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.

With Alastair Clarkson moving on and Sam Mitchell taking the reins, the Hawks are well and truly building for the future. There are some promising signs already, with youngsters such as Will Day, Jacob Koschitzke and Josh Ward showing great potential, but it looks to be a long road back to the top.

How will Hawthorn fare this season? Let’s see how the 2022 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 2022 AFL season

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

Click on the tabs below to get more analysis on these markets:

• Hawks 2022 premiership betting
  With Alastair Clarkson gone and a slew of seasoned campaigners retiring, the Hawks are well and truly in the midst of a rebuild. The next premiership window is a few years away yet.
  
• Wooden spoon betting
  At first glance, there are one or two teams with better claims than Hawthorn to the wooden spoon – namely North Melbourne and Adelaide. But those two sides might be a year or so ahead of the Hawks in their respective rebuilds, so last place is not out of the equation.
  
• Brownlow Medal betting
  If he plays a full season, Tom Mitchell will be there or thereabouts in the 2022 Brownlow Medal count. He might not be the flashiest player in the competition, but in an era driven by stats, his numbers are impossible to ignore. Mitchell finished equal-seventh in last year’s count and won’t be far away in 2022.
  

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Hawthorn players to watch in 2022

James Sicily
Born: 6/1/1995
Games: 94
Goals: 58
Position: Defender

It is difficult to overstate how much Hawthorn missed James Sicily last year while he was out recovering from a ruptured ACL. One of the most valuable defenders in the competition, his return to the Hawks’ back six will do wonders for their structure and give them a much stronger platform to build from this season.

Chad Wingard
Born: 29/7/1993
Games: 195
Goals: 276
Position: Half-forward

Last season was Chad Wingard’s best since moving to Hawthorn from Port Adelaide at the end of 2018, but there is still a feeling that a player of such obvious talent has more to give. If Wingard can be a bit more damaging in the forward half this year, the Hawks might go better than a lot of people think.

Josh Ward
Born: 17/8/2003
Games: –
Goals: –
Position: Midfielder

It’s all about the future at Hawthorn right now, and this guy is a big part of that. Taken with pick no.7 in the 2021 draft, Josh Ward was a standout performer in preseason and could have a big role to play in his debut campaign. He’s one to watch in the Rising Star betting.

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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