Rising Star - 2016

[Bulldog Joe]

Final List

That is a pretty good list of young players.

Surprised there has not been a big push for Darcy Moore, who looks likely to be a real star.

[azabob]

Betting was suspended yesterday after a huge rush for Callum Mills.

[azabob]

That is a pretty good list of young players.

Surprised there has not been a big push for Darcy Moore, who looks likely to be a real star.

Agree, Moore would most likely be the first picked by opposition clubs if there was open slather.

[jeemak]

Betting was suspended yesterday after a huge rush for Callum Mills.

Word of the fix seems to have come a little earlier this year....

[Greystache]

Congratulations to Callum Mills for winning the best young non-Victorian player of the year award. A truly deserved winner given Hopper got injured and Byrne-Jones couldn't get a kick in the back half of the season which made it hard to justify voting for them.

Let's hope he goes on to have an illustrious career like his fellow winners Lewis Taylor, Rhys Palmer, and Daniel Rich.

[Happy Days]

Mills was the best player nominated over the course of the season. I love a good conspiracy theory (look me in the eye and tell me those towers came down on their own, etc), but this just isn't there.

[Greystache]

Mills was the best player nominated over the course of the season. I love a good conspiracy theory (look me in the eye and tell me those towers came down on their own, etc), but this just isn't there.

19 touches a game in the probably the easiest position in modern day football, playing in a team with by far the best defence in the AFL. Not sure how it's such a simple decision. The fact that he'd virtually won as soon as he was nominated in round 16 adds to the questions over how legitimate a process it is.

[comrade]

Wasn't he a favourite for the award even prior to getting nominated?

[Happy Days]

19 touches a game in the probably the easiest position in modern day football, playing in a team with by far the best defence in the AFL. Not sure how it's such a simple decision. The fact that he'd virtually won as soon as he was nominated in round 16 adds to the questions over how legitimate a process it is.

>easiest position in football

>averages more contested possessions, more contested marks, more one percenters a game than Daniel

I love Caleb man but Mills is better, has been better this year, and deserves to win.

[comrade]

>easiest position in football

>averages more contested possessions, more contested marks, more one percenters a game than Daniel

I love Caleb man but Mills is better, has been better this year, and deserves to win.

Caleb averages more possessions, more tackles, more inside 50s, more goals, more effective possessions, less clangers.

[Greystache]

Caleb averages more possessions, more tackles, more inside 50s, more goals, more effective possessions, less clangers.

But how does he help capture casual observers in Sydney?

It a testament to how much the AFEL has manipulated everything into a contrived marketing event that people can look at stats, see someone is inferior, then come to the conclusion that the outcome is "fair enough".

It reminds me of 1984 and 2+2=5

[bulldogtragic]

Caleb averages more possessions, more tackles, more inside 50s, more goals, more effective possessions, less clangers.

And more time on ground, higher SuperCoach scores (ranked #1) & higher AFL Fantasy Points (ranked #1) and more bounces.

[jeemak]

They'll trot out the line that Mills was instrumental in Sydney securing two more wins than the Bulldogs, thus being more deserving of the award in a tight race.......it's easy.

[Greystache]

They'll trot out the line that Mills was instrumental in Sydney securing two more wins than the Bulldogs, thus being more deserving of the award in a tight race.......it's easy.

And the shortest odds in the whole process will be on 5 votes for Mills coming from each of G. McLachlan, M. Evans, G. Jakovich, W. Tredrea. Bartlett is generally safe for 5 votes for the non-Victorian player out of some misguided hope that he won't be accused of Vic bias (which he will be anyway bizarrely)

[Bullies]

Mills will be a superstar once he goes into the midfield. Daniel is a star but Mills has a bit more upside.