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From what I've read (from memory), he played quite  a lot of junior footy as a forward?

Others care to comment?

Yes, he spent a lot of time in his junior days and school football playing CHF. Of course at that level he was significantly better than opponents. In school football I watched teams like Carey or Marcellin stand multiple opponents on him to try and stop his influence.

In one match he was knocked out cold by having to deal with two KPDs contesting a mark while the opposition midfielders jumped into him from front on. He marked the ball on the HFF but hit the ground out cold still holding the footy, the crooked umpires never even awarded a free kick and rather than paying the mark they re-started the game by a ball up after the ambulance which collected Weiters left the field! Weiters school lost the game by a goal!

In his local footy league one day, prior to his senior school footy days, I saw him kick about a dozen goals for Mount Martha in the first half then change teams and kick about a dozen goals for the opposition in the second half. In those leagues, U14 / U15, clubs are impelled to avoid blowouts so it happens sometimes that a superstar will switch teams temporarily.

One thing of interest to readers, a kid who many considered a better footballer than Weiters, not definitively better but marginally better, and touted by many as the next SOS. No longer plays football at all, primarily because of being disheartened by the nepotism that occurs at TAC Cup development levels.