The 2007 NAB AFL under 18 championships kicked off in Sydney on Saturday with Tasmania upsetting Queensland by 25 points at the SCG and NSW/ACT easily accounting the Northern Territory by 46 points at Telstra Stadium.

afl.com.au was fortunate to spend the day with an AFL club's recruiting group and record an account of the process through their eyes. 

In the final of our three-part series on recruiting, this AFL club's recruiting group gives an honest assessment of several players involved in the matches. The players commented on were nominated by "Recruiter 1" and "Recruiter 2".

NSW/ACT v Northern Territory – post match assessments

NSW/ACT
Taylor Walker
Recruiter 1: Walker is nice type who is currently an Adelaide scholarship player from NSW.

Mitchell Colvin
Recruiter 1: Mitchell shows a bit at times, although he tends to drift in and out of games. He does have good hand skills.

Tim McIntyre
Recruiter 1: Tim is a good player, but he is small and he's going to have to get a lot of the footy to be recognised. He kicked three goals in the first 35 minutes of the game, but then he didn't do a lot after that.

Dean Terlich
Recruiter 1: Terlich certainly has good skills, although his pace needs to improve.

Recruiter 2: Dean Turlich is a player that I really like. He didn't do much today and in the last month he's been down on form, but he lives in country New South Wales in Osborne – where Adam Schneider is from. He's got a burst of pace, so I'll watch him closely for the rest of the carnival.

Jay Koehler
Recruiter 1: Koehler is a Murray Bushrangers kid with nice size and speed, but his kicking isn't good enough at the moment.

Loccy McGregor
Recruiter 2: Loccy McGregor was really good today. He's only 174cm but he shows plenty of dash.

Ryan Davis
Recruiter 2: Davis was good against the Northern Territory today, although he lacks some pace.

Aaron Bruce
Recruiter 2: Bruce was good at centre half-back. He's strong and has got good hands, but he's not going to play a key position (in the AFL) at 188cm. He's been playing senior footy for a couple of years in the Canberra competition for Eastlake and has been good.

NORTHERN TERRITORY
Cyril Rioli
Recruiter 1: Rioli was good today. He's grown a little bit, while he is very, very quick and clever. He looked very good with his left and right foot and was good front-and-centre. Cyril's been out with both a shoulder and ankle injury, so it was a really good to see him perform well despite a poor preparation.

Recruiter 2: Cyril lacked the ability to play a consistent game due to injury coming into the championships, but he's certainly a classy player.

Marlon Motlop
Recruiter 1: Marlon is a bottom-aged kid who was very good last year in the under 16s. He's a skilful Aboriginal boy who knows what to do with the footy and it's good to have seen him grow a little more to 182cm.

Trevor Oliver

Recruiter 1: Oliver was another boy to play well today. But Trevor's a 19-year-old top-age kid, so he should be playing well at this level. He used the ball well off the half-back line.

Recruiter 2: I liked Trevor Oliver today, although he's a top-age player. He's got some pace and he finds the footy well.

Jethro Calma-Holt
Recruiter 2: Calma-Holt is a player that I like, but he tends to get stuck at full-forward while I'd like to see him play further up the ground.