spirit of norm smith

I agree. I think he’s a very good player and would be drafted around pick 15-20 if available. Maybe the Blues are watering down the expectations and the points they will need to use.

It’s a YES from me. Excellent skills and has pace and run. Would add to our team and allow Riv to move more into the midfielder role.

Xavier Lindsay. Captain of Gippsland. Think Josh Kelly style. Class and skill and footy IQ. He is as good as any of the top 5 players. Can hit a target or kick it 50+. Good on the tackle. He’s one player that I am sure JT would be marking in bold and highlighting. Patrick Retschko. Think Hugh McCluggage style. He plays half back or midfield and has excellent decision making and skills. Can play defensive role as well. See AFL quality in his style. Archer Day-Wicks. Takes the game on and likes to run. Saw him take good aerial contest to make him more dangerous across half forward. Excellent skills, quality left footer and kicks a nice goal. Keighton Matofai-Forbes. Captain of Western Jets. Plays like Mitchito Owens. Forward utility with an aggressive style of play. Left footer with booming kick and determined at the contest. whilst I think we might look at taller players like Noah Mraz or Kayle Gerryn as other draft options.

Mock Draft 2024 run #1 ROUND ONE 1 Richmond. Finn O'Sullivan - Oakleigh 2 North Melbourne. Luke Trainor - Sandringham 3 West Coast. Josh Smillie - Eastern ***Brisbane match bid. Levi Ashcroft Father son. 4 St Kilda. Jagga Smith - Oakleigh 5 Adelaide. Sid Draper - Sth Adel ***Suns match bid (Academy ) Leonardo Lombard 6 Hawthorn. Christian Moraes - Eastern 7 Fremantle (tied to Collingwood), Sam Lalor- GWV 8 Gold Coast. Murphy Reid - Sandringham 9 Gold Coast (tied to Western Bulldogs). points used 10 Fremantle (tied to Port Adelaide). Tom Gross - Oakleigh 11 Melbourne. Xavier Lindsay - Gippsland 12 GWS. Taj Hotton - Sandringham ***Blues match bid. Father son. Ben Camporeale - Glenelg SA 13 Essendon. Jonty Faull - GWV ***Brisbane match bid - Sam Marshall - academy 14 Fremantle. Harvey Langford - Dandenong 15 Brisbane. Points used xx 16 Geelong. Bo Allan - WA ***Crows match bid. Father son. Tyler Welsh - WWT 17 Carlton. Tobie Travaglia - Bendigo 18 Sydney. Harry O'Farrell END OF ROUND ONE 19 Sydney (tied to North Melbourne assistance package) Jobe Shanahan - Bendigo (NSW) 20 Gold Coast (tied to North Melbourne) Joe Berry - Murray ROUND TWO 24 *****Essendon - Isaac Kako - Calder (Ess NGA) 25 Richmond. Alex Dodson- SA 22 North Melbourne. Jack Whitlock - Murray 23 West Coast. Harrison Oliver - Sandringham 24 Fremantle (tied to St Kilda) . Harry Armstrong - Sandringham 25 St Kilda (tied to Adelaide). Cooper Hynes - Dandenong 26 Collingwood (tied to Hawthorn). Matt Whitlock- Murray 27 Hawthorn (tied to Collingwood). Nathaniel Sulzberger - Sandringham *** Port match bid. NGA .Benny Barrett - Sth Adel 28 Gold Coast. Thomas Sims - Northern ***Blues match bid. Father son. Luke Camporeale - Glenelg SA 29 Western Bulldogs. Zak Johnson- Northern 30 Port Adelaide. Nash King - Calder 31 Adelaide (tied to Melbourne). Kade Herbert - SA 32 GWS. Josh Murphy - Murray 33 Essendon. Damon Hollow - Calder 34 Richmond (tied to Fremantle). Lachie Jacques - Geelong 35 Gold Coast (tied to Brisbane) . Hamish Davis - Claremont WA 36 Geelong. Noah Mraz - Dandenong 37 Carlton. Lucas McInerney - Northern 38.Melbourne (tied to Sydney). Patrick Retschko - Oakleigh ROUND THREE 39 Richmond. Kayle Gerryn - West Perth 40 North Melbourne. Phoenix Hargrave - Sth Adel 41 Richmond (tied to West Coast). Sam Davidson - RICHMOND VFL 42 Melbourne (tied to St Kilda). Archer Day-Wicks - Bendigo 43 Adelaide. Ned Bowman - Norwood SA **** Port Adelaide match bid. Father son. Louis Montgomery - Nth Adel 44 Collingwood (tied to Hawthorn). Jesse Dattoli - Northern 45 Collingwood. Malakai Champion - Subiaco 46 Western Bulldogs (tied to Gold Coast). Cody Anderson - Eastern 47 Melbourne (tied to Western Bulldogs)- Keighton Matofai-Forbes - Western 48 Port Adelaide. Charlie Nicholls - Central District SA 49 St Kilda (tied to Melbourne) Oliver Depaoli-Kubank - Tassie 50 GWS. Luke Urquhart WA

I know there will be shifts and trades and moves and swaps and twisting and turns before picks are finalised. But I tried to rank players and look at current ladder positions. Here is run number 1 up to 50 live picks excluding the academy and father sons.

Xavier Lindsay ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ absolutely starred in the finale for Vic Country. Plays like ? Josh Kelly. He’s good in the inside and tackles well. He can run and spread and use his elite left foot for passes or kicks 50+ metres.

It’s a quirky list. Lots of strong top 30 players left out !!!! SA trio of the Camporeale twins (Carlton F-S) and Welsh (Adelaide F-S) are all genuinely top 30.

Definitely getting Brownlow votes v bombers. McVee has the footy IQ, skill and competitive edge to even improve more. A rookie gem. JT 👏👏👏👏

Agree. Crows in line to get Draper and he’s a future star. Crows 1st pick would be off limits imv anyway I think we need to keep Petty. Premiership defender. Can play forward or back. Reset his confidence and he’s a star.

He will be an interesting one to watch. Showed glimpses in the championships amongst tough opponents. Expect late draft pick or rookie in my view.

WA wrap up A weaker WA under 18 squad this year. I think only 3-4 youngsters will get drafted in the main draft , perhaps with a few through the rookie draft where identified. ⭐️Bo Allan. I only saw him in the game v He just has a footy IQ to get the right space and position. Good skills and size for a midfielder. His energy and transition running will see him strongly considered. Expect him to go pick 19-22 as early 2nd round pick 👏Luke Urquart. Big blonde bulldozer of a midfielder. Like a Cripps type, he goes into the contest and wins the footy. Skills were okay but let him down on occasion. He should be drafted but likely will be a pick in the 40s. ✅Malakai Champion. He’s exciting no doubt. But I was expecting more and he’s not a top 50 player for me. Late draft or rookie chances. ✅Cody Angove. Project type. Exciting runner and pace on the footy. Likely late draft pick as his skill is up to AFL quality which gives him a chance. Could a side take a chance

This draft is very strong and I’d like to see the Dees find room for 4 or even perhaps 5 draft picks this year. … @Whispering_Jack Langford is definitely a player that would be on JTs list. There is a lot of quality midfielders going down to picks in the second round and even early third round. I’ll look to do a top 50 by next weekend. I’d even by open to trade our 2025 1st round to get another 2024 first round pick. I’d call the GC suns to discuss.

Yes he didn’t star but did what was needed. Improvement still to be seen and he has a key role over the next 6 games.

Many many vote getters this week 6 Rivers 5 Langdon 4 McVee 3 May 2 Kozzzzy❤️❤️ 1 Windsor also 👏👏👏👏Melksham , JVR, Fritsch, ANB, Clarry and Disco

Last 2 seasons trade recruits Grundy - traded to Swans after one year Almost All Australian ruckman for 2024 Hunter, Schache, Billings, Fullarton, McAdam - all playing at Casey Hunter and Schache will be delisted in my view.

Gawn. Petracca. Spargo injured. JS29 suspension Gus Brayshaw medical retirement

F: L. Kentfield (44), B. Brown (50), M. Jefferson (21) land of the giants !! Noah Yze in … 👏👏👏 Must win game !!!

Fullarton might get a game if all of the following happens 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Gawn out injured JVR out injured Petty out injured Tmcd out injured and if he buys Goody a coffee or red wine at the next opportunity!!!

With the Grundy experiment quickly ended, MFC sought out a second ruck option and Tom Fullarton was traded in to assist Gawn. Now not even playing at all with Gawn out injured for 3 weeks !!! wtf

Yes a good listing, though I’m a buyer if these players are available at those picks 10-Jagga Smith… I rate him top 5 14- Christian Moraes… rate him pick 7-8 31 - Xavier Lindsay… rate him pick 15-17 36- Zak Johnson… rate him pick 19-20 41- Kade Herbert… rate him pick 25-28 thats good buying

I think if he can recover and look to 2025, Spargo should be looked at as a midfielder option for next year. We have plenty of small forwards. I’d try him as a rotating midfielder. That was where he played as a junior. With an absence of midfield depth, he might focus on building himself into a genuine rover type.

Two of our best players are out, with the next 3 weeks being a massive challenge.

Lots of hits and misses. Perhaps the lack of drafting the next level of midfielder and getting too many small forwards is a current issue. 2024 we must get mids.

Gawn out for three weeks keep calm and carry on

Agreed. Missing the guys like Harmes, Dunstan, Munro who all won the tough contested footy. Unfortunately Hustwaite also now missing for 10 weeks