meet the nominees: best hair in league 2008

No fancy explanations needed here, surely.  This week we’re giving you the run down on the nominees for the Des Hasler award for best hair in league.

Some boys in league have deadset shocking hair.  Most have almost no hair, which saddens my heart.  What can I say? I just kinda love a man with a good head of hair. It might have something to do with my childhood crush on John Bender. 

These boys have Good Hair.  Enough said.

NATHAN HINDMARSH

pic: Phil Hearne / www.leaguehq.com.au

Truthfully, we have long been admirers of Hindy’s special brand of bedhead.  And if he wasn’t so completely peverse and determined to try and counteract his natural awesomeness, he would win the Des Hasler with his eyes closed every year.  But apparently Nathan enjoys looking like Julius Caesar, or being ridiculed in the street, or Just Plain Hates getting awards, because the number of fucking terrible haircuts he has given himself is staggering.

Consider, if you will:  on the left, we have Hindy au natural, letting the hair run free.  On the right, freshly-shorn Hindy.

I understand if you actually have never thought about this before, because usually when Hindy is on the field he has half his arse hanging out of his shorts and that tends to divert attention from his head somewhat, but DO YOU SEE?  DO YOU SEE HOW HE TRIES TO UNDO HIS OWN AWESOME?  Sigh.

He’s busy being a Cueball when he could be Russell Hammond:

If he can just manage not to pick up the scissors in the next few weeks, Nathan could have this award in the bag.

MATTHEW BELL 

pic: Getty Images

Matthew Bell is another occasional sufferer of Hindmarsh Syndrome.  Naturally blessed with an amazing head of voluminous hair, the perfect wave, and natural blond highlights, just a few weeks ago he broke our collective hearts with a particularly unfortunate trip to the barber.  I think it has a … fringe.

If that thing doesn’t grow out in the next few weeks he doesn’t have a chance.  Genetics can only get you so far, Matty baby.

DAINE LAURIE

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This was always going to happen.  From the moment he bitchslapped his way into our hearts, Daine Laurie was always going to be nominated for something.  Sure he’s a little fiesty, but he’s also FABULOUS.  Look at those dreadlocks fly! 

RUBEN WIKI

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The Warriors efforts this Beardgust have made Ruben Wiki’s facial hair famous, but don’t let it distract you from that adorable mop o curly hair.  Ruben has a touch of the Soul Glo … and we like it.

DAVID WILLIAMS

Davey honey, did you think we had forgotten you?  Not a chance.  Oh Errol Patron Saint Davey Williams has been a gun in the hair stakes all year.  We’re not even talking about the gold-prospecting beard, although god knows we love that too. 

*strokes Davey’s beard*

That is some fuck-off lustrous hair.  Amazing.  Bitch may be a worthy heir to Dessy himself.  It makes you have to fight the urge to plait barley into it and lay in the California sun playing Mamas and Papas songs and drinking Sangria.

What was my point?  Oh yes.  We are all in love with his liony mane.

Provided Intern Brownie doesn’t get to all the boys with his clippers before the end of the season, it is shaping up as a close race for the coveted Des Hasler.