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Can anyone see this link?

I really don't GAF what this Seb bloke or anyone at SEN thinks to be honest, but I'd love to know how many teams boast 6 under 24s comfortably in the best 22 of a side that finished top 4? It's all well and good North having a heap of highly rated youngsters, but if you finish bottom 4 then who really cares? We have genuine elite young backs in Rivers, Bowey & McVee. We have one of the best young key forwards in JVR and one of the best small forwards in the keague in Kozzie. Probably the only area we are light on with talent in this age group is genuine midfielders and a key defender, but Turner and Adams could both come on in the next few years. Not to mention we have Windsor & Tholstrup who both look promising on the very little we've seen so far, so I'm not too worried about our young stocks.

We can only dream....

Who of the senior players are there?

Saw that the Kolt is already getting in on the grappling sessions Vines does with his bro and Tom Mitchell. Pretty awesome for a young kid to be already putting the extras in! Think we may have a beauty here.

Windsor looks like he will be able to put on some decent size.... exciting times.

Nice work! From your eyes who is 'training the house down'?

Please let him know all supporters love him xx

Love the commitment WCW! Unfortunately my work gets in the way of things I enjoy in life.

Correct, the draft is based on the ladder after finals have concluded. So it just depends on how you look at it, we were top 4 after the regular season finished, but finished 6th after finals. So technically both are right, just depends how you look at it.

So who's starting the Marley Davey thread?

With all the stuff going on, at least we have money

There was a bit of rumours going around early that we were interested in Daniel Curtin with pick 7, however we made the decision to go with Caleb Windsor. I'd be keen to know, 1. Did we ever consider Curtin at that pick? and 2. If so, what was it in Windsor's game that made us decide to take him ahead of Curtin?

I would think he could train with the other players, given it isn't club sanctioned training.... could be wrong though. But definitely won't be at training next week.

Doubt it. Media would've eaten it up otherwise.

I think if we were genuienly drafting for needs, we probably would've gone for Caddy as key forwards was our main issue last year. Though I'm not too concerned with this, given JVR will be a year older and Petty is expected to play forward, with TMac and Brown both hoping to get back to a better fitness base. Windsor will probably start behind Langdon and Hunter, as would be expected of a young player but long term I think he could end up a very similar player to Isaac Smith. Tholstrup could be anything also and in the mould of a De Goey/Trac/Martin type player, however again he will start behind guys like McAdam, ANB and Sparrow and have to force his way into the side. So the idea we drafted for needs is ridiculous. The issue with the media is they rank the players mainly off statistics, whereas the AFL recruiters would also be looking at how the players fit into the modern AFL side. The way footy is played at AFL level is so different to juniors, with a much greater emphasis on defence and they would be aware that some players who dominate juniors may not easily fit into the AFL system.

Should be an interesting draft night! Sounds like we will go hard at trading up either/both 6 & 11. Wonder if we will get any bites!

He's gone very left field Early mail mock draft 1. Harley Reid (West Coast) 2. Colby McKercher (North Melbourne) 3. Jed Walter (Gold Coast - matching North Melbourne bid) 4. Zane Duursma (North Melbourne) 5. Nick Watson (Hawthorn) 6. Ryley Sanders (Western Bulldogs) 7. Caleb Windsor (Melbourne) 8. James Leake (GWS) 9. Ethan Read (Gold Coast - matching Geelong bid) 10. Daniel Curtin (Geelong) 11. Nate Caddy (Essendon) 12. Connor O’Sullivan (Adelaide) 13. Koltyn Tholstrup (Melbourne) 14. Jake Rogers (Gold Coast - matching Sydney bid) 15. Jordan Croft (Western Bulldogs - matching Sydney bid) 16. Will Green (Sydney) 17. Darcy Wilson (St Kilda) 18. Will McCabe (Hawthorn - matching Adelaide bid) 19. Charlie Edwards (Adelaide) 20. Harry DeMattia (North Melbourne) 21. Tew Jiath (GWS) 22. Taylor Goad (North Melbourne) 23. Wil Dawson (North Melbourne) 24. Will Graham (Gold Coast - matching Collingwood bid) 25. Caiden Cleary (Sydney - matching Collingwood bid) 26. Lance Collard (Collingwood) 27. Angus Hastie (Adelaide) 28. Arie Schoenmaker (St Kilda) 29. Ashton Moir (Carlton)

Amazingly the Pies got a free kick from this when Murphy essentially ran his head into McArthy who pretty much had the ball when it happened. BS free kick that one.

What a shambolic system

I'm sure he would be happy just to have a contract at this point.

So going by this we would end up with Ryley Sanders and Caleb Windsor.... I'd be pretty happy with that personally. Really I will be happy with one of Sanders, Curtin or Watson at our pick.

Ed's only dropped the name of Collingwood 7-8 times..... he's obviously really trying to hold it in.

Curious to know why some phantom drafts have Ryler Sanders slipping to pick 9 or 10! Bloke couldn't have done much more, winning the Larke medal and being a key cog in the Sandy flag. If he is available at our pick I would be really surprised if we don't take him, can never have enough midfield guns in my view.

Just gave away a home Grand Final with a p i $ $ poor performance.... pretty used to that though now as a Dees fan