Whispering_Jack
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The Rookie Me Central AFL Draft Power Rankings – October 2022 have also dropped today.
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2022 NATIONAL DRAFT ORDER AND SELECTIONS 2022 AFTER DAY ONE OF THE TRADE PERIOD ROUND ONE 1. North Melbourne 2. West Coast Eagles 3. GWS Giants 4. Essendon 5. Adelaide 6. Hawthorn 7. Gold Coast Suns 8. Port Adelaide 9. St Kilda 10. Carlton 11. Western Bulldogs 12. GWS Giants (Tim Taranto) 13. Fremantle 14. Sydney Swans 15. Brisbane 16. Collingwood 17. Sydney Swans 18. Geelong ROUND TWO 19. GWS Giants (Tim Taranto) 20. West Coast Eagles 21. GWS Giants 22. Essendon 23. Adelaide 24. Hawthorn 25. Gold Coast Suns 26. West Coast Eagles 27. Port Adelaide (Karl Amon) 28. St Kilda 29. Carlton 30. Western Bulldogs 31. Richmond 32. Gold Coast Suns 33. Melbourne 34. Brisbane 35. Gold Coast Suns 36. Sydney Swans 37. Geelong ROUND THREE 38. Western Bulldogs 39. West Coast Eagles 40. Collingwood (Bobby Hill) 41. Essendon 42. Melbourne 43. GWS Giants (Bobby Hill) 44. Gold Coast Suns 45. Brisbane 46. St Kilda 47. Geelong 48. Collingwood 49. Collingwood 50. Hawthorn 51. Melbourne 52. Melbourne (Hunt) 53. Geelong 54. Gold Coast Suns 55. Port Adelaide 56. Geelong ROUND FOUR 57. North Melbourne 58. Port Adelaide 59. GWS Giants 60. Essendon 61. GWS Giants 62. Geelong 63. Hawthorn 64. Carlton 65. Melbourne 66. Carlton 67. Western Bulldogs 68. North Melbourne 69. Gold Coast Suns 70. Melbourne 71. Brisbane 72. Gold Coast Suns 73. Sydney Swans 74. Fremantle ROUND FIVE 75. North Melbourne 76. West Coast Eagles 77. GWS Giants 78. Essendon 79. Adelaide 80. Hawthorn 81. Gold Coast Suns 82. Port Adelaide 83. St Kilda 84. Carlton 85. Western Bulldogs 86. Richmond 87. Fremantle 88. Melbourne 89. Brisbane 90. Collingwood 91. Sydney Swans 92. Geelong
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The All Australian Team
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Chris Doerre’s October Power Rankings have landed. In them you’ll find some new names emerging in the first-round calculations.
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I spoke with Harry last week and asked him what he thought about being drafted by Melbourne in light of the fact that we might potentially get an early draft pick in the Freo trade. He was a bit wary because he felt it was a tough team to break into but I think he was being modest. He’s a Hawks fan and would be thrilled to end up there.
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Hear me out on this one. If there was any justice in the world Melbourne would somehow end up with selection three in this year’s draft after trading Luke Jackson who we picked with #3 in 2019. I first came across the name of this Wesley College (Glen Waverley campus) student when the Victorian Under 15 schoolboys squad was announced in mid 2019. Others in the squad were Will Ashcroft and George Wardlaw, who I knew about from my grandson’s local competition but there were also players like Jhye Clark, Blake Drury, Harry Flynn (unfortunately injured for most of 2022) Cooper Harvey, Matthew Jefferson, Noah Long, Paul Pascu and Jonti Schuback who have all made a mark at NAB League and/or National Championships level and will be discussed at length until the draft at the end of next month. It didn’t matter who I spoke with, the name “Elijah Tsatas” was foremost in the minds of the good judges at this level of football. I knew how good a footballer Wardlaw was already and had heard about Ashcroft but for Tsatas to be ranked ahead of them, meant that he had to be something very special. We didn’t see much of him this year because injury hampered his season but … we saw him last week for Vic Metro and he’s just won the best and fairest at the Oakleigh Chargers off the back of playing only five games so I would say that all of the promise he showed in that pre Covid19 period, is still very much in place. He’s categorized as a midfielder but he’s not an inside bull like his Oakleigh teammate Wardlaw, might not accumulate as much Ashcroft and isn’t your key position prospect like Cadman but my vote goes with Tsatas. We Demon fans have been spoiled over the years by the sight of skillful players running up and down the wings at the MCG - Dixon, McLean, Adams, Alves, Flower, Tingay and Langdon - and (yes, it’s a big statement) I have a feeling that this kid would not look out of place among that lot! And the jumper number 2 is sitting in the cupboard waiting for someone fit to wear it over the next decade or so. Okay - that’s my early October pipedream.
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Here’s Cal Twomey. Things will start to get interesting with the Luke Jackson trade happening over the next week or so and though many favour using an early pick for a young key forward like Cadman, I agree with Ivan that Elijah Tsatas who has been a standout in junior ranks for a few years already, is the one (given that Ashcroft is unattainable). Cal Twomey's Phantom Form Guide: Top draft prospects' September ranking
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And to top off the State League dominance of the red and the blue, West Perth (though they are not the WA Demons duly saluted yesterday!
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And the Pies take the lead with a minute to go with a snap shot goal … and they win by 2 points. Reminiscent of how they won half their games during the Mens season.
Spoke separately with two people with completely different backgrounds and both were very positive about Noah Yze’s future prospects. One to definitely watch in 2024.
