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2022 NATIONAL DRAFT ORDER AND SELECTIONS AFTER THE END OF THE AFL DELISTED PLAYER FREE AGENCY PERIOD ROUND ONE 1. GWS Giants 2. North Melbourne 3. North Melbourne 4. Essendon 5. Gold Coast Suns 6. Hawthorn 7. Geelong 8. West Coast Eagles 9. St Kilda 10. Carlton 11. Western Bulldogs 12. West Coast Eagles 13. Melbourne 14. Sydney Swans 15. GWS Giants 16. Collingwood 17. Sydney Swans 18. GWS Giants
 ROUND TWO 19. GWS Giants 20. West Coast Eagles 21. Western Bulldogs 22. Essendon 23. North Melbourne 24. Hawthorn 25. Collingwood 26. West Coast Eagles 27. Collingwood 28. St Kilda 29. Carlton 30. Fremantle 31. GWS Giants 32. St Kilda 33. Port Adelaide 34. Brisbane 35. Brisbane 36. Brisbane 37. Melbourne 38. Brisbane ROUND THREE 39. Western Bulldogs 40. North Melbourne 41. Hawthorn 42. Sydney Swans 43. Fremantle 44. Fremantle 45. Gold Coast Suns 46. Adelaide 47. St Kilda 48. Hawthorn 49. Carlton 50. Hawthorn 51. Collingwood 52. Hawthorn 53. Richmond 54. Essendon 55. Brisbane 56. Adelaide 57. GWS Giants 58. Geelong ROUND FOUR 59. Adelaide 60. Port Adelaide 61. GWS Giants 62. Essendon 63. Richmond 64. Geelong 65. Hawthorn 66. Carlton 67. Fremantle 68. Essendon 69. Western Bulldogs 70. North Melbourne 71. Gold Coast Suns 72. Essendon 73. Brisbane 74. Gold Coast Suns 75. Sydney Swans 76. Fremantle ROUND FIVE 77. North Melbourne 78. West Coast Eagles 79. GWS Giants 80. Essendon 81. Adelaide 82. Hawthorn 83. Gold Coast Suns 84. Port Adelaide 85. St Kilda 86. Carlton 87. Western Bulldogs 88. Richmond 89. Fremantle 90. Melbourne 91. Brisbane 92. Collingwood 93. Sydney Swans 94. Geelong

Today, I re-watched a replay of the Vic Metro v South Australia NAB Championships Under 18 game from GMHBA Stadium earlier this year (a couple of the above didn’t make the SA side) and the performance of the South Aussies was absolutely horrible. The effort was poor and an embarrassment for their coach who’s been around for a long time. They made the Victorian boys look good (which many of them are) but I was shocked at how poor the Croweaters were on the day.

I don’t know but NAB AFL Draft Nominations close next Monday afternoon at 3.00pm. I think the list of nominations gets published on the AFL site a few days later. I’d be surprised if Ellison didn’t nominate as he’d be an outside chance to be rookied by a club.

Paul Amy who writes extensively on the VFL has tweeted that “Casey Demons top-liners James 'Moose' Munro and Mitch White back for 2023”. However, he also says that of the fringe players, Aidan Quigley is unlikely to go on and versatile tall Bryce Milford is being linked with Port Melbourne.

I’m meaning that investment in NGA’s by the individual clubs outside the northern academies isn’t justified because of minimal access to players of quality now that they’re limited to outside the top 40 picks. If an NGA Vic Country rep in FE-B isn’t considered worthy of a nomination by his allocated Club, whether by reason of a recruiting/list management decision or any other reason, then the range of players who are going to get selected under the NGA system has to be extremely limited especially when club spending is capped anyway. I’ve had the opportunity of observing at close quarters how another club’s NGA works, how many coaches, assistants and admin staff plus resources are put into the system and it simply can’t be cost-effective given the current selection restraints. FE-B has good disposal but he’s slight and would struggle to find a place on an AFL primary list. Nor do I see him as the type who would fit into our rookie list (Cat A or B) at this stage of his development. He reminds me of some of the players who appear in Casey games as “23rd men” and perhaps that should be where he plays if not drafted. His best chance in that case might be to follow in the footsteps of former Demon NGA Deakyn Smith who initially missed out on being drafted but is now going into his third season as a rookie after becoming a pre-season supplemental selection in March 2021.

If that’s the case, it pretty much sounds the death knell on the NGA system for the non northern states. Emile-Brennan is a 2022 Vic Country representative. If an academy player in that category can’t be selected within the first 40 picks but isn’t thought of as worthy of selection beyond 40 then there doesn’t seem to be much scope for NGA players. Unless the AFL subsidises the system, it’s looking like a complete waste of money going forward.

Demon fans should be able to pick the error Pick 1 contenders, bolters, and more: 2022 AFL Draft State of Play

Will be wearing the red and blue next year but in the SANFL. Delisted Hawthorn forward Jackson Callow returns to SANFL club Norwood

Isaac Keeler is a promising key forward/ruckman from South Australia who has been considered by some as a potential Luke Jackson replacement. The Adelaide NGA has no problem moving interstate and this week, the Crows decided not to nominate him under the rules - Why Crows chose against nominating draft prospect under NGA rules

Two clubs have made decisions about nominating players through the Next Generation Academy process. • Essendon nominated Tiwi Islander Anthony Munkara; but • Adelaide decided not to commit to North Adelaide forward/ruck Isaac Keeler, who will instead be in the open pool in the national draft. Any news on what Melbourne’s done with Emilie-Brennan?

At the risk of becoming repetitious, Rookie Me Central bring us their AFL Draft Power Rankings – November 2022

I stand corrected here but I read somewhere in the context of Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti‘s status at Essendon that the Bombers needed to have him under contract at the next list lodgement date which I think comes after the delisted free agent period so, if that’s right, a decision on Hibberd & Melksham’s contracts is imminent.

An excellent question. We won’t know what club recruiters think until the draft itself. However, I’ve seen some on line gradings that put him in the top 10 after the Academy game.

Promoting young players and even younger interviewers

The first of these began today and the Hawks have swooped. Plus a former Demon is in the sights of one club. Hawks sign forward after impressive VFL season, Dogs consider ex-Dee

Well the next significant date on the calendar is - Thursday 03 November at 9.00am • AFL Delisted Player Free Agency Period (1) commences If Hibberd and Melksham aren’t contracted by Thursday then you would assume that they’re delisted players, wouldn’t you? I couldn’t imagine either of them wanting to go elsewhere at this stage of their careers. I don’t think another club would offer either of them big bucks or guarantee games - surely not?

The story of a player who was riding high in April but cut down in May. I guess that’s life but he’s fighting on to get drafted. ‘Whatever it takes’: The rollercoaster AFL draft year of Harry Lemmey - and why he’s as ‘driven’ as ever

I’m not sure how people here are assessing Munkara. Is it the highlights reel or have people taken the trouble to watch him play in a full game? I had to refresh my memory so I went back in time to April/May, both before and after that Australian Academy game v Collingwood VFL. At the time, the pundits rated his game highly but not top of the top shelf but were impressed enough back then to rate him in the top ten in their rankings. We should accept the reasons he’s given for being off the scene for a couple of months and he’s certainly been forgotten by many during that time but there’s no way this bloke is going to be on a rookie list next year.

Is this based on his ability or just to grab an NGA from another club?

MELBOURNE 3.5.23 5.8.38 7.12.54 11.13.79 WEST COAST EAGLES 0.0.0 0.1.1 0.1.1 0.1.1 GOALS MELBOURNE Hore Zanker 2 Bannan Fitzsimon Hanks Heath Mackin Paxman Purcell WEST COAST EAGLES Nil

3QT: Melbourne 7.12.54 to WCE 0.1.1 Goals: Melbourne: Bannan Fitzsimon Hore Mackin Paxman Purcell Zanker

Half Time: Melbourne 5.8.38 to West Coast 0.1.1 Goals Melbourne Bannan Fitzsimon Paxman Purcell Zanker Percentage 259.78 Still unlikely to catch Brisbane’s percentage.

Quarter Time and we’re 3.5.23 to 0.0.0 which makes it four games in a row that we haven’t been scored against in Q1. The bad news is that the likelihood of catching Brisbane percentage is not very strong.

There’s still a month to go to the 2022 AFL National Draft and amid the speculation as to who Melbourne might take with its first selection (currently at 13) is a player who was edging towards a top ten placing but struggled with injury during the season and ultimately tore an ACL early in the game against the Sandringham Dragons on 27 August. Brayden George might well be one of the hard luck stories of this year’s draft but it’s not all gloom and doom for the talented forward - it’s still likely that he will be selected somewhere in the late teens or early 20s. George might quite well suit a club like Melbourne which has a surfeit of young players waiting for senior opportunity and can therefore afford to “warehouse” a player like him who will miss most, if not all, of 2023 recuperating from that knee injury. NAB League | Brayden George goes down with serious injury as Bushies’ season comes to a close Brayden George still a big AFL Draft prospect despite suffering serious knee injury Should Melbourne make a play for an injured but highly talented player with its pick 13 or possibly get involved in a trade of picks in a risky game to secure him a little later and improve its overall draft positioning?

I’m with you on not having to trade up in this draft in the absence of some special circumstances but I’m not sure about trading out pick 13 for a future first round pick. We are under an obligation to use three selections in the draft (currently our first three are 13, 37 and 90), albeit that we can upgrade rookies with our selections if we choose to do so. As it stands at the moment, we’ve signaled that #90 will be used to upgrade Kade Chandler to the primary list so if we trade 13 for a future first as you suggest, we would either place ourselves in a position of needing to upgrade another rookie or using our last pick on a very late selection - and it’s possible that neither option would suit. I think we either stick with our existing selections or do something creative such as the example I suggested elsewhere and Little Goffy did above - swap 13 and 37 for West Coast's 20 and 26 to possibly give us a preferable outcome. Of course, the good thing with the club these days are that there are less leaks so that we don’t know about the thinking of our recruiters.