{"id":345472,"date":"2023-11-11T01:37:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T02:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=345472"},"modified":"2023-11-11T06:01:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T06:01:15","slug":"in-limbo-hawks-stars-meeting-with-rival-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=345472","title":{"rendered":"In limbo Hawks star's meeting with rival club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Collingwood<\/a> has met with delisted Hawthorn<\/a> forward Chad Wingard<\/a> in a move that threatens to blow up the Hawks' master plan of re-drafting the former All-Australian.<\/p>\n

Wingard underwent a medical with the reigning premiers on Friday, merely hours before the \ufeffAFL delisted player free agency period closed and less than a day after he was expelled by the Hawks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, the \ufeff30-year-old reportedly intends to return to Hawthorn as a rookie.<\/p>\n

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Wingard \ufeffmet with coach Craig McRae and football boss Graham Wright, both of whom he is already familiar with through the pair's previous jobs at Hawthorn.<\/p>\n

Currently recovering after rupturing his Achilles during the Hawks' three-point win over the Bulldogs in round 22, an injury which will sideline him for a significant portion of next season, the Hawks delisted Wingard on Thursday with the intent of picking him up again in the rookie draft in two weeks.<\/p>\n

Shifting Wingard to the club's rookie list, \ufeffwould open up an additional spot on their primary list and allow some money to be moved out of their salary cap.<\/p>\n

The move has always been \ufefffraught with danger with the possibility that Wingard could always choose to try his luck at another club as a delisted free agent, or that a rival club could select him in either the national draft or the rookie draft if they have a pick ahead of the Hawks.<\/p>\n

While Wingard could still be taken by another club in \ufeffnext Monday's national draft, and despite Wingard meeting with Collingwood, a source with knowledge of his situation told the Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> that Wingard wanted to return to Hawthorn.<\/p>\n

Proving that Wingard is at the centre of the Hawks' future, the club re-signed him on a new one-year deal in September, weeks after he suffered his Achilles injury.<\/p>\n

Beginning his career at Port Adelaide, \ufeffWingard has played 218 games across 12 seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Collingwood has met with delisted Hawthorn forward Chad Wingard in a move that threatens to blow up the Hawks' master plan of re-drafting the former […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":345474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345475,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345472\/revisions\/345475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/345474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}