Clarence to farewell Tasmania’s best young footballer as former basketballer returns from injury
Tasmania’s best young footballer will pack his bags for Adelaide later this week in a blow for Clarence, but the Roos will regain a towering former basketballer for his first TSL match as a Roo
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THE loss of the state’s best young star in pursuit of his AFL dream will be offset by the return of an off-season recruit who will make his Clarence debut this Saturday.
As revealed by the Mercury two weeks ago, Oliver Davis will head to South Australia in the coming days, where he has been invited to train with the Adelaide Crows and will play in the SANFL.
Last year’s Matthew Richardson medallist and Roos best and fairest is understood to be on the Crows radar as a potential mid-season draft candidate.
While disappointed at not having the teenage gun at his disposal for the rest of the season — when available from Devils duties — Clarence coach Jeromey Webberley said Davis leaves with his full blessing.
“We would obviously love him to continue playing in the Devils program and play some footy with us,” Webberley said.
“But the reality is he has made a decision on what he thinks is best for his footy and ultimately he is trying to chase his AFL dream.
“We are disappointed he is leaving but extremely excited for what lies ahead for him and hopefully he goes over there, plays some good footy and gets picked up in the mid season draft or if he continues over there throughout the entirety of the year, he gets selected at the end of the year.
“It shows a fair bit of courage for him to make that decision and jump to another state.
“I could tell from the outset he was so excited in the opportunity that I think his heart was in it to be honest, I wish him all the best.”
While farewelling Davis, Webberley is excited to finally have towering ruckman Ole Angerstein back on the park.
The 209cm, 110kg German born former basketballer will return via the Development League against the Tigers, having overcome a pre-season ankle injury which delayed his TSL return.
“He hurt his ankle leading into our last practice match against the Tigers,” Webberley said of Angerstein, who signed from VFL outfit Port Melbourne but featured in the State League with North Hobart in 2019.
“We thought it would be OK to get through the game but it was an impingement type injury, we just couldn’t get it right.
“He trained last week, he will train this week and all going well he will play some limited game time in the development.
“He is obviously a super important player for us and we think he can have a major impact on the competition, we jus have to make sure we get it right.”
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