2014 Draft Profile: Jake Lever
Jake Lever (Calder Cannons) Height: 192cm Weight: 84kg Player Comparison: Dustin Fletcher Strengths: Reading the play, Intecept marking, rebounding, 1 on 1 Areas of Improvement: Needs to put on weight Jake Lever won’t play a game this season, but his bottom-age form from last year has given enough of an indication he’ll be an early […]
2013 Draft Profile: Lewis Taylor
Lewis Taylor (Geelong Falcons) Height: 173 cm Weight: 73 kg Strengths: able to create time and space, can drift forward as well as being an elite ball winner, great leadership qualities. Weaknesses: Can sometimes rush his disposal instead of lowering his eyes looking for a target. Player Comparison: Joel Selwood The Geelong Falcons have had a […]
Vic Country Under 18s Championships review
Vic Country 6.9 (45) defeated by South Australia 11.13 (79) GOALS: McCartney (2), Willsmore (2), Saunders, McCartin BEST: Hartung, Fort, Gardiner, Holman, Jones, Herbert South Australia were just a class above Vic Country, as Country fell to their first defeat of the Championships. Missing the run of Lewis Taylor through suspension, the Country midfield just couldn’t […]
Under 18s Power Rankings: June edition
The season is at the midway point and we are starting to get an idea about who is likely to be drafted this year. We’ve seen a lot of good performances this year, although how do you decide what a good performance is? It is very subjective and difficult to compare a big five goal […]
Phantom Draft June edition part two: Jourdan Canil
One of our Rising Star team, Jourdan Canil has bravely stuck his neck out and created a phantom draft for the first four rounds. It should be noted that plenty can change over the next few months and with the great diversity of our writers, much like the public, everyone has a different opinion. Jourdan […]
Under 18s Championships: Victorian preview
Vic Country: B: Isaiah Miller (Bendigo) – Fraser Fort (Geelong) – Zak Jones (Dandenong) HB: Nathan Drummond (Murray) – Darcy Gardiner (Geelong) – Josh Pickess (Dandeong) C: Nic Bourke (Geelong) – James Tsitas (Geelong) – Jaden McGrath (Bendigo) HF: Lewis Taylor (Geelong) – Patrick McCartin (Geelong) – Josh Scott (Gippsland) F: Alex Saunders (Gippsland) – […]
Future stars impress in Victorian trials
(Photo: Nathan Freeman evades a tackler – Rising Stars Head Photographer Christian Hartung) With the first round of the Under 18s Championships beginning in a fortnight, the Victorian sides had a couple of scratch matches for their squads to dust off the cobwebs and begin getting players from across the twelve TAC Cup clubs used […]
Falcons football factory open for business
Unlike the AFL, TAC Cup lists turnover drastically from year to year. While they are primarily made up of top-age players or those that turn 18 this year, they are also able to contain bottom-age players (those turning 17 this year) and a maximum of five over-age players (those who weren’t selected at the drafts […]
