AFL Player # 2: Sam Draper - The mullet hath returneth - 22/6

[Dave]

Contract Status: Out of contract 2025
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 20, TheUnicorn

 

[Corleone]

Collingwood Fans: "It's a mickey mouse award that no one cares about ... It's just the HATERZ again making sure we don't ever win anything ... who cares!?!??!?!?!!?"

Also Collingwood Fans:

 

[naraku]

Never a doubt!

Well done Drapes

 

[citizen-erased]

Collingwood Fans: "It's a mickey mouse award that no one cares about ... It's just the HATERZ again making sure we don't ever win anything ... who cares!?!??!?!?!!?"

Also Collingwood Fans:

odd melts.
does anyone remember last years without googling?

Also, Daicos broke a Hind "tackle". Probably deduct points for that alone

 

[Maddogm]

The fan vote is worth 10% for goal of the year, but the weekly nominations are entirely fan voted, so I read this morning.

What the point is of a weekly nomination for goal of the year when the final award can be drawn from any of the 3x23 contenders from the entire season, I’ve no idea. The kid who won mark of the year didn’t win his week.

To prevent the collingwood embarrassing themselves by presenting their own award

 

[ant555]

Now just start averaging 10 marks a game and we will all be happy.

 

[Maddogm]

and we will all be happy.

On bigfooty?

 

[bombreys]

Could he be a smoky for captain, or is it too soon/not the right fit?

 

[Lore]

Could he be a smoky for captain, or is it too soon/not the right fit?

Too soon. Maybe one day, but others younger than him seem to be in the queue ahead of him. Depends if he has the hard edge or just a larrikin.

 

[bombreys]

Too soon. Maybe one day, but others younger than him seem to be in the queue ahead of him. Depends if he has the hard edge or just a larrikin.

You're probably right.

Has a lot of good qualities though - I hope he's into the leadership group (along with Redman) next year.

 

[Milanista28]

Speaks well, intelligent guy.

 

[Lore]

 

[TheUnicorn]

Should be interesting not sure he’s the greatest kick, Love watching this every year though and now with my fave player!

 

[rumply]

 

[Yoda_]

This bloke will captain the club one day

posted August 22, 2020


glad to see people getting on board

 

[Lore]

 

[TheUnicorn]

Draper leading the longest kick with the 60m torp

 

[Lore]

Shocked himself with that

 

[ant555]

posted August 22, 2020


glad to see people getting on board

Not for me.

 

[eth-dog]

Bloody Curnow

 

[dougyboy]

How did they get 60 mtrs out of that? Looks like 65 to me

 

[BomberFan355]

How did they get 60 mtrs out of that? Looks like 65 to me

That’s just a Fox Footy graphic.

 

[frodos gardener]

ROBBED

 

[Lore]

 

[Lore]

This is quite a good pod. He's had a few weeks off and so they bring him back and the entire episode is basically just Essendon stuff.

• Goal of the year chatter, and how he recorded the acceptance speech in the function room of a random restaurant in Amsterdam with an autocue app and the phone set up on a stack of chairs. Apparently he recorded a formal version and a fun version and was told to wear a respectable shirt, AFL chose the formal version
• Longest kick was rigged
• Talking about the grand final, gave Fridge (Josh Begley) his grand final tickets. Some little stories about Selwood sledging Fridge and Draper getting sledged by Hawkins when we've played against them before. Begley is a massive Geelong fan and Selwood is his hero so that's amusing.
• Questions about new coach, some random story about the players wanting Lyon and none of the players knew where that had come from since none of them remember a conversation like that.
• Guelfi tweeting something about wanting Rocket and then deleting it the next morning
• Talking about Tom Browne reporting it'll be Brad Scott, then talking about Scott and talking about Tom Browne, the latter of which is more interesting than the former. Browne apparently calls everyone 20 times, knows where everyone lives and doesn't seem to feel awkwardness like other people do.
• Wright and Francis (?!) BOG during their footy trip in Europe

 

[Lance Uppercut]

Emerging Bomber looking ”like Max Gawn” in off-season training

“I was track watching the other day…”

www.sen.com.au

SEN’s Kane Cornes

Kane Cornes

Age

41

Ht

183cm

Wt

78kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

23.5

5star

K

12.5

5star

HB

11.0

5star

M

5.2

5star

T

3.3

5star

CL

2.6

4star

No current season stats available

D

13.0

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

5.4

4star

M

3.0

3star

T

1.2

3star

believes ruckman Sam Draper in particular will be “flying” ahead of 2023 after witnessing him prepare for pre-season in Adelaide.

“I was track watching the other day and big Sammy Draper was doing laps,” Cornes said.

“We’ve got a 2.2k loop just near the Adelaide Oval here.

“He looked as fit as I’ve ever seen him, he looked like Max Gawn

11

Max Gawn

Age

32

Ht

209cm

Wt

110kg

Pos.

Ruck

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.1

4star

K

7.4

3star

HB

6.7

4star

CL

2.8

4star

HO

35.3

5star

D

18.5

4star

K

11.5

4star

HB

7.0

4star

CL

3.5

4star

HO

29.2

5star

D

8.4

3star

K

3.6

2star

HB

4.8

4star

CL

1.0

3star

HO

15.6

5star

.

“Big Sammy, he was flying, I thought, ‘Okay, he’s heeded the warning’.”

Draper, now 24, could be set for a big 2023 campaign now that he has 43 career games from three seasons under his belt.