The starting order for this year’s draft. As usual, we can expect plenty of changes over the coming months.

ROUND ONE

1 West Coast Eagles (3,000)

2 Richmond (2,481) received from North Melbourne in 2024

3 Richmond (2,178)

4 Essendon (1,962) received from Melbourne in 2024

5 Sydney (1,795)

6 St Kilda (1,659)

7 Essendon (1,543)

8 Hawthorn (1,443) received from Carlton in 2024

9 Gold Coast Suns (1,355) received from Port Adelaide in 2024

10 Fremantle (1,276)

11 Western Bulldogs (1,205)

12 Geelong (1,140)

13 GWS Giants (1,080)

14 Adelaide (1,024)

15 West Coast Eagles (973) received from Hawthorn in 2024

16 Gold Coast Suns (924)

17 Brisbane Lions (879)

18 Gold Coast Suns (836) received from Collingwood in 2024

ROUND TWO

19 West Coast Eagles (796)

20 North Melbourne (757)

21 North Melbourne (721) received from Richmond in 2024

22 Melbourne (686)

23 Sydney (653)

24 Essendon (621) received from St Kilda in 2024

25 Essendon (590)

26 Hawthorn (561) received from Carlton in 2024

27 Port Adelaide (533)

28 Fremantle (505)

29 Western Bulldogs (479)

30 Geelong (454)

31 GWS Giants (429)

32 GWS Giants (405) received from Adelaide in 2024

33 West Coast Eagles (382) received from Hawthorn in 2024

34 Gold Coast Suns (360)

35 Carlton (338) received from Brisbane Lions in 2024

36 Collingwood (317)

ROUND THREE

37 Brisbane Lions (297) received from West Coast Eagles in 2024

38 North Melbourne (277)

39 Fremantle (257) received from Richmond in 2024

40 Adelaide (238) received from Melbourne in 2024

41 Sydney (220)

42 St Kilda (202)

43 Brisbane (184) received from Melbourne in 2024, received from Essendon in 2024

44 Carlton (167)

45 Port Melbourne (150)

46 Fremantle (134)

47 Brisbane Lions (118) received from Western Bulldogs in 2024

48 Geelong (102)

49 Adelaide (86) received from GWS Giants in 2024

50 Adelaide (71)

51 West Coast Eagles (57) received from Hawthorn in 2024

52 Brisbane Lions (42) received from Gold Coast Suns in 2024

53 Melbourne (28) received from Brisbane Lions in 2024

54 Collingwood (14)

ROUND FOUR

55 Hawthorn (0) received from West Coast Eagles in 2024

56 North Melbourne (0)

57 Gold Coast Suns (0) received from Richmond in 2024

58 Melbourne (0)

59 Sydney (0)

60 Brisbane Lions (0) received from St Kilda in 2024

61 St Kilda (0) received from Essendon in 2024

62 Carlton (0)

63 Port Adelaide (0)

64 Fremantle (0)

65 Collingwood (0) received from Western Bulldogs in 2024

66 Geelong (0)

67 Adelaide (0) received from GWS Giants in 2024

68 Adelaide (0)

69 Hawthorn (0)

70 Gold Coast Suns (0)

71 Brisbane Lions (0)

72 Collingwood (0)

There will be a huge premium placed on picks with points attached. We have to amass enough for a father son (fingers crossed) and an academy player. In past years it’s been a buyers market but with Gold Coast and Collingwood most notably and no doubt many more needing to find points it’s going to be tough to get what we need. Can see us taking a deficit into 26 draft

14 minutes ago, The end is nigh said:

There will be a huge premium placed on picks with points attached. We have to amass enough for a father son (fingers crossed) and an academy player. In past years it’s been a buyers market but with Gold Coast and Collingwood most notably and no doubt many more needing to find points it’s going to be tough to get what we need. Can see us taking a deficit into 26 draft

dont we have more academy/fs in the 26 draft aswell?

Club by club (selections and points)

Adelaide 14, 40, 49, 50, 67, 68 (1,419)

Brisbane Lions 17, 37, 43, 47, 52, 60, 71 (1,520)

Carlton 35, 44, 62 (505)

Collingwood 36, 54, 65, 72 (331)

Essendon 4, 7, 24, 25 (4,716)

Fremantle 10, 28, 39, 46, 64 (2,172)

Geelong 12, 30, 48, 66 (1,696)

Gold Coast Suns 9, 16, 18, 34, 57, 70 (3,475)

GWS Giants 13, 31, 32 (1,914)

Hawthorn 8, 26, 55, 69 (2,004)

Melbourne 22, 53, 58 (714)

North Melbourne 20, 21, 38, 56 (1,755)

Port Adelaide 27, 45, 63 (683)

Richmond 2, 3 (4,659)

St Kilda 6, 42, 61 (1861)

Sydney Swans 5, 23, 41, 59 (2,668)

West Coast 1, 15, 19, 33, 51 (5,208)

Western Bulldogs 11, 29 (1,684)

1 hour ago, jaydenh10 said:

dont we have more academy/fs in the 26 draft aswell?

yes, marcus prasad at a minimum

I read an article by Sheehan saying GC have 2 potential top 15 academy picks plus potentially White. Brisbane and Sydney also have top 10 academy pick. Competition seems fair.

I think the point changes make the comp a lot more fair. Brisbane and Collingwood can’t just trade for picks the way Gold Coast has in years past. If you are bringing in a player above their worth now, you’ll have to give up something big for it.

The order is never going to be realistic while clubs haven't played the same number of games.

The current order -

ROUND ONE

1 West Coast Eagles

2 Richmond

3 Richmond

4 Gold Coast Suns

5 St Kilda

6 Sydney

7 Hawthorn

8 Essendon

9 Essendon

10 Fremantle

11 GWS Giants

12 Western Bulldogs

13 West Coast Eagles

14 Geelong

15 Adelaide

16 Gold Coast Suns

17 Brisbane Lions

18 Gold Coast Suns

ROUND TWO

19 West Coast Eagles

20 North Melbourne

21 North Melbourne

22 Port Adelaide

23 Essendon

24 Sydney

25 Hawthorn

26 Melbourne

27 Essendon

28 Fremantle

29 GWS Giants

30 Western Bulldogs

31 West Coast Eagles

32 Geelong

33 GWS Giants

34 Gold Coast Suns

35 Carlton

36 Collingwood

ROUND THREE

37 Brisbane Lions

38 North Melbourne

39 Fremantle

40 Port Adelaide

41 St Kilda

42 Sydney

43 Brisbane

44 Adelaide

45 Brisbane Lions

46 Fremantle

47 Adelaide

48 Brisbane Lions

49 West Coast Eagles

50 Geelong

51 Adelaide

52 Brisbane Lions

53 Melbourne

54 Collingwood

ROUND FOUR

55 Hawthorn

56 North Melbourne

57 Gold Coast Suns

58 Port Adelaide

59 Brisbane Lions

60 Sydney

61 Carlton

62 Melbourne

63 St Kilda

64 Fremantle

65 Adelaide

66 Western Bulldogs

67 Hawthorn

68 Geelong

69 Adelaide

70 Gold Coast Suns

71 Brisbane Lions

72 Western Bulldogs

with all the NGA's and F/S predicted. Pick 9 (our pick) is likely to end up somewhere in the range 15-18 i think. Question will be, is a player of Lindsay's caliber likely to be available at that pick.

After all is said and done, i reckon when the media does a retrospective 2024 draft, Lindsay and Langford are likely to both be in the top 5.

37 minutes ago, GS_1905 said:

After all is said and done, i reckon when the media does a retrospective 2024 draft, Lindsay and Langford are likely to both be in the top 5.

top 3 definitely with lalor, they look like 50 game players already

Congrats to Tom McCarthy who went at #1 in the mid season draft today. A massive Dees fan.

Roan Steele (ex-Casey) has been picked up by Collingwood.

Casey losing the services of Caleb Lewis. Best of luck to him. With Melbourne/caseys ample tall forward stocks, didn’t really get to see much action.

Obviously a lot of water to flow under the bridge but this year’s trade week is going to be pivotal for us as we scramble for draft selections to enable us to get the points needed to draft Kalani White as a f/s selection (hoping he nominates us) and our NGA Toby SInnema. If we trade well then we might also be able to snare a pick good enough to get a player with ability who flies under the radar like Murphy Reid who Freo got as a bargain last year with national draft pick 17.

The wonderful little cherry on top of our rise up the ladder over the past few weeks, has been Essendon’s corresponding drop down the draft order.

Bombers supporters have been death riding the poo out of us but, as it stands now, they have pick 9 at the end of the year, in a lower quality and highly compromised draft

What we have is a future 200 gamer and All-Australian in Xavier Lindsay already playing for us now. I feel good about this.

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Gold Coast Academy talent Koby Coulson has put injury behind him to put his name firmly on the draft radar.

another one….. you’d think that kalani is almost certainly here by now, there is another 4 they have and they can only take two of them

2 hours ago, jaydenh10 said:

Zero Hanger

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Gold Coast Academy talent Koby Coulson has put injury behind him to put his name firmly on the draft radar.

another one….. you’d think that kalani is almost certainly here by now, there is another 4 they have and they can only take two of them

tbh I'd prefer Kalani was GC's first preference and he chose us

10 hours ago, jaydenh10 said:

another one….. you’d think that kalani is almost certainly here by now, there is another 4 they have and they can only take two of them

nope, they changed that rule when they changed the points allocation

if gc17 can accumulate the points they can take any / all of their academy selections