BOOM Hawthorn recruits Chad Wingard and Tom Scully are set to appear for their new club in the next fortnight but at which level that is remains unclear.

Scully hasn't been seen since round two last year, when he badly damaged his right ankle while playing for Greater Western Sydney.

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Hawks coach Alastair Clarkson said at Melbourne airport on Friday that Wingard's pre-season has been disrupted by multiple calf issues.

The former Power star had a fitness test on Thursday and faces another on Saturday

"He'll play some footy in the next two weeks. He's been interrupted a little bit, had a modified program because of a calf injury, which he had a reoccurrence to. He's probably been out of our full training program for the best part of six weeks," Clarkson said.

"He's a different sort of customer though, in terms of how much time he needs to actually get himself ready to play. We'd expect him to play some footy in the next week or two, but like 'Scull', we've just got to determine at what level that is."

There were initially fears Scully could miss a large chunk of the season and struggle to reclaim his mantle as the AFL's best two-way runner, with much of that speculation based off Hawthorn giving up only a fourth-round pick in this year's NAB AFL Draft.

However, Clarkson said the Giants were under more pressure than the Hawks to have the wingman return, for one simple reason, which affected his rehab.

"GWS was trying to get him back so that he could play finals," Clarkson said.

"In the whole process of doing that, whether that's Tom himself or whether it's the club, the lure of him being able to play again probably meant that he came back a little bit earlier and his ankle just wasn't ready to withstand those loads."

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Clarkson rejected the idea Scully's ankle was so badly damaged the Hawks may not see him regain full fitness.

"It was just based on the trade and all the implications of 'why's he being traded?' and everything just put it down to the line of 'he's never going to play footy again'," Clarkson said. 

"There's a whole heap of other things around him returning to Melbourne, family reasons and all that sort of stuff, that were a significant part of that trade, salary cap on GWS' side of things, but everyone just put it down to the medical side of things."

Star forward Jack Gunston didn't play a pre-season game as he dealt with a thigh issue but flew over for the clash with Adelaide on Saturday and will line up against the Crows if he trains on Friday.

Clarkson acknowledged his side, without Brownlow medallist Tom Mitchell (broken left leg), could struggle through the middle.

"On paper, Adelaide's midfield looks much more superior than ours," Clarkson said.

"They've got a fantastic ruckman in (Sam) Jacobs and they've got high-class ball-winners right across the park."