Everything has been coming up Hawthorn the last few years. A young, exciting, and rising football side that has gone deeper and deeper into September over the last couple of seasons, with realistic hopes of a premiership in 2026.
Even better, the club has "upgraded" the club's training and administration facilities from Waverley Park to the state-of-the-art Kennedy Community Centre in Dingley, at a price of more than $100 million.
But while money can buy a lot of things, it can't make the wind go away, which Fox Footy and SEN analyst David King found out the hard way when he watched Hawthorn train on Wednesday.
"It must be impossible to have an effective training session with this exposure to the wind at the new Dingley set up. My god," he said on X.
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"The High Performance centre looks amazing but it’d blow the dog off the chain out here… Reminds me of Melbourne at Casey or Williamstown VFA days!"
Hawthorn officially made the move to Dingley at the end of last year.
Their first pre-season at the new facility has not gotten off to an ideal start, with superstar midfielder Will Day suffering a shoulder injury that will see him out for the first half of the season.