Scouting notes: AFLU18 Championships – Vic Metro vs. Vic Country
A Victorian derby opened the 2019 Under 18 National Championships, with the Country side coming away with an upset 9.10 (64) to 7.9 (51) win over their Metro counterparts. We had five scouts cast eyes over all 46 players who graced the hallowed MCG turf, and here are their opinion-based notes on how each prospect […]
Country upstages Metro to open national carnival with a win
VIC Country has upstaged its highly fancied Victorian rivals, defeating Vic Metro with maniac pressure and four quarter consistency. While Metro started strongly and had a patch early in the second term, it was mostly a game that belonged to Country with the defensive work of the back six, and elite kicking from Hayden Young […]
Victorian sides prepare for battle at National Championships
THE first match of the AFL National Under 18 Championships gets underway on Saturday, with an all-Victorian battle at the MCG. The game will be a curtain-raiser to the Collingwood-Fremantle match, with the first bounce from 10.35am. Sandringham Dragons and Gippsland Power dominated the Vic Metro and Vic Country squads, and it looks to be […]
AFL Under 18 National Championships preview: Vic Metro
VIC Metro’s top-end talent is again something that will hold it in good stead this season, with quite possibly the top two picks in this year’s draft – Matt Rowell and Noah Anderson – as well as a host of skilful types, strong marking talls and speedy smalls. If they are not the team to […]
Team Selection: NAB League Boys – Round 9
AS a number of draft hopefuls prepare to run out on the MCG as a curtain-raiser to the Collingwood-Fremantle game, it has wreaked havoc with NAB League Boys team selection. All teams have been forced to shuffle the magnets with Gippsland Power and Sandringham Dragons making a combined 19 changes so far for their game […]
AFL Under 18 National Championships preview: Vic Country
VIC Country heads into the first game of the National Under 18 Championships with plenty of question marks given it has been hit with a number of injuries which forces new coach Leigh Brown to shuffle the magnets around. In what will be a tough start to the campaign, they face cross-state rivals Vic Metro […]
Dragons, Power dominate finalised Victorian squads
SANDRINGHAM Dragons and Gippsland Power make up one third of the total Victorian representatives in the Vic Country and Vic Metro sides which were officially announced this week. Following the Victorian trial games which saw the Victorian teams face-off against Allies at Ikon Park on Sunday, the two squads are set ahead of the National […]
Scouting notes: Allies vs. Victoria trials
THE 50-man Allies squad split in two on Sunday to take on Victoria Country and Metro in a couple of trial games as each squad nears completion in the lead up to the National Championships on Saturday at the MCG. We had eyes on both matches at Ikon Park, and here are our opinion-based notes […]
20 players to watch ahead of the National Under 18 Championships
FOLLOWING up from the Draft Central May Power Rankings earlier in the month, we have listed 20 players to watch who are either in great form, have shown promising signs for the future, or who might be injured and have been highly touted prospects in the past. It is by no means a ranked or […]
Scouting notes: Victorian Under 16 trial games
VICTORIA Country and Metro sides battled it out at Ikon Park on Saturday with the best Under 16s having a hitout ahead of selection for the upcoming National Under 16s championships. Vic Metro won both games convincingly giving them great confidence ahead of the national carnival, and Ed Pascoe was on hand to note down […]
