Hawthorn held their final training session in Melbourne before they depart for Tasmania to take on the Eagles at Aurora Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

Cyril Rioli trained with his teammates as he continued his bid to return from a hamstring injury as the players were split into three groups that focused on different areas.

In all three, the groups were split into two teams where they had to move the ball past the other by hand or foot.

To finish the session, the players did some full ground drills and goal kicking gto prepare for the Eagles.

View photos from Thursday training below.


Paul Puopolo better get rid of the footy quickly, Matt Suckling is about to attack!


Skipper Luke Hodge leads his teammates as usual on the track.


Jonathan Simpkin chats to Shaun Burgoyne during a changeover in drills.


Taylor Duryea works on his touch with Assistant Coach, Luke Beveridge.


This is why Isaac Smith handles the footy cleanly on game day, lots of ground-ball practice at training.


Hodgey in action during the session.


Two games back now and Brad Sewell is looking as good as ever.


Will he or won't he? Cyril Rioli in action during training. Will he play against the Eagles? Team to be named at 6.25pm on hawthornfc.com.au