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The family of AFL legend Tom Hafey are selling the Sorrento holiday house that has been their summer home since the 1960s.<\/p>\n
AFL legend Tom Hafey\u2019s family are selling the Hall of Famer\u2019s beach house in Sorrento that hosted other Tigers greats from Kevin Sheedy to Kevin Bartlett and Francis Bourke.<\/p>\n
And they\u2019ve revealed how the famously sober footballing great transformed into the ultimate entertainer whenever he was at the weekender, often sharing it with 20 guests spread across its five bedrooms and sleeping in tents in the back yard.<\/p>\n
Hafey played 67 VFL games with Richmond before commencing one of the most decorated coaching careers in the game\u2019s history, collecting the Jock McHale Medal as the coach of a premiership winning side in 1967, 1969, 1973 and 1974.<\/p>\n
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early morning swim in 2003.<\/p>\n The holiday home has been expanded and added to over the years, and regularly caters to a large crowd.<\/p>\n His daughter Rhonda Hafey noted her father always said while they were rustier than when he bought them, they still weighed just as much.<\/p>\n The now five-bedroom Sorrento home has continued to be the site of push up, chin up and weightlifting contests between latter generations of Hafeys, who regularly gather at the home with as many as 20 there at a time at Christmas.<\/p>\n But it started out as a two-bedroom house, part built by Hafey\u2019s brother Peter, a runner for Richmond, while his football champ sibling was \u201cpumping weights out the back\u201d. <\/p>\n Renovations and expansions added to the bedrooms over the years, with a granny flat out the back creating a fifth as the most recent addition \u2014 though the family have often had a small tent city in the back yard as Hafey maintained an open door policy to guests. <\/p>\n The family spent most of their time at the home outside, enjoying the barbecue.<\/p>\n Hafey as Richmond Football Club coach in 1973.<\/p>\n The result could be up to 20 people staying after barbecues with family and friends, and the occasional visit from Richmond legends like Sheedy, Bartlett and Bourke, as well as the likes of Demons\u2019 great Steven Smith.<\/p>\n However, Ms Hafey said there were no sleep-ins, with her father getting home from his morning fitness routine and immediately setting about making Vegemite toast for everyone in the house \u2014 and turning the radio on \u201cfull-bore\u201d. <\/p>\n \u201cThen we\u2019d go to the beach and he\u2019d have the cricket blasting,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Once he stopped coaching, the AFL legend began spending more time at the Sorrento home that became the base for surfing lessons for multiple generations of the Hafey family, and he often said, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing better than being on a wave with your grandsons\u201d. <\/p>\n When he was back in Melbourne, he was happy to drop his grandkids at school or even at the train station to go to university as they grew up.<\/p>\n Guests staying over at the home regularly woke up to Vegemite toast after Hafey got back from his morning fitness routine.<\/p>\n The back yard has regularly become a space for tents as guest numbers swelled past the number of beds inside.<\/p>\n While the family might be parting ways with the Sorrento holiday home that\u2019s had a wooden \u201cHafey\u201d sign out the front since the 1960s, they scattered his ashes at nearby Tideways Beach and they\u2019ll be taking the laughs and the memories with them.<\/p>\n Ms Hafey and her husband have recently bought a new home not far away, where her father\u2019s open door policy will continue and they still expect many guests.<\/p>\n Marshall White\u2019s Adam Kenyon is handling the sale of the home, listed with $2m-$2.2m expectations, and said he\u2019d had a lot of inquiries already.<\/p>\n The family went a long way to ensure plenty of accommodation for guests.<\/p>\n The home\u2019s most recent addition is a granny flat at the rear that boosted its accommodation.<\/p>\n The 1148sq m block is significantly larger than the average for Sorrento, he noted.<\/p>\n Mr Kenyon said much of the interest was coming from buyers seeking their own weekend getaway \u2014 though a few were considering it as a potential home. <\/p>\n Renovations or replacement are both likely for the property that\u2019s walking distance to the beach and the yacht club, though he noted Hafey would be remembered for a long time to come around the town. <\/p>\n Another bedroom offers more private accommodation.<\/p>\n Tommy Hafey still doing his daily fitness routine on St Kilda Beach as he turned 80.<\/p>\n \u201cTommy was very iconic in this neck of the woods, everyone saw him running down to the beach and doing his exercises \u2014 everyone knows he was a Sorrento man,\u201d Mr Kenyon said. <\/p>\n \u201cAnd for a bloke who didn\u2019t drink, he was always entertaining. 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