Potential Carlton father-son prospects Ben and Lucas Camporeale have spent the week at the club as part of pre-season training.
The twins are the sons of Blues great Scott Camporeale, who played 233 games for the Blues between 1995 and 2005.
They will be eligible for the 2024 National Draft.
Ben and Lucas have been playing wing roles for South Australia in the Under-16 Championships and have impressed with their class and running.
AFL Media’s Josh Gabelich was at Carlton training watching them run around.
“For the first half an hour of training I was trying to work out who the two really skin kids on the track were,” Gabelich told SEN’s Sportsday.
“We quickly found out they were the two Camporeale boys Lucas and Ben and they’ve spent the week training with the Blues.
“I spoke to Luke Power afterwards and there’s a bit of excitement around them because they had a really good Under-16 carnival for South Australia.
“They’re not father-son eligible for a couple of years, but pretty awesome to see Camporeales back at Princes Park.
“They spent a lot of the session around Patrick Cripps and even kicking to Harry McKay and Charlie Curnow late in the session, so great to see.”
Father-son candidates training with clubs ahead of time has become commonplace, with Will Ashcroft and Jaspa Fletcher doing so last summer with Brisbane, and Nick Daicos at Collingwood the previous year.
AFL Talent Manager Kevin Sheehan spoke to SEN earlier in the year following the Camporeales’ performance in the Under-16 Championships.
“You’re starting to watch some of the names from the past as their boys start to strut their stuff and that’s the father-sons of course and there’s quite a few we’ll be following in the next couple of years,” Sheehan told SEN’s Future Stars.
“(That group) could be headed up by the Camporeales. I love Scotty Camporeale’s boys – he was smart enough to make one a left footer and one a right footer so that we can sort them out because they look about the same.
“As you can imagine with Scotty’s boys, they’re quite slim for their age but still growing, long legs, they move over the ground so well the pair of them.
“Young Lucas is the left-footer, quite a classic left-footer, and then Ben is the right-footer and both showed enough on the respective wings at the same time, at times they interchanged off the bench onto the one wing, but they’re going to be good players down the track and both were quite promising in the way they played in that winning side for South Australia.”