Former Hampden league player Joel Moloney has become the Power’s latest on-ball weapon since returning in the past two weeks to his former junior club.

Kolora-Noorat coach Danny Finn lauded the Melbourne-based player – whose most recent stint in the south-west was with Terang Mortlake in 2015 – as “as good a player as we’re going to get around here”.

“He’s a quality, quality player and person,” Finn said. “So far he’s been an outstanding contributor.

“He’ll get better with more time playing with us. Once he gets used to it, he’ll just complement the players and structures we have.

“I think he’s going to challenge Joey Conheady for the amount of scrapping and things like that they do.

“He can win it on the outside, too. He’s pretty dangerous as a half-forward/rotating midfielder.”

Moloney – who said his return to the south-west was two-fold, prompted by his partner moving back for work and also a desire to help his dad on the farm – has made an immediate impact.

He earnt best afield honours against Timboon Demons two weeks ago after crossing from VAFA team University Blues and was impressive again in Saturday’s come-from-behind win over Merrivale.

Getting used to playing more game time is something Moloney says he will have to adjust to coming from the Blues, who had a tendency to heavily rotate players.

“We’d probably only get three or four minutes a quarter and then we’d have to come off for a quick spell, and that happened throughout the game,” he said.

“It was hard at times to get into the game, it’s pretty quick footy down (in Melbourne), so you do need those rests in games.”

Moloney hopes to contribute to the Power’s on-ball unit with pressure acts plays when he rotates through there, while Finn said the 28-yea-old also loomed as a tough prospect for opposition defenders to match up on when he went forward.