HAWTHORN is in the box seat to secure Jack Scrimshaw in a trade from the Gold Coast Suns.

Foxfooty.com.au can reveal the Hawks met with the 20-year-old last week, who is currently back in Melbourne seeing friends and family and preparing to be traded.

Scrimshaw was taken with Pick 7 in the 2016 national draft – a pick acquired courtesy of Dion Prestia’s trade to Richmond - and played four games in his first season at the Suns.

Before he debuted, he was one of four Gold Coast players to re-sign until the end of 2020, with the Hawks needing to orchestrate a trade for the left-footer.

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Carlton also showed preliminary interest earlier this season, but it is believed Scrimshaw’s preference is to play at Hawthorn in 2019 and the Suns are resigned to losing him.

“Jack’s another one that’s contracted for the next two years,” His manager Robbie D’Orazio told the TAB Spring Racing Carnival launch on Tuesday.

“He’s an extreme talent, (but) just probably hasn’t fitted in at Gold Coast Suns. Not everyone can just move out of home at 18 and just make it work.

“We’re talking to Jack at the moment and Gold Coast and if we can get him home we’ll try.”

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Scrimshaw fractured his cheekbone in April but finished the 2018 NEAFL season strongly, collecting 31 disposals in Gold Coast’s last game.

Overall he managed 14 matches for the Suns reserves but could not break into Stuart Dew’s senior team.

The club’s head of football Jon Haines told the Gold Coast Bulletin recently Scrimshaw’s form was not consistent enough to warrant a call-up.

“We all know he has absolutely got AFL qualities in the way he reads the game and particularly with his delivery and so forth but what he has been working on at the moment is that consistency both in games and week-to-week,” Haines said.

“Certainly his ability to read the play and intercept along with his capacity to use the ball really smartly by hand and foot are certainly his strengths.

“It’s not an unusual phase for an emerging 19-year-old to go through. We are really confident he will get there.

“He just needs to keep working at it and our coaches need to keep working with him which they will.”

At 194cm, Scrimshaw spent much of his junior football playing as a running defender for the Sandringham Dragons and Haileybury College.

The trade period begins on Monday October 8.