Doug Hawkins Biography
Doug Hawkins is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL) for Footscray and Fitzroy. He also had a brief journalism career and stood for Senate as a member of the Palmer United Party in the 2013 Australian federal election.
How old is Doug Hawkins? – Age
He is 63 years old as of 5 May 2023. He was born in 1960 in Braybrook, Victoria, Australia. His real name is Douglas James Hawkins.
Doug Hawkins Wife
Hawkins is married to Raelene, a former cast member of Fox Footy’s Living with Footballers, which was canceled at the end of 2004. They are the parents of three children: a son and two girls. Doug currently lives near Bacchus Marsh and coaches the Bacchus Marsh Football Club.
Doug Hawkins Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Doug Hawkins Fitzroy
However, after 329 games and 216 goals for the Bulldogs, his contract was not renewed at the end of the 1994 season, thus he transferred to the Fitzroy Football Club for the 1995 season, where he played 21 games and kicked 11 goals before retiring.
Doug Hawkins Footscray
Hawkins made his presentation in Cycle 1 1978, against the group he grew up barracking for, the North Melbourne Kangaroos, he recorded 7 removals and an objective. He played 18 games in his presentation season, recording 241 removals and kicking 11 objectives for the season. He played every one of the 22 games in his subsequent season and kicked 17 objectives. Over the course of the following couple of years, he started to become well known as perhaps of the best winger the game has at any point seen, to such an extent that at the group’s home ground, the Western Oval, the external wing of the ground was named the “Doug Hawkins Wing”.
Hawkins made the VFL group of the year without precedent for the 1984 season, a season in which Hawkins amassed 446 removals and booted 9 objectives for the year. His best individual season came in 1985, winning the Charles Sutton Decoration, his solitary best and most attractive honor of his vocation. 1985 saw Hawkins pile up 531 removals and kick 7 objectives for the year. He supported up his 1985 season by making the VFL group of the year again in 1986.
Doug Hawkins Political Position
Hawkins ran as a Palmer United Party candidate for a Victorian Senate seat in the 2013 Australian Federal Election.
Doug Hawkins Nine Network
Off the field, Hawkins was known as an old-fashioned Aussie larrikin, someone who admitted he wasn’t the brightest person in the room but was always up for a joke. During his tenure as a panelist on the Nine Network’s The Footy Show in the mid-1990s, he was frequently characterized as the show’s court jester. Hawkins moved to the Seven Network in 1998 and starred on Live and Kicking, a Wednesday night rival to The Footy Show.
Doug Hawkins Career
Hawkins was named Footscray’s captain at the start of the 1990 season, succeeding Stephen Wallis. He led the club from 1990 to 1993, and Hawkins was unusually used as a small forward rather than a winger. He won the club goalkicking title with 38 goals in 1991 and 42 goals in 1992. His final season for Footscray was in 1994, and one of his final games was a memorable one in which he beat Ted Whitten’s long-standing club record of 321 for Footscray, and Whitten was on hand to congratulate him.
Hawkins won the club’s best and fairest award in 1985, represented Victoria five times, and was chosen to the AFL Team of the Year in 1984 and 1986 throughout his playing career. In 1993, he was given AFL Life Membership for reaching 300 senior games. Hawkins was named Father of the Year in 1998 after retiring, and he was one of the torch carriers for the Olympic Games in 2000. Hawkins was chosen vice-captain on the wing for the Bulldogs’ Team of the Century in 2002. He was inducted into the AFL Hall of Fame in 2004. He was inducted into the Western Bulldogs Hall of Fame in 2010, and was elevated to Club Legend status in 2014.