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<\/p>\nHawthorn’s players have been warned not to be lulled into a false sense of security about meeting an injury-hit Sydney in their highly anticipated clash.<\/p>\n
The Hawks host the Swans on Thursday night with Sydney duo Errol Gulden (shoulder) out for four months and fellow star Isaac Heeney in doubt because of a hamstring strain.<\/p>\n
Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell says his players only have to cast their minds back a fortnight when beaten by a sub-strength GWS for a reminder about underestimating opponents.<\/p>\n
“I just said to the boys: ”Don’t get lulled into the false sense of security that maybe Gulden is out, maybe Heeney is out’,” Mitchell told reporters on Wednesday<\/p>\n
“We have heard this song before and it didn’t end too well for us.<\/p>\n
“We only need to look back a couple of weeks to the GWS game and a little bit similar with perhaps a couple of their best players not playing and us learning a bit of a lesson.”<\/p>\n
The Swans top the ladder after wins over Carlton by 63 points and reigning premiers Brisbane by 44 points.<\/p>\n
The sixth-placed Hawks rebounded from their opening-round loss to the Giants to thrash struggling Essendon by 62 points last Friday night.<\/p>\n
Mitchell again fielded questions about Dylan Moore and Connor Macdonald after US police released bodycam footage of the arrests of the duo in Arizona in November.<\/p>\n
The arrests only came to public light last week. The duo were charged with trespassing after climbing a scissor lift.<\/p>\n
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Police documents state Moore was allegedly found with a bag of a crystalline substance and a rolled-up $100 note, but a drug paraphernalia charge against him was dismissed.<\/p>\n
“The vision itself is new to us,” Mitchell said.<\/p>\n
“But those two boys have taken responsibility for their behaviours, which they were not proud of.<\/p>\n
“My understanding is most of the legal proceedings is completed … so I think they’re reasonably minor, what is to come.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think it will be affecting their form or anything to do with what we’re going about on a weekly basis.”<\/p>\n
Moore’s next US court date is in July, with Macdonald’s the following month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawthorn’s players have been warned not to be lulled into a false sense of security about meeting an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-547656","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\/547656","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=547656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}