Quality Players who've left Hawthorn on own terms

[Hawkas1988]

His wife was American, and they divorced around the time he left Hawthorn for West Coast

I know for a fact she wanted to go back to Perth and asked him to seek a trade, she was the main reason he went back home

 

[Davo23]

I admit I cut and pasted from Blueseum site . But its wrong.

Heath left because he was wanting more money and Carlton were willing to pay the big bucks he wanted.

As for Chris Mew he was only 14 in 1975.

In 1975 Parkin was coaching in WA, for Subiaco. When Parkin returned as Kennedy's assistant Heath had decided to go elsewhere. Hawthorn tried to swap him with Roger Dean of Collingwood.

Also, Kevin Heath played almost NO Reserves & Under 19 football.

He played his first game as a Year 12 schoolboy from Assumption, brought in directly from school. I think Assumption had a rule that every student could only play for the school team, and Heath played during the school holidays. He played on Royce Hart and did brilliantly. The next year, he played full time for the Hawks.

Kevin Heath was one of my favourite players, super talented, but a lazy bastard. I was very disappointed when he left, but Carlton were a big-spending pack of pricks who bought their way to Premierships.



And, I would doubt that any Carlton site would be trustworthy!

 

[dermott]

I admit I cut and pasted from Blueseum site . But its wrong.

Heath left because he was wanting more money and Carlton were willing to pay the big bucks he wanted.

As for Chris Mew he was only 14 in 1975.

In 1975 Parkin was coaching in WA, for Subiaco. When Parkin returned as Kennedy's assistant Heath had decided to go elsewhere. Hawthorn tried to swap him with Roger Dean of Collingwood.

I well remember Roger Dean of Richmond but I have no recollection of a Roger Dean playing for Collingwood in that era.

 

[Steven Tyler]

I know for a fact she wanted to go back to Perth and asked him to seek a trade, she was the main reason he went back home

She should have transferred to Melbourne
Flight Attendants are based here too!

 

[wahawk]

His wife was American, and they divorced around the time he left Hawthorn for West Coast

I am aware that his wife was American, am I'm also pretty sure she hated Melbourne.

 

[Hawkas1988]

She should have transferred to Melbourne
Flight Attendants are based here too!

She had a huge distaste for Melbourne, wasn't the friendliest person either

 

[Steven Tyler]

She had a huge distaste for Melbourne, wasn't the friendliest person either

Very true

 

[Todman]

I well remember Roger Dean of Richmond but I have no recollection of a Roger Dean playing for Collingwood in that era.

silly me Robert Dean number 26 wingman

 

[Breretonisahood]

John Peck left in 1967 when Hudson arrived. He was pissed off about all the hoopla surrounding Hudson and went to Port Melbourne for a season. He went bonkers in the infamous 67 VFA GF against Dandenong- I think he might have even belted an umpire (?). I don't think Peck was pushed, he left of his own accord. Its been said that Peck should have been enticed to stay in the FP and protect Hudson. Huddo was regularly bashed in his first year by full backs like Wes Lofts, Bob Murray et al, although in the long run he came good (obviously!).

 

[Jason Dunstall]

Chick. Brad scott. Croad. Gary ablett. Mcpharlin.

Didnt bud leave to be with his future family ?

really?

 

[Jason Dunstall]

Tony Hall

Tony hall was cooked after that knee.

Nearly cried after that Andy Collins tackle.

Very smoth mover Tony Hall.

 

[Pessimistic]

She had a huge distaste for Melbourne, wasn't the friendliest person either

The story i heard is they intended to go to the us after his footy career, moving to perth was a compromise so his family would see him for a bit before leaving altogether.

Funny how that turned out, i bet the footage from the chick n cuzz show wpild be entertaining

 

[Hawkas1988]

The story i heard is they intended to go to the us after his footy career, moving to perth was a compromise so his family would see him for a bit before leaving altogether.

Funny how that turned out, i bet the footage from the chick n cuzz show wpild be entertaining

Yeah she did want to go back home eventually and going to Perth was ideal for her own benefit, she also wasn't happy in Melbourne at all and made all the decisions for him.

I always thought he would be so much better off without her (she simply was a b*tch) and not afraid to say that but in the end he has self destructed a fair bit.

West Coasts culture was terrible when you look back at Cousins, Gardiner, Chick, Fletcher & Hunter.

 

[Todman]

His nose has copped a battering over the years.

 

[Todman]

The club cleared Barry Rowlings , Peter Welsh and Al Martello to Richmond.

 

[Jane Doe]

The club cleared Barry Rowlings , Peter Welsh and Al Martello to Richmond.

Rowlings did his knee and the club thought he was passed it. He certainly proved that wrong. From memory Peter Welsh might have been struggling to cement a game with us. Rowlings & Welsh both played in the Tigers 1980 premiership. Al Martello had a contract dispute with the club from memory. He was almost passed it by the time he went to Richmond.

 

[flinchfree]

Barry Rowlings was my favourite player as a small kid, destroyed me to take his number (22 If I remember...?) from the duffel coat.
Replaced it with 24 so not too shabby an exchange

 

[Agent Smith]

Barry Rowlings was my favourite player as a small kid, destroyed me to take his number (22 If I remember...?) from the duffel coat.
Replaced it with 24 so not too shabby an exchange

Nice first post. All the same, I would have preferred to have hung on to him, unless the exchange involved gains of Trent Croad proportions...

 

[flinchfree]

Thanks Agent, found this site today and spent 2 hours reading posts while work sat quietly on the desk..... Like many on this site I barely knew a fellow hawk supporter growing up and it blows me away to find others who lived and breathed my memories hopes and anguish through the 70's and 80's.

And honestly, 35 years later I still nash my teeth a little at Barry getting away and playing for that mob in yellow and black. He never even looked backwards to see my hurt, and the club barely even made comment.

But hey, it's not like I hold on to shite, do I?

 

[Davo23]

Barry Rowlings was my favourite player as a small kid, destroyed me to take his number (22 If I remember...?) from the duffel coat.
Replaced it with 24 so not too shabby an exchange

I'm with you on Barry Rowlings, great player and a great personality.
Terrible to lose him.
He's also prominent in that last great photo of Peter Crimmins in 1976 ...

But you would have worn the No 24 proudly for the next 3 decades!



And even now.

 

[Hawk Dork]

Al Martello had a contract dispute with the club from memory. He was almost passed it by the time he went to Richmond.

I thought he had a falling out with Kelvin Moore,I think they were business partners????

 

[The BIG X]

I thought he had a falling out with Kelvin Moore,I think they were business partners????

Moore & Martello were business partners as Electricians - known as Starsky & Hutch.

Unaware aware of a fall out - however they did go separate ways.

 

[Ram-Man]

But you would have worn the No 24 proudly for the next 3 decades!

And even now.

How many numbers can we say that about ?

#2 - Mew, Holland, Roughead
#3 - Matthews, Condon, Hay, Lewis
#5 - Collins, Harford, Mitchell
#9 - Dipper, Crawford, Burgoyne
#24 - Knights, Langford, Croad, Cox, Croad, Stratton

 

[Lord Mud of Glenferrie]

I admit I cut and pasted from Blueseum site . But its wrong.

Heath left because he was wanting more money and Carlton were willing to pay the big bucks he wanted.

As for Chris Mew he was only 14 in 1975.

In 1975 Parkin was coaching in WA, for Subiaco. When Parkin returned as Kennedy's assistant Heath had decided to go elsewhere. Hawthorn tried to swap him with Roger Dean of Collingwood.

I would not worry too much about being wrong on the reason. I would suggest that nearly everybody is wrong on why players left the club.

You are now right about Kevin Heath and it is good to see his name finally get a mention. I consider Heath to be amongst the very best players to have left Hawthorn for better pastures. Money was the major reason.

Others to have left that have not yet been mentioned,

Rod Olsson. The club desperately wanted to keep him but he was determined to go to Sandy Bay Tas as player coach.

Paul Barnard. Was a trade where both clubs benefited.

Russell Morris. Went to St Kilda. I have no idea why. Some may remember the Jim Edmund hit against the Bears at Carrara. This one was right up there with Jessie Sinclaire's attempted murder of Lance Picioane. Morris was never the same after.


Very few would know why players left the club but this is what I heard.

Alan Martello. The club believed his ankles were shot and the club doctor (Terry Gay?) considered he could be crippled. As stated he went to Richmond where he attained 300 VFL games and played in a losing grand final.

Barry Rowlings. This was a fairly complicated case with several factors intertwined. One, amongst the many reasons, I heard was that the club thought he was superfluous to requirements due to the arrival of Terry Wallace.

Greg Dear. Again, ankle problems and Hawthorn saw him as way past his best. Alan Jeans, who was the coach of Richmond at the time, didn't think so and was over joyed to get him to Richmond.

Daniel Chick. This was all about 9/11 and his American wife wanted to go to Perth to be with relations. Make of it what you wish but 9/11 did feature strongly in the media as the reason Chick went to West Coast. Along with Heath I rate him right up there amongst the best players to leave.

Jarman. He was always going to leave for Adelaide. He knew it, Hawthorn knew it and Adelaide knew it.

And many, many more whispers.

PS Tulloch was better.

 

[Todman]

Tulloch was better.

Grrrrrr !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!