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In his weekly column - The Word from Hird - the Bomber skipper looks at the excitement a couple of the Essendon youngsters created at the MCG on Monday. Hird says that not since Darren Bewick has the club had a consistent crumbing forward but he hopes that a replacement might have come in the shape of Andrew Lovett. <A href=""http://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/hird2004.asp?id=28"">Read the Word from Hird</A>.
His coach has claimed he could be the next Paul Salmon, but after two years of battling a series of injuries, a modest Jason Laycock just hopes to get a regular game in 2005.
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