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Number:

  7 Footscray

Western Bulldogs

Red white and Blue

Height:

  180

Weight:

  79

Birthday:

  5 May 1960

Period on list:

  1978 to 1994

Senior Games:

  329

Goals:

  216

Disposals:

   

Recruited From:

  Braybrook
Honours:   Games record holder. Victorian state selection 1982, 1984 and 1985. Best and fairest 1985. Captain 1990 to 1993. Leading goalkicker 1991 (38). Member of the Team of the Century.
  He was wingman with every skill in the book. He would always play on the eastern wing at the Western Oval and it became named after him as "Hawkins' Wing". He had pace, skill, was a prolific kick winner, could carry the ball a hundred meters and took a good grab.

His first game was in the forward pocket but in his second game he got to the wing and made it his own. He was rarely beaten on the wing and he disposed of the ball excellently. He had his own following of fans who would position themselves in the outer on his wing just to get a better view. In that second game he was on Robert Muir of StKilda who threatened to kill him if he got a kick. Doug James Hawkins was petrified, but he got some kicks and a goal.

  

Footscray

  
Western Bulldogs In 1982 Essendon stepped in with a big fat wallet and tried to buy up Dougie, but he stuck to the red, white and blue. He did a cruciate ligament in his knee in 1986 and was out for 12 months.  
  In one match North's Phil Krakoeur was lashing out after being racially vilified and was reported. Dougie somehow managed to convince the tribunal that he didn't get hit at all and Phil got off the charge.  
  The first semi-final against North Melbourne  in 1985 was probably one of 'The Hawk's greatest games with 25 kicks, 13 handballs and 11 marks on the wing.  
  According to one of his greatest rivals, Hawthorn's Robert Dipierdomenico, Dougie 'was Footscray'.  
  He had a reputation of playing it as hard on the field as he did off the field. Apparently he had a drink on the plane on the way home from, disobeying coach Malthouse's instructions. He was dropped the next week.  
   
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He was according to urban legend, indirectly the cause of the fallout between coach Mick Malthouse and Brad Hardie. Brad Hardie coming to the aid of Hawkins in a physical way, after coach Malthouse  berated Hawkins and his family at a training session when Doug was late.

After he retired from the Bulldogs he played a season for Fitzroy.

  
 He continues to be a media celebrity into 2004. One of his standing jokes is that he can't say manure properly.