Tom Hawkins – Geelong
Tom Hawkins known as time on his adorned profession with the Cats after successful three premierships, 5 All-Australians and kicking practically 800 objectives.
He leaves the Cattery because the membership’s video games report holder, to concentrate on household and farming going ahead.
Nevertheless, the decision to retire was a troublesome one as a consequence of a flaring toe harm, as he revealed in his new e-book.
“When the issue with my second toe first flared within the latter phases of the 2022 season, there have been instances the place the ache was so important that a part of me wished I might lower it off,” Hawkins wrote in his new e-book, Tom Hawkins.
“However as we assessed how finest to deal with the harm main into what might show my closing season, I used to be astonished to study that amputation was not simply an choice, however was a practical one ought to issues go awry.”
Hawkins was additionally the final remaining member of the Cats’ 2009 premiership group.