The Hawks face a huge match with theWestern Bulldogs this week before finishing their home and away campaignagainst the Sydney Swans at the SCG.
Two wins could see them finish inside thetop four but, speaking after his side’s heart-breaking five-point loss to PortAdelaide on Sunday, Young said returning to the winner’s list was the club’sbiggest priority.
“We’re not particularly worried about whathappens after the next two weeks,” Young said.
“We just want to worry about the next twoweeks, and we’re looking forward to winning those two games.
“Whatever happens after that, and where wefinish, we’ll work it out after that.
“At the moment we’ll look at this game [againstPort] and see how we lost it, and then we’ll hopefully bounce back in a big waynext week against the Bulldogs.”
Young did all he could to help the Hawksget across the line against the Power, which stole the match 12.15 (87) to12.10 (82) with two goals in the final minute.
The athletic 21-year-old gathered 25disposals and sent the ball inside 50m on seven occasions.
He also kicked a goal to extend Hawthorn’slead in the final term and at that stage, it looked as though the brown andgold would be celebrating another win at their Tasmanian home.
But to Young and his teammates’ despair, itwas not to be.
“Port Adelaidepushed again and we let it slip,” Young said.“We had our chances to seal itlate in the game but we missed it.
“It was probably experience and mental. Werelaxed that last five minutes when we should have still been pressing tofinish it off.”
Echoing what his coach, Alastair Clarkson, saidafter the match, Young believes the game might benefit the Hawks further downtheir developmental track.
“I think you’ve got to learn the hard way,and that’s what we’ve done today,” he said.
“We won’t be letting slip chances like thatagain, once we get in those winning positions in the last five minutes of agame.”