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interesting that Cal didn't name drop us with the dovaston links at the end, grjl and farrow is good but also theyre likely to play similar roles to begin with at HB rotating into CBs or exclusively at HB with riv and windsor exclusively in the guts i've probably been too harsh on sharps prospects, but can see the bombers or even the eagles taking him anyway, would be interesting who falls out if the dons are as keen on cumming as expected and the eagles go with a mid at 2 duurs sharp or robey cdt taylor or robey sharp or taylor cumming ? grjl ? doesnt seem to even be any names floated whatsoever other than MID?

somewhere between butters and holmes and rozee with his movement possilbly a bit of the chad, does anyone have a closer comparison

i was going to throw up matt leray as a prospect but i do think he presents as a blake howes type, good size, good foot skills but isn't a good competitive aerial threat like lever and probably gets thrown around a lot positionlly at the next level

cadman was a bolter almost on par with robey, grew 20cm in a short period of time

i can see the parallels between this thread and was it the humphrey thread?

i just dont think he's any chance at getting to us, for the tigers he's a oerfect broad vlastuin replaement and a more reliable option than ridley in terms of staying on the park and an immediate upgrade on "prior" at essendon. i think we're no chance i think grjl is the one who could slide as tiges got hotton who can add that zip to their midfield last year

i don't think he needs to be, he provides damage, good possessions are the go these days, i think the cats had something ridiculous like idk 5 games this year with a player having 30+ even with holmes and baz, they A share the load and B dont need to have heaps of it to have an impact, they make them count and don't fluff around with it

JT is good at what he knows, he was quick and clever enough to maximise the trading game before just about anyone else, we have taken a lot of first round selections over the last 10 years without giving up a whole heap to have those picks BUT he doesn't have a good eye outside the first round, you could argue his cards have been read this year with robey and pickett but since 2020 Johnson X Kentfield ? Adams ? Verrall X Sestan X KyeTurner X Howes X Woewodin X McVee ✅ Rosman X DeakSmith X Turner ✅ was actually pretty good in the period before that but since then he has not only missed but he has also moved away from picking beyond there in the draft in favour of recycling talent and has missed there too

best case for us is sharp and cumming off the board at our pick, i dont like them so would prefer we didnt have the option hahaha it does mean grjl must be the slider which im all for and you cant pair grjl with farrow which means NHH or our man the dove as the second pick

Reading the PlayFinal 2025 Draft Power Rankings: #1-#50The 2025 draft pool has generated diverse and, at times, polarising commentary. Several media outlets have been quick to brand it a “weaker class” or claim it is “lacking depth.” Much of the discou…

bergman had lots of major injuries in his time at NM never got a good run at it

saints played an irish guy this year Liam O'Connell, and also have Eammon Armstrong on their list the article i read said he was joining mid 2026 after final exams, so its probably a birthday between now and them and this is just an official commitment, cat b rookies can be recruited whenever so he can probably be listed now at lodgement to join in june or whenever st kilda is also referred to s county kilda by expats as the area of melbourne as a huge irish community and presence

i prefer draftguru when looking at numbers like this it pairs picks with list spots so it cuts out the [censored] in the 100s

as i said the other day i think JT is feeling pretty stitched up at the moment, the two smokies he had in the back pocket have become first round bottlers because of the shallowness of the draft

think i prefer him to lindsay but i think his range is probably hawks onwards as we will be shopping in a different bracket dont know where he lands as i see him being a fit at hawks, giants, crows, cats and dogs

can we throw some respect the walpiri wizards way too please

i think whilst similar enough dove and pickett are very different players, afl teams even our shoddy team of the neeld/bailey era have space for electric forwards. latrelle has a wicked side step and the type of goal sense u cannot teach likewise his balance. he can take a game away from u in 5 minutes with 4 goals and you wouldn't even be surprised, whether the timing for him is right with where our list is at now, think liam ryan and willie rioli as cherry on top mature age selections who got 6ish years out of themselves, or could he be a tippa, stengle, cyril and has that prime at 25-26 but then loses it a bit sooner too weightman went at 6 too, it is quite a similar connundrum to the dove v pickett debate on our hands this year in some ways, although weightman is more a leadup then a genuine small. i think latrelles forward craft genuinely is a step above say a jesse motlop, he has lighter steps and quicker movement than jesse did in his draft highlights i just went back and watched them a month ago robey and pickett were rookie picks and JT was laughing and he had already sold our first round picks so could sell to the members that it was so hence our exit, now not so much, those players are first round locks and we have to make two prominent choices

ive convinced myself he goes at 3 to the eagles now 1 duurs 2 uwland bid 3 robey

u dont think he's too similar to a lindsay or even windsor, i know u cant have too many good kickers or too much dash but is it the right time to be adding that when langdon still has some time left and i suppose does still have a fair monopoly on that wing

we definitely dont look ok for smalls on the basis that only two of those are smalls (pickett and chandler) and only one of those is stationed i50 at a time essentially not to mention laurie is 12 months away having the choice of port melbourne or werribee and viney is 32 with a full 14years of afl and a history of shoulders not to derail the thread or anything but had to be said

HS article today says the crows are eager to trade up for him, fits a need for them for sure and a local lad so maybe we can work with them to slide back and gain something in the future to still get dove, if not us where is schuberts next landing spot? maybe giants? but they took gruzewski not too long ago with cadman so he probably does get to the crows current pick, dogs, blues (would be but dean bid), suns, hawks, eagles probably not in the market for him

you'd prefer a player who showed worse evasive traits and didnt make a lower standard than the one their going into look easy? i think both are positives, he has a genuine point of difference and itll get neatened up there will be a time to do it and a time to not, and he'll probably get caught once or twice early on whilst he adapts but if he just moved at teh same pace all game we would be moaning about that instead that he is too vanilla and is just another woey jack of all master of none

would you be worried that with cumming he's too similar to kolt and if they both don't come on then you've missed twice, or do you double down and hope one of them at least gets there, or ideally they both do and can rotate together i think thats why its grjl and dove then farrow for me so we're targetting different compositions

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