The Hawks are based at Waverley Park but are assessing other venues to use occasionally for closed training sessions.
The re-developed Waverley Park is surrounded by shops and housing estates that can make closed training sessions difficult to hide from prying eyes.
Hawthorn spokesman Clinton Bown confirmed that Hawks coach Alastair Clarkson and other club officials had recently visited Moorabbin to inspect the facilities.
“We are looking at a number of different alternatives. This is just one. We’re looking at that and we’re looking at a number of schools and private facilities,” Bown said.
Bown said the Hawks were observing Moorabbin not just as an alternative training venue but also to research how to improve Waverley.
“We went down there to also look at the ground maintenance and the kind of grass they were sewing and whether there was something we could learn from our own surface out at Waverley," Bown said.
"It wasn’t just about looking at potential training facilities, it was also about bettering our facilities,” he said.
St Kilda will be moving their base to Seaford from 2011 but will still retain some presence at Moorabbin, with poker machines to remain at the ground and the possibility of some training sessions to be held there.
The Saints have been based at Moorabbin since moving from the Junction Oval in1965. The last AFL match was held at the venue in 1992 but the club has continued training and hosting intra-club matches since then.
