\n Hawks gun Dylan Moore is hoping the elimination final against the Giants is a fiery clash\n <\/p>\n
Dylan Moore celebrates a goal during Hawthorn’s clash against Collingwood in round 22, 2025. Picture: Getty Images<\/p>\n
DYLAN Moore is ready for some spice in the Hawthorn-Greater Western Sydney elimination final, having practised on teammate Josh Ward.<\/p>\n
The star Hawk admitted he was responsible for a dust-up with Ward at training last Saturday, blaming his aggression on the pre-finals bye.<\/p>\n
This Saturday’s clash at Engie Stadium could well be heated, with little separating the two teams in their last few games.<\/p>\n
Rival captains James Sicily and Toby Greene are also no strangers to argy-bargy.<\/p>\n
“I’m pretty happy now, but on Saturday we got out here and there were a few punch-ons, because we wanted to be playing footy,” Moore said on Monday at a club media session.<\/p>\n
“I was a bit angry on Saturday \u2013 I decked him (Ward) and he went back at me, but all in good fun.<\/p>\n
“They (GWS) have a lot of physical guys and a lot of talent that probably fires off that and we do too. I hope it’s a fiery clash.”<\/p>\n
While Moore is no fan of the pre-finals bye, he concedes it should benefit the Hawks given their tough run-in to September.<\/p>\n
“I love footy so I’d love to just keep playing, but the body feels really good after a probably tough six weeks of footy where we knew we were going to lose one or two games,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It’s a little bit of an equaliser, but if you’re top four and you win, then you get another week off … the top four have that advantage anyway and rightfully so.”<\/p>\n
A big talking point this week is whether Hawthorn recalls running defender Josh Weddle, who has been out since June with a back injury.<\/p>\n
It’s been a big few days for Weddle, who resumed playing in the VFL last Saturday and then moved into Moore’s house.<\/p>\n
But Moore said he had no insight into whether the Hawks would recall Weddle for Saturday’s clash.<\/p>\n
“He’s a massive player for us, so influential, the way he runs and defends as well. It sets us up a lot and creates a lot of threat, offensively and defensively,” he said.<\/p>\n
One of the keys for the Hawks will be half-forward Jack Ginnivan. Moore said since Ginnivan was dropped during the season, he has made an outstanding AFL return.<\/p>\n
“He’s been tremendous \u2013 credit to him, he went back to Box Hill, had the right attitude, came straight back in and since that, he’s been just about the best half-forward in the comp,” Moore said.<\/p>\n
“Everyone talks about how smart he is, but he’s one of the hardest workers.<\/p>\n
“If you watch him live, watch him put his head down and work to the next contest and the next contest again. Hats off to him, he’s going really well.”<\/p>\n
Jack Ginnivan celebrates a goal during Hawthorn’s clash against Brisbane in round 24, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
While the Hawks ended the home and away season with a loss to Brisbane, meaning they are on the road for their elimination final, Moore has no doubt they are ready.<\/p>\n
“The last three months of footy we’ve been in every game and not many sides can say that,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We know our best stacks up and even our worst stacks up.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawks gun Dylan Moore is hoping the elimination final against the Giants is a fiery clash Dylan Moore…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-114522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}