2025 article of interest concerning potential father sons and academy players.

Currently under 15's.

Evidently the White twins are now 14 years old.

Melbourne Academy | Players to watch

Edited August 20, 2025Aug 20 by manny100
Forgot to include relevant details of the age of the White twins.

@640MD “Tim Lamb brought us KW. And there are two younger brothers”

Tim Lamb announced the news but it’s a no brainer. He didn’t show any great skill or recruiting specialty. Kalani was always coming to the Dees and was father/son eligible.

For the young ones. Max is the best ruckman I have seen in 60 years but even he would have struggled to beat Kalanis Dad, Jeff at centre bounces when he came off the old long run up at centre bounces in his prime.

2 minutes ago, 48 Year Now said:

For the young ones. Max is the best ruckman I have seen in 60 years but even he would have struggled to beat Kalanis Dad, Jeff at centre bounces when he came off the old long run up at centre bounces in his prime.

Until they changed the rules on him, he would jump over anyone

15 minutes ago, manny100 said:

2025 article of interest concerning potential father sons and academy players.

Currently under 15's.

Evidently the White twins are now 14 years old.

Melbourne Academy | Players to watch

We've been following Kalani White since he was 9

Now I just read Brad Green and TJ have sons tearing it up in the u15's. Don't know how those kids don't have 100 page threads.

We have been crucified for our poor skills. I'm backing these kids can kick

3 hours ago, Docs Demons said:

We should stay calm on young White. It will take some time for him to become an AFL player. Couple of preseasons and learnings at Casey will help and I hope he does make it and be nearly as good as his old man.

Agree..: will also likely to be a pick in the late rounds

39 minutes ago, 48 Year Now said:

For the young ones. Max is the best ruckman I have seen in 60 years but even he would have struggled to beat Kalanis Dad, Jeff at centre bounces when he came off the old long run up at centre bounces in his prime.

You know that Kal is in the state athletics as a high jumper? He clears 2 metres, which isn't quite Olympic standard but pretty damm good. At a recent training, he was available to talk to and when the conversation came to his dad and his ability to leave, Kal casually mentioned he had his dad covered leap-wise. And in the recent Casey game in Brisbane, he went for a mark that was too early and leapt over the pack. It will be interesting to see if, as he develops some size if he still has that freakish leap.

Congratulations on Kalani White choosing to follow in his Dad's footsteps and become a Demon!

Seeing Kalani wear the number #34 at the Demons will probably bring tears of joy to my eyes, and certainly for his Dad Jeff too!

Apologies if this has already been posted, but I’ve just seen it, and it’s great…

Son of an absolute gun

Are the family moving to Melbourne or staying up North.

Interested if we will have to fight the GC academy for the twins (should they prosper)
I hope Kalani makes it. Been a while since our father/Son choices came good.

Can anyone please advise what selection Kalani is likely to land in the draft?

20-30 or 30-40 etc.?

Thanks

1 minute ago, Bleasey as that said:

Can anyone please advise what selection Kalani is likely to land in the draft?

20-30 or 30-40 etc.?

Thanks

Most likely Fourth Round plus, he's not ranked in the top 50 prospects for this draft. Aware this is a pretty broad answer, suspect there's a few on here who will be able to give a more nuanced answer.

I wish Kalani well and hope he ends up playing 200 games for us, but I can't help but feel a little concerned that he's not considered to fall within the top 50 of what's considered the weakest draft in years.

Fingers crossed for him.

He's the quintessential project player. Massive athletic ability but footy is pretty raw and he's skinnier than Jeffo. If he makes it I wouldn't expect senior games from him for 4+ years.

Imagine with all of the fuss over Trac and Oliver trades if we forgot to hold a pick for Kalani and he slipped through to another team 🤣

Edited October 15, 2025Oct 15 by chookrat

our pick 66 will suffice

7 hours ago, Turner said:

our pick 66 will suffice

100%

21 hours ago, Demon Jack said:

I wish Kalani well and hope he ends up playing 200 games for us, but I can't help but feel a little concerned that he's not considered to fall within the top 50 of what's considered the weakest draft in years.

20 hours ago, chookrat said:

Imagine with all of the fuss over Trac and Oliver trades if we forgot to hold a pick for Kalani and he slipped through to another team 🤣

Our pick 66 will come in massively, with Gold Coast for instance, their 3 Acadamey picks will take up at least their 7 first picks, Brissy, Essendon and Carlton will also lose picks, so 66 might end up being 52 or 53, which should be enough points, if White gets an earlier bid.

Not unusal for players like White to not be ranked highly on a draft board, but that doesn't mean this draft is weak - it's just very comprimised with the Academy and F/S early picks.

Will he play in the backline now? Since we got a Max backup and probably don't need to rush Kalani at the ruck position.

7 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

Will he play in the backline now? Since we got a Max backup and probably don't need to rush Kalani at the ruck position.

He's played predominantly key defender anyway, with a few stints as a key forward and ruck. I expect him to develop as a key position player at either end, possibly forward since we have less quality depth there than defence.

Looking forward to getting Kalani White into the Red and Blue he will be able to grow and mature and hopefully prosper with our bumper crop of youngsters present and future.

10 hours ago, Turner said:

our pick 66 will suffice

So long as he’s not bid on and it requires points to cover. As it stands, pick 66 has no points value.

Edited October 15, 2025Oct 15 by higgsy75

23 hours ago, Demon Jack said:

I wish Kalani well and hope he ends up playing 200 games for us, but I can't help but feel a little concerned that he's not considered to fall within the top 50 of what's considered the weakest draft in years.

Fingers crossed for him.

Rucks are much harder to rate. Dean Cox and Rowan Marshall were both drafted as rookies. For example.

41 minutes ago, Lord Travis said:

He's played predominantly key defender anyway, with a few stints as a key forward and ruck. I expect him to develop as a key position player at either end, possibly forward since we have less quality depth there than defence.

Agree. We've got huge KPD depth now. If our first choice lineup is Petty/Turner/Lever then we've got May/TMac/Adams in the 2's.

Reckon he'll start as a forward with pinch its in the ruck seeing as Heath/Campbell will take the majority of the ruck minutes.

He's a long term project and I'd be amazed if we saw him in the seniors before 2029.

2 hours ago, Dee Boys said:

Agree. We've got huge KPD depth now. If our first choice lineup is Petty/Turner/Lever then we've got May/TMac/Adams in the 2's.

Reckon he'll start as a forward with pinch its in the ruck seeing as Heath/Campbell will take the majority of the ruck minutes.

He's a long term project and I'd be amazed if we saw him in the seniors before 2029.

Nah you will see him late ‘27 at latest, he had a bit of a down year in ‘25 he will come on fast once he starts growing into his body.😁👍