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It’s not over yet!

This afternoon 2024 AFL Pre-season draft (PSD) and rookie draft will take place from 2.55pm AEDT and you can watch all of the action live here.

A number of clubs have already shown part of their hand for today's drafting, having made commitments to recently delisted players to pick them up again as rookies. The clubs and the players are:-

Adelaide: Chris Burgess, Harry Schoenberg
Brisbane Lions: Darcy Craven, Darragh Joyce
Collingwood: Ash Johnson, Oleg Markov   
Fremantle: Max Knobel
GWS Giants Josh Fahey, Lachie Keeffe, Jacob Wehr
Hawthorn: Jack Gunston
North Melbourne: Toby Pink
Richmond: Mate Colina
St Kilda: Brad Crouch
Sydney Swans: Aaron Francis, Joel Hamling

The draft order for both drafts is reverse ladder position. It is not possible to trade and swap rookie draft picks.

Clubs are also set to name as Category B rookies, players from their Next Generation Academies. Melbourne has already indicated it will be nominating Ricky Mentha, originally from Alice Springs on this basis. Read about him here.

An average of just 24 selections have been used in the past three rookie drafts, while six of the past nine pre-season drafts have not been conducted, with clubs showing no interest in taking players.

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no pick.

Either AMW is a Cat A or we are holding a spot for train on/mid season.

My guess is reports were right and AMW is an A.

 
3 minutes ago, whelan45 said:

Is it confirmed we only have 1 pick today, which will be Mentha? No more list spots after that?

I could be mistaken (the rules seem to change so often) but by my reckoning, we currently have five Category A rookies after elevating Jake Melksham and Judd McVee onto the primary list. They are Kynan Brown, Marty Hore, Luker Kentfield,Oliver Sestan and Will Verrell. I read somewhere that Andy Moniz-Wakefield who is Category B can remain a rookie for another year. If that’s the case, then we have one more Category A vacancy but don’t take that as gospel.

4 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

no pick.

Either AMW is a Cat A or we are holding a spot for train on/mid season.

My guess is reports were right and AMW is an A.

So that explains it. Welcome Ricky Mentha!

And there’s nothing stopping us from finding an Irishman who can play footy and putting them on the Category B list. 


I was hoping to try and get Max Knobel as a future ruck prospect.  I'm not sure we have the space now...and I'm not sure if swooping to get delisted players is the 'done thing' to clubs that have delisted players with an intent to re-draft them as a rookie.  

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Today's draft outcome -

2024 PRE-SEASON DRAFT

ROUND ONE

1. Jack Gunston (Hawthorn)  
2. Sam Day (Brisbane) 

2024 ROOKIE DRAFT

ROUND ONE

1. Toby Pink (North Melbourne)

2. Pass (West Coast)

3. Harry Schoenberg (Adelaide)

4. Max Knobel (Gold Coast Suns)

5. Brad Crouch (St Kilda)
6. Archer Day-Wicks (Essendon)

7. Aiden Riddle (Fremantle)

8. Oleg Markov (Collingwood)

9. Harry Charleson (Carlton)

10. Pass (Western Bulldogs)

11. Lachie Keeffe (GWS Giants)

12. Xavier Ivisic (Geelong)

13. Tom Cochrane (Port Adelaide)

14. Blake Leidler (Sydney Swans)

15. Darragh Joyce (Brisbane Lions)
 
ROUND TWO
 
16. Chris Burgess (Adelaide) 
17. Asher Eastham (Gold Coast Suns)
18. Pass (Essendon) 
19. Pass (Fremantle) 
20. Ash Johnson (Collingwood)
21. Pass (Carlton) 
22. Jacob Wehr (GWS Giants) 
23. Patrick Retschko (Geelong)
24. Pass (Port Adelaide) 
25. Ben Paton (Sydney Swans)
26. Darcy Craven (Brisbane Lions)

ROUND THREE

27. Pass (Gold Coast) 
28. Pass (Essendon) 
29. Pass (Carlton) 
30. Josh Fahey (GWS) 
31. Joe Pike (Geelong) 
32. Aaron Francis (Sydney Swans)

ROUND FOUR

33. Joel Hamling (Sydney Swans) 

 
35 minutes ago, Demonland said:

It’s not over yet!

This afternoon 2024 AFL Pre-season draft (PSD) and rookie draft will take place from 2.55pm AEDT and you can watch all of the action live here.

A number of clubs have already shown part of their hand for today's drafting, having made commitments to recently delisted players to pick them up again as rookies. The clubs and the players are:-

Adelaide: Chris Burgess, Harry Schoenberg
Brisbane Lions: Darcy Craven, Darragh Joyce
Collingwood: Ash Johnson, Oleg Markov   
Fremantle: Max Knobel
GWS Giants Josh Fahey, Lachie Keeffe, Jacob Wehr
Hawthorn: Jack Gunston
North Melbourne: Toby Pink
Richmond: Mate Colina
St Kilda: Brad Crouch
Sydney Swans: Aaron Francis, Joel Hamling

The draft order for both drafts is reverse ladder position. It is not possible to trade and swap rookie draft picks.

Clubs are also set to name as Category B rookies, players from their Next Generation Academies. Melbourne has already indicated it will be nominating Ricky Mentha, originally from Alice Springs on this basis. Read about him here.

An average of just 24 selections have been used in the past three rookie drafts, while six of the past nine pre-season drafts have not been conducted, with clubs showing no interest in taking players.

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So looking at the article with the list of local players available to be drafted, it would appear that there's a healthy list of players from the Gippy area who could be approached to play with Casey. Food for thought.

disappointing - have we got Mentha then if no official pick?

You can have up to 4 Cat B rookies and max of 6A rookies...AMW is a Cat B?


24 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Is our list now completely full?

Not quite.

As AMW appears to be an A rookie we have one B rookie spot.

18 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Not quite.

As AMW appears to be an A rookie we have one B rookie spot.

What are the prerequisites for being a Category B Rookie?


20 hours ago, Melbournepotter said:

I was hoping to try and get Max Knobel as a future ruck prospect.  I'm not sure we have the space now...and I'm not sure if swooping to get delisted players is the 'done thing' to clubs that have delisted players with an intent to re-draft them as a rookie.  

It appears it IS ok to draft another clubs delisted player (given they intend to redraft as a rookie)..as Gold Coast picked up Knobel from Freo. I would love to know if we looked at/rated him as a future player.  I guess not, since we didn't strategise to get him. Looked a good opportunity and good fit to me, especially as a rookie ruck to learn under Gawn and Campbell for a couple of years.

46 minutes ago, Redleg said:

What are the prerequisites for being a Category B Rookie?

I can't find definitive nor current info on that.  To the best of my knowledge it includes:

  • International Players,
  • NGA players that aren't drafted (but NGA eligibility keeps changing)
  • Players from other sports
  • Players that haven't played AFL at any level for three years.

Some AFL publications purport to answer your question but are woefully out of date so I've not linked them.

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3 hours ago, layzie said:

Thank you for this Jack.

It gets harder and harder to find a full draft list quickly online. 

I agree. It seems whoever manages the AFL's website assumes its audience can't read so provides masses of videos but little in the way of written, easy-to-find, factual information.

On 22/11/2024 at 18:08, Whispering_Jack said:

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Absolute nightmare of a graphic, text is wonky as hell  


6 hours ago, layzie said:

Thank you for this Jack.

It gets harder and harder to find a full draft list quickly online. 

 

2 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

I agree. It seems whoever manages the AFL's website assumes its audience can't read so provides masses of videos but little in the way of written, easy-to-find, factual information.

I find Wikipedia is the best source for trade and draft detail across the years. They've refined their format as the years have progressed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_AFL_draft

 

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