GARY BUCKENARA
No. 11
Position: Half forward flank
Career: 1982-1990
Games: 154. Goals: 293
Premierships: 1983, 86, 88, 89. Night premierships: 1986, 88. Finals appearances: 18.
Awards: 14-time interstate representative (WA); All Australian 1983, 85, 86, 88.

Recruited from Subiaco, Buckenara was a highly-skilled onballer who could also play on the half-forward flank. A superb mark with uncanny goalkicking accuracy, he is perhaps best-remembered for kicking the winning goal after the siren against Melbourne in the 1987 preliminary final. Coach Allan Jeans once described him as Hawthorn’s ‘best big game player’. Buckenara coached the Sydney Swans for one year following the end of his playing career. As a cricketer, he made the WA squad.