Player Watch #9 Will Hayward

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Will Hayward
Spritely Sydney Swans forward Will Hayward enjoyed a rocketing start to his career as he became the 11th-youngest player in the AFL era to reach 50 career goals in 2018. The 2016 draftee’s nippy pace and cunning goal awareness have made him a dangerous option in coach John Longmire’s forward line. A broken jaw and a persistent hip injury limited Hayward to just 12 goals in 13 senior games in 2019, but the South Australian is attacking the 2020 campaign on the back of his first full pre-season. Don’t be surprised if the exciting Swan finds himself on a wing this year.

Will Hayward
DOB: 26 October 1998
DEBUT: 2017
DRAFT: #21, 2016 National Draft
RECRUITED FROM: Walkerville (SA)/North Adelaide (SANFL)

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SilentHunter_ said:
Best thing about will is that, from all reports, he loves everything about the club. He's good loyal lad. Definitely looking like a blood for life. Great find.
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Players such as this is who you save your cap for. Occasionally we get one wrong as in Tippo that didn't work out as we would have liked but Parker, Kennedy, Hanners etc have shown loyalty & good form for the club & are no doubt being rewarded with each contract that they re-sign.
Make no mistake, once Buddy has a couple of years to go on his contract, we will no doubt get another 'star' to our club with a back ended contract.
 
scaryness said:
Love him, but has a touch of Rohan in him regarding his stats sheet week to week.
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Games such as this are impossibly difficult for kids to make their mark. When the leaders aren't standing up, and the structures are thrown to the wind, players go into their shells and start focusing on individual games. It's a cliche used by commentators but it is true and I could see it tonight. Their was a distinct lack of organisation or method to the way we played. Good luck being a 21 game pressure forward in that. Hayward and Florent would've felt as if they were lost at sea tonight.
 
Can be frustrating watching a game on TV.

Late in the game a graphic came up which indicated Hayward had covered the 2nd most distance of any player on the ground, but difficult to gauge, from the coverage, how much of that was 'useful' running.

I hope that the coaches are going through the tapes, particularly with the young guys such as Will & Florent, to ensure effort = reward (from both an individual/team aspect).
Not a criticism of Hayward, but sometimes a guy early in his career can actually try too hard to make an impression.
One of the things that Leigh Mathews used to tell newbies was that sometimes standing still was actually the best tactic.
 
scaryness said:
Love him, but has a touch of Rohan in him regarding his stats sheet week to week.
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Would have been better if Franklin didn’t tell him to pass off a shot from 25m to kick it to Jones to have a shot from
50m!
 
LukeParkerno1 said:
Would have been better if Franklin didn’t tell him to pass off a shot from 25m to kick it to Jones to have a shot from
50m!
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Yeh that was bad. Franklin has been excellent but his influence on younger players can cause dumb errors.

Hayward isn't being helped by the game plan either, being forced to contest long, high bombs rather than get to make leads and use his smarts to conjure goals. Why in the hell would we be trying to force him and Rohan to contest bombs into the forward line rather than utilise what makes them valuable?
 

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If this kid can continue to go the next level, he could be in All Australian form. Sounds hyperbolic after last night but he is fourth amongst medium/smaller forwards in the comp for goals kicked (behind Breust, Menzel and LeCras). He’s on track for a 40 goal season but I reckon he could go to another level again, particularly against some easier opposition. Highly doubt he’ll be an All Australian but the fact he’s in the same realm as some of the best in the comp at that role is a huge testament to young Will.
 
Love that he is starting to be a true lead up medium forward who can take a contested mark. Last year he seemed more oppurtunistic than structured.

Learning very quickly.
 
caesar88 said:
If Hayward is our cleanest player inside 50... and Florent is our cleanest player in the midfield... throw the kitchen sink at them please Swans
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