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#2 Josiah Kyle

The St Kilda NGA prospect has some very nice traits around the ground that make him a high-impact player whenever he’s around the contest. There were just times where he’d evade two or three opponents and then deliver a handball out to a teammate, or a damaging kick forward to a leading teammate, highlighting his vision and composure in traffic. Being a smaller forward he was naturally good at ground level, but his presence aerially was also impressive, getting on shoulders when he could but also out-bodying opponents through smart positioning in one-on-ones when he was a deeper target. He was dangerous when he went into the midfield as well, with his pace a real asset around stoppages and on the outside, where he’d get himself into space and deliver damaging kicks forward.

Jack Peris showed clean pairs of hands and heels from the wing

#36 Scott Beilby

The St Kilda NGA prospect provided a lot of spark down back for Oakleigh, often taking the kick-outs and always looking to attack with them as well. Although Beilby showed great rebounding ability, he also took some really strong intercept marks to prove he isn’t just a running receiver, or one who uses kick-outs to inflate his figures. Beilby finished the game with 21 disposals and nine rebound 50s to be amongst his teams best players, despite some shaky moments at the death.

The current list of Saints NGA really fill some holes on our list. A speedy small forward/midfielder in Kyle, 2 x rebounding HBF's both good in the air in McLennan & Beilby, a quick athletic wingman in Peris and a solid midfielder in Windhanger.

Plus the Peckett twins & Tom Grant as father sons.

Its looking like we are going to have some very good NGA players available this year, hopefully we still have the draft picks to collect them all.

That plus the mid season draft we are going to have some much needed injection of quality youth!