2024 AFL National Draft prospects: The next batch

[Nascent 7,710]

1 minute ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Have seen Ah Mu play twice this year and the kid is a beast. Absolute man child who's exactly a need for use being a forward ruckman.

Alot of water to go under the bridge obviously but even if they did bring back the ability to match bids back to 20+ we could still possibly end up in a Mac Andrew scenario.

 

[ChaserJ 4,087]

Had a quick go at mapping out what the draft order looks like and used Rookie Me’s draft rankings to try and see how things are shaping up (player tiers, pick swaps, etc.).

Have tried to pair Academy & F/S players with their clubs so Ashcroft is ranked higher than he appears here (Lombard & Camporeale are actually pretty close to where their clubs would be selecting). Lots still to play out, but bolder the players that have caught my eye for various reasons.
 

1. North                              Smillie
2. Richmond                     O’Sullivan
3. WCE                              Luke Trainor
4. Adelaide                        Draper
5. Saints                            J. Smith
6. Hawks                             Moraes
7. GC                                   Lalor
8. GC (Dogs)                     Lombard (GC Acad)
9. Brisbane                        Levi (f/s)              
10. Melbourne                     M. Whitlock
11. Freo (Port)                     Marshall (BL Acad)/O’Farrell
12. Cats                                Gross
13. Giants                             M. Reid
14. Giants                             X Lindsay
15. Freo                                 Berry
16. Freo (Pies)                     Shanahan
17. Carl                                 B. Camporeale (f/s)
18. Syd                                  J Whitlock
19. Syd                                  Kako
20. GC                                   Hotton

On the Bubble:

Allan, Travaglia, Oliver, Mraz, Langford, Faull, Dodson

 

Edited Tuesday at 00:52 by ChaserJ

[DistrACTION Jackson 6,867]

8 minutes ago, ChaserJ said:

Had a quick go at mapping out what the draft order looks like and used Rookie Me’s draft rankings to try and see how things are shaping up (player tiers, pick swaps, etc.).

Have tried to pair Academy & F/S players with their clubs so Ashcroft is ranked higher than he appears here (Lombard & Camporeale are actually pretty close to where their clubs would be selecting). Lots still to play out, but bolder the players that have caught my eye for various reasons.
 

1. North                              Smillie
2. Richmond                     O’Sullivan
3. WCE                              Luke Trainor
4. Adelaide                        Draper
5. Saints                             Jagga
6. Hawks                             Moraes
7. GC                                   Lalor
8. GC (Dogs)                     Lombard (GC Acad)
9. Brisbane                        Levi (f/s)              
10. Melbourne                     M. Whitlock
11. Freo (Port)                     Marshall (BL Acad)/O’Farrell
12. Cats                                Gross
13. Giants                             M. Reid
14. Giants                             X Lindsay
15. Freo                                 Berry
16. Freo (Pies)                     Shanahan
17. Carl                                 B. Camporeale (f/s)
18. Syd                                  J Whitlock
19. Syd                                  Kako
20. GC                                   Allan

On the Bubble:

Travaglia, Oliver, Mraz, Langford, Faull, Dodson

 

Interesting that you have Whitlock going to us, noting the draft order will likely change anyway. He’s that 200cm ruck forward who is agile and good below his knees like a Luke Jackson. Will be interesting to see if he’s of interest to us.

[whatwhat say what 20,328]

9 minutes ago, DistrACTION Jackson said:

Interesting that you have Whitlock going to us, noting the draft order will likely change anyway. He’s that 200cm ruck forward who is agile and good below his knees like a Luke Jackson. Will be interesting to see if he’s of interest to us.

midfielder as preference, please

[ChaserJ 4,087]

31 minutes ago, DistrACTION Jackson said:

Interesting that you have Whitlock going to us, noting the draft order will likely change anyway. He’s that 200cm ruck forward who is agile and good below his knees like a Luke Jackson. Will be interesting to see if he’s of interest to us.

Was purely based off RMDC’s power rankings, so not a mock draft, but Whitlock would be handy. Last week it would have been Lalor!

Outside of the current top 5, I’m a big fan of Murphy Reid & Toby Travaglia.

[Nascent 7,710]

5 hours ago, ChaserJ said:

Was purely based off RMDC’s power rankings, so not a mock draft, but Whitlock would be handy. Last week it would have been Lalor!

Outside of the current top 5, I’m a big fan of Murphy Reid & Toby Travaglia.

I quite liked the look of Oliver off the half back line.

For a midfielders draft, there are certainly a few talls developing that look like quality. 

Trainor, Shanahan, Faull, Whitlock brothers, J Murphy, O'Farrell, Mraz, Sims, Nicholls, Welsh could all be taken within the first 2 rounds imo.

Edited Tuesday at 05:24 by Nascent

[Jibroni 4,340]

Midfielders should be the priority. We have lost Jordan, Harmes and Brayshaw in the last 12 months and should continue to develop extras.

Edited Tuesday at 05:18 by Jibroni

[Nascent 7,710]

40 minutes ago, Jibroni said:

Midfielders should be the priority. We have lost Jordan, Harmes and Brayshaw in the last 12 months and should continue to develop extras.

Don't disagree, but we have holes all over the ground at the moment.

In two years time our tall department could look like

Ruck: Verrall

Fwd: JvR, Jefferson, Kentfield

Def: Lever, Turner (fwd?), Adams

Unknowns: Gawn (34), May (34) Petty (traded?), Fullarton (best 22/retained on list?)

I am assuming, but could be wrong,  that we will have lost all of T-Mac, Ben Brown, Tomlinson, Schache and KFW. We could see a steep drop off in performance in both May and Gawn although if anyone can play quality footy into mid 30s it's Gawn.

For arguments sake, if we remove Gawn, May and Petty from the best 22 equation in 2026 then we will have just two proven best 22 talls in Lever (30yrs) and JvR. Turner is showing promise and Jefferson is developing nicely at VFL level and should hopefully cementing himself in the side. Calls on Kentfield and Verrall are too early to make while Adams is worth developing but a way off looking AFL quality at this stage.

Trading talls in would be ideal but they come at a premium and nearly every club is after these players.

Edited Tuesday at 05:57 by Nascent

[ChaserJ 4,087]

Espn’s current draft rankings are up, there’s a good write up on Bo Allan on the site as well:

https://www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/id/40373099/afl-draft-2024-june-power-rankings-basketball-prodigy-alex-dodson-isaac-kako-sid-draper

[Binmans PA 26,677]

I'd be going midfielders and looking to FA for KPBs.

[spirit of norm smith 13,582]

MFC need mids, mids, mids

excluding father son and academy players allocated to the Suns, Giants, Swans, Lions

1st round mids - high quality 

Finn O'Sullivan - Oakleigh 

Josh Smillie - Eastern

Jagga Smith - Oakleigh 

Christian Moraes - Eastern

Sid Draper - Sth Adel 

1st round - good options at picks 9-14 

Taj Hotton - Sandringham 

Toby Travaglia - Bendigo

Tom Gross - Oakleigh 

Xavier Lindsay - Gippsland 

Sam Lalor - GWV

AFTER THESE TOP 10 AVAILABLE MIDS

others to look at outside the top 15-18 players in the draft are: (14 youngsters) 

Zak Johnson - Northern 

Nash King - Calder 

Nathaniel Sulzberger - Sandringham/Tas 

Patrick Retschko - Oakleigh 

Cody Anderson - Eastern 

Lucas McInerney - Northern 

Harvey Langford - Dandenong 

Damon Hollow - Calder 

Cooper Hynes - Dandenong 

Kade Herbert - SA eagles 

Archer Day-Wicks - Bendigo 

Oliver Depaoli-Kubank - Tassie 

Bo Allan -WA

Harrison Oliver - Sandringham