Reflecting on all the topical milestones and achievements, past and present, as we head into Round 17 of the 2018 season. This is 'Footy Flashbacks'....

Jarryd Roughead will this week join two of the club’s all-time greats in equal ninth place on the Hawthorn games played list.

When he leads the team against the Brisbane Lions on Saturday, Roughead will join Jason Dunstall and Gary Ayres on 269 games. 

Last Saturday night, Hawthorn achieved the rare feat of winning a game by more than 10 goals after trailing at half-time. The Hawks were losing by two points at the long interval before going onto beat the Western Bulldogs by 63 points. 

The previous time Hawthorn did it was also against the Bulldogs at Docklands. In Round 21 2007, the Hawks trailed by six points at half-time, but then piled on 16.10 to 2.4 in the second half to win by a remarkable 84 points.

The first occasion when the Hawks were behind at half-time and won by more than 10 goals was against Geelong at Glenferrie in 1973, with the next one being versus South Melbourne at the Lakeside Oval in 1977, and then there were a pair in 1983, against Melbourne and St Kilda. 

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Jack Gunston is on the cusp of a pair of achievements. This Saturday he will play his 150^th game in the brown and gold. He also needs one more goal to become just the 12^th Hawk to reach 300 goals for the club, joining his teammates, Jarryd Roughead and Luke Breust, in this illustrious category. Gunston has already booted 300 goals in his career, adding 20 during his time at Adelaide.

This will be the ninth meeting between Hawthorn and Brisbane Lions in Launceston, which will see the Lions join Fremantle as the team the Hawks has placed the most times at the venue. The next highest are North Melbourne and West Coast, which have both played Hawthorn there seven times. The Hawks have won all nine games against the Dockers at the venue, but they did lose once to Brisbane there, back in 2009. 

Perhaps the most memorable event in a Hawthorn versus Brisbane game in Launceston was Shane Crawford playing his 300^th game in 2008. That season was the last one before 2018 when the two clubs have played each other twice in a season. 

In total, Hawthorn and Brisbane have met 47 times, with the Hawks having a 30-17 winning record. The Hawks won eight games in a row against the Lions between the 2009 Launceston defeat and the loss at the Gabba in Round 9 this season.

Hawthorn has had three nail-biting wins on 14 July, beating North Melbourne by four points in 1934, Geelong by one point in 1979 and Sydney by five points in a Thursday night game in 2016. Cyril Rioli kicked the winning goal in 2016, appropriately on the date which is his birthday. 

The Hawks’ narrow loss to Geelong in Round 17 last season was the first in this round since 2009, having had a draw in 2010, a bye in 2011 and wins from 2012 to 2016. Overall, Hawthorn has played 90 games in Round 17 for 36 wins, one draw and 53 defeats, a deficit of 17 which is the club’s worst for any round. It makes quite a contrast with Round 16 in which Hawthorn cracked the 50-win barrier last Saturday night. 

Both 10 and 30 years ago, Hawthorn played their eventual Grand Final opponent in Round 17. In Round 17 2008, the Hawks lost by 11 points to Geelong in front of a massive Friday night crowd of 86,179.

In Round 17 1988, Waverley was the venue as Hawthorn demolished Melbourne by 69 points, a margin which looked like being much bigger when the Hawks led 15.6 to 2.2 at half-time. The team had been fired up from the start with Dermott Brereton charging into the centre square at the opening bounce as a prelude to a withering five goals in nine minutes burst from the team. Jason Dunstall kicked six goals, John Platten got the three Brownlow votes and Russell Morris played one of his best-ever games. 

70 years ago, in Round 17 1948, Hawthorn scored one of the most memorable victories in the club’s first few decades in the VFL, a one-point win against Geelong at Kardinia Park – 11.15.81 to 11.14.80. Hawthorn had only managed one win in 13 visits to Geelong’s previous home ground, Corio Oval, that coming by 28 points in the same round in 1935.

This 1948 success proved to be the only win in the Hawks’ first 15 trips to Kardinia Park (Geelong’s home ground from 1941), with another win not coming until 1960. In total, combining Corio and Kardinia, that made two enjoyable return journeys out of 28 up the Geelong Road for Hawthorn fans from 1925 to 1959. Albert ‘Butch’ Prior starred with five goals in the 1948 win, ably assisted by Alec Albiston and Ken Hopper with two apiece. 

80 years ago, Round 17 1938 witnessed one of the most memorable debuts in Hawthorn history. Local Auburn boy Johnny Hall kicked five goals against South Melbourne at Glenferrie in his League debut, a club record equalled by Terry Ingersoll, Dermott Brereton and Stephen Lawrence, but never bettered.

The following week Hall played what proved to be his only other Hawthorn game. If he had kicked straight in his second game, rather than recording 2.5, his record would have been even more remarkable. As it is his average of 3.5 goals per game is the fourth best in Hawthorn history behind only Peter Hudson (5.64), Jason Dunstall (4.66) and Jack Green (4.18). 

Jason Dunstall holds the club individual goal-kicking record against Brisbane, with 11 goals in the first ever match between the two clubs at Carrara in 1987. Peter Hudson has kicked the most goals for Hawthorn in Round 17, a tally of 10 recorded against St Kilda, at Waverley, in 1977.