Hawthorn will unleash mercurial small forward Nick Watson in their season-opener against Essendon, while Demons star Clayton Oliver has turned his life around “significantly”.
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“I’m torn between telling you that he’s going to be an exciting young talent and also just hosing it down a little bit because I think he’s just turned 19 ,” Mitchell said. Daicos, who we would always compare and say, ‘Well, he just walked in and was ready for the AFL straightaway’ Mitchell foreshadowed “a lot of new faces” in Hawthorn’s line-up across the opening month of the season, with pre-season key defensive recruit Ethan Phillips another in contention. Two-gamer Henry Hustwaite, a 195-centimetre midfielder who has re-signed until 2026, is a likely inclusion after an impressive summer.Important Hawk Dylan Moore is set to face the Bombers, but the Hawks are undecided on whether he will serve as the substitute or not.
“We’re still going to be very young – I think we’re the second-youngest team in the competition. There are going to be some exciting faces, still continuing to get games into players who we know are going to be great players for this club over the journey.” “So he’s going to be fine in the physical space. That’s not a worry at all, it’s just dealing with expectations and making sure that we protect him as much as we can as a club because we don’t want a guy like that trying to play just to prove everyone right or wrong, we just want him to play to his strengths and let him try and enjoy a bit of being an AFL football in the early parts of his career. But it is tough with Harley.”Essendon coach Brad Scott said earlier this week that No.
Goodwin added that Oliver will only improve as he plays more games. “He had his possessions, no doubt about that, and he got better as the game went on,” the coach said. “It’s going to be great – geez, we missed him,” Goodwin said. “He’s a pretty good player, Kos – to get him back in the front of the ground, where he has his biggest impact, but also around stoppage and centre bounce. We saw through the pre-season, he’s evolving into a pretty damaging stoppage player.”“The good thing about where we’re at right now is we’re starting to get some competition back for spots, especially in the forward half,” Goodwin said.
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