I am only basing my speculation on what I've seen written, here and other random places.

The starting post of this thread describes Sloane as pacey with good kicking skills, and good at clearances. Also says he has lifted since a teamate got injured.

Playing for Eastern Rangers, I wonder if he ever gets called the Sloane Ranger?

A couple of people have described players on my preferred/realistic list as being higher draft picks than the starting post here has them. I'd also heard McEvoy was a likely first rounder.

I'm hoping that our trade strategy will be to improve our second pick from 20ish to 12ish, by trading the current pick plus a relatively low-value player (Jamar would be the main example) for the higher pick. Securing the two big guys is first priority, the three remaining preferences I've got are tipped at 20th-60th, 30th-60th and 50+ draft picks, obviously no real predictions can be made about who of them would be available that late, so I'll let CAC handle the rest now that I've sorted out the top order

I love this discssion on Sloane - I just found out he is the son of a family friend - lets get him to the Demons

I am concerned about recruiting interstaters that get restless a la Scott Thompson

Why the f&^% would anyone want to go back to Deadalaide???

I am concerned about recruiting interstaters that get restless a la Scott Thompson

Yeah, I noticed just about all of my preferred draft picks were interstaters. Seems like WA has really produced a solid crop of young-uns this draft. Hope CAC has run the rule over the attitudes and mentality of potential interstate picks, I'm sure he's a lot more wary of this after the scott thompson affair.

Tall, pacy and skillful players are exactly what we need, like rodney g said, they'd complement our tough in and under brigade beautifully. I still think we need to consider drafting a good run-with player like McGinnity or Stephen Browne (again both from WA ) especially now that Godders has got the chop.

Can someone tell me when the draft actually takes place, I'd like to start counting down the days.

Can someone tell me when the draft actually takes place, I'd like to start counting down the days.

These are the major dates to look out for:

- Tuesday Oct 2 - Friday Oct 5 - AFL Draft Camp.

- Monday 8 Oct - Friday 12 Oct - Trade Period.

- Saturday 24 Nov - AFL Draft Day

- Tuesday 11 Dec (10:00am) – Pre-Season Draft

- Tuesday 11 Dec (10:30am) – Rookie Draft

Cheers

i have made our decision...

Alex Rance

combine him with Frawley and Rivers, Bell Petterd and Bartram, we have a back 6 that can build and grow together, height, pace, skill, and in few years time, strength, they will be our key to a grand final

the bad news is though, im going overseas on the 7th of october, and missing trade week, which is one of my favourite parts of the year, hopefully i can check up on things towards the end of the week, and celebrate on kute beach our pick of chris judd :D

like i said we need a tall quick midfield to top it up with brock, jones, sylvia and even moloney and i think rys palmer or brad ebert?

Rhys Palmer- Surely we should take him with pick 4- watched those nab champs games and he dominated...best of the carnival. Used to running on big grounds- something we lack- a bit of pace apart from a couple

Casey Leigh- Went to school with him last year, Sikly skills..given a year in the gym and could be a very handy player...take him late (50 +)

Cyril Rioli.. Played against him last year in school footy and he is a gun- possibility to go early but should go top 20, perhaps with our pick 20 or whatever is our 2nd.

like i said we need a tall quick midfield to top it up with brock, jones, sylvia and even moloney and i think rys palmer or brad ebert?

If your looking for a tallish midfielder then Brad Ebert is your man, Palmer is a very similar player to Ebert but is only 180cm (not tall enough).

Hopefully we can make a couple of trades and end up wth another 1st round pick so we can pick up Brad Ebert + Alex Rance.

Cyril Rioli.. Played against him last year in school footy and he is a gun- possibility to go early but should go top 20, perhaps with our pick 20 or whatever is our 2nd.

Ive heard he will go top 10 for sure.

What a great name.....Cyril. It sounds so 1940's

Can one of the mods make this post a sticky so we can refer to it more easily as the draft looms closer.

Cheers.

is CAC the best man for the job?? im not in anyway trying to undermine him, not in the least. I just know very little about him...he seems to have produced the goods in the past eg: Davey, Bartram(Juries Out) etc. etc.

your thoughts....

Cyril Rioli.. Played against him last year in school footy and he is a gun- possibility to go early but should go top 20, perhaps with our pick 20 or whatever is our 2nd.

I played against Craig Baird who i believe is the captain of the NSW U18's side. He was very good dominated play...had a beard in U14's (like an entire beard) and punched a guy in our team in the stomach.

Just wondering if anyone has some information on him as i'd like to see how he goes in the draft

i agree Rance looks awesome and is what we need, but i think he is more worth pick 8 or 9 rather than pick 4...

for this reason i would 100% go for Palmer. many believe he will be picked up by carlton at pick 3, or even pick 2, but if he slips through to 4 we will have gotten an absulte future star. i would even prefer palmer over ebert i reckon.

Henderson is also i chance, but like Rance, i think we would look at him more seriously if we had pick 7 or 8. at pick 4 u cant go past the best available, which will most likely be one of Morton or Palmer

Problem is a Morton or a Palmer have no chance of holding down a key position. We simply have to start adding to our key position - and ruck - stocks. Rance at 4 then hopefully best mid with a top 10 pick obtained for Trapper.

Yeah & it would take them 2-4 years to develop into the seniors.

Nothing wrong with that.

I don't think we're seriously in the hunt before then.

Problem is a Morton or a Palmer have no chance of holding down a key position. We simply have to start adding to our key position - and ruck - stocks. Rance at 4 then hopefully best mid with a top 10 pick obtained for Trapper.

lucky for MFC you are not part of our recruiting team.

obv u need a certain number of keyposition, ruckman and midfielders in any afl squad, however with top picks you MUSTMUSTMUST always go for the best talent available.

we picked up Luke Molan at pick 9 in the best draft in the history of afl when NickDalsanto was easily the best player available at that pick and was extremely highly rated. but we went for the CHF bc we needed key postion players.

thank god Bailey openly stated that his draft policy is that he will pick the best available player.

with top picks, its the only way to draft.

lucky for MFC you are not part of our recruiting team.

obv u need a certain number of keyposition, ruckman and midfielders in any afl squad, however with top picks you MUSTMUSTMUST always go for the best talent available.

we picked up Luke Molan at pick 9 in the best draft in the history of afl when NickDalsanto was easily the best player available at that pick and was extremely highly rated. but we went for the CHF bc we needed key postion players.

thank god Bailey openly stated that his draft policy is that he will pick the best available player.

with top picks, its the only way to draft.

Yea but when our first pick comes & the small mid is of the same standard as the tall key we should take the tall key.

I played against Craig Baird who i believe is the captain of the NSW U18's side. He was very good dominated play...had a beard in U14's (like an entire beard) and punched a guy in our team in the stomach.

Just wondering if anyone has some information on him as i'd like to see how he goes in the draft

You are referring to Craig Bird, I think, who is a good player in the style of Brock McLean, he is tied to Sydney under the AIS Scholarship scheme and will be on their list this year under this program. Has been playing very well for the Swans' reserves in the Local Sydney competition.

bumping this thread back up to the top of the list as its a very useful reference for the upcoming draft, would love to have this temporarily pinned as a sticky, mods?

BUMP

Can anyone tell me where a kid from the Calder Cannons named Tom German is rated?

I watched most of the TAC cup final and really like the look of this kid. He plays in the midfied and although not overly blessed with speed and height, he reminded me a bit of Dal Santo they way he seemed to have a lot of time with his disposal in around the packs.

Because he is not on the list, i was just enquiring if anyone knows much about him.

Could someone please give me a link

that shows the birthdate of prospective draftees?

It is interesting to know who are the bottom age

prospects.

Newton, Bate and Dunn were bottom age in their drafts

I think.

i feel that we need a tallish defender possibly Tate Pears. He looks like an okayish pickup considering that carrol played crap all year and got into that [censored] overseas.

is robert tarrant related to chris tarrant?

is robert tarrant related to chris tarrant?

brother.

Can one of the mods make this post a sticky so we can refer to it more easily as the draft looms closer.

Cheers.

ye, think its a good idea as the draft is only a few days away