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i hadn't actually followed the whole article yet, sons men rory wright and BOB getting some earlier than expected love, interesting they see the suns passing on addinsal, so we do get our midfielder eventually. whether its realistic im not sure is addinsal and dovaston a better combo than sharp/farrow and talor byrne who cal twomey gave some love to on gettable today

https://readingtheplay.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/2025-afl-phantom-draft-version-2-0/ can someone tally up all the phantom drafts and let us know what the consensus for our picks has been EDIT: can we also get a farrow wce counter

Hope he isnt i dont think he has the mobility and diversity to really damage at the next level also hope the dons take schubert so hes not an option for us i dont think JT and co will want to be so obvious as its easier to be obviously wrong with a stratefy like that, talls and smalls espeically in the fwd half are the easiest tick crosses to grade when revisiting so im certain theyll take a midfield type who can at least get to 100 games or so and even if they arent great theyll become a pass mark. super intersting that twomey and his mail has grjl so deep, if we got grjl and farrow i'd be rapped, or grjl and dovaston who can start at either end of the ground like windsor and kolt, XL and langford, that would be awesome thanks mate, appreciate the compliment, i try my best ;)

gettable confirmed

u might be right, and fwiw i agree re sinnema but i also think he is the best profile for them too, robey or sharp are too similar to lalor and smilie which is the other reason i do think he is in their market

greeves🤮 we dont need a will setterfield type plodding big midfielder when the game is all about burst and spread and ball use

bailey dale-esque?

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/2025-afl-mock-draft-who-will-your-club-target-code-afl/video/63b1059c9fd56c5c4aa550a536d4c720 for the paywall peeps its duursma -wce CDT -wce uwland matched gcs patterson matched gcs xav taylor -rich annable matched bris grjl -rich dean matched carl robey -ess sharp -ess schubert -dees lindsay -dees o taylor -hawks cumming -gws farrow -wce phillipou -wbd greaves -adel ludowyke -geel dovaston -carl hibbins-hargreaves -frem marsh -ess sweid matched ess nairn -hawks really hope this isnt the way we go

think tigers will either like cdt if eagles go duurs robey OR xavier taylor to replace broad/vlastuin and pair with gibcus and trainor long term, but i think grjl is the lock for them coz they really liked what he did when he repped them in the vfl

i really like bridge or sharkie as HB options if we dont go farrow at 11 i actually think we shouldn't be selecting a mid this year, more so a player who could move in their down the line as it is a weaker draft and i think we have a lot of options still who can go in there, riv, koz, viney, windsor, langford, steele, even langdon has spent time at CBAs in the last 12 months but we can certainly improve other areas of the ground, most of our delisted players were actually HF/HB types as are the OOC bunch next year, meaning thats where we're likely to be cutting again so we would do well to get ahead of that now with some of these names at 37 or with our rookie pick. (fwiw i think we skip sinnema) the other name @spirit of norm smith has flagged is rory wright as a HB type who could move into the guts in time i also like the hetherton shout too as well but maybe the talls will be a focus next year after we lose potentially 3-4 off the list and given we have white coming in i think its unlikely we take a second tall this year as well (unless we take a rookie ruck like Marcus Krasnadamskis

could have fooled me that the highlights package at the top of this thread was a harley barker one not a sam cumming one, gee he looks good, shame about the acl as he seems a likely type and i'd be probably pushing pretty hard for him if he was fit

the reason i can see us passing on dove or not reaching for him is if we think someone like talor byrne could provide a similar output, or if pickett got to us in the 30s, that pick is going to wildly swing around on the night, will come in as points are chewed up and then go out as bids push people back could land anywhere

i think i prefer NHH to Marsh, he seems to be a really good one touch player at ground level, the one player in our range that i have zero read on is probably cummings, i just assume he's a HB like Isaac cumming and need to actually go and watch some more vision of how he fits in, i think i'm coming around to the idea that CDT is going to slide Duursma -WCE Uwland matched GCS Robey - WCE Grjl -Rich patterson - matched GCS annable matched Bris CDT - Rich xav taylor - ess dean matched carl sharp - ess still leaves us with all the same names and no idea where we're looking

i actually disagree and think he's shown a good contested game and an appetite for going inside that will only enhance with a bigger tank and more strength and power

think everyone is scared after how the last two first round tall selections faired, not to mention lucas cook of course theres recent examples of high picks making it as key forwards see thilthorpe, curnow, daniher, hogan cadman, 2MP but theres also successful rookies, treacy, neale, larkey, mitch lewis, so maybe its time we start targetting that section of the draft for talls, was talking to a guy at work about talls in the draft and theres a direct correlation between tall forwards and defenders, has harry dean looked better this year because the tall forwards arent very good, has schubert looked better coz the best key defender is his teammate thredgold so he's not been challenged and just dominated smaller bodies. i think its too much of a gamble

said on gettable he is a dons fan, so do we have to get ahead of them, theyve got a spot for him in the guts with hobbs delisting, straight away goes past plenty of their other options too

ask jack fitpatrick about tunnelball-gate

i said this in a different thread but both duursma's drafted interstate already have moved home, i would not be taking the risk on willem if im the eagles, 3 year draft contract too, theyll have he and harley both OOC at the same time, if they both left it would genuinely kill the entire rebuild before its even started. you just have to be honest with your members and say look teh family has form, we back our culture but this kid isnt worth the risk we're taking a guy instead who we have far more confidence in staying the journey

how would you compare his game to say chandlers who has played that small forward role for 3 years now, as the pressure player i50, only this year he graduated out of that somewhat out of necessity with ANB departure and spargos injuries but i dont see anything in dovastons game that doesnt suggest he cant develop a nicer kick, he'll get stronger and quicker and be able to break tackles and get into space around the ground better giving himself more time to kick

the more i think about it the more i agree especially as he played in richmonds vfl side WCE: Duursma CDT Rich: Robey Grjl Ess: XTaylor, Sharp? i really don't know where that leaves us i kind of dont like where we sit at all, would love to be at 5 and 15 so much more i think, maybe we pick one and then slide back when someone else really likes whats left over NHH, Farrow, Lindsay if we are to slide, i think the Dons bid on Dean, swallows pick 9 and the blues 11 gets pushed back and we offer them GC F1 to move back and then sell one of ours for a future pick elsewhere to get the Dove

think port have dougie cochrane as a top 2 pick too Richmond Next Generation Academy prospect Tanner Armstrong had 25 disposals and seven clearances on GF day in the futures game Hodge, who has the choice between Brisbane Academy and Hawthorn as a father-son, had 16 touches and a goal in the game as father Luke watched on in the stands. Aidan McCartney also played he's FS to North but also in the Swans academy (dad works at the giants now)

hawks arent bouncing from 22 to 37 just to move up two spots, even if they knew we wanted the player they did they wouldn't slide that far in the second round

my concern is with his disposal, i think hes super clean with his hands when he goes and gets it and but i dont think he uses it super well or gets into clean enough positions to have the time and space to use it well, that being said i see the bones of why he's rated i wonder if jack dalton is someone teams will look at as a keays/nibbler/miers type of player, 177cm so probably not a mid but has a tank but probably isnt a mecurial goal kicker either

lohmann and bailey were both first rouders, also rankine

Pickett Talor Byrne Rory Wright one of the SA runners? LeRay, Barker?