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Hawthorn Football Club would like to congratulate Grant Birchall on an outstanding career after the four-time premiership Hawk announced his retirement on Friday. Taken by the Hawks with Pick 14 in the 2005 national draft,

Decorated defender Grant Birchall has announced his AFL retirement after four premierships and 287 games across 15 seasons for Hawthorn and Brisbane. A tough, classy half-back, the Tasmanian played 248 games for Hawthorn between 2006 and 2019,

Grant Birchall has today announced he'll be officially hanging up the boots after an amazing AFL career. The AFL world will say farewell to one of the legitimate “big game” players with the retirement of Lions defender Grant Birchall.

WHO'S CALLED IT QUITS 2021's retirements and delistings After battling with injury towards the end of his time at the Hawks, Birchall revitalised his career with a move to the Lions, playing 39 games over the past two years,

Four-time premiership player Grant Birchall is yet to decide whether he wants to play on in 2022. After playing just eight AFL matches in his final three years at Hawthorn, the defender has been remarkably durable across two seasons at the Brisbane Lions,

Birchall is one of the oldest rookies in the competition, but the veteran defender says he's a new man after leaning down in the off-season.

Four-time AFL premiership winner Grant Birchall has been temporarily delisted by Brisbane Lions who axed three players on list lodgement day with a commitment to take them all in the rookie draft. With lists having cut from 47 to 44 and a nine per cent …

Grant Birchall became the latest player to find a new lease on life at Brisbane in 2020. The four-time premiership Hawk had managed just eight games in the previous three years at Hawthorn due to a string of knee,

A fifth AFL premiership would be a bonus for Grant Birchall in more ways than one. The former Hawthorn defender is only a couple of steps away from the rare

THE LION with the most big-game experience has some simple advice for his young teammates ahead of the club's biggest game in 16 years on Saturday night – back yourself.  Grant Birchall played in six preliminary finals for Hawthorn and will make it number seven when Brisbane hosts Geelong at …