Just keeping an eye on the up and coming talent in case we have an early draft pick. Here's the Victoria Metro Under 18 training squad with name, date of bith, height, weight and club from:-

Ashley Arrowsmith 12.04.89 188 82 Calder Cannons

Mitchell Banner 05.06.90 175 79 Western Jets

Tim Bongetti 01.07.89 191 89 Northern Knights

Nicholas Cattapan 13.02.89 179 75 Calder Cannons

Myke Cook 09.10.89 182 76 Sandringham Dragons

Trent Cotchin 07.04.90 184 81 Northern Knights

Harry Croft 24.10.89 192 82 Oakleigh Chargers

Darcy Daniher 21.09.89 195 89 Calder Cannons

Will De Bruin 11.06.89 185 77 Oakleigh Chargers

Travis Dulic 19.07.89 192 90 Calder Cannons

Mitchell Farmer 04.01.89 179 76 Calder Cannons

Steven Gaertner 02.01.90 196 83 Dandenong Stingrays

Jarrod Grant 06.07.89 191 77 Dandenong Stingrays

Jack Grimes 11.05.89 187 76 Northern Knights

Lachlan Hill 15.05.89 189 83 Oakleigh Chargers

Chris Hoegel 31.03.89 181 77 Oakleigh Chargers

Michael Hurley 01.06.90 192 88 Northern Knights

Brad Jones 24.06.89 181 76 Eastern Ranges

Dylan Joyce 21.02.90 170 68 Calder Cannons

Matt Kreuzer 13.05.89 199 91 Northern Knights

Jeremy Laidler 05.08.89 188 82 Calder Cannons

Matthew Lobbe 12.02.89 197 80 Eastern Ranges

Thomas Lynch 15.09.90 190 75 Sandringham Dragons

Addam Maric 18.07.90 179 80 Calder Cannons

Brett Meredith 20.01.89 182 81 Northern Knights

Daniel Noy 18.03.89 188 78 Eastern Ranges

Kris Nye 25.11.89 174 73 Eastern Ranges

Andrew Otten 15.05.89 192 86 Oakleigh Chargers

James Polkinghorne 21.01.89 181 82 Calder Cannons

Luke Potts 25.02.89 177 68 Dandenong Stingrays

Rhyce Prismall 06.04.89 189 86 Western Jets

Dean Putt 10.04.89 202 88 Calder Cannons

Andrew Renton 29.03.89 202 94 Eastern Ranges

Hugh Sandilands 07.03.89 191 82 Oakleigh Chargers

Scott Simpson 19.10.89 194 91 Dandenong Stingrays

Phil Smith 15.04.89 187 73 Calder Cannons

Ashley Smith 20.07.90 184 83 Dandenong Stingrays

James Strauss 14.06.90 184 79 Oakleigh Chargers

William Sullivan 24.08.89 202 95 Western Jets

Adrian Totino 11.07.89 172 73 Northern Knights

Jackson Trengove 02.11.90 196 77 Calder Cannons

Pat Veszpremi 01.09.89 181 83 Northern Knights

Callan Ward 10.04.90 183 71 Western Jets

David Zaharakis 21.02.90 180 70 Northern Knights

Trent Zomer 09.06.89 194 94 Eastern Ranges

Ones to watch are Kreuzer, Cotchin, Grimes, Veszpremi, Bongetti and Daniher. Probably a few others as well.

would love to get daniher, 195 cm defender, would work very nicely in tandem with frawley

Matt Lobbe is a top kid in personality- and can play! Another red head as well!

I would add Maric, Gaertner and Banner to list of players to watch

would love to get daniher, 195 cm defender, would work very nicely in tandem with frawley

The obvious question here is, what's the relation?

The obvious question here is, what's the relation?

Son of Anthony who played 100 games with both Sydney and Essendon making him available under the father/son rule for both teams. Looks like one of them will probably take him.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/com...5E19765,00.html

Son of Anthony who played 100 games with both Sydney and Essendon making him available under the father/son rule for both teams. Looks like one of them will probably take him.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/com...5E19765,00.html

Only one of them will take him if they are prepared to bid high enough.

Cotchin is the kid i hope we'll take. Fast, classy and can get the ball himself, he would compliment McLean and Jones very, very well.

Only one of them will take him if they are prepared to bid high enough.

Cotchin is the kid i hope we'll take. Fast, classy and can get the ball himself, he would compliment McLean and Jones very, very well.

Are you involved in recruitment Jarka?

Are you involved in recruitment Jarka?

No, my knowledge is miniscule compared to some other guys around. I know some junior coaches of local teams who have got a couple of kids trying to break into a couple of the u/18 teams (eastern) so I go and watch them from time to time, but not as often as I'd like. My views are from seeing them play, but mostly info passed on by these guys.

If you go to the trading board on bigfooty there are some excellent posters who see far more games than myself, eg Weaver and Footyman. Those guys know much more than I do.

any of those related to curent afl players

sandilands,ward,

There's an interesting story about the Vic Metro team in the local paper - Metro coach is spoilt for choice

According to Victorian Metro coach David Dickson the quality of the first trial match played by the squad was "as good as he had seen since he began coaching in 1997."

I'm just waiting for the first Phantom Draft to come out - someone's usually mad enough to try their hand at one by this time.

There's an interesting story about the Vic Metro team in the local paper - Metro coach is spoilt for choice

According to Victorian Metro coach David Dickson the quality of the first trial match played by the squad was "as good as he had seen since he began coaching in 1997."

I'm just waiting for the first Phantom Draft to come out - someone's usually mad enough to try their hand at one by this time.

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=333706

Not a bad effort either.

Only one of them will take him if they are prepared to bid high enough.

Cotchin is the kid i hope we'll take. Fast, classy and can get the ball himself, he would compliment McLean and Jones very, very well.

Seen this kid play down at West Preston, Freak!! Very classy and very smart.. Awsum kick... was a real stand-out when-ever he played

Does anyone have much info on Jacob Graham and Daniel Mckerracher? I played junior footy with them and heard they were playing well for the jets, any chance of being drafted?