Eagles get draft boost as Hawks land key defender

HAWTHORN has further strengthened its defence, completing a trade with West Coast for defender Tom Barrass inside the final 20 minutes of the 2024 Continental Tyres AFL Trade Period.

The Hawks, coming off a run to the semi-finals in 2024, had already added Josh Battle as a free agent and boosted their tall stocks even further on Deadline Day.

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Hawthorn has sent its future first, second and third-round picks to West Coast, in return for Barrass and West Coast's future fourth-round pick. 

Barrass, a premiership player with West Coast, requested a trade to the Hawks in August.

He played 150 games for the Eagles after being drafted in 2013.

The Barrass deal had initially been expected to feature Hawthorn's pick 14, which the Hawks offered up to the Eagles last week. But when the Eagles delayed on the deal, the Hawks moved the pick out to Carlton in return for a future first- and second-round pick.

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