Each AFL participant who will retire this yr together with Dustin Martin, Tom Hawkins and Dyson Heppell

Tom Hawkins – Geelong

Tom Hawkins referred to as time on his embellished profession with the Cats after successful three premierships, 5 All-Australians and kicking almost 800 targets.

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 tough one resulting from a flaring toe damage, as he revealed in his new guide.

“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 may lower it off,” Hawkins wrote in his new guide, Tom Hawkins.

“However as we assessed how greatest to deal with the damage main into what may show my last season, I used to be astonished to be taught that amputation was not simply an possibility, however was a sensible one ought to issues go awry.”

Hawkins was additionally the final remaining member of the Cats’ 2009 premiership workforce.