Langford one of Hawthorn's VIPs

By Emma Quayle
Updated September 22 2014 - 9:13am, first published 8:43am

When Will Langford was 16, he knocked back a football scholarship to live in France for three months as an exchange student. When he was 17, he decided to play rugby instead of Australian Rules. By the time he turned 18 he couldn't do very much at all, bound to bed and sleeping 20 hours a day before he was diagnosed with a form of chronic fatigue syndrome. He is the son of one of the Hawthorn greats, who grew up in Sydney and joined his father's club not as a father-son draftee, but as a much more anonymous NSW scholarship player. On Saturday, he'll be playing in an AFL grand final, with one of the biggest jobs to do.