Happy Hawk
JARRYD Roughead bagged his second AFL premiership on Saturday with the Hawthorn Football Club’s win over Fremantle.
Roughead and his fellow Hawks managed a 15 point win over the Dockers in front of a crowd of 100,007 at the MCG.
The big man expressed his excitement of the win through Twitter on Sunday saying: Gotta love @HawthornFC
premiers!!!!!!
After a slow start with only three touches for the opening half the former Leongatha footballer picked up his skills in the third.
Two third quarter goals and seven touches in the term helped him assert himself and hold back a Fremantle surge.
Roughead had another nine possessions in the last term for a great second half.
A missed goal early in the fourth didn’t end up mattering as the Hawks ran home with the flag.
Emotions flowed from the 193cm Roughead and celebrations began.
The 2013 Coleman medallist has played a terrific year, the ninth of his career.
Roughead starting is junior football with Leongatha and then played for the Gippsland Power before being drafted in 2004.
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