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Martin's retirement is effective immediately.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1190191/ric ... mmediately

Hawkins to retire at the end of the season.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1190079/gee ... om-the-afl
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Re: Dustin Martin and Tom Hawkins retire

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Both over 300 games
Both multiple premierships
Both had great careers
Martin 2 norm smiths a Brownlow, 4 best and fairests, a league MVP and long list of other awards
The best player from the 2009 draft by the length of the Hume highway (notable others Nat Fyfe Max Gawn)

Easy to understand there decisions
Game has passed them by and injuries are now coming too often
Best wishes to both in retirement and I hope life after football is as good to them as football was
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^ Steady on. Second-best, perhaps.

Trivia question: Which 200-game champion club captain won a premiership in his first season after being drafted in 2009?
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Being a little more generous about them, there's two blokes who won't catch Pendlebury's games tally. :D

If it matters, Martin won the Norm Smith 3 times (17, 19 and 20).
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Also Andrew Gaff is retiring. Doesn't deserve his own thread. :evil:
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Pies4shaw wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2024 12:22 pm ^ Steady on. Second-best, perhaps.

Trivia question: Which 200-game champion club captain won a premiership in his first season after being drafted in 2009?
If you mean Mitch Duncan I think your wrong mate
And thank you he won 3 norm smiths I mis typed
You can also so add during that tigers run Martin in all finals appearances he was ranked #1 player in a game on all but 3 occasions
And he was rated by champion data the #1 player in the game over a entire season on 5 occasions
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Gaff was a interesting footballer
Had a period of about 18 months when he was elite
Either side or that he was barely average
I think IMO he wasn’t dedicated to the game as he could have been
But good luck in retirement
I’m sure over the next few weeks we will add more names to the retirement list
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^ Mitch who? Did his team win the flag in 2010?
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Re: Dustin Martin and Tom Hawkins retire

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I won't miss Hawkins. He always turned to the CS after they beat us with some smart face.

I wonder if he'll be fit in time to play again. Cats looking like they may finish between 5-8 atm. Geez, I'd love to knock them out in his last match. But that seems unlikely that we'll meet up now.
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Pies4shaw wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2024 12:22 pm ^ Steady on. Second-best, perhaps.

Trivia question: Which 200-game champion club captain won a premiership in his first season after being drafted in 2009?
Baaaall yeah!

Scully, Trengove, Morobito.... it really wasn't a great draft; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_AFL_draft
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And now Heppell has announced his retirement. He has played in 252 games, captained Essendon for 6 seasons, won a B&F there, got named AA once (in 2014) and helped the Bumblers to finals defeat in 5 out of finals. May the next 20 Essendon captains be just as successful! :D :P
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^ His coach described him as "a legend of the Essendon Football Club" in his presser today. I'm with Scott on this - Heppell has contributed heavily to all of Essendon's recent success.

Meanwhile, Zach Tuohy has announced his retirement after the season, too.
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Re: Dustin Martin and Tom Hawkins retire

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qldmagpie67 wrote: Thu Aug 08, 2024 4:25 pm Gaff was a interesting footballer
Had a period of about 18 months when he was elite
Either side or that he was barely average
He had a decent back-hander for tennis though; just ask Glassjaw! Ah, the highs and lows of 2018...
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