23 minutes ago, Mt. Dee-Maaan said:

am i blind, or was noah h-h missing too?!

His top 10-15 are normally pretty close. Can get a bit wonky from there though

Draft player experts, are any of the players we’re looking at likely to play Rd 1?

Purely asking out of curiosity.

I'm not convinced we like Farrow more than Pickett. If things pan out according to Twomey with Robey, Cumming and X.Taylor gone by our picks, it wouldn't surprise me if we went Pickett with Nairn. According to Twomey, North have traded up to take him 3 picks later.

1 minute ago, old55 said:

I'm not convinced we like Farrow more than Pickett. If things pan out according to Twomey with Robey, Cumming and X.Taylor gone by our picks, it wouldn't surprise me if we went Pickett with Nairn. According to Twomey, North have traded up to take him 3 picks later.

I’d take that Old, we may have to wait until next year for Trac’s replacement.

11 minutes ago, BoBo said:

Draft player experts, are any of the players we’re looking at likely to play Rd 1?

Purely asking out of curiosity.

None of them would be locks but all could. X Taylor/Farrow wouldn’t be behind too many for a game in our backline.

Nairn’s hard to judge, depends how quickly he rounds out his game, but if he settled in quickly he could effectively slide in to Langford’s wing role.

5 hours ago, Red and Blue realist said:

Yes, but they could be tempted to go for more high end talent, in particualr a local who won't be there at pick 13 (or whatever it becomes). 1, 5, 6 & 13 is a very handy reset, with additional asset for next year. Something like 2, 34, 41 (2026 4th) for 5, 6 & 2026 2nd. Essedon then could trade a combination of their picks to Cartlon for 11. West Coast then have 4 high end players, rather than 3.

No they won’t, they will be taking Duursma and CDT, may bid on Uwland but won’t be bidding on Dean.

Based on Cal's phantom our second round pick would be the next pick (pick 31), every other pick in between would have been swallowed up by a bid if the giants trade their pick 35 to suns like Cal mentions.

If Essendon get too cocky and take farrow over sharp knowing we aren't going to take him how would people feel about trading out one of our firsts to collingwood for their future first and pick 39 (would come in to pick 33)? This would be contingent on Farrow, Cumming, Robey, Taylor being off the board. I know pies are really keen on sharp, I don't think it would be too bad a deal and think pies could slide next year if things go against them.

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2 hours ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

I’d take that Old, we may have to wait until next year for Trac’s replacement.

there'd be some hope still that this is kolt

also this is similar to my arguments against sharp, there are inside mids every year, we were sure on langford last year and looks the goods, if we have any doubts on sharp we are rightly holding out for next year when there could be a stack of better options we still ahve enormous depth through the middle across all age brackets on our list too so we have time to pick the right types to place in there whilst also fleshing out elsewhere across the ground too

7 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

None of them would be locks but all could. X Taylor/Farrow wouldn’t be behind too many for a game in our backline.

Nairn’s hard to judge, depends how quickly he rounds out his game, but if he settled in quickly he could effectively slide in to Langford’s wing role.

I’m no draft expert but surely Langdon’s wing is also up for grabs with a less defensive gameplan.

I’d like Langford rotating through a wing with XL a little longer to allow his underage marking develop into his AFL game.

Two tall, marking wings with Nairn and Langford would be perfect. Both very comfortable kicking goals from there too

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1 hour ago, BW511 said:

I’m no draft expert but surely Langdon’s wing is also up for grabs with a less defensive gameplan.

I’d like Langford rotating through a wing with XL a little longer to allow his underage marking develop into his AFL game.

Two tall, marking wings with Nairn and Langford would be perfect. Both very comfortable kicking goals from there too

I see Langford as Petracca reincarnated

If Taylor, Cummings, robey, and farrow are all off the board, trade the pick to Collingwood. That will be a top 10 pick next year in a less compromised and deeper draft.

gives us a chance to trade for humphries or hit the stronger draft hard

Death riding Collingwood for more than my personal enjoyment would feel so natural

2 hours ago, BW511 said:

I’m no draft expert but surely Langdon’s wing is also up for grabs with a less defensive gameplan.

I’d like Langford rotating through a wing with XL a little longer to allow his underage marking develop into his AFL game.

Two tall, marking wings with Nairn and Langford would be perfect. Both very comfortable kicking goals from there too

With Trac and Clarry gone, Langford plays midfield. On the wing we have Cully who can play the “tall marking wing” role you mentioned. XL to be further developed as a mid/HBF.

I guess Nairn would be high HFF to further develop our connection into the forward 50.

Jeff Whites video covers where our focus is, and where we can rapidly improve.

Cal’s Phantom Draft in pictures

5 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Cal’s Phantom Draft in pictures

Not that I know anything about this draft, but Cal is predicting Freo taking tall forward Schubert and with their 3 tall forwards, plus the 2 ruckmen who rest forward, that just seems highly unlikely.

WHERE’S THE PHANTOM DRAFT (LATE MAIL EDITION) CAL!?

Not a zero chance that we do a slight split of our picks, trading up and down, and Taylor selects Taylor and Taylor.

I'm also still hopeful on a full Sam deck.

I think my most preferred players are Xavier Taylor, Sam Cumming if either or both are still available at our picks, but if only one (or neither) of them is available I'd be very happy to trade a little bit down the order a bit and hope to collect Latrelle Pickett and Blake Thredgold. It would be a bonus if Josh Lindsay or Cameron Nairn slipped that far. I wouldn't even mind Schubert if we could get him later in the first round. There's actually a wealth of tall prospects at end end of the first round / early second round.

Then our boy Kalani, and it really seems like Sinnema is headed for us via the rookie draft.

Oh! Useful public service announcement! I found the rule on father-son selections for the rookie draft.

Medium story short - if a F/S eligible player isn't bid on in the draft, then they can be automatically selected as a rookie before the rookie draft even takes place.

FATHER-SON – ROOKIE PRE-SELECTION

The Father-Son Rule previously applied to players selected at the National Draft. Under the rule, other AFL clubs can bid for eligible players who have been nominated under the Father-Son Rule by an eligible club. The nominating club can select the eligible player by forfeiting its next available pick in the draft if a bid has been made by another club. If there is no bid from another club, the nominating club forfeits its last pick in the National Draft.

A club can pre-select an eligible player as a Category A rookie between the Pre-Season and Rookie Drafts (with the player’s consent) provided the player had nominated for but was not selected by another club at either the National or Pre-Season Drafts. In that case, the relevant club would forfeit its last available selection in the Rookie Draft to take the player.

Twomey has just mentioned on gettable that tigers are potentially looking at Farrow with one of their picks. Would certainly change the landscape of what we’re picking from

Just now, Roddog said:

Twomey has just mentioned on gettable that tigers are potentially looking at Farrow with one of their picks. Would certainly change the landscape of what we’re picking from

Could that be worse for us?

Tigers - Cumming and Farrow

Richmond - Robey and Taylor

Us - Nairn and…

48 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

Oh! Useful public service announcement! I found the rule on father-son selections for the rookie draft.

Medium story short - if a F/S eligible player isn't bid on in the draft, then they can be automatically selected as a rookie before the rookie draft even takes place.

FATHER-SON – ROOKIE PRE-SELECTION

The Father-Son Rule previously applied to players selected at the National Draft. Under the rule, other AFL clubs can bid for eligible players who have been nominated under the Father-Son Rule by an eligible club. The nominating club can select the eligible player by forfeiting its next available pick in the draft if a bid has been made by another club. If there is no bid from another club, the nominating club forfeits its last pick in the National Draft.

A club can pre-select an eligible player as a Category A rookie between the Pre-Season and Rookie Drafts (with the player’s consent) provided the player had nominated for but was not selected by another club at either the National or Pre-Season Drafts. In that case, the relevant club would forfeit its last available selection in the Rookie Draft to take the player.

LilG, I read that as another club could select him, not us as the nominated club if we don't select him.

Nairn seems more of a lock than Farrow at this point. We were also linked to Bo Allan two days before the draft before that pick was changed to Xavier Lindsay. I think the WA factor can’t be ignored and it’s what the club would be weighing up. Will we pivot to Pickett?

28 minutes ago, demoncat said:

Could that be worse for us?

Tigers - Cumming and Farrow

Richmond - Robey and Taylor

Us - Nairn and…

I reckon bombers will take Sharp before us. There's too much interest in Sharp and they'll be scared we'll trade out pick 8.

Bird in the hand and all that.. They'll take him with Taylor (probably) and pair up Taylor with his best mate Dovaston and call it a day.

Do a bit to turn around their culture too those 3.

Would be a disaster if Farrow, Robey, Cumming and Taylor were the four taken by Richmond and Essendon.

We've been praying either Grlj or Sharp gets taken so one of the above slip through.