Hawthorn Years
At the end of 1995, Salmon moved to Hawthorn, where he played from 1996–2000, and revived his career winning the Best and Fairest in '96 and '97 as well as the Most Consistent Award in '98. He became Vice Captain in '98 and also finished in the top ten in every best and fairest in each of his five years at the club. After 5 season's and 100 games with the Hawks he retired at the age of 35 and not long after was named in Hawthorn's 'Team of the Century'.
In 1997, Salmon achieved All-Australian selection after also gaining selection for Victoria that year as first ruck.
In 1999, he won the Michael Tuck Medal for a best on ground performance in the winning Hawk's night Grand Final.
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Famous quotes containing the words hawthorn and/or years:
“The soldier’s is the trade:
In any wind or weather
He steals the heart of maid
And man together.
The lover and his lass
Beneath the hawthorn lying,”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)
“Perfect present has no existence in our consciousness. As I said years ago in Erewhon, it lives but upon the sufferance of past and future. We are like men standing on a narrow footbridge over a railway. We can watch the future hurrying like an express train towards us, and then hurrying into the past, but in the narrow strip of present we cannot see it. Strange that that which is the most essential to our consciousness should be exactly that of which we are least definitely conscious.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)