What Clarko says

18. Brent Guerra

Our summer series continues today with the profile of Brent Guerra, who plays an important role in our back-end as we progress through the pre-season and into 2012.

'Goo' has been at our Club for five years now, having been recruited from St Kilda Football Club after his initial stint at Port Adelaide.

Obviously he's become an integral part of our back-end and has played his best footy (in my view) in defense, where he's really been able to take his game to another level.

'Goo' was a very important part of our 2008 premiership team, and has the huge bonus of being an outstanding disposer of the ball along with some of our other players in Matt Suckling and Grant Birchall.

He provides us with so much rebound and it really is the greatest feature of Brent's game.

He's uses the ball extremely well, both with hand and foot, which is something that attracted our recruiters to him in the first place, but it's only been in the last five years at the Hawks where he's had the chance to play great footy with consistency.

His leadership and direction in the back-half of the ground is so important to the rest of the players, and he's a very valued member of our side both on and off the field.

While he's definitely in the twilight of his career, we look forward to his contribution in the upcoming season.

Thanks for your continued support of hawthornfc.com.au and I look forward to featuring number 17, Cameron Bruce, tomorrow.

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