Player Watch Welcome to Hawthorn: Mitchell Lewis. Extended to 2026!

[Sirlemsip]

Super unlucky to be knocked out mid-air and be unable to land safely causing an injury.

Really feel for the big guy. But he's young and can now take time to recover and strengthen up the legs for the 2nd half of 2025.

Dear, Scaife and Ramsden now have an opportunity to battle for a spot while he's out.

 

[kirbatron]

Speedy recovery mitch

 

[Bugs1977]

Thats f'd. I guess its opportunity for Calsher, Ramsden and Scaife. And maybe a good enough reason to keep gunston around another year.

Can someone confirm its the same knee with the sprain/ partial ACL tear?

It's all been to the same knee (the left). From the extract below in an article last year whilst it doesn't actually say the left knee it does mention that it was the same knee that was re-injured which was originally the left. The other picture below also shows his left knee which is strapped.

 

[Millsie69]

Little bit different

How? Sic did his in August 2020, he didn't play at all in 2021, even though he could have played in the later rounds of the year, but we elected not to play him that season and get him cherry ripe for 2022.

Should do the same here.

 

[The hands of stone]

Can't take a trick . Poor guy .

 

[mustang]

How? Sic did his in August 2020, he didn't play at all in 2021, even though he could have played in the later rounds of the year, but we elected not to play him that season and get him cherry ripe for 2022.

Should do the same here.

Agree don’t think we will see him at all next year if it’s a full reco.

So we may not see him again till round R1 2026.

 

[Judd2Sewell]

Poor guy has had such a rotten run with injuries. It will be season 2026 by the time he is back in action.

 

[Hodgey 15]

Damnnn!!!!
Poor guy. Can't take a trick.

 

[eldorado]

A hammer blow...

 

[BlueWaterHawk]

Devastating, poor bloke

He must be so tired of rehabilitation.

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[smeltitdeltit]

Man that sucks big time but I feared it watching the replay.

Can’t recall anyone ever doing a knee like that though. Normally it’s a change of direction action running, or an impact across the knee. So very unlucky.

 

[TylerDurden]

Gutted.

 

[TylerDurden]

Reckon Gunner gets another year now.

 

[humid hawk]

Absolutely gutted for the big unit.

He's still got plenty of time.

 

[Franko Armani]

Awful news for Mitch and the side. He had so much potential as a key forward but it seems clear that he just has one of those bodies that isn’t able to endure the rigours of AFL football.

I wish him the best in his rehab. Unfortunately, the Hawks have to plan the future without him from here on. Anything we get from Mitch is now bonus, cannot be part of the grand plan.

 

[Kuuz]

Sorry for my French, but **** our luck this year and especially for Lewis.

I’m so gutted for him. I cannot even imagine how awful he must feel at the minute, his spot in the forward line must feel like a millenia away at this point

Make no mistake, this is a massive whack against our rebuild. Replacing him will not be easy and no certainty he goes back to his best now with an ACL. Just awful - hope he has a lot of good support around him atm.

He is a leader and was a key cog in us climbing. Big shoes to fill now.

Man, this is just utterly depressing news. Screw the Cats and their dogpile trash fire can of a stadium. Lest us never return to that stadium clearly built on a cursed burial ground.

 

[Dragz]

Poor Mitchy, unluckiest guy on our list :/
Starting to think we won’t get a big consistent run of him at the level I think he can play at.

Makes me sad


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[Cleavy]

can we chip in to buy him a lucky rabbit?

 

[Buttonsticher]

Poor bastard can't catch break. Maybe it will enable the medicos time to work their magic so he's cherry ripe when he returns. Piss poor consolation though.

 

[eldorado]

Reckon Gunner gets another year now.

Dunno about that...

I reckon it definitely means grabbing Scaife will turn out to be a fortune...

 

[Walshawk]

March-April should be 9-10 months. We will hopefully have a good idea around then

March is eight months.

 

[Dewyyyyy]

This is so gut wrenching. Speedy recovery Mitch

 

[spudmaster]

'ken hell! Poor fella.

 

[moginie]

Hoping for a speedy, complete and successful recovery.

 

[I wanna pash Nash]

Strange choice of words in this article.

No mention of a rupture.
No mention of a reconstruction.
No mention of a year out of the game.

Just 'injured ACL', 'remainder of the season' and 'rehab process'.

What is the actual extent of the injury?
If it's a full rupture and reconstruction why have they gone to obvious lengths to avoid mentioning it?

My thoughts exactly, very interesting press release. I wonder if the medical team is considering the brace? There's a few different protocols out now. Timing of his injury would make them pause and consider it.