The 4 of them may have had a meeting that doesn't mean automatically mean that Bartel and or Reid are being courted by Hawthorn. It just means that they are having lunch.I didn't realise you meant Bartel as a potential board member or a football department member. That said, I still question what he would be doing with Roughead meeting Barrass and Harley Reid. Reid is just pure fantasy.
I saw Jack Ginnivan with Tom Mitchell and Josh Giddy the other day. Does that mean Tom's coming back and giddy is quitting the Chicago Bulls to be a category b rookie at Hawthorn? No they were doing a podcast.
It's possible these 4 will do some business venture together. I say Bailey Smith and Jarred Roughhead in a TV commercial the other day too and they were in a super box together at the football. Doesn't mean squat.
Buddy and Wellingham were together constantly when both playing in Melbourne.
I'm not skeptical at all that the lunch occurred, but making inferences from it is ridiculous.