DistrACTION Jackson

Don't think fitness was his issue. Looked to be back training yesterday.

I wouldn't be surprised if we went a bit harder on the club imposed suspension. Think 4 AFL matches minimum.

Awesome interview! What a cracker of a kid. Can't wait to see him out on the G.

I'm also super impressed by Noah Yze. He has put on considerable size from last year! Hopefully he can get a midfield spot for the Chargers and make the Vic Metro side.

TBF I've checked a few other clubs websites and their photo gallery's have like 10 photos compared to ours that have 30-40

With Bowey, Salem, Rivers and McVee all running off half back we should be cutting team defences to shreds, but we just don't seem to utilise their speed and kicking skills enough. I really hope we can get better at this. Steven May takes way too many kick outs and I don't see him as a great short kick these days, just a good long left boot.

Best way to compare them all would be looking at impact after the same amount of games/same age. JVR v Ben King - Jacob Van Rooyen and Ben King AFL Stats Comparison (footywire.com) - he has him covered in most stats and kicked almost identical goals with almost 20% less game time JVR v Max King - Jacob Van Rooyen and Max King AFL Stats Comparison (footywire.com) - again has him covered in most stats JVR v JUH - Jacob Van Rooyen and Jamarra Ugle-Hagan AFL Stats Comparison (footywire.com) - JVR wins again JVR v Amiss - Jacob Van Rooyen and Jye Amiss AFL Stats Comparison (footywire.com) - this one is tight and I'd probably give them a tie. Will be interesting to watch both their careers as they were the same draft. I won't bother with the other ones, but this shows that at the same age JVR is outperforming some of the guys who are now becoming established key forwards.

Can anyone see this link?

I really don't GAF what this Seb bloke or anyone at SEN thinks to be honest, but I'd love to know how many teams boast 6 under 24s comfortably in the best 22 of a side that finished top 4? It's all well and good North having a heap of highly rated youngsters, but if you finish bottom 4 then who really cares? We have genuine elite young backs in Rivers, Bowey & McVee. We have one of the best young key forwards in JVR and one of the best small forwards in the keague in Kozzie. Probably the only area we are light on with talent in this age group is genuine midfielders and a key defender, but Turner and Adams could both come on in the next few years. Not to mention we have Windsor & Tholstrup who both look promising on the very little we've seen so far, so I'm not too worried about our young stocks.

We can only dream....

Who of the senior players are there?

Saw that the Kolt is already getting in on the grappling sessions Vines does with his bro and Tom Mitchell. Pretty awesome for a young kid to be already putting the extras in! Think we may have a beauty here.

Windsor looks like he will be able to put on some decent size.... exciting times.

Nice work! From your eyes who is 'training the house down'?

Please let him know all supporters love him xx

Love the commitment WCW! Unfortunately my work gets in the way of things I enjoy in life.

Correct, the draft is based on the ladder after finals have concluded. So it just depends on how you look at it, we were top 4 after the regular season finished, but finished 6th after finals. So technically both are right, just depends how you look at it.

So who's starting the Marley Davey thread?

With all the stuff going on, at least we have money

There was a bit of rumours going around early that we were interested in Daniel Curtin with pick 7, however we made the decision to go with Caleb Windsor. I'd be keen to know, 1. Did we ever consider Curtin at that pick? and 2. If so, what was it in Windsor's game that made us decide to take him ahead of Curtin?

I would think he could train with the other players, given it isn't club sanctioned training.... could be wrong though. But definitely won't be at training next week.

Doubt it. Media would've eaten it up otherwise.

I think if we were genuienly drafting for needs, we probably would've gone for Caddy as key forwards was our main issue last year. Though I'm not too concerned with this, given JVR will be a year older and Petty is expected to play forward, with TMac and Brown both hoping to get back to a better fitness base. Windsor will probably start behind Langdon and Hunter, as would be expected of a young player but long term I think he could end up a very similar player to Isaac Smith. Tholstrup could be anything also and in the mould of a De Goey/Trac/Martin type player, however again he will start behind guys like McAdam, ANB and Sparrow and have to force his way into the side. So the idea we drafted for needs is ridiculous. The issue with the media is they rank the players mainly off statistics, whereas the AFL recruiters would also be looking at how the players fit into the modern AFL side. The way footy is played at AFL level is so different to juniors, with a much greater emphasis on defence and they would be aware that some players who dominate juniors may not easily fit into the AFL system.

Should be an interesting draft night! Sounds like we will go hard at trading up either/both 6 & 11. Wonder if we will get any bites!

He's gone very left field Early mail mock draft 1. Harley Reid (West Coast) 2. Colby McKercher (North Melbourne) 3. Jed Walter (Gold Coast - matching North Melbourne bid) 4. Zane Duursma (North Melbourne) 5. Nick Watson (Hawthorn) 6. Ryley Sanders (Western Bulldogs) 7. Caleb Windsor (Melbourne) 8. James Leake (GWS) 9. Ethan Read (Gold Coast - matching Geelong bid) 10. Daniel Curtin (Geelong) 11. Nate Caddy (Essendon) 12. Connor O’Sullivan (Adelaide) 13. Koltyn Tholstrup (Melbourne) 14. Jake Rogers (Gold Coast - matching Sydney bid) 15. Jordan Croft (Western Bulldogs - matching Sydney bid) 16. Will Green (Sydney) 17. Darcy Wilson (St Kilda) 18. Will McCabe (Hawthorn - matching Adelaide bid) 19. Charlie Edwards (Adelaide) 20. Harry DeMattia (North Melbourne) 21. Tew Jiath (GWS) 22. Taylor Goad (North Melbourne) 23. Wil Dawson (North Melbourne) 24. Will Graham (Gold Coast - matching Collingwood bid) 25. Caiden Cleary (Sydney - matching Collingwood bid) 26. Lance Collard (Collingwood) 27. Angus Hastie (Adelaide) 28. Arie Schoenmaker (St Kilda) 29. Ashton Moir (Carlton)