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The gun midfielder will miss the season start after dislocating his right shoulder during training at the club’s new Dingley home on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Hawthorn have yet to determine a return timeline for Day, who has at least escaped bone damage.<\/p>\n
But the injury is still a sucker punch for the 24-year-old and the Hawks, given Day had been limited to just six games last year through injury.<\/p>\n
“This is a disappointing setback for Will, and we really feel for him at this time,” Hawthorn football boss Rob McCartney said in a club statement.<\/p>\n
“Will is one of the most resilient people I know, and he has done everything possible to return to full fitness already this offseason.”<\/p>\n
Will Day’s AFL season has already been put on hold after the luckless Hawthorn star suffered an injury during preseason training.\u00a0Steve Bell\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Day was already on a modified pre-season program after suffering a season-ending right foot injury — a bone stress in his navicular — in August.<\/p>\n
The gun midfielder had required surgery in April and missed 14 games before returning in late July.<\/p>\n
He managed just one more game following his return, having previously had a navicular injury in early 2024.<\/p>\n
A complex collarbone injury prematurely ended his 2024 season with Day having now missed Hawthorn’s last two finals appearances.<\/p>\n
Day isn’t the only star under an injury cloud this pre-season, with Melbourne ruck Max Gawn fracturing his finger during training.<\/p>\n
The Demons skipper should be fit in time to represent Victoria against WA in the State of Origin clash on February 14.<\/p>\n
But fellow Melbourne ruck Tom Campbell will be out of action for a month after injuring his neck in an “innocuous” collision at training.<\/p>\n
Campbell will be in a neck brace, with the club to consult a neurosurgeon to determine his rehabilitation program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Day’s AFL season has already been put on hold after the luckless Hawthorn star suffered an injury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-414480","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414480","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=414480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}