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It's a tough game ... no Noah Yze (at least in 2025),

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)

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.

In fairness to me I was a fair way away and not wearing my current prescription sunglasses. 😬

I have to leave now but will post some thoughts on some individual players later.

Salem, Sestan, Howes and Campbell are doing some ball drills on the adjacent soccer ground.

Langford and Sharp now doing a one on one tackling drill with Matty Whelan.

Kynan Brown jogging laps.

The group of 3 of Fritsch, Fullarton and Johnson are working with Matty Whelan on a tackling technique drill.

The other drill is a one on one hand balling keeping’s off drill with tackling. Langford just laid a ferocious tackle on Kolt to the cheers of all the players. We’ve got another good one here.

One group is one on one marking and if the ball drops another player mops up and dishes a handball off to a player running past to have a shot at goal on the run. If the ball is marked the player dishes off to player running past.

Split into two groups. And a third smaller group of Fritsch, Fullarton & Aidan Johnson.

Good to see Langford not gasping for air or on his haunches at the break.

Boys still running to the water station at the end of drills.

Gave Windsor a big wrap the other day but he has missed a number of targets today. Hopefully an aberration.

Trac absolutely tearing it up on the track.

Disco and Fullarton also forwards

Petty and TMac are defenders in this drill.

Trac is looking superb. Fit and strong. Just did a little shimmy and sold some candy and delivered a pinpoint pass.

Salem not participating in this drill and now doing sprints along the boundary.

Full length end to end drill with the outnumbered team defending in white bibs.

New recruit Aidan Johnson is here too.

Windsor has a laser pass.