East Side Hawks

The Club
The East Side Hawks are in the midst of their 12th SFA season and chasing their second SFA premiership. Led by league behemoth Itsmyshow, East Side have a remarkably strong foundation in the league, with the club having brought home 3 Mobbenfuhrer Medals (2 to club legend larrikin and 1 to SFA Immortal boncer34). Two-time AlfAndrews Medallist Tarkyn_24 plays at full forward for the club, whilst the rest of the leadership group comprises of Dagless, Mr Eagle and Karnezis_13. More than 50% of the TFLUA-Tiger Medallists in history won the award at the East Side Hawks, further confirming their league dominance.

Season 17 is set to bring home the Hawks second premiership, as a mammoth recruiting scheme brought in EKA contender GutsyBug, forwardline sensation Rendered Unsafe and ex-league legend Wally among others.

Summary
S14 saw the Hawks take out the wooden spoon after losing the battle for the spoon match versus The Gorillas. It was a dramatic fall from grace for the premiers of two seasons ago.

Finishing with 6 wins from 17 games, it is generally accepted to be the Hawks least successful season on-field in living memory, taking out no major awards outside the wooden spoon. S14 Captains boncer34 and Tarkyn_24 are said to have taken the lack of success quite hard, with the incumbent Itsmyshow immediately taking the reigns for Season 15.

At the conclusion of the season, an upgrade to Waverley Oval was completed, with the Southern Stand heightened in a way which displayed the Season 12 flag in high visibility. Crowds gathered from all the land, in what some consider to be a kickstarter to the Hawks return to relative success in two seasons time (taking out the Season 16 minor premiership.)

Awards
Dual Mobbenfuhrer Medallist and star ruckman larrikin took home the best and fairest award, whilst recruit and gun forward pocket Matt121 pinched the goalkicking award in what was considered an upset to most.

Summary
In a fashion quite unlike the East Side of old, the Hawks failed to qualify for the finals for the second consecutive season. Debut captain Itsmyshow took positive steps to remedy this, recruiting disgruntled Dragon RoaringUniLions, stats machine akkaps and future vice captain Karnezis_13. The season began well, with the Hawks recording a strong win over the Southern Dragons in Round One, before losing four consecutive matches. In the midst of this lull, Biggie celebrated his 150th match with a loss. Round 8 saw the Dragons flip the tables, scoring an exciting 2 point win at Dragon Island, much to the chagrin of East Side veterans. Mature age players in the ilk of TRAWP had had enough and the club held an honesty-based meeting outside Boncer's Castle which resulted in East Side scoring 4 wins from their next 6 games and reigniting a slight finals flame. This was promptly extinguished by, ironically, the Southern Dragons again, and the Hawks season amounted to very little, avoiding the wooden spoon which was granted to perennial strugglers the Geelong Gumbies.

Awards
The awards night was quite a spectacle, with the well dressed club legend larrikin taking out the Wally Medal for the Club B&F for the second consecutive season. HARPSichord ran second in a tightly-fought count, whilst Matt121 silenced the doubters with his second club goalkicking medal. Club legend Wally was inducted into the Hall of Fame whilst the maligned Jobe3votes won the league's Frankston Rover medal.

Summary
Disappointed with the clubs last two seasons, the leadership group brought the club together early for pre-season training and history shows it worked. Despite losing posters such as Snappy!, akkaps, Jobe3votes and Biggie to reasons ranging from expansion to retirement, East Side knocked off reigning Grand Finalists the Furies and pre-season premiers the Bombres on their way to equal pole position two rounds in.

At 6-1 going into Round 7, the Hawks led the league and were unbackable favourites to take the premiership flag. A dispiriting loss to the returning Swampies was reassured by a win over the reigning premiers WCW, and by the end of the season East Side were in unstoppable form, scoring over 300 points in their final fortnight of the home and away season to take out the minor premiership and earn themselves an unprecedented triple chance in the finals series.

It wasn't enough though, as the Hawks finally dropped out of the finals in Week 4 (Prelim finals) as eventual premiers the Geelong Gumbies ploughed on to their very first pennant.

It would end up being a strong off-season for the Hawks though, who signed numerous new players from GutsyBug to Rendered Unsafe in their attempt to go those two steps further in S17.

Awards
Club captain Itsmyshow hosted the club best and fairest yet again, as the newly-crowned VC Mr Eagle was ecstatic to take home his very first Wally Medal as the East Side B&F. Tarkyn_24 achieved a season of full forward domination which netted him the Hawks goal kicking award to stand alongside his second AlfAndrews medal for booting the most goals in the league. In the off-season, Karnezis_13 had the rare honour of co-captaining a premiership SoO side at the Allies. He may have also included this solely to gloat.

Season 17
Currently at the mid season break of this season, the East Side Hawks hold a strong position, having bounced back from a 0-2 start to hold a 3-3 record and fourth place in the league. The upcoming match against Buller, who share a 3-3 record, at home is set to have a large bearing on how the season pans out for the revitalised Hawks. IMS is suiting up as captain for the third consecutive season, looking for his first premiership in the green and gold. GutsyBug is currently a chance at taking home the EKA Medal, whilst Mr Eagle is having another strong season which could see him take home a second club best and fairest.

Current squad
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