List Mgmt. Welcome to Hawthorn, Conor Glass!

[Ned Ryerson]

Conor Glass has joined the Hawks! I am hoping this ends up more beneficial than our last flirtation with the Irish players. I like what I read though - sounds like he has come over a few times and hopefully the club has done a bit more homework on the homesickness element.

Sounds like a good young kid and a bit of a talent - let's hope he can adapt and thrive!

http://www.hawthornfc.com.au/news/2015-10-28/hawks-add-glass

 

[Steven Tyler]

Hope he buys lots of sunscreen!

 

[onthemoney]

Nice kicking action and how's the mark and run off in the middle of the clip! No doubt he'll take time but looks exciting.

 

[Agent Smith]

Welcome Conor McLeod Glass to the great Hawthorn Football Club.

Please refer to Jarryd Roughead for any skincare concerns. I think you should make this a priority, just quietly.

 

[flinchfree]

Top o da mornin to da young fella, kick lats a goles and donet let anybody make fun of de uccent!

 

[Davo23]

Top o da mornin to da young fella, kick lats a goles and donet let anybody make fun of de uccent!

Ha ha, needs more Lust Manager!

 

[Lethality]

Welcome Conor McLeod Glass to the great Hawthorn Football Club.

Please refer to Jarryd Roughead for any skincare concerns. I think you should make this a priority, just quietly.

McLeod is Scottish.

He's pretty robust around the thighs, that's the first thing I noticed.

 

[Easy Slips Catch]

The way he moves reminds me of Pierce Hanley, has the lightness of foot. Seen him mucking around with a footy and he looks a natural.

 

[sociable hawk]

Welcome Conor. He looks like he has been using a sherrin his whole life. Anyone know how tall he is?

 

[TazHawk15]

I will be shattered if Glass does not make it.

 

[Lethality]

I will be shattered if Glass does not make it.

I know that pane all too well.

 

[MrPremiership]

Welcome Conor. He looks like he has been using a sherrin his whole life. Anyone know how tall he is?

189

 

[CD Xbow]

I will be shattered if Glass does not make it.

I know that pane all too well.

It will be pretty clear if he breaks into the team given a window of opportunity. Sorry.

 

[MrPremiership]

What a super impressive interview, seems a wise head on those young shoulders.

From the clips also he looks very comfortable with the Sherrin, great kicking action. Exciting times.

Anyone got more info on Conor Nash

 

[kazzooka]

I remember people spotted him at preseason training last year. Seems like the club has done a bit of work targeting him and convincing him to come over.

He really seems to understand what's in front of him and wants to be an afl player.

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[Max Powers]

Welcome Conor, just watched his interview and highlights on the website
looks like the kid has some skill could be a very exciting prospect.

 

[The Jet From Poowong]

WOW - he has a better ball drop and kicking style than blokes who have grown up with AFL.
He looks an exciting prospect

 

[daniel23]

bloody hell he has some talent by the looks of things hopefully he can stick around. He could also probably give fitzpatrick a couple tips on how to drop the ball onto your foot

 

[Goody1971]

Looks like a Glass half full type to me...

 

[Roddy]

It will be pretty clear if he breaks into the team given a window of opportunity. Sorry.

I can see right through what you guys are doing....

 

[mikeder]

I can see right through what you guys are doing....

Haha, you guys are all comedians!

 

[Davo-27]

i liked some of the footage of him taking the ball at full height and then running off to then get a clear kick forward, i'm happy he is at the club and hope him the best with his career...

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

Watty Graham's, Glen, St Pat's, Maghera and Derry know all about the precocious talent that is Conor Glass. Now,news of his exploits has reached the other side of the world, as Paddy Heaney found out...
Irish Times from 30 January, 2014

AT just 16 years of age, Conor Glass can already make a rare claim to fame.

During the Christmas holidays, the teenager and his father, Cathal spent a fortnight in Melbourne as the guests of Hawthorn, the current AFL champions.

Conor spent the two weeks socialising and training with the Hawthorn senior squad. Before he travelled to Australia, the rising star from Watty Graham's, Glen admitted that he only knew the club's "big names". That is no longer the case. "By the time we left, I knew all the players and all the coaches," he said.

The irony of Glass's experience is that he has never set foot at a Glen senior session. He now knows more players at Hawthorn than at his home club in Maghera. But there is a good reason why Glass has never been near the Glen senior squad. He simply doesn't have the time.

Glass's medal haul during the past 12 months illustrates his packed schedule. Between January 2013 and January 2014, he played on club and college teams that won the 2013 Ulster Club Minor Championship, the MacRory Cup, the Hogan Cup, the Rannafast Cup, the Derry U16 Championship, the Derry Minor Championship and the 2014 Ulster Club Minor Championship.

For some of those victories, Glass was a talented player in a talented team. With regard to his success with St Patrick's, Maghera in the Rannafast Cup and with Glen in the U16 and Minor Championships, he was the exceptional player in a good team. Glass is a formidable combination of south Derry steel and north Antrim skill.

His father Cathal was a fine fielder who played at midfield for the Jordanstown team that won back-to-back Sigersons in 1986 and 1987. By his own admission, Cathal would acknowledge that shooting wasn't his forte.

In contrast, Conor is a reliable free-taker and consistent scorer. While Conor may have inherited his father's hands, his command of the finer arts can possibly be attributed to his north Antrim bloodlines. His mother, Claire, hails from the McElhatton clan in Loughgiel. Claire's father, Patsy (RIP) hurled for Antrim and her mother, Nellie (RIP) washed the Loughgiel jerseys for 25 years. Although his family background is steeped in the GAA, Conor Glass is set to join another code.

Word of his talent has spread fast. Irish-based scouts alerted Hawthorn about him last March. Representatives from the AFL club, who were in Europe during April, came to Ireland to watch him in the Hogan Cup final.

In a competition that is for schoolboys aged under 18-and-a-half, the then 15-year-old Glass excelled at wing-half back. Commenting on his annus mirabilis, Glass said the season went past in a blur. "It was an honour to be on all those teams. But you had no time to let it sink in. You would win one tournament then you'd go straight into another one." Shortly after the Hogan Cup final, Hawthorn made contact with Cathal Glass.

AFL rules stipulate that Irish players can't be recruited until they are 18 years old.

But Hawthorn were keen to demonstrate their interest.

An invitation was extended to the Glass family to come Australia in January. Cathal and Conor accepted the offer.

Hawthorn wanted to give Conor a taste of the lifestyle he would experience if he moved to the AFL. "When we landed in Melbourne, Mark McKenzie picked us up at the airport. He drove us around Melbourne and showed us the sights," said Glass. "On Monday, he showed us around the club. The team started back on Tuesday. That was a big day for me because I met all the players and the managers. It went on from there. "Then I started the training sessions."

Another AFL ruling meant Glass wasn't allowed to take part in the full training sessions.

"My training sessions weren't hard," he said. "They were mostly focused on skills and grass work and 200 metre sprints."

Occasionally, Glass cast his eyes towards the senior squad. "Their training was very intense.

I was actually surprised at how intense it was," he said.

Rather than being a turn-off, Glass is eager to test himself in that environment. It's one of the reasons he is keen to join the AFL. Asked to outline the appeals of becoming an Aussie Rules footballer, he said: "The first thing is that it's a professional sport. That is a big factor. It's very like Gaelic. And I like the intensity of it. I like the running and the catching. I like the mark."

While the recent trip gave Hawthorn a chance to show Glass the sights and sounds of Melbourne, the fortnight Down Under gave the teenager an insight into the time gap which exists between the two countries. "I wasn't aware of it until I went over there and experienced it," he said. "Me and my dad were Skyping and I was talking to my friends. Sometimes I would write to my friends and I would realise that it would be five in the morning at home. "It's a bit different. But I'm sure the longer you are over there, you would get used to it."

If everything goes to plan, Glass will move to Australia. "If you didn't go out, you would regret it. This opportunity will not always be there. Not everyone gets this opportunity so hopefully, I will be able to take it. If it doesn't work out, Gaelic football will be there for me when I come back," he said.

In the meantime, the student at St Patrick's, Maghera said he realises that his focus must return to more pressing matters. He will sit 11 GCSE exams in June. "It was great to get the chance to go to Australia. But I am 16 now. I can't go for another couple of years and a lot can happen between now and then," he said. "I can't start thinking that I am going to have a career out there. I know my main focus has to be on school. But it's hard."

 

[threesixpio]

I shouldn't glaze over my obvious some might say transparent excitement

 

[moginie]

Exciting times for this young man. Waiting with interest to see how he develops.