North Melbourne confirmed his signing<\/a> as a pre-season supplemental selection period (SSP) recruit on Wednesday.<\/p>\nBlamires was outstanding for Frankston last year after joining the Dolphins from Sandringham.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old averaged 24.5 disposals, 4.1 tackles and 3.4 marks last season.<\/p>\n
Tom Blamires poses for a photo after winning the Fothergill-Round-Mitchell Medal at the 2025 VFL and VFLW Awards on September 15, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n
The Fothergill-Round-Mitchell Medal recognises the most promising player in the VFL aged 24 or under, and Blamires is the 19th winner in a row to end up on an AFL list.<\/p>\n
The award was introduced in 1989 and has become a glittering accolade with every winner landing on an AFL list since Jason Davenport was picked by Geelong in 2006.<\/p>\n
Of the 18 before Blamires, Kane Lambert, Michael Hibberd and Bayley Fritsch have gone on to win AFL premierships while the likes of Nic Newman, Luke Ryan, Jake Riccardi and Sam Davidson have established themselves as key players at their clubs.<\/p>\n
From Fothergill-Round-Mitchell Medal to the AFL<\/p>\n
2006: Jason Davenport (Geelong) \u2013 Geelong
2007: Shane Valenti (Sandringham) \u2013 Melbourne
2008: Robin Nahas (Port Melbourne) \u2013 Richmond
2009: Michael Barlow (Werribee) \u2013 Fremantle
2010: Michael Hibberd (Frankston) \u2013 Essendon
2011: Ahmed Saad (Northern Bullants) \u2013 St Kilda
2012: Dean Towers (North Ballarat) \u2013 Sydney
2013: Kane Lambert (Northern Blues) \u2013 Richmond
2014: Nic Newman (Frankston) \u2013 Sydney
2015: Adam Marcon (Williamstown) \u2013 Richmond
2016: Luke Ryan (Coburg) \u2013 Fremantle
2017: Bayley Fritsch (Casey) \u2013 Melbourne
2018: Josh Corbett (Werribee) \u2013 Gold Coast
2019: Jake Riccardi (Werribee) \u2013 Greater Western Sydney
2020: Not awarded
2021: Charlie Dean (Williamstown) \u2013 Collingwood
2022: Ethan Phillips (Port Melbourne) \u2013 Hawthorn
2023: Sam Clohesy (Werribee) \u2013 Gold Coast
2024: Sam Davidson (Richmond) \u2013 Western Bulldogs
2025: Tom Blamires (Frankston) \u2013 North Melbourne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Blamires is the latest in a long line of Fothergill-Round-Mitchell Medal winners to land on an AFL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,85,83],"class_list":["post-506378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}