DistrACTION Jackson

Zeke Uwland is the best of them. Expected to be top 5.

Has been fantastic the last few weeks and deserves huge applause from the fans this week. A win for Trac would be huge!

Happy wife happy life as they say...

Which is exactly why we were happy to trade out first pick to get Lindsay. Lindsay would be a top 5 pick in this draft I heard one recruiter say.

100% agree... plus he's not overly quick for a small player. Kynan Brown could potentially go past him, though he's probably a worse quick but quicker and better pressure player.

I think it's different for different players. Gawn - just not a good kick in general Trac - similar to Gawn Fritsch - he is mentally stuffed atm JVR - good kick but currently can't get the ball Spargo - generally a good kick from within 40m but missed a sitter on the weekend, suggests a mental thing Sparrow - good kick but doesn't get enough of it

I think Oliver Green has been showing elite signs from what I've heard...

I think Jeff spoke about this in an interview and said he didn't sign them up as he wanted them to just enjoy their junior footy atm. But I agree, fingers crossed the family do think about moving back to Melbourne!

This should win comment of the year for 2025...

Similar to the F/S rule, if a player is in the Suns academy they get priority to them but must match the points applied to that player with the picks they have. Kalani is part of the Suns academy so could nominate to go to them and then when he is bid on they would have to use their next picks allocated points to acquire him. There are two things in our favour with this: The suns have two other academy players who are expected to be top 10-15 picks, so they will need to allocate a decent amount of points to acquire those two. The AFL has tightened the points system by allocating less points as the picks go on (pick 54 is the last pick that has points applied which used to be pick 73). On this basis I think there is a decent chance Kalani will nominate Melbourne as we are very likely to have the points to match, while the Suns may not have him in their plans. The other thing he needs to consider are the players on each list. With Ethan Read, Mac Andrew, Jed Walter, Ben King and Ned Moyle all on the Suns list it makes his prospects of getting a game early with the Suns lower.

I did send this in March... agree at this stage he has earned another year

100%. The AFL need to prioritise setting up a genuine 2nd tier competition and if the SA and WA teams want to also join then work with them as well. Unfortunately sides like Southport, Frankston, Port Melbourne etc. will need to find a different competition. It should be seen as the second best competition in Australia and the best non-AFL talent should be in these sides. This would mean having a higher level of funding and also higher salary caps to pay non-AFL listed players to ensure the talent is elite for the 2nd tier competition.

I get what Gerard was saying, but as mentioned in other posts there are news outlets who actually write an article and site other articles about the same thing....

The only reason I don't believe that is that Garry Lyon came out and rubbished it and he doesn't usually do that unless he is very sure. I believe he also has close connections to the Oliver family.

100% they do. News.com ran with the May/Prestia story and their only source was Tom Morris tweets...