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Cal Twomey has dropped his August form guide and has Mac Andrew sitting in 9th place. Cal Twomey's Phantom Form Guide: Top draft prospects' August ranking

Possibly forgetting Jim Stynes’ very talented son who can play a bit. Also around 15/16ish but is also a top junior basketballer.

I’ve since discovered that he hasn’t turned 15 yet … however, he is the oldest.

Good to see him get some recognition for his performance. Those stats are pretty good for a 4 x 25 quarters game with no time on and 5 players rotating off the bench. Given that there were a number of highly regarded prospects from each state on the ground. I’m biased obviously but he’s going to the right club where he can be developed without the urgency that we used to apply for every recruit who walked onto the scene. Here’s a player by player assessment on the game - Scouting Notes: 2021 AFLU19s – Western Australia vs. South Australia

There’s an article in the Herald-Sun (no link available) entitled “Moneyball: Follow all the latest trade, contract, draft and coaching news across the AFL” there are some interesting items – • Essendon is keen to recruit Gold Coast’s Malcolm Rosas who is seen as a replacement for Irving Mosquito who has left the club. • Adam Cerra is considered a certainty to land at Carlton with Melbourne mentioned as the only other possible suitor. However, the Demons aren’t in a position to provide a trade. Luke Jackson is out of the question and the club doesn’t have any high draft picks. • Melbourne is keen to retain Sam Weideman who has received interest from Collingwood, North Melbourne and the Gold Coast Suns. • Tom Lynch who was told by Adelaide that he wasn’t getting a new contract. • Hawthorn has offered a three year deal to Fremantle’s Lachie Schultz.

Some years ago, I was a member of a tribunal of a junior football league. It probably shouldn’t come as a surprise but there were a few cases that we sat on where young impressionable players sought to emulate their heroes playing league football and it landed them in trouble. Fortunately, I didn’t sit on any cases involving attacks on umpires but there were some in my time that were heard by other tribunal members. A suspension of a season or the remainder of the season plus the next were meted out. I’ve watched the vision and listened to the pundits arguing both ways but to me, this is a no brainer. Forget the argy bargy and excuse making about whether or not there was physical contact (there was). You need to look at the entire incident from beginning to end. Start with the confrontation in Greene’s approach to Stevic, the way the contact was made and the aftermath of the contact. The look of every aspect of this incident was appalling and reeks of conduct unbecoming of a professional sportsperson in this age. A finding of not guilty or a light sentence in these circumstances would not be well received in the community competitions, whether senior or junior that struggle year in and year out to fill umpiring places. I believe that earlier this season, a number of competitions were struggling and in many cases, umpires had to double up on games over a weekend. The AFL Tribunal has a duty to decide this case on its merit but it would serve the sport well if it took a strong stand tomorrow night. I personally would like to see a minimum penalty of six weeks suspension with a stern warning from the chairperson that he is fortunate to have received just that. Hopefully, a severe penalty might influence GWS to not even consider wasting everyone’s time with an appeal as they did a few weeks ago.

But we did redeem ourselves in 1926 by winning the flag.

More from Michael Alvaro and AFL Draft Central. PODCAST EXPLAINER | Indicative Top 10 AFL Phantom Draft He has North Melbourne putting in father/sob bids for Nick Daicos and Sam Draper before picking up Jason Horne-Francis who is therefore taken with selection #3. GWS then takes Josh Gibcus with fourth pick while the Tigers use selection 9 to snare Mac Andrew.

Western Australia claims big win over South Australia champs opener

It’s not really a good look for the game.

There’s no such thing as as junior football these days thanks to the virus.

Full time in the Norwood game and they’ve cemented their place in the finals with a 12 point win over third placed North Adelaide. So hopefully, the fans keep their red and blue scarves on and make the short trip from Coopers Stadium to the Adelaide Oval for tonight’s game to make it two wins in the one day for the Redlegs!

Solid 29 point win to WA who mixed players around and let SA off the hook a little. Very impressed with their depth and surprised that so many of their players are underrated especially since one of their star midfielders in Neil Erasmus didn’t play through injury. Two of their other midfielders in Browne and Johnson currently sit in 18th and 20th place in Knightmare’s power ratings. I think there are going to be some changes when the pundits issue their September rankings.

He played a nice game at half back/wing without doing anything outstanding. I think we should be able to pick him up in the middle to latter stages of the draft. The good thing for a player like him to train and play with the likes of Clarry, Tracc, Angus, Jack Viney etc. he’ll have the opportunity to develop over time. His father was a quick learner and if he follows suit, I think we have a good prospect.

WA dominant at 3/4 time with a lead of 43 points. They have a really good mix with a winning midfielders with Josh Browne and Matt Johnson both looking like top 10 prospects. Corey Warner on a wing (brother of Sydney’s Chad) is a promising left footer on the wing. Their KP players are going to attract a lot of interest. Taj Woewodin is putting in a workmanlike performance. SA disappointing with their name players Horne-Francis and Draper quiet although the latter just kicked a goal.

Norwood up by 10 points at half time.

WA leading by 3 goals. They look very strong in the key positions. So strong that Van Rooyen who is normally at CHF is playing in defence. Sharpshooter Jye Amiss looks good at FF.

Over the years, and particularly before the VFL turned national, there was always a close connection between Melbourne and the Norwood Redlegs in the SANFL. They have similar colours and historically, the clubs played many practice and exhibition matches against each other going back to the 19th century and more recently, in the early 1970s. The Demons recruited Tassie Medalist Graham Molloy from Norwood in 1970 as a potential Barassi replacement but injuries prevented him from showing his best in a 76 game career with the Demons. The ABC used to televise the SANFL grand finals and for success starved Melbourne fans, we used to get a kick out of supporting the Redlegs to premiership victory. Their team is playing North Adelaide in the SANFL this afternoon and I wish them success and hope they also come out in their numbers in red and blue to support our boys tonight.

Well … yes, partly so but in fact his origin is Swiss. Ron is a third generation descendant of one of the Swiss Italians of Australia who migrated to Australia in the 1850s and 1860s to areas such as Guildford, between Castlemaine and Daylesford. A few years ago, he featured in an episode of the ABC series, "Who Do You Think You Are?". It was a fascinating documentary with a highly emotional scene of Ron returning to Tobruk to visit the grave of his father who played 54 games for Melbourne from 1936 to 1940 and became the first VFL player killed in action in WW2. Like his son, his played his last game in a winning Melbourne premiership team. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1519235/?ref_=ext_shr_em/

Two of the form sides of the competition meet on neutral territory. The Lions have had a number of big wins recently but they’ve been against sides that have been struggling so will they be able to withstand the pressure of the Demons took a big scalp last week? The prize on offer is a week’s rest and a berth in the Preliminary Final. I say it’s not going to be easy but Melbourne will win the prize.

Reckon Chris Scott might be calling for shorter quarters again next week.

There are a few differences with Geelong from last week but the main one is the kicking for goal. Last week, Cats at half time were 10.2.62. This week, one scoring shot less 3.8.26 plus a shot out of bounds on the full. Cats still having a significant advantage in frees.

That’s a great achievement to provide the AFL and AFLW Rising Stars in the same year. Congratulations to Luke Jackson & Tyla Hanks!

The WA government’s opening of its border with SA is timely for the elite young players from both states as it allows for the first game of the championships to take place on Sunday as planned. That leaves almost three weeks for the second game which remains highly unlikely given today’s uptick in the Victorian case figures. Still, it’s likely that we’ll get to see some of the top end talent that will feature come the draft in November. Here’s a preview:- Where it’s won: Western Australia vs. South Australia Under 19s

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