VFL Richmond VFL v Australia U18, Sunday April 13, 1:30pm AEST, RSEA Park

[tigerfan1961]

It depends if he's held to the MRJ standard or the Kane Mcauliffe standard.

If it's the latter Smillie won't get a game with 35 touches. Will need 50.

 

[Calcium Man]

Spud it up?

He was fine but also nothing special.

The best 3 players were all academy tied unfortunately, addinsal, annable and Patterson

 

[Barnzy]

It's a shame this draft isn't looking too crash hot. It's early though.

Greeves at this stage is probably a top 5-8 pick and I don't think is as talented as Smillie although they're similar types.

 

[Calcium Man]

It's a shame this draft isn't looking too crash hot. It's early though.

Greaves at this stage is probably a top 5-8 pick and I don't think is as talented as Smillie although they're similar types.

Hopefully there are gonna be guys coming hard from outside the AFL academy. Grlj, R. Wright and H. Wright look promising in small samples.

 

[Chunky09]

Smilies day done

Injured?

 

[Ctl]

Greaves, Ludowyke and Dylan Patterson (Gold coast academy) were probably standouts for u18s. CDT had a good moment with his goal but think he was matched pretty well by OHB in the ruck.

Side note anyone else get asked by a herald sun jounro about your thoughts on balta returning?

 

[Daka]

Didn't watch how did Smillie go?

 

[fargothegreat]

Didn't watch how did Smillie go?

Was BOG to half time, then didn't play the the second half. Most likely just management.

Had 14 touches and once again used the ball beautifully.

 

[Barnzy]

Didn't watch how did Smillie go?

A class above. Brushed off these kids like he was a man amongst boys

 

[THE_GUN]

Smillie would be #1 in this years draft from what i seen of these kids

 

[tigerfan1961]

Smillie would be #1 in this years draft from what i seen of these kids

Imo, he’ll be seen as number one from the 2024 draft as his career unfolds. Looks a star to me

 

[Chunky09]

So if smillie only played a half, he will have to stay in the reserves at least another week.
Jeez I can’t wait to see him and hotton get a go, our midfield is so f en bad

 

[sanaya]

will be interesting to see how the academy go against coburg in a couple weeks time as they're winless after 3 games so far

our vfl side is undefeated but we were missing moutaz and garner, as well as like 4-5 afl listed players that were rested who could've played this week

so maybe they're a even less of a chance vs coburg who will probs have much more mature players than us (they also don't have colina)

 

[sanaya]

Greaves, Ludowyke and Dylan Patterson (Gold coast academy) were probably standouts for u18s. CDT had a good moment with his goal but think he was matched pretty well by OHB in the ruck.

Side note anyone else get asked by a herald sun jounro about your thoughts on balta returning?

CDTs numbers will be well below his coates games because they ran 4 rucks through the game and i think a 5th got a run late, also wasn't resting up fwd most of the times when the academy had ascendancy

definitely got outmatched in height by colina and ohb, although still managed a couple of decent taps, hopefully coburg ruck isn't a giant lmao

 

[RichoLedio]

So if smillie only played a half, he will have to stay in the reserves at least another week.
Jeez I can’t wait to see him and hotton get a go, our midfield is so f en bad

Smillie and to a lesser extent McAuliffe coming into the seniors should completely change the make up of our midfield especially with Lalor coming back as well

 

[cairo tiger]

how did fawcett go, time for bauer to have a rest I reckon

 

[Coach_Required]

how did fawcett go, time for bauer to have a rest I reckon

kicked 3 i think

 

[Chunky09]

Smillie and to a lesser extent McAuliffe coming into the seniors should completely change the make up of our midfield especially with Lalor coming back as well

Yes forgot about mcauliffe, hopefully he can get a good run at it soon

 

[Le RickyBobby]

Smillie would be #1 in this years draft from what i seen of these kids

Without question.

Academy looked very average.

I think there might be a lot of the top 20 on draft night come outside of the Academy team.

 

[sanaya]

how did fawcett go, time for bauer to have a rest I reckon

would hope he's not replacing bauer since he's the sub

guess it depends what's the deal with lynch


but fawcett kicked 3 and had some nice pack marks and contested marks (against 17-18yr olds)

 

[Damo80]

Talk about a ball hack
The kid butchers both kicking and handballs

Long term Taranto/Hopper replacement?

Smillie would be #1 in this years draft from what i seen of these kids

This time last year Smillie was seen as likely #1 pick too, wasn’t he?

 

[Danog]

Flockart looks good, might have found another AFL talent

He was awful 2 weeks ago

 

[Magic17]

Flockart looks good, might have found another AFL talent

Played well against kids today as he’s only a skinny lad himself. Once he puts in a bit of muscle he be quite a good player.

 

[sanaya]

He was awful 2 weeks ago

definitely looked better being partners with fawcett rather than being the 4th fwd behind fawcett/faull/sims with colina&ryan rucking

same height as fawcett, but much less size

although he did kick 2(?) somewhat decently difficult goals so that definitely boosted his game

 

[living_in_syd]

Score?