I saw Farmer play in the U18 champs for Vic Metro against SA at Princes Park in 2007. In the same team as Cotch. He had an impressive game playing out of a back pocket. No real tricks but looked a natural footballer as far as reading the play, clean skills and rebounding from defence. It was a wet day so the weather suited smalls.
"Farmer - was the surprise packet today in a back pocket/small rebounding defender role. Totally dominated back there and got a heap of it."
He's small (180cm, 77kg) which would be the knock on him and has only put on a kilo in 2 years since the U18s. Not sure what Port have done development and conditioning wise. You would've thought 80kgs would be his AFL playing weight for his height.