Three-time league medallist Jack Hazendonk has landed in the Southern Football Netball League

A building Southern league club has made an off-season statement with the signature of a three-time league medallist. Here are the details.

Jack Hazendonk shrugs a tackler. Picture: Yuri Kouzmin

A three-time league medallist is on the move.

Country football superstar Jack Hazendonk is Southern league bound, signing with Lyndhurst for 2025.

Hazendonk has piled up accolades at Poowong in the Ellinbank District league including league best and fairests in 2018, 2019 and 2022.

Lighting coach Andy Clarke jumped at the opportunity to sign the gun midfielder and hoped it would spark further signings.

“I think he’s 29, three league medals and a wealth of experience, it’s hard to not want a guy like that playing at your footy club,” Clarke said.

“It’s great for the club, we’re hoping on the back of this people will see it and may be the difference between picking up some other recruits too.

“There would be a few blokes who would want to play with someone like Jack, I know when I was a lot younger I would’ve loved to play with a bloke that has his record.”

Hazendonk joins young guns Robbie McMahen (Koo Wee Rup) and Kaide Robertson (Chelsea Heights) at Marriott Waters Reserve.

Clarke said the Lightning have had an emphasis on adding tidy ball users to the list in the off-season.

He also thinks the addition of Hazendonk is going to free up superstar Charlie Gardiner who needed to carry a heavy workload in 2024.

“Charlie cops a fair bit of attention and during the season just gone it was hard to move him sometimes with injuries,” he said.

“I am hoping getting Jack will free Charlie up to play a bit more forward because I think he would be a dangerous forward.”