Despite his club returning a fourth straight net profit of more than $2 million, Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett can be expect to be grilled when he faces the members at the club's annual general meeting this week.

Not all Hawthorn members are happy with the new, five-year deal for the club to continue playing four home games a year in Tasmania and Kennett will be asked to explain one particular aspect of the deal this week at the Hawthorn Town Hall.

It is this statement in the announcement on 15 November that Kennett will be asked to explain: "So why have we argued so strongly to extend the contract when if we left the island and played all our home games in Melbourne, we would be better off financially?"

His explanation at the time was: "Because we like being in Tasmania. Because we owe it to our Tasmanian members to continue in Tassie. Because life is not always about money. And because good relationships and partnerships should be for life."

But there are Hawthorn members who claim that Kennett's no.1 role as president is to secure the club's finances and he will asked to clarify those remarks and whether he has walked away from a better deal to play 11 home games in Melbourne in order to preserve the arrangement that sees the Hawks play seven games in Melbourne and four in Launceston.

The Hawks boast an 18-10 record at Aurora Stadium since they started playing home games in Launceston. Kennett argues this gives the Hawks a genuine home ground advantage in a competition where most venues are shared by between two or more clubs. In addition, about 8000 of the club's 52,000 members are now from Tasmania. Kennett has also long-maintained that the Launceston ground has the best playing surface of any in the AFL.

But those opposed to the extension of the Tasmanian arrangement say the Hawks are powerful enough to justify 11 home games in Melbourne and are an attractive enough brand to deliver a top-shelf naming rights sponsor to replace the Tasmanian government.

They argue that the awarding of four home games a year to Launceston reduces the club's ability to play high-drawing home games at the MCG. Of the big Melbourne clubs, Hawthorn hosts only Essendon at the MCG in 2011 and that will be on a Friday night in June when the weather may be a big factor.

An Easter Tuesday clash with Geelong and a Sunday 1.10pm game against St Kilda at the end of May shape as the only other home games in which the Hawks should attract more than 50,000 people to the MCG, a factor that some opposed to the Tasmanian extension claim could hurt the club's bottom line if it again limps to a mid-table finish.

Kennett has repeatedly pledged to step down at the end of 2011, at the completion of his second three-year stint as president of Hawthorn.

In another development at the Hawk AGM, it is understood that former Hawk and now Gold Coast Suns defender Campbell Brown will no longer be attending in order to receive his life membership for having played 150 games for Hawthorn.