The qualification rule for a "mature-age" rookie appears it will be any player over the current age cut-off who has never been on a AFL list. The rule is made for blokes in the SANFL and in our case possibly a late developing KPP (Rutten now with the Crows was a young key defender with Sturt IIRC). Jeremy Clayton who had 40+ possies for Port Magpies on the weekend is another we'd be interested in after we had planned to pick him up in the PSD last year before he got injured (splean).
I would hope we would look at a couple of the older boys at Coburg who have had outstanding seasons - blokes like Jake King (would slot nicely on the HBF releasing Raines to the mid-field) and Paul Shelton for example
The 'mature-age' rookie qualification would really open up some options for a pathway from Cannons to Coburg to Tigers. Could be exciting times for Coburg if the linkage is formalised.
That's great news for the future but as for pick-ups this year I'd rather we look outside of Victoria too. IMHO the SANFL > VFL in standard.
