When he runs through a Hawthorn banner that will have his image emblazoned across it just before the start of tomorrow’s second-round game at the MCG, Conor Nash will be poised to become just the eighth Irish recruit to break the 100-appearance record in the AFL. Nash is into his ninth AFL season with Hawthorn, the club that recruited him in 2016, veering him away from a potential rugby career and the Leinster academy that he was already part of.