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2008 Draft Day

From AFL .com

http://www.afl.com.au/development/nabaflri...60/default.aspx

It's one of the biggest weeks in the AFL calendar, and afl.com.au is the one-stop shop for all NAB AFL Draft news.

From the Phantom Draft by our draft guru Matt Burgan, which will appear on the Wednesday prior to the draft, through to the live Draft Tracker, which will list every player nominated in real time and include selected highlights packages, afl.com.au will keep you up to the minute with all the draft news.

It all happens on Saturday, November 29, when Ian Cohen and Kevin Sheehan, with Jason McCartney, present the 2008 NAB AFL Draft live from Telstra Dome from 9.50am. Coverage will include interviews with a selection of the top draftees. There will also be live online audio from SEN radio from 9am ESST.

You can watch the draft live and exclusive on afl.com.au or on your Telstra NextG mobile phone. Then, once the selections have all been called, read what your club’s recruiter has to say about every player taken in the draft.

This year’s draft has again created great interest, and afl.com.au has been home to the most comprehensive coverage of the lead up to biggest day of the year for every AFL recruiting manager.

Profiles of some of the hottest young talent in the country have been linked to our 30-day countdown to the big day.

The most keenly anticipated piece of afl.com.au’s draft puzzle is always Matt Burgan's Phantom Draft. It will appear exclusively on afl.com.au at 2pm on the Wednesday before the draft.

Burgan has been producing his bold predictions since 2000, and has been on the money most years with his call on the No.1 pick. Last year he correctly predicted seven of the first 10 selections – how close will he come to nailing the top 10 in 2008?

Will Burgan predict that Melbourne will take Sandringham Dragons power forward Jack Watts with its prized first selection or will he punt on the Dees picking the exciting Naitanui?

And where does he think returning gun Ben Cousins will end up – will it be a fight between St Kilda and the Brisbane Lions, or does his crystal ball tell him that another club is set to pounce on the 2005 Brownlow medallist?

Fans again have the chance to comment on Burgan's contentious choices. A selection of reader comments will appear on the Thursday before the NAB AFL Draft.

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And where does he think returning gun Ben Cousins will end up – will it be a fight between St Kilda and the Brisbane Lions, or does his crystal ball tell him that another club is set to pounce on the 2005 Brownlow medallist?

I doubt that Burgo is going to have Cousins going to St. Kilda in Saturday's draft.

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Last year I was working draft day. Set my phone to alert me to our selections, they arrived today! Better late than never i suppose. Live on my 3g phone could be the go this year. Does anyone know how expensive that's likely to be?

:lol: :lol:

They must have reawakened the SMS machine from it's slumber

As far as the 3G goes, whats your data limit? I have a work phone and was meant to have an 80MB limit but it was accidentally set to 20 in the first month. I made sure I was below 80 but the diff between the real limit of 20 was $400. Work paid though, fortunately.

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:lol: :lol:

They must have reawakened the SMS machine from it's slumber

As far as the 3G goes, whats your data limit? I have a work phone and was meant to have an 80MB limit but it was accidentally set to 20 in the first month. I made sure I was below 80 but the diff between the real limit of 20 was $400. Work paid though, fortunately.

Cheers melbman, I think it could be 20, never used it before. Do you have any idea how much data half an hour or so would use? I could live with not finding out who we got at 35 and beyond for an hour or 2 but I want to know who we get with 1, 17 and 19 right now, but will settle for the instant they are announced.

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I feel like it is 2 days until xmas. The presents are wrapped and under the tree but we don't know what we are getting. For me the interest is in picks 17 and 19. If we get these right, MFC could set itself up for 5yrs. I wonder what we are getting this year!

Typical AFL website crap. Coverage supposed to start at 9am and they're showing a Qantas kickstart promo. Why don't they just give the rights to 7 or 10?

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