By Daragh Ó ConchúirFootballers from Carlow, Down, Derry and Cork will be hoping to impress the scouts as they pursue a professional contract at the AFL Draft Combine in Melbourne from October 2 to October 5. Carlow senior Jordan Morrissey, Anton Tohill of Derry, Down’s Pierce Laverty and Cork prospect Mark Keane will be put through their paces along with the cream of the domestic talent at Marvel Stadium. He is the third member of Derry’s Ulster U20 championship-winning squad to attract the attention of AFL scouts, with Callum Brown also understood to be hot property Down Under. Standing at 6’6’’, Tohill (18) has himself been the subject of much interest already, having stood out at the European Combine in Dublin last December and with the AFL Academy in Florida the following month. A Cork minor last year, the Mitchelstown giant progressed to the U20 team this year, where he was deployed as a target man.

Source: Evening echo September 21, 2018 16:52 UTC