Your team's Under 26 best 22?

[CatToTheFuture]

Bit weird to single out Geelong. They've probably got the most proven small/mediums in the league between Stengle, Close, Miers and O Henry.

That's 1 quality key forward away from being a strong forward line. And 2 of the last 3 flags have been won by teams with average key forwards. Much, much bigger question marks over our midfield.

If it comes to it I'd be happy to just roll with marking targets in O'Henry, Neale, and Dempsey. 2 of those 3 haven't shown that much but honestly we have midfield issues to solve

 

[weltschmerz]

Dogs:

FB: Cleary, O'Donnell, Coffield
HB: Richards, Busslinger, Khamis
C: Poulter, West, Bedendo
HF: Jones, JUH, Gallagher
FF: Clarke, Naughton, Weightman
F: Darcy, BSmith, Sanders
Int: Freijah, Vandermeer, Bramble, O'Driscoll
Sub: Garcia

Hoping to come back to this at the end of the year and tick it off. We haven't had many debutants come in over the last few years. None of our 2022 draftees have debuted yet, with Busslinger coming off a shoulder reco, Gallagher hit hard with injury, and Clarke needing to hit puberty; they're all looking good this pre-season and all should debut this year. Bedendo has been laid low with OP for a while but he's winning our time trials and training like a maniac.

Back line is good. Key forward duo will be elite into the future.

 

[CatToTheFuture]

Dogs:

FB: Cleary, O'Donnell, Coffield
HB: Richards, Busslinger, Khamis
C: Poulter, West, Bedendo
HF: Jones, JUH, Gallagher
FF: Clarke, Naughton, Weightman
F: Darcy, BSmith, Sanders
Int: Freijah, Vandermeer, Bramble, O'Driscoll
Sub: Garcia

Hoping to come back to this at the end of the year and tick it off. We haven't had many debutants come in over the last few years. None of our 2022 draftees have debuted yet, with Busslinger coming off a shoulder reco, Gallagher hit hard with injury, and Clarke needing to hit puberty; they're all looking good this pre-season and all should debut this year. Bedendo has been laid low with OP for a while but he's winning our time trials and training like a maniac.

Back line is good. Key forward duo will be elite into the future.

Jesus that is a pretty decent crop of young guns

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

With training watchers seeing CJ moving to one wing and D’Ambrosio on the other our under 26 side is looking more like this, with bolded players who are quite likely there from Round 1 2024.

FB: Mitchell, Blanck, Scrimshaw
HB: Ryan, DGB, Weddle
C: Jiath, Day, D'Ambrosio
HF: Moore, Lewis, C.Macdonald
FF: Watson, Ramsden, Ginnivan
Foll: Reeves, Newcombe, Ward
Int: Nash, Mackenzie, Worpel, Meek
Sub: B.Macdonald

Depth: Morrison, Maginness, Stephens, Serong, Butler, Bennetts, McCabe, Tucker, O'Sullivan, Dear