This last year from draft watcher Knightmare:
The Firebrace brothers, bottom ager, Jake Firebrace, 169cm, 60kg, and Jesse Firebrace 164cm, 61kg, both excited with 13 and 10 disposals respectively. Jake’s line breaking run and carry was exceptional with Jesse’s forward pressure, crumbing and goalkicking also eye-catching. They’re both exceptionally quick and possess good skills. Every time the pair is in the vicinity of the ball, the influence they exert is notable; with a sense of perceived pressure.
Interesting, even as a free hit none of Hanna, Moussa or Firebrace are good enough? Obviously this year’s weren’t, so the club doesn’t take players if they think they’re too far off the mark (which was the same club attitude as when we had the free hit with the NSW scholarship players).
In the end with Hanna we had a choice between him or Lavender for that project tall spot and looks like we picked Lavender so I doubt we look at Hanna. Mousa and Firebrace im only basing off last year they could have improved a fair bit this year
Some stats to add
Mason Fletcher 14 disposals 6 marks
Ismail Moussa 18 disposals 5 marks
Daniel Hanna 17 disposals 6 marks 9 hitouts
Lachlan Johnson 9 disposals 3 inside 50s
You can know find all TAC stats on AFL Draft Central you can’t get them from the TAC website anymore
Ok, so Hanna is a tall. Didn’t know that. But makes sense with Draper and Lavender, we don’t need any other ruck prospects. Zerk-Thatcher as well would factor in.
What types are Moussa and Firebrace? The quoted bit above mentioned Firebrace having pace and being in the middle, but nothing more specific.
Mousa and Firebrace are both wingman/flanks. Nice speed and movement for both I couldn’t say for sure how quick but Firebrace would need to clean up his kicking a bit
Write up on him aswell in the latest notes from AFL Draft Central, I asked the guy who watched the game and he still thinks he needs to fix up his kicking, for the type of player he is that is something he will need to improve to be picked up
Do you know if Firebrace has grown at all? In the Calder game I watched last year he was tiny, like Caleb Daniel but skinny tiny.
Edit: that may have been the older Firebrace I guess.