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