VFL 2024: Ten Frankston Dolphins players to watch in 2024
Good things are happening at Frankston, with the Dolphins to field a hungry, exciting side this season. Here are 10 must-watch Dolphins in 2024.
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Frankston footy fans are being urged to get behind their Dolphins as they look to make significant progress in the VFL in 2024.
A fit and focused Frankston will take to the field in the season opener against Williamstown at Kinetic Stadium on Friday night.
Ahead of the game, new Dolphins coach Jackson Kornberg has identified 10 Frankston players to watch this season.
George Grey
He’s come to us from Casey, he was in their leadership group there. He was voted as our vice captain for this year after 10 weeks of training, it shows you how highly regarded the boys hold him. He uses the ball really, really well, a really sound decision maker and he’s a great runner, too. I feel he’ll play a pretty significant role for us this year.
Tom Murphy
He’s come back. He was here two years ago obviously and then he went to Somerville but has come back. He will roll through the midfield this year and drive his legs. He’s a bit of a territory taker, uses the ball well in congestion as well. He hasn’t played a lot of midfield minutes at VFL level so he’s still learning the craft but he’s a very damaging footballer. He’s played at AFL level.
Lochie Reidy
A young lad who’s been here for a number of years out of Eastern Ranges. He probably played a fair bit more wing, half forward in the last couple of years but he’s started to explore a bit more inside mid time with us through this pre season and he hasn’t put a foot wrong. He’s really pushed himself into that best 23, into a prominent midfield role. He’s classy with the ball, got good agility, moves pretty well in traffic…he’s an exciting young prospect, up and coming.
Seb Quirk
This is his second year at the club, coming from the Giants program the year before. He’s improved all through pre season, he’s graduated into a bit more of a starting midfield role this year, his contest work is really good, he’s an inside ball winner. That really helps when you’ve got guys like George (Grey) and Tom (Murphy) on the outside who use the ball really well. Someone like Seb who can accumulate ball on the inside it’s good to have someone like him. He’s a young developing player, he looks at the way he trains and plays and the way he throws his body around.
Noah Gown
Gowny has come to us from Sandringham last year, he was their leading goal kicker and top three in their best and fairest. He was voted into our leadership group, he’s a powerful key forward, he was at AFL level at Essendon for a handful of years, out of Gippsland Power. He was one we really aggressively targeted in the off season given that we probably lacked that key forward. We’ve got a lot of hybrid forwards but we probably lack that key forward down the ground that we can target so we went after him pretty strongly and we’re rapt to have him at the club. He creates strong contest, got a lovely long kick, nice mark and he’s just a good person to have around the club.
Tomoya Owens
Brother of Kai and Mitch…he was at Sandy last year, he played a lot of footy as a junior but stopped and went into the basketball stream, went overseas and played college basketball, I think it was in Canada for a year or two and then moved back. Plays at Beaumaris locally but was at Sandy for a year. He’s his own player but you can see in him the traits of Mitch and Kai in the size, the shape and agility. He’s a super runner, he can jump, he understands spacing and the balance of the game. He’s had a really good, consistent pre season and we’re looking to get significant games into Tomo this year.
Jack Newnes
He played over 200 games of AFL footy. This is his first full pre season with us. He came in halfway through last year. He’s really invested in the club. He’s had a long journey in AFL footy, he’s turning 31 this year, he gives a lot of experience to our players. He will play a bit more half forward this year, he’s really dangerous in front of goal, really dangerous deep inside fifty too. He’s just a great person to have around the club. He does a bit of coaching with us too. He’s super.
Tyson Milne
Milney has come to us from Sandy. He’s the son of Stephen. He’s got strong agility, he’s a territory taker but he loves to run and carry and drive and he kickstarts a lot of ball movement from half back. Again, just a really good cultural player around the club, he’s well liked, well respected and he really buys into the culture of us being here to enjoy ourselves and have fun. I’m of the belief that fun comes first and then winning comes after that and he’s a really big part of that, creating an enjoyable environment for the boys to want to be here.
Angus Grant
He’s our ruckman this year. He’s traditionally played a bit more as a key back, he’s played a bit of ruck as well but he was a bit more of a tall defender last year. But he came up to me at the start of pre season and said, ‘I really want to make that ruck spot mine’, and he’s one of the first here at training each week, he’s doing a lot of work with our midfield coach Tim McGibney, just around his ruck craft, and he’s started to analyse the game a lot more. Really active around the ground, a strong mark overhead. He’s young, still learning the game, still learning that ruck craft. He’s really improved this entire pre season.
Jackson Voss
He’s been at the club I think it’s four or five years now. This is the second year he’s been in our leadership group. He’s a really damaging ball user, a long left foot kick off half back. He has the capacity to move up the ground and play different roles too but he really sets up a lot of our ball movement, he’s a strong leader. Out of anyone in our team he’s probably the hungriest for team success. It’s great affirmation of where we hope we are going that he signed on and stayed at the club considering how hellbent he is on winning and having team success. He wants to win and he thinks he’s can do that here. He’s a ripper.
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