2015 AFL National Draft prospects: The next batch

[Bombay Airconditioning 6,202]

Essential criteria for players drafted

- natural competitors

- elite user of the footy

- footy smarts/decision making

Non essential criteria

- basketball background

- ability to public speak

- captain of a junior rep side

- have attended a private school

[spirit of norm smith 15,059]

Darcy Tucker... the Joel Selwood of this draft.

Top 3 pick after 2014, drifted due to okay championships but is a tough skilled player

[ChaserJ 4,640]

Darcy Tucker... the Joel Selwood of this draft.

Top 3 pick after 2014, drifted due to okay championships but is a tough skilled player

Admire your persistence Norm.

[Ted Lasso 18,744]

Darcy ducker the joel selwood of this draft

[Brayshaw Self 847]

Prefer Prestia

[olisik 4,060]

Please not Parish,

Toumpas 2.0

[Deeoldfart 7,989]

Essential criteria for players drafted

- natural competitors

- elite user of the footy

- footy smarts/decision making

Non essential criteria

- basketball background

- ability to public speak

- captain of a junior rep side

- have attended a private school

I agree Al, and it's comforting to know that our current recruiting team have shown themselves to be good judges, and will have these criteria front and centre.

[ChaserJ 4,640]

Please not Parish,

Toumpas 2.0

Respectfully disagree. Parish's inside game far ahead of Toumpas at the same stage.

Can win hard ball (best example was in the second half of the Academy v Werribee, where he won contested ball whilst playing with a broken wrist), doesn't panic in traffic and has a much better inside/outside balance to his game.

Also won't enter the draft with an injury which hampers his mobility.

[Mach5 4,596]

I can see Parish having a similar career trajectory as Toumpas.

Happy to have him, but there are better choices to be made.

Please not Parish,

Toumpas 2.0

Haha you're so... malleable.

Don't be afraid to use your eyes and think for yourself once in a while.

We'd all be better off for it.

[olisik 4,060]

Haha you're so... malleable.

Don't be afraid to use your eyes and think for yourself once in a while.

We'd all be better off for it.

God forbid someone have the same opinion!

[TheoX 1,218]

Darcy Tucker... the Joel Selwood of this draft.

Top 3 pick after 2014, drifted due to okay championships but is a tough skilled player

Didn't Selwood just drift due to injuries?

[whatwhat say what 22,059]

paige cardona's draft board here.

[Whispering_Jack 29,136]

paige cardona's draft board here.

Thanks for posting that DA.

I continue to like Darcy Parish and, given the placing at #6 it would seem to be roughly in the ball park of where I expect our first pick to be (subject to trading it away).

Love this description:-

The smiling assassin – he looks like a choirboy, but plays like a junkyard dog and does it all with a smile on his face.

The type of footballer who you expect at a club like Hawthorn or, a couple of decades ago, at North.

[Deeman 1,479]

Thanks for posting that DA.

I continue to like Darcy Parish and, given the placing at #6 it would seem to be roughly in the ball park of where I expect our first pick to be (subject to trading it away).

Love this description:-

The type of footballer who you expect at a club like Hawthorn or, a couple of decades ago, at North.

Paige isn't really good with her arithmetic- "Will be a top-5 talent in November’s draft."

But she put him at 6?

[Mach5 4,596]

Like most draft write-ups, it is ridiculously hyperbolic.

[Mach5 4,596]

God forbid someone have the same opinion!

It's not the same opinion.

You've seen a comment that could be construed as slightly negative, and then run with it in the ridiculous fashion that you do, so that you can incessantly pot another player without basis, as is your bizarre wont...

Attention starved much..?

[Demon Disciple 11,607]

Paige isn't really good with her arithmetic- "Will be a top-5 talent in November’s draft."

But she put him at 6?

She's a filth supporter, nuff said

[ChaserJ 4,640]

She's a filth supporter, nuff said

That's not fair mate, she's as passionate a fan of TAC Cup and junior footy as I know.

If she tends to be overly positive about some of the player's, it's because Paige does a fair amount of work with these kids and probably doesn't want to be too negative. She wants to see them all do well.

As far as Pie fans go, she can be objective about other teams.

Think she actually has taken out a Dee's membership (definitely has a Dogs membership) as she may have had family ties.

Edited July 25, 2015 by ChaserJ

[MikeAlphaTango 150]

Paige isn't really good with her arithmetic- "Will be a top-5 talent in November’s draft."

But she put him at 6?

The reason being that Hooper and Mills are academy picks and will be taken by GWS and Sydney with their first picks.

[olisik 4,060]

It's not the same opinion.

You've seen a comment that could be construed as slightly negative, and then run with it in the ridiculous fashion that you do, so that you can incessantly pot another player without basis, as is your bizarre wont...

Attention starved much..?

Your thinking to hard mate. Settle down before you hurt yourself

[dee-luded 2,959]

They're lucky they had so many high draft picks though, they picked 2 duds with Dowler and Thorpe too.

dowler was injured with his hips, I think from a car crash??? & thorpe well his makeup wasn't right.

but the key is to be relentless. don't give Up.

[dee-luded 2,959]

Just caught up with yesterday's TAC Cup Future Stars programme and see that Plough has changed his mind about Melbourne's first selection:-

1. Brisbane - Jacob Weitering

2. Gold Coast - Joshua Schache

3. Sydney* - Callum Mills

4. Carlton - Aaron Francis

5. GWS* - Jacob Hopper

6. Melbourne - Darcy Parish

7. Essendon - Darcy Tucker

8. St. Kilda - Charlie Curnow

9. Port Adelaide - Harley Balic

10. GWS* - Matthew Kennedy

11. Geelong - Rhys Mathieson

12. Adelaide - Kieran Collins

13. Brisbane* - Ben Keays

14. North Melbourne - Sam Weideman

15. Collingwood - Ryan Burton

16. Western Bulldogs - Harry McKay

17. Richmond - Riley Bonner

18. Brisbane* - Eric Hipwood

19. Hawthorn - Josh Dunkley

20. West Coast - Kieran Lovell

* Academy bid

lets see, so If we liked someone from GWS, we could maybe swap picks with them in a deal for said player? & still maybe pickup the Weid as well ?

[dee-luded 2,959]

what you talking about, willis

you are the one always banging on about tough bodies, in and under etc. henderson is soft.

Well, we need a tall key forward who marks up forward, can ruck & is mobile so you think Hendo is soft, or is his surroundings causing him to be soft? everything that comes from the PuckerEmUp blues, is soft these days.

& theres not many tall key forwards available at this time.

Hendo is under performing because of the club he's at. & the coaching he's had.

[dee-luded 2,959]

Respectfully disagree. Parish's inside game far ahead of Toumpas at the same stage.

Can win hard ball (best example was in the second half of the Academy v Werribee, where he won contested ball whilst playing with a broken wrist), doesn't panic in traffic and has a much better inside/outside balance to his game.

Also won't enter the draft with an injury which hampers his mobility.

from the little I saw, I think Parish appears like the player we wanted scully to be for us. & he reminds me of swans academy types. busy always involved, a competitor.

[faultydet 7,594]

Im not sure of Parish's competitiveness.

Can anyone clarify a few times please?