Kingy

There was serious thought given to doing it.

Hasn't played since halfway through 2024, and we say that, but yet across 2023 and 2024, he only played half a season in both of those years as well.

So multiple knee surgeries and complications, a shoulder reco, countless soft tissue setbacks, and on and on it goes.

So he's out there this weekend, which will be awesome to see.

One game, do you think, and then in?

Oh, surely, yeah.

One and in?

Yep.

And emotional scenes up on the Gold Coast.

Yeah, he did it well.

He does these things well, Damien Harwick, to be honest.

And what I like about it, and I'm sure you guys will concur, is that they made him wait.

Well, they made him earn it, to be honest.

596 days since his last AFL game.

It came in that, well, infamous Dogs elimination final exit in 2024.

He kicked a bag of five in the VFL last weekend.

And then you look at the magnet board that's going to be set up down at Launceston this weekend.

King, Walter, Jamara inside 50, Ethan Reid off a wing.

It'd be pretty nice to get a look at that, I reckon.

So Hawthorne's intercept heavy, but I know Sicily's not there.