Player Watch 2023 Father Son player watch - McCabe, Dear and Maginness

[Strapping Young Lad]

Guys, I keep deleting posts referencing this, but can we move away from suggesting or making juvenile jokes about the bloodlines of players.

This is a public forum and parents of players do read here.

 

[Judd2Sewell]

Gimme more

 

[Judd2Sewell]

Maginess.N 2023

His brother will be the perfect role model for him. Hopefully Finn is helping him every step of the way.

 

[CaptainWorpedo]

Lawrence impressed me in the Colgate young guns game last year as he was very mobile and could take a mark(kicked 3 also) and I know at least one of our scouts thought we should draft him too, but obviously that was not the consensus.

I have all of my fingers and toes crossed that Calsher lights it up at Sandy, because we need his type and he’ll need to have a good year for us to draft him.

Yes that game caught my attention as well! The boy has a bit of toe, can mark and loves a goal. I also thought he was good below the knees.

 

[CaptainWorpedo]

His brother will be the perfect role model for him. Hopefully Finn is helping him every step of the way.

The word around seems to be that Ned is considered to have better skills than Finn at the same age.

Hopefully Ned has the same desire to suceed as Finn does.

 

[CaptainWorpedo]

Finn’s a classic example.

At the start of 2019 he wasn’t in the AFL Academy and his bottom age year had been underwhelming.

Scouts had him as a rookie pick at best before the season started.

He worked his bum off at the start of 2019 to get super fit and focused on his deficiencies, made the Vic M side, played pretty well at that level and thus we took him as a F/S.

I also blame Cal Twomey for driving Finns price above market value.

 

[CaptainWorpedo]

I am a bit of a romantic, how good would it be to add to our current F/S Finn Maginness at our Hawks over the next 4 years ? Id like to see that...

Another Maginness, McCabe, Dear, Burgoyne and a couple of Crawfords an a Hodge around the corner.

 

[Davo-27]

I also blame Cal Twomey for driving Finns price above market value.

There was a guy on bigfooty rating Finn at 6 whereas most others had him around 25-30, I can't remember where Cal ranked him? He had fantastic endurance and could take a tackle, but Finn has always struggled with his kicking effectiveness, but put him in front of goal and he is or was a good set shot at goal, although he seems to have found his niche as a tagger, part time flanker.

 

[TDS7]

There was a guy on bigfooty rating Finn at 6 whereas most others had him around 25-30, I can't remember where Cal ranked him? He had fantastic endurance and could take a tackle, but Finn has always struggled with his kicking effectiveness, but put him in front of goal and he is or was a good set shot at goal, although he seems to have found his niche as a tagger, part time flanker.

Cal had him 10-15 in the months leading up to the draft. Loved him, just thought he needed to find the footy more.

From the limited Ned vision I've seen, a Josh Kelly type role where he plays just around the contests and hits up players with tight kicks, then runs through and follows up at the next contest would suit him well. More Day than Finn.

Haven't seen anything from Calsher, but a tall forward would be perfect. Anything can happen, especially for talls as they hit their AFL heights and sort out their role.

 

[Davo-27]

Cal had him 10-15 in the months leading up to the draft. Loved him, just thought he needed to find the footy more.

From the limited Ned vision I've seen, a Josh Kelly type role where he plays just around the contests and hits up players with tight kicks, then runs through and follows up at the next contest would suit him well. More Day than Finn.

Haven't seen anything from Calsher, but a tall forward would be perfect. Anything can happen, especially for talls as they hit their AFL heights and sort out their role.

I mistook Ned Maginness for Zane Duursma at preseason training, if he can play anywhere near that level it would be exciting (similar height and build, also another track watcher said he was training with us at the time and I assumed he had had a haircut and looked a bit different lol)

I called Jerome Lawrence as a late pick i think April last year, unfortunately he missed out.

When I see Dear and Maginness play, i will give my read on where I think they will go in the draft.

 

[Titch3Votes0MooreAA]

It is tremendous to hear the news regarding Dear and Maginness. If Dear can find a way onto our list after the passing of his late father, that would be a great story. And if Ned is anything like his brother, then there is certainly a player in the making. I will be watching Sandringham very closely this season.

 

[CaptainWorpedo]

Cal had him 10-15 in the months leading up to the draft. Loved him, just thought he needed to find the footy more.

From the limited Ned vision I've seen, a Josh Kelly type role where he plays just around the contests and hits up players with tight kicks, then runs through and follows up at the next contest would suit him well. More Day than Finn.

Haven't seen anything from Calsher, but a tall forward would be perfect. Anything can happen, especially for talls as they hit their AFL heights and sort out their role.

Dear according to one of his mums post kicked 4 goals (from memory) for his local club, seems capable of a pack mark or on the lead..

Played Forward / Ruck.

 

[The hands of stone]

My mate reckons Ned could be a real bolter , clean hands and skilled just a bit slight .

 

[mustang]

Lawrence impressed me in the Colgate young guns game last year as he was very mobile and could take a mark(kicked 3 also) and I know at least one of our scouts thought we should draft him too, but obviously that was not the consensus.

I have all of my fingers and toes crossed that Calsher lights it up at Sandy, because we need his type and he’ll need to have a good year for us to draft him.

Surely he was good enough to pick up as a rookie if no one picked him up if we nominated him.

 

[Pinoy Hawk]

11. Calsher Dear (Old Brighton Grammarians VAFA)

Potential father-son to Hawthorn (son of Paul). Strong marking key forward who is excellent at ground level for his size. Has played basketball to a high level but now concentrating more on football.

14. Ned Maginness (East Brighton Vampires JFC)

Potential father-son to Hawthorn (son of Scott). Has grown enormously over the past 18 months, to now be nearly 188cm (similar to his brother). Plays midfield and works hard contest to contest to impact the play. Has developed over pre-season as much as any player on the list.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/localfooty/sandringham-dragons-2023-coates-talent-league-boys-list-breakdown/news-story/cbe442593db09611833b8c389e17c305

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

11. Calsher Dear (Old Brighton Grammarians VAFA)

Potential father-son to Hawthorn (son of Paul). Strong marking key forward who is excellent at ground level for his size. Has played basketball to a high level but now concentrating more on football.

 

[kazzooka]

I also blame Cal Twomey for driving Finns price above market value.

Finn didn't help our case winning the time trial.

 

[CaptainWorpedo]

He's also better looking which carries a lot of weight with some of our supporter base.

Well Crawfords position is yet to be filled, maybe it'll take another Crawford to fill that Hawk void lol? Maybe a Charlie or Ben?

 

[lyger]

11. Calsher Dear (Old Brighton Grammarians VAFA)

Potential father-son to Hawthorn (son of Paul). Strong marking key forward who is excellent at ground level for his size. Has played basketball to a high level but now concentrating more on football.

Love the bit ‘excellent at ground level’. Would complement Lewis well in the forward fifty, and maybe push up the ground if his endurance, speed and foot skills are good.

 

[Brant]

He looks like a young Peter Capaldi. Hopefully he comes with Malcolm Tucker's aggression as well, the kid will be unstoppable.

Capaldi a decent CHF as a junior?

 

[hardway]

If they are not rated in the top 80 players available In the draft we can’t waste list spots on them.

 

[Judd2Sewell]

Hopefully these three turn out to be the best players ever

 

[The hands of stone]

Sam Mitchell compared Finn and Ned to the waugh brothers Mark and Steve

Hopefully they run better together

 

[The hands of stone]

If they are not rated in the top 80 players available In the draft we can’t waste list spots on them.

We have passed on FS before so cannot see that being an issue if not good enough

 

[HedgeFund]

We have passed on FS before so cannot see that being an issue if not good enough

Correct, aside from Finn I think we have overlooked every other eligible F/S since Josh Kennedy and the Tuck brothers. Will Langford was a common garden variety rookie pick.

 

[smish]

Has anyone got footage of McCabe?

196cm last year. In an ideal world he would have grown a few cm and could become our version of Darcy Moore

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Darcy Moore

Age

28

Ht

203cm

Wt

100kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.1

3star

K

7.0

3star

HB

4.1

3star

M

4.8

5star

T

1.6

4star

MG

169.1

3star

D

13.9

3star

K

7.3

3star

HB

6.6

4star

M

4.9

5star

T

0.7

1star

MG

182.0

3star

D

6.8

2star

K

4.2

2star

HB

2.6

3star

M

2.6

3star

T

1.8

4star

MG

87.4

2star

/SDK. A tall, athletic KPD with good arial ability - those are listed as his strengths.

Below are his stats from u18s at SANFL last year as an underager. Not sure if he was playing forward or back.