Box Hill Hawks

Noticed the former Box Hill "Strauny", Tim Harvey, has kicked his 100th sausage roll for the season at Strathmore. Great stuff from the man, the safest shot on goal i've seen.

Great to see Cam Howat, (formerly of Box Hill) getting his first game for Richmond this weekend. Hope he goes well. Didn't realise he'd been elevated off the rookie list. Carn'a Tiges, Go Stanagas.

Great to see Jason Cook get his chance and grab it, good to have a vfl listed player who shapes as a key forward, as opposed to having a revolving door of afl key forwards. You need to build teams around key vfl players, you can't rely on afl players, they can get called up at any stage. I know Cook's not "there" yet, but has kicked 3,3 and 2 in his first three matches, and taken some strong marks, and unlike some vfl players, seemed confident in his ability as soon as he came in to the seniors. Hope he can hold his spot and become a key player for the club over the next few years.

Due to Easter celebrations and festivities, i was only able to wander down for the first half, but i got a fair picture of how the match went. Hate to say it, but Nick Sautner really is looking quite good. Sure he got a couple of easy ones, including a free we stupidly gave away, sure he took a dive, but we just shouldn't have gone near him, but he did take a couple of impressive grabs, especially in the pocket during the second term. Sandy just looked so strong, and it's pretty much their VFL players leading the way. Liddell, Poyas, Rigoni, Lamb, Crowe, who seems to have bulked up this year, mixed with the likes of Johnson, Bate and Holland, they just controlled the match. Not on the scoreboard at first, i was amazed we were actually in front for a while, whilst Sandy dominated. Our forward line had no real structre, MAtt Little is looking alright, and Boyle was great against Willy, but their's no robust, tough at it tall forwards, such as Alleway, and we are really going to struggle to post winning scores this year. Unfortunately, Franklin wasn't able to get into the game unlike the practise match against Werribee, and Sandy moved the ball a lot quicker, meaning their forwards had a lot more space to lead into. We have just played the 2 potential grand finalists, so i won't get too upset, we've got Coburg and Springy in the next couple of weeks, so we might get a clearer indication of where we're at. Barracking for Richmond and Box Hill in 2006 reads Wins:0 Losses:5 Could be a long winter...

Max Bailey Matthew Ball Tim Boyle Campbell Brown Xavier Ellis Peter Everitt Stephen Gilham Ben Kane Matt Little Ben McGlynn Harry Miller Thomas Murphy Travis Tuck Shane Crawford Lance Franklin Jordan Lewis This AFL rest week is becoming a bit of a joke.. I thought the special clearance was to give those with a seriously interrupted pre-season a chance to play a match. Surely Hawthorn couldn't have had 16 payers from their list of 38 out of action.

Hope this gets through to the 'thousands' of fans who are making the trip down Geelong Rd this Saturday to watch Box Hill take on Geelong in the seniors and Grovedale in the ressies... Geelong have requested and early start to 'avoid the heat'. The ressies will now kick off at 10.00am and the seniors at 12.30pm.

Ruory Kirkby any good, what type of player is he, how old, etc??

[url]http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Box-Hill-Hawks-MATCH-WORN-Silver-Guernsey_W0QQit…] Maybe the seller is a player who has moved to the WAFL in the last year or so?

How’s this for departures over the last two years; Clinton Alleway (captain), Tim Harvey (vc?), Daniel Breese (vc?), Trevor Batchelor, Andrew Buckenara, Steve Bailey, Ben Neagle, Stephen Kenna (3 yrs), Doug Scott, Andrew Pugsley, Chris Wilson, and with some of the boys, Rudolph, Weinert and McGlynn seemingly keen to follow Collins to Coburg, just who is left?!? Above is the core of a fairly strong side, that we haven’t been able to keep! Add in B&F winner Stephen Greene, VFL player disguised as a Hawthorn player, and there’s not much left. You can’t rebuild EVERY YEAR! Sure we’ve made the finals every year since 2000, but a final 8 with 13 teams is hardly a great season. Very lucky to make it this year, and bowed straight out. Box Hill is always known as a talent developing club, but there’s a few of us who would like some results, some continuity, and we are on a downward spiral. I don’t want to continue supporting pretty much a new team every year! I’d like some familiarity with players from season to season, watch them develop over a few years. That’s what footy’s all about!!! Anyway, I understand money difficulties and everything, but I would just like the clubs vision to be success first, development second. Go Stangas!

After talk of Box Hill turning over a lot of players during the off-season, Kristan Height signed with Box Hill Hawks late last week.