Bateman doesn't dread losing trademark locks
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Getting the chop... Chance Bateman. (Getty Images: Mark Dadswell)
Hawthorn premiership winner Chance Bateman will chop his dreadlocks off for the highest bidder on Friday to raise money for Indigenous health.
Bateman and four other indigenous team-mates, including Cyril Rioli and Lance Franklin, are using their combined star power after Saturday's win.
The person who donates the most to the Rioli Fund, set up to improve Aboriginal health throughout Australia, will get lunch with the five players, including the freshly-shorn Bateman.
Fund founder Dean Rioli says Bateman is prepared to lose his trademark hair if it means making a difference.
"It's a matter of dragging him away from all his grand final celebrations that they're tied up with, and we've just got to get Chance to sit down in the barber's chair at 12 o'clock on Friday and that's the day we're going to cut all his hair off," he said.
