Hawthorn backs medical team to return injured trade acquisition Tom Scully to full health

HAWTHORN’S miracle medical team has worked wonders with the likes of Jaeger O’Meara and Shaun Burgoyne and the club hopes it can strike again after the Hawks stole injured midfielder Tom Scully from the Giants.

Tom Scully is now a Hawk after Hawthorn reach agreement with GWS.

HAWTHORN has pulled off another stunning trade coup, snaring Greater Western Sydney gut runner Tom Scully for a bargain-basement future fourth-round pick.

The Hawks are backing in their renowned medical team to return the injured Scully to the fitness that made him one of the game’s elite wingmen.

The future fourth-round pick used to secure Scully, 27, came from the embattled Gold Coast Suns, which yesterday sent the selection along with former top 10 draft pick Jack Scrimshaw to Waverley.

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Tom Scully is now a Hawk after Hawthorn reach agreement with GWS.

Scully has signed a three-year deal with a trigger for a fourth.

Hawthorn’s dominance of the trade period will continue with a D-Day swoop on Port Adelaide superstar Chad Wingard.

Hawks young gun Ryan Burton, 21, and pick 15 will be sent to Alberton as part of the Wingard deal.

Scully was named in the All-Australian squad of 40 in 2016 and 2017, but he played just one game this year after suffering a serious ankle injury in Round 2.

He is considered a remote chance to play in the early stages of next season and becomes a Hawk effectively for nothing because of his injury and a salary cap squeeze at GWS.

The future fourth-round pick handed to the Giants by Hawthorn will equate to a selection in the late 50s or early 60s in next year’s national draft.

Hawthorn’s medical team will have to work it’s magic with the injured former Giant. Picture: Getty Images

“It was a complex trade given the uncertainty around Tom’s ankle,” Giants list boss Jason McCartney said last night.

“He’s got to work through a few things on his ankle rehabilitation, there’s no doubt about that. Hawthorn’s fully aware of that and they’re going to back themselves.”

Burton, who is in Las Vegas, is expected to agree to a trade to the Power before tomorrow night’s 8.30pm trade deadline.

He has two years to run on his Hawthorn contract but has slowly come to terms with being used as trade bait for Wingard.

Wingard was identified by Hawthorn as the man to fill the void left by retired star Cyril Rioli and inject finishing class into their forward 50m.

Will Port star Chad Wingard be a Hawk? Picture: Getty Images

Other picks are likely to be used to get the Burton-Wingard trade over the line.

Dual premiership Hawk Taylor Duryea yesterday headed to the Western Bulldogs in a deal involving another future fourth-round pick.

Duryea, 27, played 118 games in brown and gold across nine seasons.

Scrimshaw played just four games for the Suns but never settled at the expansion club after being taken at pick 7 in the 2016 draft.