THERE is a new rule for AFL recruiters travelling to Bendigo to meet Scott Selwood and his parents. If you're from a Victorian club, you can have a tasty snack. If not, you miss out.

"It's my mum's rule. She decided that people from interstate aren't allowed to have chocolate biscuits, but that everyone else can," laughed the fourth — and final — Selwood brother.

"She's getting a bit worried about me going, but it's not too bad. She knows the process, and it will be hard if I do have to go off somewhere, but we've all figured that out in the last few years. You just have to take it as it comes."

Selwood was at the MCG to watch his third brother, Joel, play in a premiership with Geelong, less than 10 months after moving away from home. His older brother, Troy, sat and watched with him. All three were at the ground a year before, to see Adam win his own medallion with West Coast.

It has made Scott realise how quickly life can move. "It's been amazing, the last couple of years. It was a special day for Joel on the weekend, and a special day for the Selwoods," said the 17-year-old.

"It was a perfect day for Geelong, and it was amazing to see it all happening to Joel. Even with Adam.

"You share their dream a bit when it happens, and imagine what it's like, and you see it all in front of you. We were all saying the other day how incredible it is that this time last year, Joel was sitting in the stands watching Adam do exactly the same thing, not even knowing what club he was going to.

"The next year he's 19 and already a premiership player.

"What he's done is pretty special and I think he realises that they don't come around very often. He doesn't take it for granted, he knows what it's all about."

So does Scott, who has found backyard cricket games don't last very long when there are no brothers to bowl to, but that he's not as hungry as he was when Adam, Troy and Joel still lived at home.

"I'm trying to eat a little more so that mum can keep life a bit normal," he said. "And you have to find a few new friends to invite over. You get a bit bored, on your own."

By the end of November, he should have his own new group of teammates, or perhaps be reunited with Joel or the twins, who left home when he was 12.

Scott is a half-back who can push into the midfield, who's been tipped to be picked anywhere from late in the first round to the start of the third, and who has used his brothers' experiences to understand what he'll have to do to go further, rather than feel burdened.

"The way I see it, it's a good thing for me," Selwood said. "There's a lot of boys probably wondering about how it works and feeling pretty nervous, but I've been able to see my brothers get drafted and get an idea of what they go through.

"It's funny how it's happened. I had no idea what it was about when Adam and Troy got picked … For the first few weeks it was just exciting, but now I understand a lot more about what a big commitment it is … you have to work really hard and every game is a privilege."