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

 

[faible]

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

“I was track watching the other day…”

www.sen.com.au

Looking like Max Gawn? The poor fella has lost the mullet and is balding at 23?

 

[dank420_]

He's still celebrating GOTY and it looks like he's doing laps

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

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

“I was track watching the other day…”

www.sen.com.au

 

[andleanback]

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

“I was track watching the other day…”

www.sen.com.au

In one sentence he’s criticizing players for going to Ibiza, then next sentence praising said player who went to Ibiza for looking like they’re in career best shape.

 

[Lore]

 

[Lore]

 

[DonsRule]

 

[TheGrizz]

I would presume it is heavily front loaded to help us meet the floor.

Great signing, love the way the man plays.

 

[naraku]

Excellent! I'm Buoyed that much more after Walla coming back yesterday.

 

[Happyskeret]

Still haven’t forgotten him knocking back that St Kilda contract when he hadn’t played one game for us. Super excited to see how he progresses especially since hearing he’s in top shape.

 

[mike ross]

This is awesome

 

[andleanback]

I would presume it is heavily front loaded to help us meet the floor.

Great signing, love the way the man plays.

He was already contracted for next year
They’ve made a great decision to lock him away before the other clubs come for him after he goes to another level next year.

 

[TheGrizz]

He was already contracted for next year
They’ve made a great decision to lock him away before the other clubs come for him after he goes to another level next year.

You can extend and front load it, much like how they extend and push money back to make room (Collingwood and Treloar, GCS and Bowes etc)

 

[Wahooti Fandango]

The Age referred to him as Scott Draper. I'm mean I'm sure he's handy on the tennis court, but still.

 

[bombreys]

In to the leadership group this year, please

 

[ant555]

Forget leadership group.
Sam needs to find the next level in his game . Love the X factor stuff but now he needs to be taking 10 marks a game and getting his positioning around the ground right and become a 15 possession a game player.

 

[Beerfish]

He's the spiritual leader. That's enough for now.

 

[boncer34]

Forget leadership group.
Sam needs to find the next level in his game . Love the X factor stuff but now he needs to be taking 10 marks a game and getting his positioning around the ground right and become a 15 possession a game player.

If he takes 10 marks a game he'll be phenomenal

 

[andleanback]

Forget leadership group.
Sam needs to find the next level in his game . Love the X factor stuff but now he needs to be taking 10 marks a game and getting his positioning around the ground right and become a 15 possession a game player.

10?
I’ll be happy with an average of 5

 

[Lore]

 

[MiguelM]

Forget leadership group.
Sam needs to find the next level in his game . Love the X factor stuff but now he needs to be taking 10 marks a game and getting his positioning around the ground right and become a 15 possession a game player.

A marking ruckman is a huge advantage, esp down the line on the wings.

There were a couple of games last year where he held onto a few and the difference it makes to the whole team performance is massive.

 

[blitzer]

I'd say of all the players on our list if he could become a consistent very good player it would just about make the most impact to our performances next year. A physical ruckman that could set the tone for our midfield would be a difference maker for us - especially given our many performances where we simply lacked intensity.

He's got quite a bag of tricks but we need to see him put it together in a more consistent fashion. Last year there were many games where he was a non factor or drifted in and out of games. That said it was the first year he's both been fit and played seniors all year so I'm sure it was valuable experience for him. Hopefully he can continue to build.

 

[TheUnicorn]

 

[Vindicater]

Is going to go up a level this season. Entering the right age bracket for Rucks.

 

[I Remember Bluey]

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/news/afl-preseason-2023-all-the-latest-news-from-the-track/news-story/7ff6ad4efe788e14f1210cae2aa64649

AFL pre-season 2023: Sam Draper impressing at pre-season training​

The Bombers will need plenty of players to improve to avoid a repeat of 2022 this season and it appears one rising star is ready to answer the call. Get the latest pre-season news here.

Lauren Wood

Watch out, opposition rucks.

If Monday’s almost three-hour session is anything to go by, Sam Draper could go from cult hero to serious threat.

He’s always been important, but the 24-year-old’s combination of size and craft has him in the box seat to become one of the Bombers’ best — if not the best — player in 2023.

Draper has proven imposing against Andrew Phillips and Nick Bryan in recent match hit-outs and was stoic again on Monday, even plucking the ball from the ruck and bursting forward out of a pack when given the opportunity.

Once the competition’s rising star but has all the hallmarks of the real thing.