Garry Lyon believes Joe Daniher is the most promising young key forward in the game.
Lyon has tipped the 22-year-old to have a breakout season, citing Cale Hooker's return to the forward 50 as the potential catalyst for Daniher's rise.
โJoe Daniher, of all the group of emerging key forwards, he is the one for me that has got the biggest upside,โ Lyon said on SEN Breakfast.
โJoe Daniher has had as hard a couple of years coming into AFL footy as you can possibly have.
โHe is a big, tall kid who has had to play key position forward with no support because of circumstances and also because of the way that they played from time to time - they allowed opposition players to play two or three back on him.
โI know his kicking has been problematicโฆ but if Hooker can play there, Francis can play there โ to have three different viable options, if you have Daniher one out youโll see a player that I think is pretty special.โ
Hooker confirmed his move to the forward 50 to SEN, saying he has been training there for most of the pre-season.
โAt the moment I have been training as a forward so it gives Woosha plenty of options heading into the season,โ he said.
โIโm looking to get a good chemistry with Joe Daniher and a few of the other forwards. Weโre building on that.
โThe exciting thing for us is that weโre building on the chemistry of the team. Weโve made a lot of good steps already.
โWe are going to be building throughout the year and we are going to become a better and better team as the year goes on.โ
