Hawthorn, the membership which has extra 300+ recreation gamers that every other crew within the AFL competitors, will probably be hoping the choice to increase 38-year-old Shaun Burgoyne’s tenure for yet another season pays off in season 2021.
They’re searching for Mr Silk to play near the extent that he has in his first 19 years of AFL soccer and assist the Hawks again into the ultimate eight for the eighth time within the final decade.
If he does, it could seem sure that he would play the 11 games required to make the 400-game milestone and give Hawthorn the chance to brag about having probably the most 400+ recreation gamers as properly. Of course, in contrast to their first 400+ recreation participant, Michael Tuck, who was a homegrown participant who performed his complete 426 games on the Hawks, (holding the mantel of biggest game-player of all time from Round 22, 1990 till Round 19, 2016) Burgoyne began his profession at Port Adelaide and chalked up 157 games at Power earlier than his transfer to the Hawks in a recruiting coup in 2010 – the beginning of Hawthorn’s most profitable decade.
Despite being gone from Port Adelaide for over a decade, Burgoyne nonetheless held a distinguished place of the Power’s top 100 game-players, solely dropping out of the membership’s top 20 because of Tom Jonas and Ollie Wines’ remaining look of the 12 months within the preliminary remaining loss to Richmond. At Hawthorn Burgoyne sits in equal 18th place on the top 100 game-players listing with Graham Arthur, who will at all times be remembered because the captain of the 1961 premiership crew – Hawthorn’s first-ever VFL flag.
If Burgoyne does have a great 12 months he may transfer an additional three locations up the Hawks listing, forward of Grant Birchall, John Kennedy Jr and Robert “Dipper” DiPierdomenico and even attain 250 games for Hawthorn.
He has performed extra games (232) than every other present Hawk and – whereas he nonetheless has two different 200+ games teammates in Liam Shiels and Luke Breust within the membership – the following three most senior gamers: Isaac Smith (traded), Ben Stratton (retired) and Paul Puopolo (retired) have all departed, leaving solely Jack Gunston and Ben McEvoy as the 2 different top 100 game-players with no new potential top 100s in sight. Gunston wants solely 4 games to succeed in the 200-game milestone, whereas McEvoy ought to obtain 150 games earlier than season’s finish.
Goalkicking clever, Hawthorn may additionally brag about being one in every of solely two golf equipment to have two present gamers contained in the AFL’s top 100 goalkickers, albeit close to the underside of the listing. Luke Breust sits in equal 97th place with West Coast’s Jack Darling on 408 goals whereas Jack Gunston (courtesy of 20 goals scored at Adelaide previous to his transfer to Hawthorn) sits alone within the scorching seat (quantity 100) on 398 goals.
On the Hawthorn top 100 listing, Breust is already top ten (in ninth place) and Jack Gunston wants 5 goals to match Alec Albiston within the tenth place. Further down the listing Shaun Burgoyne sits in equal forty seventh place with Dipper, Liam Shiels sits in 73rd place and Ben McEvoy and Tim O’Brien share a really crowded scorching seat with former gamers Chris Wittman and Mark Graham.
