manny100

Plenty of the Dees faithful would be getting a bit obsessed with this draft. In the end we will just have to put our faith in JT. If we go for Armstrong at 5 one of the factors may be that May and TMac are in the career twilight and we have Petty and Turner who can play back. We will then go a potential gun mid/running back at 9. I would expect that he play at Casey for a season or 2. Hopefully Jeffo plays regular AFL this year. Cadman was seen at as reach by GWS when they traded for pick 1. If we do not pick him at 5 i suspect the Saints will pick him at 7 or 8 and the best mid available with their other pick.

5 and 9 plus Yze and Mentha. There is a chance if our preferred player is gone at 9 we may offer that pick to say GWS for their 15 and 16. But there is a bit of talent around 9 so i think we will take it to the draft.

Twomey's October rating has Langford at 3. He usually gets it right with a pick or 2.

North may bite the bullet and pick him at 2. They already have a heap of mids.

After seeing those highlights Smith would be a great choice. Looks like a safe choice as well.

Cal Twomey on gettable yesterday said Tigers should not give more than 6 and 20 for pick 2. He did not explain his reasoning but i presume he considers there is not a lot between picks 2 and 6.

I see Deakin Pereira who trialled with us a few years ago but accepted a US basketball scholarship is back playing basket ball in the Melbourne Basketball Leauge. Not a skinny kid anymore. Stacked the muscle on.

If Draper goes to the Crows Smith may fall through to us at 5/6. Smith has risen to every level he has played so he should be a good player at AFL level. Then with luck Tauru falls through to us at 9. Twomeys top 10 is usually ok within a pick or 2.

Thanks, great summary. Going by Twomeys efforts last year picks in the top 10 are usually with 2 of his predictions. The out by 2 was McKercher and Curtin. The rest were either spot on or out by 1. Good effort by Twomey. Its a good time to be bringing in early picks on top of last years draft given Tassy coming in. The club IMO is on the ball. Well done Tim Lamb. Let's hope JT and his team once again draft well.

It's a fair chance a team in the top 6 will take a reach for Armstrong, Tauru or another player. North have a stack of mids and may reach for either. North needs support for Larke and will have Darling to tutor. Carlton have tall forwards but could do with a talent like Tauru. No doubt there will be a surprise or 2 before our pick 9. No doubt we will go for what we think is best available. At pick 9 we may be a little flexible. Lloyd rates Armstrong a better pack mark than the Kings. I think with the Clarry/Tracc dramas we are a cert to go for a 'gun' mid available at pick 5/6. Also i think Pup Brown will be a very good mid in a season or 2. If Armstrong/Tauru are rated as guns how many of these types are available in drafts compared to mids. How easy is it to attract established gun mids to the club compared to mids?

We have both Petty and Turner who can play back, especially Petty. Lloyd said Armstrong was the best U18 consisted mark he has seen including the King's. We have May and TMc on the career tail end. Jeffo, JVR and Armstrong may prove a good combo? A mid at 9? Our dilemma- will Oliver and/or Tracc look elsewhere next season? Probably not but do we select a 'contingency' elite mid just in case? Elite KPF's are as rare as hens teeth.

https://themongrelpunt.com/afl-drafts-and-trades/2024/10/22/the-wolfmans-2024-phantom-draft-v-2-0/

https://www.zerohanger.com/2024-afl-mock-draft-picks-1-27-first-edition-156203/

Twomeys Oct phantom will be interesting. Every year its a bit different to his September with more Information available. Looking forward to the October phantoms later this month.

I think at 9 we will go for a tall ranked around that area unless a player highly ranked by JT slips through. Tauru, Trainor or Armstrong would be good. I would not be surprised if North reach and pick Armstrong or Tauru at pick 2. They already are stacked with mids.

Windsor had stand out pace and smarts as his Xfactor. JT will look for some sort of standput out ability at picks 5 and 9. Lalor explosive break away. Smith huge accumulator. Langford size, accumulator - speed? Draper all round but Crows bound? Tauru, marking, late developer, interceptor, swingman. Trainor can accumulate, marking, intercepting. And the list goes on.

Check out Jeffo's Rookie me September power ranking and comments in his draft year. Described as a good KP but skinny. He was always going to take 2 or 3 seasons before getting get a game and that is the path the club chose. Some expectations in these threads have been way over the top.

Rookie me September 2022 Rankings had Jeffo at 11. As you can see his output was OK despite a leg injury for part of the season.. He was a skinny kid was always going to take a few years to play at the AFL level as a KPF. That is the reason he has been given 2 full seasons at VFL level. THE LEAN MARKING MACHINE A skinny tall forward who proves proficient in the air, Jefferson is one of the key position players with the most upside in this year’s group. Though his production isn’t as high as others just yet, the 18-year-old is mobile at 195cm and offers great range with his lanky frame. Already a clean marker of the ball, he has some filling out to do and while he can play at both ends of the ground or on a wing, looks a likely type up forward. LAST MONTH: Though it has since been revealed he was playing through injury, Jefferson still managed to hit the scoreboard in his few games in August. Two bags of five goals rounded out his school football season, before he snared four in the final NAB League regular season round. He managed 3.3 the next week, and his leg injury perhaps accounts for the otherwise low production numbers outside of his goalkicking for the Chargers.

Twomey suggests further action by us. A swap with North. Picks 5 and 9 for pick 2 and 25 plus maybe 44 or the future 2nd? Hope not i would rather go 5 and 9.

Good deal for us to get pick 9. Dons get more than enough to get the discounted Kako. We get a good mid at 5 and maybe a KP at 9? White next year probably a 2nd or 3rd round bid?

Reported Nth after Dons pick9. We may have to chase GC's pick 13. They will want a future 1st and picks in this draft. We should take pick 5 to the draft. There may be a couple of KP's available around 13?

Pretty ordinary stuff by GWS if they hold him. Derks has a partner and kids and is on ordinary money at GWS. The Dees deal would be good for him and his family.

In relation to the off field bad press it is common for the opposing party in an action to feed bad press to the media. It appears that the media maybe being fed 'stories' to put a huge amount of pressure on the Dee's to perhaps eek out a huge settlement. Let's face it - the press has been unrelenting for a couple of years. As BB said "its never as good as they say or bad as they say". Then the press blame it for our performance on field. It maybe partly responsible but its also due to us playing an unusually large number of young players. Also injury to Tracc and retirement of Brayshaw plus Oliver's issue. I think our list management and football department are forward thinking in playing talented kids and recruiting early in the draft. I hope we trade our future 1st and maybe 2nd to get another early pick in this draft. At least we have some 'guns' still playing to educate the youngsters. Eg, Gawn, Viney, May, Lever etc

I think we have a chance to get pick 11 from Freo. Its rumored that Warner wants to come home and will request a trade next season. Freo will need our future 1st round pick. they flogged us late in the season and would back it in to get a pick 5 or better from us next draft.

Twomey, ESPN and rookie me all have the following in their top 10. Ashcroft, Smith, O'Sullivan, Langford, Draper and Lalor. Thet differ on the other 5. Rookie me who put their rankings out after the Coates GF had Bo Allan pushed up to pick 5 after playing in a WAFL premiership. Evidently has good acceleration and at 191cm plays interceptor back, forward or mid. They also have Reid at pick 3 whereas Twomey at 5.