As his club celebrated yet more premiership glory, Hawthorn president Andrew Newbold has revealed the Hawks have already begun plotting what they hope will be continued dominance through to the end of the 2019 season.

The Hawks could not have asked for more through the opening two years of their most recent five-year business plan, dubbed "All for one". This has seen the Hawks regain their on-field dominance while remaining a financial behemoth off the field.

The Hawks take tremendous pride in planning, with Newbold admitting what the playing list as far out as 2019 would look like had already been discussed by the football department.

"It's obviously a constant body of work that we have got to do. We have a group of people looking at today, we have a group of people looking at next year and we have a group of people looking five years' out. That's how we run our club. That's the team, the organisation, everything," he said. The Hawks could easily have stumbled this season when coach Alastair Clarkson missed five rounds mid-season because of illness, but the leadership of Newbold, chief executive Stuart Fox and football department chief Chris Fagan ensured the path to successive premierships remained open. This culminated in the Hawks tasting back-to-back flags for just the second time in club history, joining the great sides of 1988 and 1989.