Walsh set to make big mark on AFL

FORMER Young Footballer of the Year Tommy Walsh is winning over AFL fans without having played a competitive game in Australia.

Walsh, who signed for Melbourne outfit St Kilda last year, has shown impressive form in training and the Kerry man’s potential has become a hot topic of conversation on the club’s web forum.

The thread, entitled ‘interesting stuff re; Tommy Walsh’ is started by a poster saying that the Kerins O’Rahillys forward had been “putting smiles on the faces of our coaches lately” before adding: