DESPITE professing to have no interest in the game, former Hawthorn skipper Don Scott will be at the MCG on Saturday to watch his former club take on the Sydney Swans in the 2012 Grand Final.

The reclusive Scott claimed in a recent interview with Mike Sheahan on Fox Footy that the last AFL game he attended was the 2008 Grand Final, in which the Hawks defeated Geelong.

"I'll be at the game on Saturday and I look forward to seeing what the two teams can produce on the day," he told SEN on Thursday morning.

Scott captained the Hawks to the 1976 and 1978 premierships and was among their best in the 1971 Grand Final as well. He returned to the club in 1996 to lead the anti-merger forces and served on the board for a nearly a decade before falling out with former president Ian Dicker.

The Hawks face some tough selection dilemmas this week with one player to be an unlucky omission for the return of skipper Luke Hodge from injury.

But if Scott was still playing, that player would not expect to receive a comforting pat on the back.

"No. Not all. Your job is to play football," Scott said.

"There's a lot of hardship and you don't expect people to go and get counseling or anything. That's life."

Scott said he was pleased to see Josh Kennedy, the grandson of his former coach John Kennedy Snr and son of his former teammate John Jnr, play so well for the Swans after being discarded by the Hawks.

"People deserve an opportunity in life and unfortunately there are other fellows who were discarded who never got that opportunity at their original clubs. I hope he goes very well because he's a exceptional player," he said.

Scott also spoke of his battle with prostate cancer.

"It's frustrating. It changes your life. You just have to get on with it because there are a lot of people who are worse off than me."