\n Teenager Jack Dalton will play his first AFL game on Easter Monday against Geelong.\n <\/p>\n
Hawthorn will blood its first AFL debutant for the season on Easter Monday, with young midfielder Jack Dalton set to play his first game.<\/p>\n
Dalton, who celebrated his 19th\u00a0birthday on Easter Sunday, was told the news in front of teammates ahead of the blockbuster clash against the Cats at the MCG tomorrow.<\/p>\n
The East Malvern product joined the Hawks with Pick 34 in last year\u2019s National Draft.\\<\/p>\n
A prolific ball-winner at junior level, Dalton beat all comers in the 2km time trial at the most recent draft combine, stopping the clock at 5.53min.<\/p>\n
In his debut game at VFL level just a few weeks ago, Dalton starred in a big Box Hill win, collecting 27 disposals, taking seven marks and booting one goal.<\/p>\n
Executive General Manager of Football Rob McCartney was delighted to see Dalton receive his debut news.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor Jack to realise his AFL dream and don the brown and gold guernsey for the first time on Easter Monday will be a special moment,\u201d McCartney said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince being drafted just a few months ago, Jack has shown a real appetite for hard work and has impressed with his strong running power and desire to compete.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re delighted to see Jack earn his first opportunity at AFL level and are confident he can play his role on Easter Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teenager Jack Dalton will play his first AFL game on Easter Monday against Geelong. Hawthorn will blood its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-586762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586762","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=586762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}