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I think this is actually a good rule because it rewards clubs that put some initiative into recruiting for their second tier clubs. In the case of Corey Wagner there was the fact that his brother was already at the club but we clearly gave him the chance to play at state league level and he performed by having a consistent season and by winning the B & F at Casey. From what I saw of him, he was better than some of our depth players in the VFL and, had he been on our list, might have snuck in some games at senior level. I hope we offer him a contract and he becomes our first SPP on December 1.

A good read ahead of the draft at the end of the week. AFL Draft Central: Melbourne Preview

AFL draft 2018: The AFL rule that is stopping 10 clubs from live trading ”MELBOURNE — free to trade any future selection as they currently hold a full allotment of 2019 picks.”

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Hi bub, Another strange thing happened last night. Went to see the movie Bohemian Rhapsody and your name was mentioned in the title song. How very strange?

There is absolutely nothing to fear about drafting players with picks in the 20s. Top AFL Players Drafted In The 20s (RANKED)

I’m definitely in the Williams camp as well but we don’t know what the recruiters are thinking. The player I also like is Bytel but his selection would depend very much on his medicals after an injury-affected year has seen him plummet from a top 10 prospect to a late second rounder.

Hardly, Mr. McKern. This is the list I’ve compiled based on the criteria that the players coming into the category of first to fourth year players means that they first became primary list players in 2016 or later:- PRIMARY LIST: Oskar Baker Bayley Fritsch Mitch Hannan Corey Maynard Clayton Oliver Harrison Petty Charlie Spargo Joel Smith Josh Wagner Sam Weideman ROOKIE LIST: CATEGORY A Declan Keilty Tim Smith ROOKIE LIST: CATEGORY B Austin Bradtke Guy Walker I wouldn’t expect to see those like Clarrie who underwent post season surgery to be back on Monday but some of the older players might turn up early if they have permission.

I’ve always found the phantom drafts of bigfooty’s Snoop Dog to be interesting, entertaining and informative. As far as this draft is concerned, my feeling is in line with what most of the experts have been saying for a couple of years - this one is strong at the top and goes reasonably deep. With regard to SD’s assessment, he has noted, among other things - * “if a player is an NGA player and played at Champs they can automatically be listed as Cat B players if they miss out in National Draft” * “key themes for me this year are speed, running power, contested ball winning, clean hands and skill”. Some of his key take outs are; * “there is a real shortage of rucks and given only 2 genuine rucks were invited to combine I think some clubs will miss out and you might find them” * “same goes for key forwards. There are very few of real quality and again I think clubs are going to need to do some thinking around how they solve for that”, * “mature age players are in vogue for me. There are a number of high quality ones this year and I expect quite a few to be taken.” SD has even done a mock rookie draft which is a bit much for me. I’m concentrating here on the first two rounds. He has us taking Jez McLennan and Sydney Stack and then matching a bid on Toby Bedford. I don’t think we will be taking Stack - I would prefer Williams who gets taken a few picks later but then I have no idea what our recruiters’ mindsets are. https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/snoop-dog-2018-mock-draft.1208884/ His selections - DAY ONE - ROUND ONE 1 Carlton Sam Walsh / Geelong Falcons / 183cm 2 Gold Coast Suns Jack Lukosius / WWT / 194cm 3 Gold Coast Suns Izak Rankine / West Adelaide / 180cm 4 St Kilda Max King / Sandringham Dragons / 204cm 5 Port Adelaide Ben King / Sandringham Dragons / 202cm 6 Sydney Swans (Matching Bid) Nick Blakey / NSW / 195cm 7 Gold Coast Suns Connor Rozee / North Adelaide / 185cm 8 Western Bulldogs Bailey Smith / Sandringham Dragons / 185cm 9 Adelaide Jackson Hately / Central Districts / 190cm 10 GIANTS Jye Caldwell / Bendigo Pioneers / 184cm 11 Port Adelaide Jordan Clark / Claremont / 182cm 12 GIANTS Chayce Jones / Tasmania / 180cm 13 Geelong Liam Stocker / Sandringham Dragons / 184cm 14 Adelaide Sam Sturt / Dandenong Stingrays / 188cm 15 Fremantle Ian Hill / Perth / 175cm 16 Port Adelaide Riley Collier-Dawkins / Oakleigh Chargers / 191cm 17 Adelaide Zak Butters / Western Jets / 181cm 18 North Melbourne Matching Bid Tarryn Thomas / Tasmania / 189cm 19 Richmond Ely Smith / Murray Bushrangers / 188cm 20 Brisbane Curtis Taylor / Calder Cannons / 186cm 21 Collingwood Matching Bid Isaac Quaynor / Oakleigh Chargers / 178cm 22 GIANTS Xavier Duursma / Gippsland Power / 185cm 23 Western Bulldogs Matching Bid Rhylee West / Calder Cannons / 180cm 24 West Coast Luke Valente / Norwood / 186cm DAY TWO ROUND TWO # 25 GIANTS Matching Bid Kieran Briggs / NSW / 199cm 26 Adelaide Xavier O’Halloran / Western Jets / 187cm 27 West Coast Ned McHendry / Geelong Falcons / 178cm to be named the Captain of Vic 28 Brisbane Matching Bid Connor McFadyen / QLD / 190cm 29 North Melbourne Matching Bid Bailey Scott / QLD / 186cm 30 Melbourne Jez McLennan / Central Districts / 183cm 31 Gold Coast Jacob Kennerley / Norwood / 184cm 32 Collingwood Matching Bid Will Kelly / Oakleigh Chargers / 194cm 33 Melbourne Sydney Stack / Perth / 177cm 34 Gold Coast Fraser Turner / Tasmania / 186cm 35 Fremantle Luke Foley / Subiaco / 188cm 36 Western Bulldogs Bailey Williams / Dandenong Stingrays / 199cm 37 Essendon Tom Joyce / East Fremantle / 179cm 38 Brisbane Thomas Berry / GWV / 186cm 39 St Kilda Zac Foot / Dandenong / 180cm 40 Richmond Will Hamill / Dandenong / 185cm 41 Melbourne Matching Bid Toby Bedford / Dandenong Stingrays / 176cm Very lively small forward who creates a lot of activity around the ball either offensively or defensively. Agile, quick, evasive cability and vision are really good and his clean with his ball use. Can overdo it a bit and can be a bit up and down but when you play that role that can happen.He generally picks the right pathway out of trouble. Will present well and doubt that he will fall through to Melbourne's rookie list. Has spent some time through the middle in games I have watched and looks ok but not sure if has the tank to do it. 42 Swans Jack Bytel / Calder Cannons / 188cm 43 West Coast Matching Bid Jarrod Cameron / Swan Districts / 180cm 44 Swans Jacob Koschitzke / Murray Bushrangers / 196cm

Our first-to-fourth-year players will return to the club next week. Upcoming Men's Training Session Date: Monday, 19 November Session start time: 10.00am Location: Gosch's Paddock, Olympic Bvd, Melbourne

AFL DRAFT CENTRAL 2018 DRAFT GUIDE

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Er ... Mr. Leg. There is no city called Kent in England or New Zealand. Kent is a county in England.

The ultimate Phantom Draft from Knightmare - AFL Phantom Draft: Rounds 1, 2, 3

Knightmare’s Phantom Draft AFL Phantom Draft: Rounds 1, 2, 3

AFL Draft Central Power Rankings:- Running down from 60 to 46 -> 45 to 31 - > 30 to 16 - > 15 to 1

1986 VFL Round 1 - Richmond vs Melbourne

Correct. In Michael Gleeson’s Age article, The Age AFL to introduce mid-season rookie draft in 2019 he says that in addition to the new mid-season rookie draft the AFL is “also set to allow clubs to add a player to their rookie list during the pre-season if they have a spot available or if they lose a player to a long-term injury or retirement”. This will apply to the period between December 1 and March 15 at which time clubs could place players “on one of three inactive lists: a long-term injury list, a season-ending list or a retired player list”. So you can leave a spot vacant at the drafts to allow yourself time to determine what player you want and you have a few months in which to do it.

I’ve never been able to master a complete understanding of how the bidding system works for f-s/academy picks. Let’s say a club nominates Toby Bedford at 31. Do I take it that if we bid for him, we would have to then give up picks worth the equivalent to the points allocated for pick #31? If so, that would leave us having used 23 & 28, taken Bedford and our next pick becomes 91 or its equivalent?

AFL Draft: The best state league options

A few people have mentioned him and according to this write up in the Leader Newspapers, Melbourne is one of seven clubs to have interviewed him - AFL 2018: Northern Knights Tom McKenzie on radar of seven clubs

Cal Twomey’s October Phantom Form Guide has him taken at 10:- 10 Jordan Clark POS: Half-back Ht 182cm, Wt 78kg, DOB 16/10/00 From Claremont/Western Australia Clark is coming with a rush. The West Australian's season gained momentum after winning All Australian honours at the under-18 championships, and he played some solid senior footy for Claremont late in the year to push himself into the top 10 of some clubs' draft boards. He's a good user of the ball off half-back and is given the ball to make things happen, and the former elite junior cricketer finished eighth in the 2km time trial last week.

There’s been plenty of talk about the top 25 prospects but what about 26-50? Here’s Matt Balmer’s latest - 26-50 Power Rankings

Given that Butters comes from the Western Jets can we call him a Western Star?

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