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Re: 2019 Mid Season Draft
Top mid-season prospects set for medicals ahead of May 27 draft
Have you heard the one about the Irishman who’s intent on fighting his way back on to an AFL list?
No joke, former St Kilda Category B rookie Ray Connellan has emerged as a candidate for the mid-season AFL draft.
Let go by the Saints after two years in which he played 34 matches for Sandringham in the VFL, speedster Connellan signed with the Essendon VFL team this year.
He played the first two games of the season but has since missed with a hamstring injury.
He’s expected back next week.
However the speedy Irishman is attracting some interest ahead of the mid-season draft.
Connellan is on a list of 22 players who will receive medical screening overseen by the AFL before the draft on Monday, May 27.
Four other VFL players will do the same: dynamic Coburg small forward Sam Lowson and utility Lochie Dickson, Williamstown’s former Kangaroo Mitch Hibberd, and Northern Blues recruit Frank Anderson.
Lowson’s form has been one of the VFL’s talking points early this season and Burgers officials are convinced he’ll be taken early.
Dickson (Norwood) and Anderson (South Croydon) are both senior premiership players from the Eastern Football League, and Hibberd has been a standout for the Towners as a midfielder, wingman and half forward.
Dandenong Stingrays 19-year-old player Mitch Riordan, co-captain of the club’s first premiership last season, is also on the list and it’s believed he’s fielding interest from an interstate club.
PLAYERS WHO WILL UNDERGO MEDICALS
Ajang Ajang (East Perth), Frank Anderson (Northern Blues), Daly Andrews (Western Jets), Ray Connellan (Essendon VFL), Josh Deluca (Subiaco), Lochie Dickson (Coburg), Kyle Dunkley (Gippsland), Oliver Eastland (Claremont), Cory Gregson (Glenelg), Brady Grey (West Coast WAFL), Mitch Hibberd (Williamstown), Cody Hirst (Eastern Ranges), Lachlan Hosie (Glenelg), Sam Lowson (Coburg), Jack Mayo (Subiaco), Declan Mountford (Claremont), John Noble (West Adelaide), Matt Nunn (Norwood), Marlion Pickett (South Fremantle), Jarvis Pina (Peel Thunder), Mitch Riordan (Dandenong), Adam Tipungwuti (NT Thunder)
Top mid-season prospects set for medicals ahead of May 27 draft
Have you heard the one about the Irishman who’s intent on fighting his way back on to an AFL list?
No joke, former St Kilda Category B rookie Ray Connellan has emerged as a candidate for the mid-season AFL draft.
Let go by the Saints after two years in which he played 34 matches for Sandringham in the VFL, speedster Connellan signed with the Essendon VFL team this year.
He played the first two games of the season but has since missed with a hamstring injury.
He’s expected back next week.
However the speedy Irishman is attracting some interest ahead of the mid-season draft.
Connellan is on a list of 22 players who will receive medical screening overseen by the AFL before the draft on Monday, May 27.
Four other VFL players will do the same: dynamic Coburg small forward Sam Lowson and utility Lochie Dickson, Williamstown’s former Kangaroo Mitch Hibberd, and Northern Blues recruit Frank Anderson.
Lowson’s form has been one of the VFL’s talking points early this season and Burgers officials are convinced he’ll be taken early.
Dickson (Norwood) and Anderson (South Croydon) are both senior premiership players from the Eastern Football League, and Hibberd has been a standout for the Towners as a midfielder, wingman and half forward.
Dandenong Stingrays 19-year-old player Mitch Riordan, co-captain of the club’s first premiership last season, is also on the list and it’s believed he’s fielding interest from an interstate club.
PLAYERS WHO WILL UNDERGO MEDICALS
Ajang Ajang (East Perth), Frank Anderson (Northern Blues), Daly Andrews (Western Jets), Ray Connellan (Essendon VFL), Josh Deluca (Subiaco), Lochie Dickson (Coburg), Kyle Dunkley (Gippsland), Oliver Eastland (Claremont), Cory Gregson (Glenelg), Brady Grey (West Coast WAFL), Mitch Hibberd (Williamstown), Cody Hirst (Eastern Ranges), Lachlan Hosie (Glenelg), Sam Lowson (Coburg), Jack Mayo (Subiaco), Declan Mountford (Claremont), John Noble (West Adelaide), Matt Nunn (Norwood), Marlion Pickett (South Fremantle), Jarvis Pina (Peel Thunder), Mitch Riordan (Dandenong), Adam Tipungwuti (NT Thunder)
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