, Maginness has made a name for himself after holding the likes of Nick Daicos and Josh Kelly to single-digit disposals during his breakout season. Now that Maginness has cemented his spot in the Hawks team, he is quickly becoming one of the best run-with midfielders in the competition.

Hawks records, stats and history

• Player records
  Most matches: 426 – Michael Tuck (1972-1991)
  Most career goals: 1254 – Jason Dunstall (1985-1998)
  Most goals in a season: 150 – Peter Hudson (1970)
  Most goals in a match: 17 – Jason Dunstall (vs. Richmond, 1992)
  Best and fairest awards: Eight – Leigh Matthews (1971-72, 1974, 1976-78, 1980, 1982)
  
• Team records
  Most wins in a season: 19 (1971, 1988, 1989, 2013)
  Most consecutive wins: 12 (1961-62, 2012-13)
  Highest score in a match: 36.15.231 (vs. Fitzroy, 1991)
  Highest winning margin: 165 (vs. Port Adelaide, 2011)
  Highest home attendance: 92,935 (vs. Collingwood at VFL Park, 1981)
  
• Hawks history
  The origins of the Hawthorn Football Club are murky and widely disputed. Some claim the team that now plays in the AFL has existed since the 1870s, but various newspaper records suggest at least three other clubs called Hawthorn came and went by the end of the 19th century.

  HFC as we know it was founded in 1902 as an amalgamation of several junior district clubs. Further mergers with Boroondara and Hawthorn Rovers over the next few years led to the formation of Hawthorn City. They joined the Victorian Football Association in 1914, when they were forced to adopt a brown and gold strip in order to avoid a clash with the blue and gold of Williamstown.

  The Mayblooms, as they were then known, found little success in the VFA. They reached finals only once (1923) and never contested a grand final. However, that did not halt Hawthorn’s bid to join the more prestigious Victorian Football League in 1925, when they were granted membership alongside VFA powerhouses Footscray and North Melbourne.

  The next three decades were a slog, and not just because of the Great Depression and World War II. A lack of local commerce and industry meant a lack of sponsorship and investment, which is how Hawthorn went from being one of the VFA’s richest clubs to one of the VFL’s poorest. The best thing to come from this era was the Hawks moniker, coined by coach Roy Cazaly in 1942.

  The 1950s were a pivotal decade for Hawthorn. John Kennedy started his professional playing career and Graham Arthur arrived a few years later. Former assistant coach Jack Hale took over from Bob McCaskill in 1952 and instilled a more professional attitude towards the game. In 1957, the Hawks made the finals for the first time in 33 years of VFL football.

  The big change came in the ’60s. After five years as captain and four best-and-fairest awards, Kennedy took over as coach of Hawthorn. A year later, the Hawks claimed their first premiership of any description with a resounding win over Footscray in the VFL Grand Final. The rest of the decade was a mix of highs and lows, with Kennedy stepping away for a few seasons before returning to the helm in 1967.

  Led by star recruits such as Leigh Matthews, Peter Hudson and Peter Knights, Hawthorn soon metamorphosed into one of the league’s most powerful clubs. A second flag came in 1971, when they edged out St Kilda in front of more than 118,000 people at the MCG. Further success arrived in ’76 and ’78 against North Melbourne, who had humiliated the Hawks in the 1975 finale.

  The best was yet to come. Between 1983 and 1989, Hawthorn played in seven consecutive VFL Grand Finals for a total of four flags. Mainstays of this golden era included coach Allan Jeans, 426-gamer Michael Tuck, 1254-goal hero Jason Dunstall and the inimitable Dermott Brereton.

  After saluting again in 1991, Hawthorn fell on hard times. Reckless spending and on-field failures led the club to the brink of a merger with Melbourne, but that plan was scrapped in the face of a fierce campaign engineered by former premiership star Don Scott. The result was a huge surge in membership that saw the Hawks enter the new millennium as one of Melbourne’s best-backed clubs.

  Those new supporters did not have to wait long for a return to the glory days. A surprise win over Geelong in the 2008 AFL Grand Final heralded the arrival of a new footballing dynasty. After losing to the Sydney Swans by 10 points in 2012, Alastair Clarkson’s Hawks dominated the competition with three consecutive premiership wins.

  Once the perennial wooden spoon favourites, Hawthorn now rank among Australia’s most successful sporting organisations. The club has won 13 premierships since 1960 – a record that leaves heavyweight rivals Carlton, Richmond (eight each), Essendon (six) and Collingwood (two) for dead.
  

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