Spoiler alert:

The 2025 AFL Rookie Draft could well be almost a whitewash for Demon fans with no action other than the nomination of Kalani White as a father/son pick.

Hoping for a Sinema rookie pick 🤞 Most likely he will have to fight it out in the SSP period

8 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Spoiler alert:

The 2025 AFL Rookie Draft could well be almost a whitewash for Demon fans with no action other than the nomination of Kalani White as a father/son pick.

Good we can focus on the cricket then

1 hour ago, roy11 said:

Good we can focus on the cricket then

I think the Rookie Draft partially coincides with the lunch break in the first test so we can still multitask and focus on both sports.

1 hour ago, MrFreeze said:

Hoping for a Sinema rookie pick 🤞 Most likely he will have to fight it out in the SSP period

Is there any chance they might opt for Noah Yze over Sinema?

FWIW Code Sports have ranked the players most likely to be rookied today in this order.

Ollie Greeves

Noah Hibbins-Hargreaves

Liam Hetherton

Fred Rodrigues

Riley Onley

Tom Burton

Marcus Krasnadamskis

Leon Kickett

Rory Wright

Blake Oudshoorn-Bennier

Tom McGuane

Taj Murray

 

Is it possible for someone to jump in and select Kalani before us or is there any kind of restriction on that as he's a father son and been passed up in the draft?

as i understand it we now have 36 on the senior list and 4 A rookies. so have reached our minimum requirement for senior spots. We could still add up to 2 onto senior list (only via pre-season draft), which would mean we would add no more to rookie list.

10 minutes ago, deelusions from afar said:

Is it possible for someone to jump in and select Kalani before us or is there any kind of restriction on that as he's a father son and been passed up in the draft?

I believe we nominated him before the draft which means he’s now automatic, it gets read out as a pick just for the sake of it.

Jeez there is still a bit of talent available if we wanted to go that way, Kalani +1.

We could pinch Conor Stone from GWS if we rate him. Wonder if there's some unwritten rule of not touching other clubs players they intend to re-list.

Nice of the AFL to time the Rookie Draft to coincide with the lunch break at the cricket.

We only have nominated one selection anyway, that answered my query.

Welcome Onley!

Welcome Riley Onley!!

Great pick up! Really happy with Onley.

Didn’t realise how tall he is.

195cm midfielder!

From Shepparton United (Demonland) to Demonland!!

https://www.dairynewsaustralia.com.au/sport/i-can-become-the-best-player-in-this-draft-class-riley-onley-makes-final-pitch-ahead-of-afl-natio/

2 minutes ago, Tom Dyson said:

Kalani surely hasn't been left out to dry?

Thought we were taking him today?

Kalani White was announced on rookie list before the rookie draft started.

1 minute ago, Ditcha said:

Kalani White was announced on rookie list before the rookie draft started.

Thanks for the clarification ditcha!

Footy is weird these days. Our mids are taller than our fwds

lol

We pick Onley ahead of NHH and Greeves - why were those two rated so highly prior to the draft but ultimately overlooked by us (and all)?

Looks like NHH didn’t go to anyone in the end.

3 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

I think the Rookie Draft partially coincides with the lunch break in the first test so we can still multitask and focus on both sports.

Apologies - the rookie draft was over before the luncheon interval in the First Test in Perth.

The good news is that we took a wicket at around the time we selected Riley Onley.

Well done to our list management team!

The 2 Tom's from the Jets McGuane and Burton surely will get a train on gig somewhere, Burton in particular if the guy headed further down the highway to Falcons or across the bay to any of those teams in the East he gets drafted.