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Welcome Cillian Burke signs with Geelong
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Love that we are getting cillian down to the club a bit younger than Oisin. Makes a difference if they are coming down 21 compared to 24. Much harder to pick up the game and have a meaningful career at 24 compared to 21.
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Same thing with O'Connor as well. Got him in young, helped get him up to speed and got games sunk into him at VFL til he could produce at AFL level.
Poor mullin should have come earlier than he did. 23-4 is a rough age to learn a new game at like AFL.
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Same height as both God AND The President? That's some good foundation and framework at the very least!
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Pretty sure Mullin was going to come earlier but covid happened
Yeah, there have been a few of those really dynamic players at 185cm... Isaac Heeney currently. Horne-Francis also. Bailey Smith @ 185 !
This bloke moves in a dynamic fashion, with good agility, pace and size, but it's a big question whether he can adapt to the AFL game as it's quite different. To me he looks a better prospect than O'Connor or Mullin from just from the way he moves, but that doesn't mean much at this stage.
Mullin was 22 when he arrived and is 24 now, Burke is 21... there's really not that much difference between the two, lol.
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Yeah he's probably a year younger than Mullin who was delayed from joining by a year.
I also don't think there's any sign that Mullin is too old to adapt either. He looked like he was adapting to the level pretty well by the end of the year.
Thought he was older for whatever reason. Cheers for the correction
How many VFL (and overall footy ) games did Merrick play before his AFL debut? About 3 from memory
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