Do we have anyone training? Who can we target given SOS’ injury

Collingwood has five players training with the club in delisted Saint Jack Bytel, former Port Adelaide ruckman Brynn Teakle, VFL pair Campbell Hustwaite and Josh Eyre and Collegians VFA Sam Sofronidis.

Fremantle has three players training with them in former Bomber Patrick Voss, Claremont’s Sam Van Rooyen (brother of Melbourne’s Jacob Van Rooyen) and Woodville West Torrens’ Max Beattie.

Gold Coast has delisted Roo Aiden Bonar and former Saint Jack Peris training with them.

Richmond has brought in Mitchell Schofield from East Perth and Mykelti Lefau from their VFL side.

While North Melbourne has a list vacancy, they don’t currently have anyone training with them

However, News Corp’s Paul Amy has reported that Dandenong Stingrays’ midfielder Kade De La Rue will be a train-on player with the Kangaroos.

You can only invite players to try out for SSP spots if you have one available. Even then it’s only two at a time.

There’s a young fella (19 or 20) down at Williamstown, Jovan Petric. 197ish. Can play at either end.

Sam van Rooyen (193cm) is training with Freo after going undrafted. Like his brother, he’s aggressive in the contest. He’s a wee bit light on at 85kg, but maybe that’s where you keep him for now, with the end product being a 190/90 highlight machine… he’s a medium ‘third tall’ forward for the future, if not so much in the here & now i.e. he’s no further advanced than Moir & a few years behind new Hollands. Plus, he’s got another year of colts up his sleeve, so he’s less likely to shit the bed and move east.

The filth have got a small army training them. They’d be pretty well advanced with finding a replacement for McStay, so we could cut their grass. Josh Eyre (22-23yo, 198cm) was delisted by the scum last season, then played nine games for the filth VFL side as a utility tall. Great athlete, but maybe not so good at footy.

Kye Declase (Werribie) is a reasonable utility if that's what we're after to replace JSos.

Unless we can bring in someone better than Young/Durds there's not much point though.

Unless we can bring in someone better than Young/Durds there's not much point though.

All the Young/Durds
Carry the Nerds

Ricky Mott?

I haven't attended training this year, but from some I know attending training, Young is impressing them, and players are saying good things about Young when probed about Weitering potentially missing early round(s). It sounds like Young is in a good space to me and has the confidence of those who matter..

Young is making quicker decisions when he has the ball in game sims. That's the best news for us fans, and his spoiling is still top shelf. We all know he can mark overhead.

Last year, was last year. He started off well, but then bereft of confidence by round 11, and what followed was unsubstantiated rumours about a souring relationship between Weitering and Young. Believe what you like, but for me, they were just rumours. Stronger Together.

Young is a lock down defender. Whether or not we can play 2 lockdown defenders when Weitering is available is debatable, but Young has proven he can play FB well on his own at AFL level.

Great KPD depth imo.

Young is actually very solid 1v1 and intercepting, his problem is in transition. It's visibly obvious that he doesn't want to be given the ball. Watching live I can recall him literally hiding during some kickouts. When he does have it you can almost hear the heart palpitations from the stands trying to hit a 30m switch.

Working on it at training is great start, but we won't know if he's made real progress until he's in front of 80K+ at the G.

Weiters is AA calibre because he has weapons both sides of the ball. But from a backup KPD all we need is lockdown traits.

I hope they're instructing the smalls to run past the second he intercepts, and if that's not available giving him license to just let him bomb it down the line.

...you can almost hear the heart palpitations from the stands trying to hit a 30m switch.

His problem is being flat footed when short passing so his kicks don't have enough "punch" and consequently too much air time which gives the opposition a sniff.

His problem is being flat footed when short passing so his kicks don't have enough "punch" and consequently too much air time which gives the opposition a sniff.

His other problem is he sometimes chooses “not to go” when he has to.

Although….

he’s a lovely boy…great manners…!


kindest regards tommi