Opinion Best 25 under 25 (FoxSports)

[Chip Scab1]

Walsh > daylight > Holmes

Not even playing the same sport really. Holmes is a good honest toiler, Walsh is very good.

 

[Judd2Sewell]

Daicos & Sheezel

Then everyone else.

 

[bobs head soup]

This seems a good thread for showing clear bias for one's own team.

In that spirit, if all of these players were thrown into an open draft and Sam Darcy lasted until pick 22, I'd be seriously shocked

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

1-Daicos
2-Serong
3-Butters
4-Gulden
5-Sheezel
6-W Ashcroft
7-Holmes
8-Warner
9-Green
10- Newcombe
11- Walsh
12-JUH
13- I Rankine
14- L Jackson
15- S Darcy
16- JHF
17- Anderson
18- B King
19- K Pickett
20- H Young
21-H Reid
22- M Rowell
23- M King
24- O Dempsey
25- Lohmann

Mainly basing on what they have done but a decent consideration of what their potential is as well.

Based on what they’ve done and their potential and you still don’t have JHF in the top 3, or even top 5 and Harley is 21.

Give it away I reckon.

 

[Fadge]

You would. You have made it pretty clear that you don't rate any Carlton players

Holmes was better this year, despite being younger.

Pretty simple assessment for those of us with no skin in the game.

 

[Lingsface]

Based on what they’ve done and their potential and you still don’t have JHF in the top 3, or even top 5 and Harley is 21.

Give it away I reckon.

What has either done more than any in the top 5?

 

[Lingsface]

Based on what they’ve done and their potential and you still don’t have JHF in the top 3, or even top 5 and Harley is 21.

Give it away I reckon.

Daicos Serong and Butters 2x All Australians and multiple other awards.

JHF- A few very good games and made the squad once.

 

[SSSSSS]

Newcombe's final series was absolutely elite - BOG against the Dogs and was a few centimetres away from being BOG against Port. Started 2024 slow but worked his way into it. Think if he stays fit he is primed for a big year.

 

[SC_Power]

Another list with Nick Daicos at Number 1.

Where are all the Richmond players?

They’re the top 8 spots on the under 19 list

 

[Joao]

Not to stoke any fires, but Walsh is clearly a long way ahead of Holmes on performance to date, but I'd take Holmes if you gave me the choice of the two from here on.

There's some serious gravy on that 50, surely

What's 14 goals between friends?

 

[WillHayward]

Where is Bodhi Uwlan

 

[Arr0w]

Holmes was better this year, despite being younger.

Pretty simple assessment for those of us with no skin in the game.

Along the same lines as Sheezel over Daicos

Pretty simple assessment for those of us with no skin in the game.

 

[Fadge]

Not to stoke any fires, but Walsh is clearly a long way ahead of Holmes on performance to date, but I'd take Holmes if you gave me the choice of the two from here on.

Hard to argue with this.

I'm not sure anyone has tried to say Holmes has been better over his career, but it was clear to anyone who saw both players play last year that Holmes has overtaken Walsh as a footballer.

 

[Fadge]

Along the same lines as Sheezel over Daicos

Pretty simple assessment for those of us with no skin in the game.

Along the same lines?

You're saying Sheezel was better than Daicos in 2024?

Because I know comprehension isn't a strength of yours, but it is what you are saying.

FMD.

 

[Orange crush]

Where is Bodhi Uwlan

Is that an anagram for Finn Callaghan

 

[WalshistheGOAT]

Hard to argue with this.

I'm not sure anyone has tried to say Holmes has been better over his career, but it was clear to anyone who saw both players play last year that Holmes has overtaken Walsh as a footballer.

Overtaken or Walsh just impaired? So far Holmes best has never been as good as Walsh's as seen in 2021 and parts of 2022, 2023 and 2024. Major back surgery has clearly hampered Walsh the last couple of years. Understandable given he was working off no preseason while Holmes had a clean run at it. At their best however its a no contest, Walsh wins out every time.

 

[cosmicwinduptoy]

Holmes was much better in midfield than Butters in the 2024 finals series.

Walsh was worse performed than a 45 year old Dangerfield in the second half of the season.

Butters was playing with cracked ribs

 

[Arr0w]

Along the same lines?

You're saying Sheezel was better than Daicos in 2024?

Because I know comprehension isn't a strength of yours, but it is what you are saying.

FMD.

"Along the same lines"

"Because I know comprehension isn't a strength of yours, but it is what you are saying"

Has the rabbit covered at the same age

 

[Fadge]

"Along the same lines"

"Because I know comprehension isn't a strength of yours, but it is what you are saying"

Has the rabbit covered at the same age

Does it make you feel big, strong and manly as a 60 something year old when you use a derogatory term to describe a 21 year old AFL player who is rated as one of the best players in the competition?

 

[Arr0w]

Does it make you feel big, strong and manly as a 60 something year old when you use a derogatory term to describe a 21 year old AFL player who is rated as one of the best players in the competition?

Deflecting the conversation now? Modus operandi when you struggle to debate the subject topic

It's not derogatory, quick, nimble, evasive, and prefers minimal contact

I think it's apt

 

[Rod Stroker]

if his body allowed him some continuity with training and playing so that he could have shown more of his capabilities, Wardlaw would be right up there.

 

[Jcpdragonx]

Worth park the Walsh discussions for now, see what he can do if his back heals.

Walsh was a negative player in the 2nd half of this year, his kicking was on par with Taranto and got caught HTB all the time.

 

[Arr0w]

Worth park the Walsh discussions for now, see what he can do if his back heals.

Walsh was a negative player in the 2nd half of this year, his kicking was on par with Taranto and got caught HTB all the time.

Agreed, thought he was trying to do to much, especially playing too much on the inside

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Daicos Serong and Butters 2x All Australians and multiple other awards.

JHF- A few very good games and made the squad once.

You literally said that your list was referencing what players had done and their potential, then you bring a popularity contest to the equation and ignore the two brutes with the most potential in the comp.

 

[Lingsface]

You literally said that your list was referencing what players had done and their potential, then you bring a popularity contest to the equation and ignore the two brutes with the most potential in the comp.

I said mainly on what they had done with consideration on potential. A popularity contest? Because they were all Australian 2 times? If I did it on potential alone S Darcy would be ahead of those two he is like the wembenyama of afl. I think the top 3-5 will have better careers than both of yours mentioned.