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2025 AFL Rising Star Candidates

Whispering_Jack
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There are more than 180 players at the various AFL clubs in the running for the 2025 AFL Rising Star Award. This year Melbourne has a relatively low number of players eligible for this year's award - 9 - compared to 13 last year. They are:- 

Jed Adams 
Kynan Brown 
Matthew Jefferson 
Luker Kentfield 
Harvey Langford 
Xavier Lindsay 
Ricky Mentha 
Oliver Sestan
Will Verrall

The 2 L’s - Langford and Lindsay - appear to be our best candidates.

Your AFL team’s Rising Star eligible players and the top contenders for 2025

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    59 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

    There are more than 180 players at the various AFL clubs in the running for the 2025 AFL Rising Star Award. This year Melbourne has a relatively low number of players eligible for this year's award - 9 - compared to 13 last year. They are:- 

    Jed Adams 
    Kynan Brown 
    Matthew Jefferson 
    Luker Kentfield 
    Harvey Langford 
    Xavier Lindsay 
    Ricky Mentha 
    Oliver Sestan
    Will Verrall

    The 2 L’s - Langford and Lindsay - appear to be our best candidates.

    Your AFL team’s Rising Star eligible players and the top contenders for 2025

    I think Brown will surprise a few if he gets into the side.

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    2 hours ago, samcantstandya said:

    I think Brown will surprise a few if he gets into the side.

    Would need a few goals (and probably a highlights package worthy run down tackle) in an early game to catch the eyes of the panel. Hope to see it, but pinning more hopes on Harvey Langford building a season worthy of taking out the award. 

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    3 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

    There are more than 180 players at the various AFL clubs in the running for the 2025 AFL Rising Star Award. This year Melbourne has a relatively low number of players eligible for this year's award - 9 - compared to 13 last year. They are:- 

    Jed Adams 
    Kynan Brown 
    Matthew Jefferson 
    Luker Kentfield 
    Harvey Langford 
    Xavier Lindsay 
    Ricky Mentha 
    Oliver Sestan
    Will Verrall

    The 2 L’s - Langford and Lindsay - appear to be our best candidates.

    Your AFL team’s Rising Star eligible players and the top contenders for 2025

    Tholstrup is another, as per betting odds

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    From the article the eligibility criteria is :

    Players are required to be under 21 years of age as of January 1, 2025 and must have played no more than 10 career games already to be eligible for the Rising Star.

    This means Tholstrup is eligible provided he doesnt play a game.  😁

    Edited by Fritta and Turner

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    4 minutes ago, Fritta and Turner said:

    From the article the eligibility criteria is :

    Players are required to be under 21 years of age as of January 1, 2025 and must have played no more than 10 career games already to be eligible for the Rising Star.

    This means Tholstrup is eligible provided he doesnt play a game.  😁

    He’s played 10 games exactly so will be eligible in 2025

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    4 minutes ago, DistrACTION Jackson said:

    He’s played 10 games exactly so will be eligible in 2025

    Thanks the zero hanger definition is a touch ambiguous as they left out 'at the start of the season'.

    Players are required to be under 21 years of age as of January 1, 2025 and must have played no more than 10 career games at the start of the season  to be eligible for the Rising Star.

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    1 minute ago, Fritta and Turner said:

    Thanks the zero hanger definition is a touch ambiguous as they left out 'at the start of the season'.

    Players are required to be under 21 years of age as of January 1, 2025 and must have played no more than 10 career games at the start of the season  to be eligible for the Rising Star.

    On that basis, he’s clearly eligible and IMO is a definite chance for the Rising Star in 2025.

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    Zerohanger is a bit dodgy for info at the best of times

    Kolt is on both Sportsbet & TAB odds for the rising star @ $51 so defs eligible

    Gamble responsibly 

    Betting All In GIF by Pudgy Penguins 

    Edited by adonski

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    Sportsbet Odds 18/1/2025 (chances are you’re about to lose)

    7.00 Jagga Smith (Carlton), Levi Ashcroft (Brisbane Lions)

    10.00 Finn O'Sullivan (North Melbourne), Josh Smillie (Richmond), Samuel Lalor (Richmond)

    13.00 Harvey Langford (Melbourne)

    15.00 Sid Draper (Adelaide) 

    18.00 Nate Caddy (Essendon)

    21.00 Bo Allan (West Coast Eagles), Daniel Curtin (Adelaide)

    26.00 Isaac Kako (Essendon), Leonardo Lombard (Gold Coast Suns), Tobie Travaglia (St Kilda)

    34.00 Xavier Lindsay  (Melbourne)

    41.00 Archie Roberts (Essendon), Cooper Hynes (Western Bulldogs), Hugo Garcia (St Kilda), Kane McAuliffe (Richmond)

    51.00 Alix Tauru (St Kilda), Christian Moraes (Port Adelaide), Harry Armstrong (Richmond), Hugh Boxshall (St Kilda), Jake Rogers (Gold Coast Suns), Joe Berry (Port Adelaide), Koltyn Tholstrup  (Melbourne), Murphy Reid (Fremantle), Taj Hotton (Richmond)

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    3 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

    Demonland does not encourage you to bet or gamble. 

     

    I won’t be gambling but I might place a wager on XL at the generous odds of $34.00.

    I’m also shocked that five clubs in Collingwood, Geelong, GWS Giants, Hawthorn and Sydney currently have no candidates among the top 27 favourites for the award. The first two have aging lists so they are investigating heavily on their current crop of players to get them home.

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    1 hour ago, adonski said:

    Gamble responsibly 

    Betting All In GIF by Pudgy Penguins 

    Unless you're Titus O'Reily, of course.

     

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    14 hours ago, adonski said:

    Zerohanger is a bit dodgy for info at the best of times

    Kolt is on both Sportsbet & TAB odds for the rising star @ $51 so defs eligible

    Gamble responsibly 

    Betting All In GIF by Pudgy Penguins 

    Post of 2025 so far.

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    Kolt strikes me as more the Petracca type, i.e. we won't see him explode until season 4-5 when his body really matures. He'll then beating most other senior players athletically and we've all seen his effort levels on display already.

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    Wonder what sort of odds they would give for Jeffo?

    Could be interesting if he got a couple of five-fors. 
    Has to make the team first. 

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