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“Our goal is top four”: Will Day and Hawks aiming high in 2025
Nicholas Quinlan • February 16th, 2025 5:53 pm
Will Day is optimistic about what he and Hawthorn can do after a full pre-season under his belt in 2025.
The 2023 Peter Crimmins medalist has spoken about his summer on SEN’s Fireball Friday with Kane and Kingy, with the midfielder pleased to finally complete a full summer load after multiple injury affected years.
“This is my first real full pre-season,” he said.
“All these match simulations and trial games that I didn’t really get any of that last year. So, I’m not taking for granted.
“I’ve worked really closely with the medical team and being really smart about it,
“I’m really excited by it, so we’ll see how it goes.”
While Day has largely played in a midfield role since switching from half-back in 2023, he has hinted at plans of playing more forward of the ball.
“You look around the competition and all the better midfield groups of the AFL are hitting the scoreboard and we as a team have said, we would like to have more of an impact.” Day says.
“I think I’ll be able to have a bit of versality. I back myself in the air and also when it does hit the ground, I’ll be able to impact as well.
“I don’t what it looks like but at this time of the year it’s a great time to try things out and experiment.”
Hawthorn has been keen to ensure they stay within the top eight by building depth within the list.
During the trade period, the Hawks would sign West Coast’s Tom Barrass and would get St Kilda’s Josh Battle through the free agency period to help bolster their defence.
And Day is very much excited as to what they add to the Hawks’ list and what it means going forward.
“When you bring in two guys that are pretty close if not A-Graders of the competition, not just as players but them as people with their leadership and experiences, you can’t take that for granted,” he said.
“We’re in a pretty good spot, we had a look at our list as a group activity to show how much depth we have and it’s going to be pretty hard to choose the Round Zero side.”
And as for season expectations, Day says that Hawthorn have been explicit in where they want to place.
“Our goal is top four,” Day said.
“That’s where we have our eyes set and we’ll be striving towards it.”
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