Roughy’s Dream Run

LEONGATHA’S Jarryd Roughead has joined elite company, having won his fourth flag for the all-conquering Hawks.
Roughead played a superb game on Saturday in the grand final, picking up 26 possessions. He played out from goals doing a lot of the heavy work, busting open packs and allowing the runners like Rioli, Gunston, Hodge, Mitchell and co avenue to goal.
He even snuck forward to boot one goal.
Roughead is one of six Hawthorn players to have achieved the four premierships figure; the others being Cyril Rioli, Jordan Lewis, Sam Mitchell, Grant Birchall and Luke Hodge.
After the breakthrough win for Hawthorn in 2008, Jarryd and his Hawks have now won three flags in a row from 2013-2015.
After some 200-odd games, four premiership flags, a Coleman Medal (2013) and some 490 goals, it becomes apparent Roughead and Hawthorn are a match made in heaven. There are few men more admired at the club.
Sam Mitchell was asked about Roughead on Tuesday morning while the rest of the football world was still basking in the warm glow of Nat Fyfe’s Brownlow acceptance speech.
Mitchell didn’t want to take anything away from Fyfe, but he thought it might be good if one day fans got a taste of his teammate’s charm.
“If Roughy got up there to speak he would walk away with everyone going ‘man I just want to have a beer with that guy, he is a legend’,” Mitchell said.

Three peat: from left, Jarryd Roughead, Luke Hodge and Jordan Lewis with another Cup.

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Posted by Tayla Kershaw on Oct 6 2015. Filed under Sport. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry