Hawthorn’s new recruits have been allocated their guernsey numbers for season 2008.

The Club officially announced its playing list to members at Thursday night’s Annual General Meeting at the Hawthorn Town Hall.

Cyril Rioli, the Club’s first pick in the National Draft, will wear number 33 while other recruits Brendan Whitecross and Stuart Dew will wear the numbers 37 and 31 respectively.

New numbers have also been allocated to some of the Club’s second and third year players. Clinton Young moves from number 45 to number 11, emerging centre-half-forward Mitch Thorp takes over the famous number 19 jumper vacated by the retired Ben Dixon and Ben McGlynn has been handed Richie Vandenberg’s jumper 21. After making his debut in number 38 Travis Tuck moves into number 22 andsSecond year player Garry Moss will now wear number 28, with former rookie Luke McEntee wearing number 38.

Hawthorn president, Jeff Kennett, also officially announced the Club’s record breaking operating profit of $3.603m to members.

The Club also presented life membership to Richie Vandenberg, Trent Croad, Joel Smith and Con Kanis, who is a significant behind-the-scenes contributor to the Club.

Board members, Jason Dunstall and Geoff Harris, were re-elected to the Board unopposed.


2008 Player Jumper Numbers

1    Max Bailey
2    Jarryd Roughead
3    Jordan Lewis
4    Rick Ladson
5    Sam Mitchell
6    Mark Williams
7    Michael Osborne
8    Danny Jacobs
9    Shane Crawford
10    Chance Bateman
11    Clinton Young
12    Brad Sewell
13    Simon Taylor
14    Grant Birchall
15    Luke Hodge
16    Beau Dowler
17    Beau Muston
18    Brent Guerra
19    Mitch Thorp
20    Tim Boyle
21    Ben McGlynn
22    Travis Tuck
23    Lance Franklin
24    Trent Croad
25    Tim Clarke
26    Zac Dawson
27    Stephen Gilham
28    Garry Moss
29    Tom Murphy
30    Campbell Brown
31    Stuart Dew
32    Xavier Ellis
33    Cyril Rioli
34    Brent Renouf
35    Jarryd Morton
36    Josh Kennedy
37    Brendan Whitecross
38    Luke McEntee
39    Robert Campbell
40    Hugh Sandilands*
41    Tim Walsh*
42    Matthew Suckling*
43    Alex Grima*
44    Cameron Stokes*

* Rookie list