\n Jack Gunston is set to play on for a 17th AFL season.\n <\/p>\n
Jack Gunston is set to play on for a 17th\u00a0AFL season after putting pen to paper on a one-year contract extension.<\/p>\n
The new deal comes amid a career-best year for the 33-year-old, with Gunston booting 60 goals from his 19 games this year to sit second in the Coleman Medal race.<\/p>\n
Such has been Gunston\u2019s extraordinary form, he currently ranks 2nd in the AFL for marks inside 50 per game (3.3), as well as 5th for score involvements per game (7.6).<\/p>\n
Set to play his 280th career game this Sunday, the one-year extension will see the three-time premiership Hawk inch closer towards breaking through the 300-game milestone in 2026.<\/p>\n
Having kicked the 8th-most goals of any other Hawk in history, Gunston\u2019s CV includes a Peter Crimmins Medal (2018), All Australian blazer (2018), and three-times the club\u2019s leading goalkicker.<\/p>\n
Hawthorn National Recruiting and List Manager Mark McKenzie said Gunston\u2019s deal was greatly deserved.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat Jack has been able to produce this season has been nothing short of amazing, it\u2019s a real credit to him to be playing at such a high level at this phase of his career,\u201d McKenzie said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile Jack\u2019s year to date has arguably been one of his best, his influence at Hawthorn extends much further than game day \u2013 he\u2019s the sort of leader that takes great pride in mentoring and guiding our young forwards to be the best version of themselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith his obvious class, forward smarts and experience, we\u2019re excited about what Jack can produce for us in the upcoming finals series and into 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Gunston is set to play on for a 17th AFL season. Jack Gunston is set to play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-86796","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\/86796","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=86796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}