Durak Tucker

DRAFT ANALYSIS: "A medium defender who reads the play well and has the ability to play on tall or small forwards."

Ian Hill

DRAFT ANALYSIS: "Very clean skills and elite decision making capabilities under pressure."

Riley Collier-Dawkins

DRAFT ANALYSIS: “An explosive tall midfielder who excels at winning stoppages”  

Jai Taylor

  STRENGTHS: Acceleration, versatility, tackling, vertical jump IMPROVEMENTS: Kicking consistency, contested work, accumulation SUMMARY: Jai Taylor is a player with some top athletic traits, and an ability to play in multiple positions across the field. He does not always show his break-neck speed on the ground, but he consistently runs the 20m sprint in under […]

Joe Hinder

Joseph Hinder

Sam Fletcher

STRENGTHS: Accumulation, Courage, Inside game, tackling, clean hands, clearances IMPROVEMENTS: Kicking, scoreboard impact SUMMARY: Injury did not help the AFL Academy member who was one of the shock omissions from a National Draft Combine invitation.  Dandenong generally plays a team-oriented game where not too many midfielders win truckloads of the ball, but Fletcher’s inside presence […]

Xavier Peacock

Mitchell Riordan

  STRENGTHS: Inside game, endurance, speed, strength, vertical jump IMPROVEMENTS: Durability, accumulation SUMMARY: Mitch Riordan would love to have 2018 again after his year –  including his National Under 18 Championships campaign – was affected by injury. Returning to the Stingrays late in the year, Riordan joined Sam Fletcher as vital inclusions on the inside, […]

Thomas Matthews

  STRENGTHS: Overhead marking, kicking, vision, decision making, class, tackling IMPROVEMENTS: Endurance, inside game SUMMARY: Tom Matthews is a player who has been a highly rated prospect in northern Australia for some time and yet looms as an underrated prospect heading into the National AFL Draft. The knocks on him are his endurance – he […]