Luke Hodge
Sixteen years after Luke Hodge was chosen by Hawthorn in the 2001 'super draft', the Brisbane Lions selected Cam Rayner.
Jarryd Roughead’s retirement from AFL has sparked in interest in clubs looking to tap into his special skillset.
Luke Hodge returned from his summer holiday early and decided to check in with the Lions for a few additional running sessions. What he saw shocked him.
Most think of Cyril Rioli as a creative, instinctive, attacking genius. For Luke Hodge, something quite different comes to mind.
It started with a couple of funny text messages. ‘Hey, the weather is good up here if you’re keen for a kick,’ Chris Fagan messaged. It was about 10 degrees in Melbourne! Fages was one of my old mentors from Hawthorn and a good friend. I laughed them off and when I …
The best advice I’ve heard in Grand Final week came from my only teammate who’d played in one when we were about to take on Geelong in 2008. Stuart Dew had won a premiership with Port Adelaide four years earlier. His take on the idea of trying to keep things ‘normal’ in the most …
My first memory of wanting to play AFL was 1995. I was a Richmond supporter (thank God I went to Hawthorn!), and we’d made the trip from Colac to the MCG to see the Tigers play North Melbourne, who were a power team with Wayne Carey at the helm. Richmond won, and this …
