You’ve likely seen it peppered throughout your social media.

It seems that, across the AFL this summer, it has become somewhat in vogue to go for the most… audacious look possible.

Bulldog Bailey Williams turned up to their club photo day with a mullet that was blonde on one side and brunette the other, before new Bomber Jake Stringer matched his former teammate with a peroxide blonde top knot that was equally hard on the eye. 

But all of this talk about hair got us thinking, what are some of the worst (or in some eyes, best, boldest, most creative, ‘dos that we’ve seen run around in a Hawthorn jumper?

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Josh Thurgood

Unfortunately for Josh Thurgood, when the terms “Hawthorn player” and “horrendous hair-do” combine, the former rookie is one of the first that springs to mind. Drafted on the Hawthorn rookie list in 2004, Thurgood became an instant cult hero primarily due to his fiery red-haired dreadlocks. The style ensured nicknames such as “Red Baron” and “Sideshow Bob” quickly stuck to the wiry defender.

Jarryd Roughead

Take yourself back to 2007 when our beloved now-captain was a fresh-faced 20-year old. The Leongatha product had strung together 36 games over his first two years as a Hawk and was beginning to emerge as a future star of the competition. But that year he really started to put his name up in lights, not just for his 40-goal season, but for the big, bushy mullet that sat atop of his head that would have made any player from the 1980s proud. ‘Roughy’ has since ditched the look for a more respectable shaved-head but we cannot and will not ever forget.

Peter Everitt

In between stints with St Kilda and Sydney, Peter Everitt spent four years with Hawthorn from 2003 to 2006. In that time, the 203cm ruckman rotated through approximately ten different hairstyles. There were mullets and dyed black mops, but the one that sticks out most is more difficult to describe. It was a mohawk that was lined to the left hand side of his head. Like many of the things that the 291-game star did throughout his career, we are not too sure we will see the likes of this again.

Gary Ayres

We feel somewhat obliged to venture back into the time that was the 1980s and 90s and pick out the most notable Hawk haircut from a time known for its wild locks. In a very competitive battle, this two-time Norm Smith Medallist gets the nod for the sheer length of his magnificent mullet. Ayres’ look appeared reasonably business-like at the front, well-combed and neat. But turn him around and that well-maintained man that you thought you had met becomes anything but. 25 years since the five-time premiership hero’s retirement, the memory can only be marvelled at as we doubt any modern day footballer would ever be daring enough to revisit the heights of the likes of Ayres.

But you never know, do you?