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AFL Draft Day 2016 is here and in a way I don't mind that the Demons have been relegated to bit players in today's proceedings. In the first instance, this year's draft is highly compromised by v

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Hawthorn just selected a player named Mitchell Lewis. Overcompensating a bit?

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18 minutes ago, Demon Jack said:

Hawthorn just selected a player named Mitchell Lewis. Overcompensating a bit?

 

17 minutes ago, Eyes on Red & Blue said:

Hawthorn trade out Sam Mitchell and Jordan Lewis.

Their first pick at 76: Michell Lewis

And apparently he wore number 53...

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26 minutes ago, Demon Jack said:

Hawthorn just selected a player named Mitchell Lewis. Overcompensating a bit?

 

25 minutes ago, Eyes on Red & Blue said:

Hawthorn trade out Sam Mitchell and Jordan Lewis.

Their first pick at 76: Michell Lewis

Apparently this was a mistake, their recruiter is still balled up the fetual position mumbling 'Mitchel Lewis???' and it got caught on the mics

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Aside from our picks I really hope Sam Petrevski-Seton (now of Carlton) succeeds in the AFL environment.

The poor bugger was incredibly nervous in an interview with Ben Dixon and I recall seeing a short video of him on the AFL website a week or so ago where he mentioned that he had worked on his vocabulary and linguistics so he was confident enough to speak up during team meetings.

Seems like a great young kid and I hope he has a great career (wherever he plays at).

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I wonder if not drafting a back up ruck is representive of the faith the club has in Max King getting his body right. I hope we still look for one in the rookie draft though.

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So GWS go into the draft with picks 2, 15, 37 & 39 and end up having 2, 5, 14 & 20 as their first four picks. Yes, that's right, four draft picks inside the top 20 for a club who finished top 4 this year.

Absolute effing joke. The AFL can go get [censored] for the way they handled the Whitfield affair, this was clearly by design to ensure GWS got all their Academy prospects with the pathetic "bidding" system that is still being rorted by these clubs.

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Emma Quayles draft analysis contains the most ridiculous, nonsensical sentence I have ever had this misfortune to read.

"The Bulldogs were in a great position to see which player the other clubs let slip through to them"

Staggering in its stupidity.

Thanks, I needed the rant 'cos I have nobody here to complain to ...

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3 hours ago, faultydet said:

Emma Quayles draft analysis contains the most ridiculous, nonsensical sentence I have ever had this misfortune to read.

"The Bulldogs were in a great position to see which player the other clubs let slip through to them"

Staggering in its stupidity.

Thanks, I needed the rant 'cos I have nobody here to complain to ...

You can complain to me.

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On 25/11/2016 at 10:45 PM, SaberFang said:

So GWS go into the draft with picks 2, 15, 37 & 39 and end up having 2, 5, 14 & 20 as their first four picks. Yes, that's right, four draft picks inside the top 20 for a club who finished top 4 this year.

Absolute effing joke. The AFL can go get [censored] for the way they handled the Whitfield affair, this was clearly by design to ensure GWS got all their Academy prospects with the pathetic "bidding" system that is still being rorted by these clubs.

The previous model would have seen them get all those players but at picks 37 and 39 and kept all their later picks too...

If you have some improvements to the bidding system - please share them.

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5 minutes ago, rpfc said:

The previous model would have seen them get all those players but at picks 37 and 39 and kept all their later picks too...

If you have some improvements to the bidding system - please share them.

put a limit on the no. of academy picks which get a discounted rate

or have a sliding discount (reduces with each extra academy pick)

add more stringent conditions on what constitutes an academy pick

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Darcy Cameron would have been a great get... he was available at 46. 

200cm Key fwd/ruck. Very agile. Good kick. Perfect for our needs. Plays like Rory Lobb/Peter Wight. 

I still think Hannan would have been available at 64... and Johnstone was a rookie at best.

 

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22 hours ago, rpfc said:

The previous model would have seen them get all those players but at picks 37 and 39 and kept all their later picks too...

If you have some improvements to the bidding system - please share them.

Take the Riverina out of GWS academy zone. Give them their own TAC team - the Albury-Wagga drop bears.

Any player who plays for a TAC, SANFL or WAFL side is removed from the GWS academy. To be eligible for the GWS academy you can only play local football, NEAFL and representative football for NSW teams. If you join a Victorian or South Australian junior development team then you should be treated like those players. At the moment it's double dipping and billing the AFL twice.

Setterfield played for the Sandringham Dragons (+ Caulfield Grammar) this year. He's from Albury. Literally walking distance from Victoria! That's a long way from growing the game in non football areas of NSW. He got TAC coaching like every other kid from bayside Melbourne and also had his own set of coaches in the Giants academy.

Cummings played for North Adelaide. Broken Hill is a traditional football area and feeds in to the South Australian system. With a little more money the SANFL clubs could streamline junior development for players in South Western NSW should they choose to head to Adelaide like many kids from that area do.

 

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