Gary Shadforth
Norm Smith Medallist
Veteran
Hawthorn Hawks - Muston and Savage Player Sponsor 2010
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Adelaide Hawk said:I'll mention that list again: Allan, McPharlin, Ablett, Gowers, M.Robran.
We didn't make the call on any of them. They were all required players who left and we were powerless to stop them.
Come training nights, Gary Ablett would be down Drouin at a pub piddling on.
Unlike brother Geoff (Racehorse), the youngest Ablett, despite his enormous potential was also influenced greatly his father who for some unknown reason had some kind of a grudge against our club and tried to persuade Gary to follow up Richmond's interest in him. During a lull in time, Geelong eventually lured him down to sleepy hollow and someone there talked some sense into him ... even to a degree he became a 'born again Christian'. And, of course the rest about Gary is a colossal history.