Clinton Young has not watched the Grand Final. Picture: Wayne Ludbey Source: HWT Image Library
CLINTON Young may have changed his stripes, but the Collingwood recruit said Hawthorn's defeat in last year's Grand Final will be a personal spur this season.
Young said he has not watched last year's Grand Final in its entirety and doesn't want to.
The hurt, he said, lingers.
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"You experience the high of winning a Grand Final (in 2008), but losing a Grand Final is pretty hard and that will certainly motivate me more this year and I will be doing everything I can to make Collingwood a better team,'' Young said.
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"We went through the review process a few days after the Grand Final at Hawthorn, but since then I've completely tried to forget about it really and use that as motivation for this season.''
Young said his new Magpies teammates can relate to what he's going through given they tasted Grand Final defeat in 2011.
And they know just as well as anyone that there is no point dwelling on Grand Final moments that could have been changed for the better.
Just like Young's unfortunate slip running back to goal that allowed Swan Daniel Hannebery to swoop for a crucial six-pointer in the fourth quarter of last year's premiership decider.
"I think on the day Sydney were the better team,'' Young said.
"There were a lot of mistakes made from both teams all day, it was a high pressure game, so certainly no incident has affected me at all.''
Young had foot surgery soon after the Grand Final but is now back in to full training and is set to play in Friday night's NAB Cup opener against the Western Bulldogs and Essendon after starring in the Pies' intraclub match the weekend before last.
"In Utah I was still in rehab, but since January started I've stepped up training and in the past few weeks I've been participating in full training so it's progressed well,'' he said.
"I'll be playing this Friday and be building up throughout the next few weeks to be ready for Round 1.''
He may not be a Hawk anymore, but Young couldn't avoid a question about former teammate Lance Franklin and whether he thinks the forward will remain at Hawthorn after putting contract talks on hold until the end of the season.
Young said the spectre of free agency didn't distract him last season and doesn't expect it to impact on Buddy's game this year.
"Obviously he's made the decision to leave it until the end of the year.
"He's a loyal man I think so I think he'll be focusing on football. There'll be a lot of media on him, just like there was on Travis Cloke last year, but I'm sure he'll deal with it fine.''
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