Herald Sun: AFL's 40 Best Rising Stars Under 24 Years Of Age Ranked (as of September 1st 2024)

[PhatBoy]

Lol, great to see you so passionately supporting the latest player you think is your 2nd best youngster over Jack Ross. Last year it was Henry. The year before it was DeKoning. Can't wait to see who your golden child will be next year if the slings and arrows of outrageous AFL fortune affect Oliver "Crucial Moments" Dempsey similarly. Mitch Knevitt and Jhye Clark must be thinking this is their big chance.

And coaches votes....now isn't that interesting. You obviously now think Dustin Martin is more than twice as good a finals player as anyone else we have seen in the coaches vote era. Congratulations for finally getting it after all these years. And Cats supporters votes....

You are carrying on like just another in a long line of delusional Cats fans that is secretly half expecting Geelong to be just too good in the coming finals series but is afraid to say it publicly because you also half expect they will be nowhere near good enough and players like "Crucial Moments" Dempsey will be found out. Especially given he has an average player rating of just 7.9 from 10 matches against teams that finished in the 8, and even more tellingly, an average of a very poor 3.8 player rating in 4 matches v the top 4 teams outside Geelong this season. You don't get to fill your boots against bottom 8 teams in finals the way Dempsey has. By the way, this is where his monumental 20 coaches votes came from, all v bottom 8 teams, half of which were v the lowly bottom 3 teams. I'll get the popcorn out and watch for him to crucial moment his way through the finals series, lol.

If any of your players coaches voted their way through games against the other bottom 3 teams maybe you wouldn’t have won the wooden spoon.

Ratingz

 

[Meteoric Rise]

He'd be Brownlow favourite if he was at a good club.

From the bit I have seen of Sheezel he looks a genuine top class footballer.

 

[Mr Meow]

Lol, great to see you so passionately supporting the latest player you think is your 2nd best youngster over Jack Ross. Last year it was Henry. The year before it was DeKoning. Can't wait to see who your golden child will be next year if the slings and arrows of outrageous AFL fortune affect Oliver "Crucial Moments" Dempsey similarly. Mitch Knevitt and Jhye Clark must be thinking this is their big chance.

And coaches votes....now isn't that interesting. You obviously now think Dustin Martin is more than twice as good a finals player as anyone else we have seen in the coaches vote era. Congratulations for finally getting it after all these years. And Cats supporters votes....

You are carrying on like just another in a long line of delusional Cats fans that is secretly half expecting Geelong to be just too good in the coming finals series but is afraid to say it publicly because you also half expect they will be nowhere near good enough and players like "Crucial Moments" Dempsey will be found out. Especially given he has an average player rating of just 7.9 from 10 matches against teams that finished in the 8, and even more tellingly, an average of a very poor 3.8 player rating in 4 matches v the top 4 teams outside Geelong this season. You don't get to fill your boots against bottom 8 teams in finals the way Dempsey has. By the way, this is where his monumental 20 coaches votes came from, all v bottom 8 teams, half of which were v the lowly bottom 3 teams. I'll get the popcorn out and watch for him to crucial moment his way through the finals series, lol.

My God, no need to have a meltdown.

We can't even talk about Dempsey as it sends you into a fit. I admit that it amuses me but prolonging it any further is cruelty. And it is weird to be cruel to an old delusuonal man.

 

[FlowersByIrene]

Lol, great to see you so passionately supporting the latest player you think is your 2nd best youngster over Jack Ross. Last year it was Henry. The year before it was DeKoning. Can't wait to see who your golden child will be next year if the slings and arrows of outrageous AFL fortune affect Oliver "Crucial Moments" Dempsey similarly. Mitch Knevitt and Jhye Clark must be thinking this is their big chance.

And coaches votes....now isn't that interesting. You obviously now think Dustin Martin is more than twice as good a finals player as anyone else we have seen in the coaches vote era. Congratulations for finally getting it after all these years. And Cats supporters votes....

You are carrying on like just another in a long line of delusional Cats fans that is secretly half expecting Geelong to be just too good in the coming finals series but is afraid to say it publicly because you also half expect they will be nowhere near good enough and players like "Crucial Moments" Dempsey will be found out. Especially given he has an average player rating of just 7.9 from 10 matches against teams that finished in the 8, and even more tellingly, an average of a very poor 3.8 player rating in 4 matches v the top 4 teams outside Geelong this season. You don't get to fill your boots against bottom 8 teams in finals the way Dempsey has. By the way, this is where his monumental 20 coaches votes came from, all v bottom 8 teams, half of which were v the lowly bottom 3 teams. I'll get the popcorn out and watch for him to crucial moment his way through the finals series, lol.

Seriously, who the f is Jack Ross?

 

[Meteoric Rise]

If any of your players coaches voted their way through games against the other bottom 3 teams maybe you wouldn’t have won the wooden spoon.

Ratingz

Pull up some popcorn then PB, and let's watch these much feted Cats youngsters coaches vote their way through finals together...

 

[Meteoric Rise]

Seriously, who the f is Jack Ross?

Therein lies the problem. Players the commentators fellate, you know about. Players they don't fellate, you are none the wiser. Long may that be the case FBI.

 

[Meteoric Rise]

My God, no need to have a meltdown.

We can't even talk about Dempsey as it sends you into a fit. I admit that it amuses me but prolonging it any further is cruelty. And it is weird to be cruel to an old delusuonal man.

Never a truer word.

Your passion for your run of the mill Cats players is next level meow.

 

[FlowersByIrene]

Therein lies the problem. Players the commentators fellate, you know about. Players they don't fellate, you are none the wiser. Long may that be the case FBI.

Are you referring to this below average footballer?



I suspect this guy would be playing VFL if he was at a proper club.

 

[PhatBoy]

Pull up some popcorn then PB, and let's watch these much feted Cats youngsters coaches vote their way through finals together...

The finals you predicted we wouldn’t make? We’ve already won the war. The result of the battle is fairly irrelevant isn’t it?

 

[Meteoric Rise]

Are you referring to this below average footballer?

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I suspect this guy would be playing VFL if he was at a proper club.

Now throw up Dempsey's same stats v Ross 2023 same stats....because that is what was being discussed. Maybe throw in your favourite young Blues wingers as well, Cottrell & O Hollands.

 

[Mr Meow]

Never a truer word.

Your passion for your run of the mill Cats players is next level meow.

Given your adulation for 24 year old plodders like Ross, the praise you'd have for Geelong's 18-23 year olds would be out of this world if only they wore black and yellow. You must see how pitiful it is to have to instead obsessively downgrade them.

 

[Meteoric Rise]

The finals you predicted we wouldn’t make? We’ve already won the war. The result of the battle is fairly irrelevant isn’t it?

Lol making finals is winning the war now. Never change Cats. No wonder we school you so easily in every final we play against you.

 

[Meteoric Rise]

Given your adulation for 24 year old plodders like Ross, the praise you'd have for Geelong's 18-23 year olds would be out of this world if only they wore black and yellow. You must see how pitiful it is to have to instead obsessively downgrade them.

You might need to quote somewhere I gave Jack Ross any adulation meow, just so others can see it. Certainly can't recall referring to him by such adoring epithets as "Crucial Moments" Ross.

 

[PhatBoy]

Never a truer word.

Your passion for your run of the mill Cats players is next level meow.

So is yours.

 

[PhatBoy]

Lol making finals is winning the war now. Never change Cats. No wonder we school you so easily in every final we play against you.

You made the call that we weren’t going to make it or go close to it. Show some spine and man up.

 

[Meteoric Rise]

You made the call that we weren’t going to make it or go close to it. Show some spine and man up.

Lol, I predicted Geelong wouldn't make finals in 2024. Signed Meteoric Rise.

Now what?

 

[Mr Meow]

You might need to quote somewhere I gave Jack Ross any adulation meow, just so others can see it. Certainly can't recall referring to him by such adoring epithets as "Crucial Moments" Ross.

Dempsey was one of our best in the thrilling opening win against the Saints.

You'll remember all too well when his goals ended Richmond's resistance. Similar decisive moments against Essendon. He was very good against Hawthorn when they were in an electric run of form.

Direct goal contributions (goals/assists) and score involvements have been elite for a young wingman.

He didn't end up top 5 in our board MVP by mistake. Our top 10 is a very good measure of our important players for 2024. Dempsey has been one of them. Aged 21, with 7 AFL games before this season.

Keep Ross, you're right he is basically Richmond's Dempsey. From the discount bin at K Mart.

 

[Meteoric Rise]

FlowersByIrene I hope the other FBI isn't this slack with their investigatons FBI.

 

[PhatBoy]

Lol, I predicted Geelong wouldn't make finals in 2024. Signed Meteoric Rise.

Now what?

Good. Anything that happens from here on is a bonus. Free swing for us. Our Ratingz have already gotten us further than they were supposed to.

 

[FlowersByIrene]

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FlowersByIrene I hope the other FBI isn't this slack with their investigatons FBI.

You want to compare a 24 year old Jack Ross, who is an inside midfielder / utility with a 20 year old wingman? What exactly would that accomplish? Other than indicating Hollands is statistically equivalent to Ross despite playing in a leaner position with more responsibility and being 4 years younger?

 

[Blackhawk42]

Probably didn't expect this thread to turn into a debate about Jack Ross

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Jack Ross

Age

24

Ht

187cm

Wt

87kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.2

4star

K

7.8

3star

HB

8.4

5star

M

2.2

2star

T

2.7

4star

CL

3.0

4star

D

13.7

3star

K

6.7

3star

HB

7.0

4star

M

1.7

2star

T

1.7

3star

CL

2.0

4star

D

17.8

5star

K

8.0

3star

HB

9.8

5star

M

2.6

3star

T

2.8

5star

CL

3.0

5star

.

 

[Meteoric Rise]

Dempsey was one of our best in the thrilling opening win against the Saints.

You'll remember all too well when his goals ended Richmond's resistance. Similar decisive moments against Essendon. He was very good against Hawthorn when they were in an electric run of form.

Direct goal contributions (goals/assists) and score involvements have been elite for a young wingman.

He didn't end up top 5 in our board MVP by mistake. Our top 10 is a very good measure of our important players for 2024. Dempsey has been one of them. Aged 21, with 7 AFL games before this season.

Keep Ross, you're right he is basically Richmond's Dempsey. From the discount bin at K Mart.

OK, if we are going to praise 21yo Dempsey for those contributions v the 11th and 12th and 18th placed teams, I wonder what you would make of Ross's telling debut performance as an 18yo and his next 3 matches prior to being seriously injured while Rchmond struggled without many of its stars early in 2019. We could as easily say without his debut performance Richmond do not make top 4 and therefore would have had a vastly reduced chance of winning that flag.

And Ross's 1 finals performance where you could argue his 23 touches with a goal and 3 assists should have gotten Richmond over the line. His player rating there as a 21yo in his first final was 18.5. Let's see how Dempsey goes matching that as a 21yo in finals. Or his 2 final home and away performances in 2022 when the tigers needed to win to secure finals and Ross got 40 disposals and a massive 22 score involvements, with high pressure acts and 2 goals +2 assists across the 2 games. Or Ross's 27 disposal 22+ rating game(2nd highest in the match) 4 tackle 4 clearance 7 score involvement game in a 1 point win against Hawks in 2023 that kept Richmond's final hopes alive. These obviously don't count for anything because you didn't realise they happened.

 

[Meteoric Rise]

Probably didn't expect this thread to turn into a debate about Jack Ross.

Blame Meow fapping over the 40th best young player in the AFl in 2024, "Big Moments" Dempsey, and trying to justify it on the basis he did better than the wooden spooner's best youngsters, most of whom(including Ross) missed most of 2024 injured.

 

[Mr Meow]

OK, if we are going to praise 21yo Dempsey for those contributions v the 11th and 12th and 18th placed teams, I wonder what you would make of Ross's telling debut performance as an 18yo and his next 3 matches prior to being seriously injured while Rchmond struggled without many of its stars early in 2019. We could as easily say without his debut performance Richmond do not make top 4 and therefore would have had a vastly reduced chance of winning that flag.

And Ross's 1 finals performance where you could argue his 23 touches with a goal and 3 assists should have gotten Richmond over the line. His player rating there as a 21yo in his first final was 18.5. Let's see how Dempsey goes matching that as a 21yo in finals. Or his 2 final home and away performances in 2022 when the tigers needed to win to secure finals and Ross got 40 disposals and a massive 22 score involvements, with high pressure acts and 2 goals +2 assists across the 2 games. Or Ross's 27 disposal 22+ rating game(2nd highest in the match) 4 tackle 4 clearance 7 score involvement game in a 1 point win against Hawks in 2023 that kept Richmond's final hopes alive. These obviously don't count for anything because you didn't realise they happened.

This is getting really, really weird.

Nobody rates Jack Ross. 24 year old plodder with a ceiling of "solid, workmanlike depth".

At 21 and with his first full season in the seniors a resounding success, Dempsey has a lot more going for him.

Get over it and leave the thread. There likely won't be Tigers on this list for 3 more years.

 

[Mr Meow]

Blame Meow fapping over the 40th best young player in the AFl in 2024, "Big Moments" Dempsey, and trying to justify it on the basis he did better than the wooden spooner's best youngsters, most of whom(including Ross) missed most of 2024 injured.

An 80 year old saying "fapping" should be ban worthy.