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No change to the draft order after teams 7 & 8 lose their elimination finals. INDICATIVE DRAFT ORDER (after week one of finals) ROUND ONE 1. Gold Coast 2. Melbourne 3. Adelaide (received from Carlton) 4. Sydney 5. St Kilda 6. Fremantle 7. North Melbourne 8. Carlton (received from Adelaide) 9. Port Adelaide 10. Hawthorn 11. Greater Western Sydney (received from Essendon) 12. Western Bulldogs 13. Greater Western Sydney 14. West Coast 15. Brisbane (received from Collingwood) 16. Richmond 17. Gold Coast (received from Brisbane) 18. Geelong ROUND TWO 19. Brisbane (received from Gold Coast) 20. Melbourne 21. Adelaide (received from Carlton) 22. West Coast (received from Sydney) 23. Sydney (received from St Kilda) 24. Fremantle 25. North Melbourne 26. Adelaide 27. Port Adelaide 28. Hawthorn 29. Essendon 30. Western Bulldogs 31. Essendon (received from Greater Western Sydney) 32. West Coast 33. Collingwood 34. Richmond 35. Brisbane 36. Geelong ROUND THREE 37. Richmond (received from Gold Coast) 38. Melbourne 39. Carlton 40. Sydney 41. Western Bulldogs (received from St Kilda) 42. Brisbane (received from Fremantle) 43. North Melbourne 44. Carlton (received from Adelaide) 45. Hawthorn (received from Port Adelaide) 46. Western Bulldogs (received from Hawthorn) 47. Essendon 48. Western Bulldogs 49. Greater Western Sydney 50. Sydney (received from West Coast) 51. Collingwood 52. Gold Coast (received from Richmond) 53. Brisbane 54. Geelong ROUND FOUR 55. St Kilda (received from Gold Coast) 56. Melbourne 57. Sydney (received from Carlton) 58. Sydney 59. West Coast (received from St Kilda) 60. Essendon (received from Fremantle) 61. Port Adelaide (received from North Melbourne) 62. Port Adelaide (received from Adelaide) 63. Port Adelaide 64. Collingwood (received from Hawthorn) 65. Essendon 66. Port Adelaide (received from Western Bulldogs) 67. Carlton (received from Greater Western Sydney) 68. St Kilda (received from West Coast) 69. Collingwood 70. Richmond 71. North Melbourne (received from Brisbane) 72. Richmond (received from Geelong) ROUND FIVE 73. Gold Coast 74. Melbourne 75. Greater Western Sydney (received from Carlton) 76. Sydney 77. St Kilda 78. Fremantle 79. North Melbourne 80. Carlton (received from Adelaide) 81. Port Adelaide 82. Hawthorn 83. Essendon 84. Western Bulldogs 85. Greater Western Sydney 86. Gold Coast (received from West Coast) 87. Hawthorn (received from Collingwood) 88. Richmond 89. Brisbane 90. Geelong

We have to get him first.

Gippsland Power is today’s other winner. Gippsland powers into final four with eight consecutive goals

The Sandy Dragons had a great win today over the Calder Cannons, keeping them down to a single goal. Dragons fire through to prelims

It’s semi final day today at Ikon Park NAB League Boys 2019 Finals Series preview: Sandringham Dragons vs. Calder Cannons NAB League Boys 2019 Finals Series preview: Gippsland Power vs. Western Jets

I can’t help thinking that if the Cats had a season injury-wise like we had this year, then they’ll finish 17th in 2020.

Thanks Grapeviney and for those who were taken in by your comments, our tech people are working on a sarcasm metre with bells and whistles. For the rest of us, the time to panic is if we’re reading the same thing on 1 April, 2020.

In the article about Karl Amon’s decision to stay at Port Adelaide, it’s suggested that Sam Gray might move on. Could he be an option for the MFC?

Knightmare’s AFL Draft Power Rankings for September.

2019 NAB League Gippsland Power 2.2 9.2 11.3 12.3 (75) Oakleigh Chargers 5.1 5.3 9.7 12.11 (83) GOALS: Gippsland Power: Flanders 4 Phillips 2 Neocleous 2 Connolly Fitzpatrick Baldi Baldi Oakleigh Chargers: Stathopoulos 4 Ugle-Hagan 3 Laurie 2 McInnes Bianco Phillips BEST: Gippsland Power: Flanders Serong Reid Phillips Bentvelzen Hourigan Oakleigh Chargers: Rowell Phillips Laurie Stathopoulos Guiney Bianco Oakleigh charges through to preliminary finals with epic win over Gippsland 2019 NAB League Calder Cannons 1.1 3.4 5.7 11.9 (75) Dandenong Stingrays 1.4 4.6 5.8 5.9 (39) GOALS: Calder Cannons: Cardillo 2 Sutton 2 Mott 2 Eyre 2 Ramsay Keeping Allison Dandenong Stingrays: Gay 2 Nyuon Lewis George BEST: Calder Cannons: Mott Ramsay Gentile Newman Keeping Sutton Dandenong Stingrays: GoonanToner Lewis Nyuon Young Gay Cannons fire through to semis

Jets soar over Knights after quarter time in windy conditions Ranges down Dragons to move through to preliminary final

On Grand Final Day, next year’s prospects will get their opportunity to strut their stuff. Last year Matt Rowell showed the credentials that are making him one of the favourites for the # 1 draft mantle this year.

Hayden Young on Road to the Draft

Tomorrow, the finals move to Ikon Stadium where the top three draft prospects Matt Rowell, Noah Anderson (Oakleigh Chargers) and Hayden Young (Dandenong Stingrays) will all be on show. NAB League Boys 2019 Finals Series preview: Calder Cannons vs. Dandenong Stingrays NAB League Boys 2019 Finals Series preview: Gippsland Power vs. Oakleigh Chargers

Today’s games at Mars Stadium are previewed by AFL Draft Central here - NAB League Boys 2019 Finals Series preview: Northern Knights vs. Western Jets NAB League Boys 2019 Finals Series preview: Eastern Ranges vs. Sandringham Dragons

The NAB League finals are upon us and a number of top prospects for November’s AFL Draft will be in action this weekend. NAB LEAGUE BOYS TEAMS / PREVIEW: FINALS WK 1

Thanks @Drunkn167 - you’ve been a great poster, mostly positive and a great supporter of Declan who I, and a few others, thought should have been given one final opportunity late in the season when so many of our talls were out injured. You’re right about the fact that he did get to play at the highest level which is more that can be said of most of us mere mortals who can only dream about such an achievement. Not only that, but it’s not necessarily over and I hope that there’s another club out there willing to take a punt on him as a delisted free agent and if not that, then there’s plenty of good football competitions around where he can find his niche and enjoy the game that he’s been very good at playing. Cheers ?

The Demons need a line-breaker. Line-breaker Lachlan Ash rising up AFL draft boards

Touted as a possible top 3 draft pick:- AFL Draft Wrap: Hints of a Dees defender in pinpoint kick Hayden Young

I’ve been a fan of Hayden Young since the Casey Demons v Australia game earlier in the season. It’s either him or Lachlan Ash for me assuming the AFL has already decided to give pick 2 to Gold Coast (notwithstanding that they haven’t even applied yet).

That’s how this article describes Melbourne’s 2019 season - AFL 2019 season reviews: What bottom 10 clubs must do to bounce back next season

The entire premise of coaching is the ability to enable each individual and the team as a whole to perform at optimum effectiveness. Max Gawn has been one of the top two or three in his field this season whilst playing in a team that has had its effectiveness severely curtailed by the sheer inability to get enough of its best performers on the ground. That’s a fact that is provable on the basis of statistics of games played. Max wins at the stoppages, his midfield gets the clearances and the ball enters the inside 50 arc more often in most games than it does inside that of the opposition. We break down at that point by failing to convert, by failing to retain possession up forward, by turning the ball over and then by allowing them to successfully convert into goals. I don’t believe that the club’s failures this season are related in an any significant way to the efficiency or lack thereof of the player who is a shoe in to win the Bluey again in 2019. One can always wish for someone to do better at any given time. You might be able to say that about the league’s leading goal kicker expecting him to kick more goals in a season but I wouldn’t be laying anything down to our ruck division, other than that Max didn’t receive much back up in the ruck from those key forwards who filled in for him and were all ultimately injured or from Braydon Preuss who wasn’t selected often and when he was, the coaches couldn’t find a niche for him. The exception to that was the Carlton game in which Max didn’t play and Preuss toweled up Kreuzer. Perhaps we would be best off today by giving Max a well deserved break and playing Preuss, first ruck and Declan Keilty (who I suspect has already had his cards marked) as back up/key forward. Of course, the nuff nuffs in the media would accuse us of tanking for a priority pick if we did that, so we probably won’t do it.

Here we are - playing in the southernmost state capital in the nation. It’s going to be very cold there as hell freezes over. Go Dees!

That's a good question. Two weeks ago a decimated Melbourne side played Collingwood at the same venue and lost by 17 points while, last night, an equally decimated Essendon lost by 11 points last night. The Demons had 18 shots at goal to the Pies 20. Last night it was the Bombers 15 to 26 and yet they are in the finals, the Pies can still make top 4 and we're way out of it. The other teams have had their share of injuries of late but they haven't been blighted by them the way we have. In a way, it sums up the season for us.

In the other game Josh Hazlewood’s going Ok.