The young stars come together to Patrick Crips, Marcus Bontempelli and Christian Petracca as the best of AFL

Daicos, Warner, Gulden, Ashcroft and Reid, in particular, are also Leave your mark in the commercial world.

Then there are those strictly older: Zak Butters (24), Connor Rozee (25), Sam Walsh (24), Luke Davies-Uniacke (25), Bailey Smith (24), Noah Anderson (24) and the exquisitely skilled Izak Rankine (25 in April).

In the meantime, Adelaide and Western Bulldogs host the two most exciting key attackers of the game, Riley Thilthorpe (22) and Sam Darcy (21), both who are 200 centimeters or higher.

They are both incredibly mobile, but what separates them from other high highs are their safe and sticky hands, helped by huge wings. Neither is annoyed by physicality and each one is already a real contender for the Coleman medal in 2025.

Thilthorpe pulled down eight brands and scored three goals for the third game in a row to start the season in the defeat of the Crows of North Melbourne, while Darcy shook off Jacob Weitering off to seize eight sockets and kick two goals, after a four -goal transport with races the previous week.

Fremantle Ruck-Forward Luke Jackson (23), Dockers Drearhead Josh Treacy (22), Bulldog put aside Jamarra Ugle-Hagan and Suns Interceptor Mac Andrew (21) are the other young key position players who mix with Elite.

In other positions, players such as the small hawthorn striker Nick Watson (20), Saint Saint Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera (22), the defender of Adelaide Max Michalanney (21), The Jase Burgoyne wing (21), Swan Matt Roberts (21), Kai Lohmann of Brisbane (21) and Demon Caleb Windsor (19) are already important.

Look that Connor O’Sullivan of Geelong becomes one of the best high defenders of the FL even in the not too far future.

Time for the dees to rethink the midfield?

Simon Goodwin has a problem.

Unlike some little performing clubs, demons have a promising harvest that arrives; From Trent Rivers and Jake Bowey to Caleb Windsor, Judd Mcvee, Jacob Van Rooyen, Harvey Langford, Xavier Lindsay, Matt Jefferson and Koltyn TholStrup.

That nucleus should ensure that Melbourne rebounds quite quickly in the coming seasons, even if their 2025 campaign is on a vital support for zip and three.

Where Goodwin has a problem is that the famous dees wood – dominant possession and contested space – apparently no longer is part of their arsenal, also with the midfield band that has returned together.

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They won the contested possession of 17 but they lost the authorization number of 12 against GWS in the first round (the giants lacked the Ruckman Kieren Briggs), but they were parameters in both key metrics against North Melbourne (-19 and -12) and Gold Coast (-18 and -16), respectively.

Max Gawn (33 years old), Clayton Oliver (27), Jack Viney (31 in April) and Christian Petracca (29) are still the combination of central rebound of Melbourne.

However, the club stops are not necessarily a new development. That quartet was on the field of Alice Springs last June when Fremantle won the first 15 authorizations in a demolition of 92 points of Goodwin’s men.

Only Petracca was missing when they granted the 10 opening authorizations against Bulldogs in the round 21 last year.

To the question from this masthead after the game of the Kangaroos se Gawn, Oliver, Viney and Petracca were still an elite group, Goodwin actually asked for patience.

“I think we finally reported them all together as one. This is a starting point for us, and now we work on how we maximize and improve,” said Goodwin.

“But we will continue to add to that group too. We have dedicated some time to Tom Sparrow, (e) Harvey Langford is someone who brought to our Footy Club who is still learning his trade and still understanding what it is.

“We certainly didn’t finish there, and we still have a lot of work to do in the middle of the ground, but those guys, we have a huge trust in them who will return to the best and will operate really well together.”

Langford played his first complete AFL match on Saturday and at the end of the game he had participated in an extra rebound of Petracca. Choice n. 6 of the draft last year affected by 26 sales, 15 contested possessions, 10 score involves and six authorizations, so Goodwin could have a call to make on his brigade on the favorite ball first of what he thought.

Fantastic Rucking

There is no Ruckman in a better shape than Carlton’s Tom de Koning.

Two years ago, when the direction of De Koning was deploying outrageous offers, there was still a certain degree of difficulty for Carlton in correctly evaluating his financial value. They knew he was athletically gifted and had a great time potential, but the production was still mixed.

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The 25-year-old turned his back on those ink offers a two-seasons agreement to stay at the blues, effectively betting on himself to be worth even more by 2025-E is again at the center of a war of offers.

What has changed is De Koning’s position in the game. The potential word is no longer relevant. If the season has stopped now, the All-Australian selectors should unanimous it as initial Ruckman.

Carlton’s start of 0-3 is not a reflection on De Koning, who is mediating the video games numbers for a large 25-sales man and over seven empty spaces despite being combined with Taby Nankervis, Lloyd Meek and Tim English through the first three rounds.

Sizes of pint size

Nick Watson has quickly become a serious weapon in the extraordinary wave of Hawthorn unbeaten in the reward of the premiership.

The 20-year-old little striker has accumulated a career more than 21 sales-awarding 20 for the first time in his 22nd game-in the 12-point return victory of the Hawks on the giants, to go with 11 contested possessions, five contrasts and nine engaging.

As if his elusiveness was not already sufficient for a problem for the opponents, the 170-centimeter Watson seems to have perfected the design of high contrasts after being previously frustrated in not having received them.

He won five kicks of punishment, three of which from high contrasts in the second half. Lacie Whitfield admitted the first of them, Stephen rabbit the second (the only controversial, in which Watson exacerbated the contact), then the third came from Harry Himmelberg – although Lacie Ash also violates the same passage.

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Speaking on Fox Footy later, The Cheeky Hawk said: “By the way. I lost some in the past, so thanks to UPPS for giving me to me”.

And, as if to deride those who once dare to ask if the lack of Watson’s height would have been a road block for him, he has a 195 cm Himmelberg Punta to score in a phase, before winning another punishment football when he buried the GWS Veteran Callan Ward with a front-on-Tackle.

The child is already a star.