The 2023 AFL Draft Thread

[dees189227 12,432]

Is this the kid that's rocking the $300 sunnies?

[TooheysBlueDemons 29]

the hitman!!

[M_9 2,106]

Wow. How many Koltyns do we now have at the club?!!

[Clintosaurus 7,891]

Just now, dees189227 said:

Is this the kid that's rocking the $300 sunnies?

$350

[DubDee 26,191]

imma go with KT

[gs77 4,450]

Welcome aboard Koltyn Tholstrup!

[seventyfour 1,191]

Gee wizz this guy on the fox draft compared him to Rayner, Petracca and De Goey.

[DeeSpencer 26,091]

I’d have picked Jimmy Leake. But not upset with Koltyn 

[Sir Why You Little 37,239]

We got the 2 boys we wanted…

[Rab D Nesbitt 8,621]

LOL. Our pick didn't even want to leave his mum's side for the draft. 😂

[dees189227 12,432]

Are we needing to worry about this kid wanting to go home in a few years or will he hang around?

[Rab D Nesbitt 8,621]

Excellent. We can turn this [censored] off now and forget it for another year. 

[Ted Lasso 19,549]

Happy with Windsor, a little dissapointed we didn't take Leake. trust JT and the team know what they're doing. 

[Gawndy the Great 9,011]

Got to worry about the kid not wanting to come down for the presentation. Probably just shy and what not but still.

[Jibroni 5,025]

6 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

Are we needing to worry about this kid wanting to go home in a few years or will he hang around?

He is from Esperance which is 700km away from Perth.

[samcantstandya 1,067]

9 minutes ago, M_9 said:

Wow. How many Koltyns do we now have at the club?!!

One and he'll be a beauty.

[Devil In Disguise 2,278]

Met Windsor’s grandfather in the newsagent last week. He was super excited but said Caleb was a big Magpie supporter 😟

[GBDee 364]

1 minute ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

Excellent. We can turn this [censored] off now and forget it for another year. 

Won’t waste my time next year either. The whole world knew we were taking this unlikely pairing even before St. Cal pronounced over the weekend. Need to keep our hand better hidden. 

[layzie 34,119]

5 minutes ago, wizardinoz said:

Met Windsor’s grandfather in the newsagent last week. He was super excited but said Caleb was a big Magpie supporter 😟

Ah well, so was Trac. 

[Bang Bang Bang 5,839]

[censored] me the draft is painful viewing these days. Do we really need Ben Dixon acting awkward and the kids saying "Yeah nah looking forward to meeting all the boys" and "I model my game on [insert A+ grade player the vast majority will never get near] after every single pick. Can understand it maybe for Harley Reid and leave it at that. The academy bids and pick swaps just elongate it even further. Geelong's pick wasted a good 15 minutes of my life. All that just for us to get the two kids Cal Twomey and everyone else knew we were getting anyway.

I remember the good old days of 2003 where you could tune in to the audio on afl.com.au and the first round was done in two minutes. TWENTY YEARS AGO and it was light years ahead of what we get these days. 

 

Edited November 20, 2023 by Bang Bang Bang

[DeeSpencer 26,091]

3 minutes ago, GBDee said:

Won’t waste my time next year either. The whole world knew we were taking this unlikely pairing even before St. Cal pronounced over the weekend. Need to keep our hand better hidden. 

Cal’s tipped every pick aside from the trades and Gothard in the first 16. Teams and player managers all leak it 

[Adam The God 30,539]

10 minutes ago, wizardinoz said:

Met Windsor’s grandfather in the newsagent last week. He was super excited but said Caleb was a big Magpie supporter 😟

FWIW, his aunty and uncle are huge Melbourne fans.

[DeeSpencer 26,091]

GWS annoy the heck out of me with how good they are. 

[Adam The God 30,539]

6 minutes ago, GBDee said:

Won’t waste my time next year either. The whole world knew we were taking this unlikely pairing even before St. Cal pronounced over the weekend. Need to keep our hand better hidden. 

Apparently, every club in the top 10 needs to do a better job then, because it played out almost exactly like most phantoms.

And why are you whinging? We got the two guys we wanted... 

[Neitas bump 155]

27 minutes ago, hannaman said:

The rules changed. We missed Mac by one year. Could not bid inside the top 20. Mac went 5. The suns have their own set of rules

Did the rules only change for the one season? Because the year before Mac Andrew the doggies took Ugle Hagan as an academy player with pick 1!