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Eastern over Calder in a bit of a canter, really. Eastern just too big and strong in the middle, R Clark, Batty, Gallucci, Parsons, Harvey just too powerful, too clean, too organised, and too good. Clark kicked 4 charging out of the middle, Parsons looked a class above. Collins got a bit more...

Matt does, not sure what Jaxon's doing this year.

It always takes the TAC Cup site a couple of weeks to get in gear re the stats at the start of every season. Full stats will probably start going up in a week or two, and they'll probably go back and do round 1 as well. Not really sure why, it's not like the season opener would come as a...

Started it off with two floggings in metro round today. Firstly, I should mention I've paid basically no attention to the kids for a couple of years now, so I don't know who has been talked up, i don't know who's missing, who's in the AIS squad, who's under or overage, who I should be looking...

Went to Geelong vs Calder. Might be the last TAC I watch this year, with the Essendon stuff I'm getting no joy at all out of footy at the moment. Went along to see if it was any different at the u18s, but it wasn't really. Hardly fun watching a bunch of blokes you won't be able to draft...

87 - Liam Byrne Bendigo Pioneers - 184cm 84kg One I've only seen a little of this year, and as such I probably shouldn't be picking him, but I think his name needs to be out there. I saw quite a lot of Byrne last year before he was seriously injured, and I was impressed with his anticipation...

Gibbons' size will count against him. Not so much his height as his weight - he's listed at below 70kg, and he'd need to put on quite a high % of his bodyweight in muscle to be able to compete in packs with the big boys at AFL level. Some blokes simply can't gain that sort of mass, no matter...

Aaaand firefox crashed and I lost my writeups, so starting over... 33: James Tsitas Geelong Falcons - 180cm 77kg It's easier to define Tsitas by what he isn't. He isn't lightning fast, he's not particularly big, doesn't kick it a mile, doesn't dance on a dime in traffic. I guess those are...

68 - Essendon - Michael Gibbons

Dammit, lemmingmaster got my guy! Give me a couple of hours, need to get home & check my notes

Pick 51 - Essendon - Michael Apeness writeup to come

Pick 33 - Essendon - James Tsitas Writeup to come

#15 - Ben Lennon Northern Knights - 187cm - 79kg There's a few blokes I could have gone for with this pick, and no guarantees if the same guys are on the board come draft day I'd jump the same way. Lennon is an interesting prospect who I don't think is really getting to show off his full...

Yeah, I knew there were a bunch from both sides. First time I've seen either team for the year though, so I wasn't familiar enough with either team to weight their respective outs.

Haven't really seen enough of him to comment - one TAC game and a VC game in the division crossover rounds of the championships. (I've got the televised champs games floating around somewhere, really should watch them at some point...) From very limited viewing, he looks silky and unhurried...

Mids have a tendency to be used outside their best positions in the champs - the main point of the champs is to show off your draftable kids, and so many draftable kids are mids, that there's inevitably too many and some square pegs get squeezed into round holes. i think this happened to Salem...

Much better day at the footy than I was expecting - I've been to some dismal slogs at Box Hill on wet days in the past, but today there was two tense and hard-fought - if not always pretty - games. Ground seemed in ok condition except for a mudpit in the middle, and as the day wore on and the...

Probably nowhere tbh. The metro and country squads (or an approximation of them as of April) are up on the TAC site under 'academy programs', but no mention of actual selected sides. AFL coverage of the juniors has been absolute shite this year, after it was great last year with the live...

Magnificent looking double header at Box Hill tomorrow. Top three sides all playing, plus Sandy with all their private schoolboys in the side (say what you like about the effect school holidays have on BF posting standards, but they certainly improve the TAC Cup...). No Boyd of course, but...

I think he'll be one of the earlier ruck types to go (certainly one of the earlier ones from Vic, which is what I know about...). He's actually only started playing ruck quite recently at TAC level. Eastern favoured Dion Depace and Duom Dawam over him for the ruck slots for most of the early...

I've been giving him a minor talk-up for a while now, since he played a near-lone hand in Murray's losing final last year, though I've only seen him for Country this year. He's eligible. Big solid kid with solid pace, used mostly off half-back when I've seen him. Physical (which is helped by...

You're probably right - I know nothing about him. I just saw from the squad list he was on the rookie talent search program, watched him try to bulldoze his way through the centre square with seven tacklers hanging off him, throwing fends all over the place, and drew what seemed to be the...

Miserable day at the footy today, despite magnificent weather. NT utterly uncompetitive in the first game, didn't even look like it. A bunch of the Tassie players had good games - Nankervis and Templeton in particular (KK was solid but I think did his best work before I got there late in the...

Might have done well for NSW against SA (didn't see the game) but wasn't really near it against VM despite kicking a couple. Marginal prospect from what I've seen. Very good overhead, and takes a lot of marks in the 50, but is a mid-sized marking fwd without a load of pace or much of a...

Terry's. Vander Haar I think is draft eligible this year but didn't make the cut for the Oakleigh Chargers. Has been brutalised with injuries for the past couple of years. From an EFC point of view, as I understand it the biggest wraps are on Jake Long and Tom Wallis, with Harvey Daniher and...

Son of Neale.

You guys obviously have access to the stats for these games. Any chance of posting the complete match stats on your site? Dunno if there's any legal/copyright/whatever restrictions you're working under and whether you're actually allowed to, but the AFL don't seem to be bothering with the u18s...

Tried hard in the fwd line, but was always going to have it tough - VM's defenders dominated in the air, and after Clothier blew up at about half time, NSW had no f50 entry option but to bomb it long, and got picked off again and again. Quietish - just didn't have the size to compete in the...