Ultimate Glory Welcome to Hawthorn, Jaeger O'Meara

[Gralin]

From everything i have heard and seen we will surprise. January will reveal a lot i will curb my enthusiasm till then

Keep that kid on FP

 

[TheFourPillars]

Keep that kid on FP

Just call it as i see it mate. Yes with the added excitement of being a supporter. Whats not to be excited about we are entering another season of the game we love

 

[Gralin]

Just call it as i see it mate. Yes with the added excitement of being a supporter. Whats not to be excited about we are entering another season of the game we love

Oh I'm excited just trying to keep a lid on until round one at least, you know so I can pace myself

 

[OzJohnnie]

Oh I'm excited just trying to keep a lid on until round one at least, you know so I can pace myself

I've given up. My lid is fully blown.

 

[TheFourPillars]

Oh I'm excited just trying to keep a lid on until round one at least, you know so I can pace myself

Its probably the best strategy the season is long. Its the unknown that excites

 

[Gralin]

Its probably the best strategy the season is long. Its the unknown that excites

First season in a long time where it truly feels like the unknown too

 

[PhatHQ]

Genuinely an unknown quantity to start the season but a height expectation as a result of the anticipation of more success

 

[dermott]

Its probably the best strategy the season is long. Its the unknown that excites

I am with you 4P. But the feedback I got is that the players are pretty optimistic about 2017 and so am I.

 

[Hodginator]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...n/news-story/0f4396e20719859dfb3fa93334ee17c7

HAWTHORN’S bold bid for Jaeger O’Meara is on track to reap early rewards as the star recruit storms towards an early-season comeback.

The Herald Sun can reveal the brilliant midfielder has targeted the first month of next season to make his long-awaited return from career-threatening knee injuries.

O’Meara, 22, turned heads on the club’s training camp in Mooloolaba late last month, delighting coaches and fitness staff with his running and skills work.

It was considered the best sign yet the smooth-moving ball-winner could be ready to play in about three months, with the Hawks slated to take on Geelong in the Round 4 Easter Monday blockbuster at the MCG on April 17.

He remains an outside chance to enter the frame for the Hawks’ season-opener against a rejuvenated Essendon at the MCG on Saturday night, March 25, but a Round 4 berth is considered more likely.

Jaeger O’Meara in action during Hawthorn’s pre-season camp in Mooloolaba. Picture: Lachie Millard
New Hawthorn football manager Jason Burt said O’Meara “has not missed a beat” this pre-season and had returned from the Christmas break “in great nick”.

“We could not be more happy with the way he is going,” Burt told the Herald Sun.

“It is pretty clear he wants to play as soon as he is ready … if that is in the first couple of months of the season then fantastic.

I’d like to think that it would be, and certainly if he continues to progress the way that he has, then you would have to think the early part of the season we will see him in our colours.”

The Hawks have taken a conservative approach with O’Meara, cautious to slowly build up his workload after almost 1000 days on the sidelines nursing patella tendon problems.

Burt said the club “had to really recondition” O’Meara’s rehabilitation program under fitness guru Andrew Russell, after five years at the Suns.

Jaeger O’Meara is on track to make an early-season debut for Hawthorn. Picture: Lachie Millard
“He has been out for a long time, so Jaeger is not going to push things because he knows the result at the back end of the year is going to be pretty special,” Burt said.

The former Gold Coast Sun continues to make excellent progress this pre-season almost three months after the Hawks pulled off the biggest trade of the AFL exchange period to secure the Rising Star winner.

After losing star midfielders Jordan Lewis, Sam Mitchell and Brad Hill, the Hawks made a series of bold moves to help reopen their next premiership window, netting former Swans’ hard nut Tom Mitchell and ex-Tigers big man Tyrone Vickery in last year’s trade period.

Boom recruits: Tom Mitchell and Jaeger O’Meara in action during a running session at Waverley Park. Picture: Michael Klein
In the biggest deal, Clarkson’s men parted with pick No.10 in last year’s draft and a future second-round selection to land O’Meara. The Hawks had already dealt this year’s first-round pick and two other second-round selections in an agreement with St Kilda.

O’Meara is considered a future captain of the Hawks.

“We were all mindful of what this young man could bring to us,” he said.

“We are not in a position to be impatient with him but we are thrilled with where he is at right now.

“He is a ripping young fella who has embraced our footy club and he wants to get better.”

O’Meara will face another key test in the coming weeks when he is integrated into full training and match simulation sessions.

 

[DEECEE]

haha that dude is just a good old fashioned meat axe.

 

[oneredfrog]

Thanks for posting the article Hodginator

 

[bradburygold]

Great headline but will he really miss the first 3 games? Long term doesnt matter but the clickbait indicated he was playing preseason

 

[Judd2Sewell]

haha that dude is just a good old fashioned meat axe.

Amazing genes

 

[Gralin]

Feels like the Herald Sun has about 5 headline templates and four article templates for sports

 

[Ned Ryerson]

haha that dude is just a good old fashioned meat axe.

Walked past him the other day - often when you see some players out and about they don't look like they have a huge frame like you would imagine after seeing them on TV/on the ground. Jaeger is an absolute weapon though. Can't wait to see him on the field in brown and gold.

 

[OzJohnnie]

Feels like the Herald Sun has about 5 headline templates and four article templates for sports

True, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day. I liked this paragraph from the article:

After losing star midfielders Jordan Lewis, Sam Mitchell and Brad Hill, the Hawks made a series of bold moves to help reopen their next premiership window, netting former Swans’ hard nut Tom Mitchell and ex-Tigers big man Tyrone Vickery in last year’s trade period.

Oh, my. The haters are getting scared. Come mid-year the articles discussing (lamenting?) the Hawthorn resurgence will be so salty and epic. And then the salty hope that Hodge, Silk and Gibbo will be irreplaceable... but no one is irreplaceable. What about Roughy? Yes, even Roughy can be replaced with a bit of planning and luck.

Roll on salty goodness. I am so going to enjoy this year. #Haterz will be jumping at one shadow after another all season.

 

[Hodginator]

My favourite was the slap in the face to the Suns...

Burt said the club “had to really recondition” O’Meara’s rehabilitation program under fitness guru Andrew Russell, after five years at the Suns.

 

[Ned Ryerson]

My favourite was the slap in the face to the Suns...

Burt said the club “had to really recondition” O’Meara’s rehabilitation program under fitness guru Andrew Russell, after five years at the Suns.

Had a giggle at that myself.

 

[OzJohnnie]

My favourite was the slap in the face to the Suns...

Burt said the club “had to really recondition” O’Meara’s rehabilitation program under fitness guru Andrew Russell, after five years at the Suns.

That brings to mind this quote from Cochrane during the trade week kerfuffle:

“If (Hawthorn) was to walk away here, this would be a disgraceful way to treat Jaeger O’Meara. They’ve promised this bloke the world and they’re going to hand him an Atlas.

“They’ve told him they’re the greatest club, that he’s a future star of the club, the best medical team in the world, they’ve talked the big game here and talked it up publicly for six or so weeks.”

Sounds like a promise kept.

 

[Collins-Langford-Ayres]

To protect his knee a little, anyone think he will spend some time rotating a bit more between the midfield and up forward than he did at the Suns?

 

[Davo23]

That brings to mind this quote from Cochrane during the trade week kerfuffle:

“If (Hawthorn) was to walk away here, this would be a disgraceful way to treat Jaeger O’Meara. They’ve promised this bloke the world and they’re going to hand him an Atlas.

“They’ve told him they’re the greatest club, that he’s a future star of the club, the best medical team in the world, they’ve talked the big game here and talked it up publicly for six or so weeks.”

Sounds like a promise kept.

Cochrane is an idiot but the line about handing him an Atlas is a whizzer!

 

[Ned Ryerson]

Cochrane is an idiot but the line about handing him an Atlas is a whizzer!

I use that line a lot - sadly I got it from that snake, Pickering.

 

[eldorado]

The beneficiaries of Cochrane's personality...

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Gold Coast


A pure, untrammelled f**kwit

 

[Kil Phearns]

Cochrane and Pelchen are two of the meeja's favourite Dial-A-Quote men.

 

[BlueWaterHawk]

haha that dude is just a good old fashioned meat axe.

Not just O'meara, Mitchell is a chunk too. We've gone after two very solid mids.

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