Former Collingwood star Bobby Hill says he\u2019s ready to make a return to footy, with Shai Bolton\u2019s grand final performance reportedly lighting the fire.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old parted ways with the Pies in July this year after multiple absences from the club as he dealt with a myriad of off-field personal issues.<\/p>\n
The 2023 Norm Smith medallist admitted he had lost his love for football, but he is now plotting a return, training hard to get back into shape.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s all I grew up knowing, just footy, footy, footy and that was my plan A, not having a plan B and C,\u201d he told Nine.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I just lost the love of the game and now I\u2019m back, full on and want to get back into it. I do miss it, so I can\u2019t wait.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery fortunate to win a grand final and top it off with a Norm Smith, and I just want to move forward now.\u201d<\/p>\n
The West Australian had previously been linked with a move to Gold Coast or a move back to WA, but given his absence from the game, he would likely have to make several assurances for a club to take a punt on him.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, Hill said seeing Fremantle star Shai Bolton win a Norm Smith medal in the Dockers\u2019 heartbreaking grand final defeat had provided more motivation.<\/p>\n
\u201cCongratulations to Shai (Bolton) for winning one (Norm Smith), welcome to the club. It put a bit of fire in the belly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully if clubs out there want me and hopefully I can get back on there, I\u2019m pretty confident I can show what I can do, if not even better and win games for teams.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hill played 61 games across almost four seasons at Collingwood, including the 2023 premiership, having previously spent four seasons with Greater Western Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Collingwood star Bobby Hill says he\u2019s ready to make a return to footy, with Shai Bolton\u2019s grand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,10133,588,85],"class_list":["post-909807","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-collingwood-magpies","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909807","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=909807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}