Most of us on RWO love looking at the next generation plying their trade in the NEAFL and speculating on when/if they can make an AFL player.
I was mulling this over in my head whilst I mowed the lawns today and was thinking about the mid field guns we have who arrived via the NEAFL.
Hanners, Parker and Mitchell are now bona fide AFL guns, all three of those really racked up big NEAFL numbers, looked a class above at the lower level and just knocked down the door to be selected for seniors.
Heeney was a big NEAFL accumulator and is on the way to gun status, Mills is another who racked up big NEAFL numbers as a 17yo and again as an 18yo in very limited appearances.
I stand to be corrected but I can't think of any gun senior who wasn't racking em up big in the NEAFL. If this is a true indicator, then we may not have any true AFL guns in waiting - thoughts?
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