Tom Hawkins – Geelong
Tom Hawkins known as time on his embellished profession with the Cats after profitable three premierships, 5 All-Australians and kicking almost 800 objectives.
He leaves the Cattery because the membership’s video games file holder, to concentrate on household and farming going ahead.
Nonetheless, the decision to retire was a tough one on account of a flaring toe damage, as he revealed in his new e-book.
“When the issue with my second toe first flared within the latter levels of the 2022 season, there have been instances the place the ache was so vital that a part of me wished I may minimize it off,” Hawkins wrote in his new e-book, Tom Hawkins.
“However as we assessed how greatest to deal with the damage main into what may show my closing season, I used to be astonished to study that amputation was not simply an choice, however was a practical one ought to issues go awry.”
Hawkins was additionally the final remaining member of the Cats’ 2009 premiership staff.
