Analysis 2021 draft thread

[Crusha]

I think he has pretty high cruising speed.

I agree .... it wasn't meant as a knock.
I guess I was hopefully looking for examples of explosive speed from the contest, but that was not the type of game they had him playing (totally inside). It may be there ..... I'd love to see some vision from his WAFL Colts games to see what type of role he played in those.
Don't have any idea of his testing results either.

 

[POBT]

Purely from that footage:

- seems dual-sided with handballing
- head over it
- good anticipation
- works hard from contest to contest
- not bad core strength for a guy who maybe hasn't had the training opportunities
- not too fumbly, but wasn't always one touch
- seemed to avoid kicking and, when he did kick, it wasn't penetrating or particularly accurate

Not expecting a superstar at that pick but there's plenty there to work with.

 

[Squizz89]

Knightmares rating - https://www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/id/32715002/afl-draft-2021-every-club-draft-haul-rated

Brisbane
Picks: 16, 20, 41

Players drafted: Darcy Wilmot, Kai Lohmann, James Tunstill

Grade: D

Rationale: Brisbane secured a balanced group of players. Wilmot was drafted as a rebounding defender, Lohmann as a speedy and damaging forward, while Tunstill joins the club as a hardworking, ball winning midfielder. The Lions get marked down due to all three of their picks being relative reaches. Lohmann being selected inside the first round was one of the surprise selections, and similar could be said of Tunstill at 41, given how many talented midfielders remained.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

The biggest imbalance in our list I think now is the number our talls are mostly giants, and that means they can't play defence very well.

Huh? The second part of the sentence doesn't follow from the first. Harris Andrews is a giant who can play defence very well.

Daniher / Kalin Lane / Henry Smith / Darcy Fort / Oscar McInerney / Hipwood / Fullarton?

Oscar went back a few times last year and I remember him being an asset in marking packs.

 

[Mighty Lions]

Knightmares rating - https://www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/id/32715002/afl-draft-2021-every-club-draft-haul-rated

Brisbane
Picks: 16, 20, 41

Players drafted: Darcy Wilmot, Kai Lohmann, James Tunstill

Grade: D

Rationale: Brisbane secured a balanced group of players. Wilmot was drafted as a rebounding defender, Lohmann as a speedy and damaging forward, while Tunstill joins the club as a hardworking, ball winning midfielder. The Lions get marked down due to all three of their picks being relative reaches. Lohmann being selected inside the first round was one of the surprise selections, and similar could be said of Tunstill at 41, given how many talented midfielders remained.

Everyone's an expert. (including Knightmare) At the end of the day, nobody knows better than our representatives who understand what we need in list management. (including Knightmare)

 

[Brett C]

Correct. You need to nominate for the ND to be eligible for the rookie draft.

Shame North haven’t pounced to steal CEY from us as well

 

[Nunez]

Knightmares rating - https://www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/id/32715002/afl-draft-2021-every-club-draft-haul-rated

Brisbane
Picks: 16, 20, 41

Players drafted: Darcy Wilmot, Kai Lohmann, James Tunstill

Grade: D

Rationale: Brisbane secured a balanced group of players. Wilmot was drafted as a rebounding defender, Lohmann as a speedy and damaging forward, while Tunstill joins the club as a hardworking, ball winning midfielder. The Lions get marked down due to all three of their picks being relative reaches. Lohmann being selected inside the first round was one of the surprise selections, and similar could be said of Tunstill at 41, given how many talented midfielders remained.

Lol

 

[WhiteLionFeva]

Knightmares rating - https://www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/id/32715002/afl-draft-2021-every-club-draft-haul-rated

Brisbane
Picks: 16, 20, 41

Players drafted: Darcy Wilmot, Kai Lohmann, James Tunstill

Grade: D

Rationale: Brisbane secured a balanced group of players. Wilmot was drafted as a rebounding defender, Lohmann as a speedy and damaging forward, while Tunstill joins the club as a hardworking, ball winning midfielder. The Lions get marked down due to all three of their picks being relative reaches. Lohmann being selected inside the first round was one of the surprise selections, and similar could be said of Tunstill at 41, given how many talented midfielders remained.

A 'D' because they are reaches? He's lost the plot. What a surprise, Collingwood got an 'A'. And Carlton had one pick at 27 and got a B+.

 

[bungalow_bill]

yeah I don’t mind opinion and disappointment post draft as it’s fine to have favs. But the anger some display is a bit disturbing lol

Come on the guy had no freaking highlights video he had it coming. Should have been banned from the draft

 

[POBT]

Knightmare's post draft club reviews are better described as "divergence from his opinion". The further a club is away from his rankings of players, the worse their review is. That's ok - it's what his schtick is. I dunno why people bother with it, tbh. He offers plenty of value if you don't take his opinions to heart and can accept that he won't admit he's wrong or isn't in a position to offer an opinion.

 

[bungalow_bill]

Knightmares rating - https://www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/id/32715002/afl-draft-2021-every-club-draft-haul-rated

Brisbane
Picks: 16, 20, 41

Players drafted: Darcy Wilmot, Kai Lohmann, James Tunstill

Grade: D

Rationale: Brisbane secured a balanced group of players. Wilmot was drafted as a rebounding defender, Lohmann as a speedy and damaging forward, while Tunstill joins the club as a hardworking, ball winning midfielder. The Lions get marked down due to all three of their picks being relative reaches. Lohmann being selected inside the first round was one of the surprise selections, and similar could be said of Tunstill at 41, given how many talented midfielders remained.

A reach perhaps according to his rankings but not according to most others it would seem

Whoever took Goater must have been given an E-

 

[Tom14]

Knightmare's post draft club reviews are better described as "divergence from his opinion". The further a club is away from his rankings of players, the worse their review is. That's ok - it's what his schtick is. I dunno why people bother with it, tbh. He offers plenty of value if you don't take his opinions to heart and can accept that he won't admit he's wrong or isn't in a position to offer an opinion.

From what I saw of his first round review for the entire second half of the first round his only comment was basically, 'bad decision, should have drafted Johnson' - ok sure, we get you liked him but at least come up with something more original if you want to call yourself an analyst.

 

[Elixuh]

Knightmares rating - https://www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/id/32715002/afl-draft-2021-every-club-draft-haul-rated

Brisbane
Picks: 16, 20, 41

Players drafted: Darcy Wilmot, Kai Lohmann, James Tunstill

Grade: D

Rationale: Brisbane secured a balanced group of players. Wilmot was drafted as a rebounding defender, Lohmann as a speedy and damaging forward, while Tunstill joins the club as a hardworking, ball winning midfielder. The Lions get marked down due to all three of their picks being relative reaches. Lohmann being selected inside the first round was one of the surprise selections, and similar could be said of Tunstill at 41, given how many talented midfielders remained.

Has anyone seen knightmare and jackess in the same room?

 

[BangyBangy]

Has anyone seen knightmare and jackess in the same room?

Has anyone seen Jackess and Dylan12 in the same room?

 

[Dalions]

Has anyone seen knightmare and jackess in the same room?

Has anyone seen Jackess since Wednesday night?

 

[Nunez]

Has anyone seen Jackess and Dylan12 in the same room?

Has anyone seen Dylan12 and Leemas in the same room?!

 

[dtm06]

Has anyone seen Jackess since Wednesday night?

They're watching highlights.

 

[Quigley]

I prefer someone who is giving grades to actually go out on a limb and give their opinion. I hate all these draft grade articles who give every team an A or B. I have no issue at all with Knightmare sticking with how he rated players and rating teams accordingly. Should be more of it in my opinion. It doesn't mean he will end up being right but at least he has an opinion and is not afraid to put it out there.

 

[Mr Ripper]

Haha. Just catching up on this thread. Love all the 'that guy I've never seen play before is nowhere near as good as that other guy I've never seen play before wtf are we doing?!' takes.

 

[The Zork]

The fact that any media outlet or analyst give out any “grades” post draft is headache inducing stupidity.

Do it mid season to see how draftees are tracking and/or at the end of the following season, pre draft - absolutely.
Highlight and make a big deal of your steals and reaches then.
All it is designed for now is to generate clicks.

It’s basically him rating himself on how close he got his own ratings?
Not sure why anyone would read that?

 

[briztoon]

Just a couple of brief observations, and nothing that hasn’t been said elsewhere.

By our third pick, I was struggling to think of a player still on board that I would have drafted. Draper or Taylor seemed the obvious choices of the players I was familiar with, but I wasn’t a fan of Draper earlier in the year, so struggled to see what he’d add, and for me Taylor is a similar type to Fletcher, who we’ll add next year.

Alistair Lord and Lachlan Rankin were two I would have considered, if we had gone with different players at our early picks.

I thought Richmond had a really good draft, b******ds. They haven’t addressed their key forward issues going forward, but this wasn’t the draft to do it.

I thought Fremantle had a good draft, taking all the top local kids.

Not that impressed with Adelaide, West Coasts or Sydney’s drafts overall. I did like the first selection for both Adelaide and WC, but the rest of their drafts were very meh for me.

No idea wtf Gold Coast are doing. Andrew only makes sense to me if King is leaving. And drafting Constable late??? They gave away Lyons for free, paid another team to take Brodie, then go and draft a player with exactly they same “issues”, being a poor runner, particularly defensively.

 

[M Malice]

Welcome aboard Cam Ellis-Yolmen.

Pick 12 in the rookie draft.

 

[scoman]

Just a couple of brief observations, and nothing that hasn’t been said elsewhere.

By our third pick, I was struggling to think of a player still on board that I would have drafted. Draper or Taylor seemed the obvious choices of the players I was familiar with, but I wasn’t a fan of Draper earlier in the year, so struggled to see what he’d add, and for me Taylor is a similar type to Fletcher, who we’ll add next year.

Alistair Lord and Lachlan Rankin were two I would have considered, if we had gone with different players at our early picks.

I thought Richmond had a really good draft, b******ds. They haven’t addressed their key forward issues going forward, but this wasn’t the draft to do it.

I thought Fremantle had a good draft, taking all the top local kids.

Not that impressed with Adelaide, West Coasts or Sydney’s drafts overall. I did like the first selection for both Adelaide and WC, but the rest of their drafts were very meh for me.

No idea wtf Gold Coast are doing. Andrew only makes sense to me if King is leaving. And drafting Constable late??? They gave away Lyons for free, paid another team to take Brodie, then go and draft a player with exactly they same “issues”, being a poor runner, particularly defensively.

I know I'm flogging a dead horse here but why do they keep recruiting mature age key forwards who don't kick goals when there has been one living 50km away for a number of years in Hammelmann. Corbett, Burgess records in the VFL and SAFL were pretty average tbf and now Casboult who comes with injury and possible Covid complications.

 

[beardancer]

So is it 4 picks left?

 

[Mr Ripper]

Good Preston blood in Wilmot, too, so that's a plus.