On Smillie, Dylan Alexander made an exceptional video evaluating him as a player. The point that stood out to me was the ground balls argument - for a tall midfielder to make it at AFL level, they have to be able to win ground balls. It's what separates Bontempelli, Cripps, and Green from the likes of Nash and Setterfield. Apparently Smillie is 'elite' in this category in U18s
Alexander then goes on to directly compare Smillie to Tom Green and the similarities are very promising - including the fall in form for Champs
If this guy falls to our picks we should consider ourselves very lucky.