2024 Draft Thread.

[Linton Street Saint]

If we leap frog GC and Melbourne by years end. I'm going to be certifiably filthy .....

 

[Teflon]

If we leap frog GC and Melbourne by years end. I'm going to be certifiably filthy .....

100%
It makes zero sense to do so
Maximise being down this year for gain

 

[TheJackal]

Noticed that Lalor didn't play last week for GWVR and didn't play today

Still injured??

Both Lalor and FOS are playing school footy. Both were either best or second best the past couple of weeks, can't find any stats though.

 

[akaifu]

Jack Ough with another 25 touches and 1.1 through the mids. Xavier Lindsay with 26 and 1.1 in the same game so in good company is Ough

 

[SteeleSaints]

Jobe Shanahan played VFL for Essendon today, 4 goals and 9 possessions. No to shabby for hs first game.

 

[CursingFijian]

I honestly reckon our second round pick could end up as good as our first. You get to pick more of your preferred options with high picks but this is a deep and even draft. Players in the 20s could end up some of the real cream.

Dalrymple has picked up Dylan Stephens and Logan McDonald with his two recent high picks at Sydney. His best success is Chad Warner at 39. The really good recruiters are usually solid with their high picks but what separates them is that they get maximum value from the later picks. That's why I rate Toce so much. He managed to find really high upside players with later picks.

We shouldn’t forget that Dalrymple (Sydney) bid on Michito.

 

[ScrappyDo]

Yeah, for a club that seems to have luck punch in the balls and steal our wallet we've been extremely lucky with how the drafts have fallen in the last couple of years.

Garcia, Hastie, Keeler etc all look very likely too. McLennan, Hotton, Van Es types haven't set the world on fire yet but all would be unlucky not to stay on the list and have upside.

The only one I have questions about is Collard and not because he can't play. I think on talent he's got heaps of potential but go home factor and attitude might stop him reaching his peak with us.

Yeah the luck element is an interesting one, and often saved from ourselves as well.
The 2020 draft itself was a complete write off but the decisions taken that year still facilitated Snags, Coops and Moose, and though the 2022 draft is still TBD it was seen as an excellent haul at the time.
Even if Collard doesn't work out l think they did the right thing and took talant first, backing the club culture to keep him. Any other decision falls into loser mentality.

 

[gubby88]

I honestly reckon our second round pick could end up as good as our first. You get to pick more of your preferred options with high picks but this is a deep and even draft. Players in the 20s could end up some of the real cream.

Dalrymple has picked up Dylan Stephens and Logan McDonald with his two recent high picks at Sydney. His best success is Chad Warner at 39. The really good recruiters are usually solid with their high picks but what separates them is that they get maximum value from the later picks. That's why I rate Toce so much. He managed to find really high upside players with later picks.

speaking of Sydney. at the doggies, Dalrymple nailed alot of picks from both early to rookie.

at Sydney his first round picks werent great, but how much input would Kinnear Beatson have had on early rounds? he strikes me as a bloke who likes to get what he wants.

just find it strange he would lose his first round touch by going elsewhere

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[CursingFijian]

speaking of Sydney. at the doggies, Dalrymple nailed alot of picks from both early to rookie.

at Sydney his first round picks werent great, but how much input would Kinnear Beatson have had on early rounds? he strikes me as a bloke who likes to get what he wants.

just find it strange he would lose his first round touch by going elsewhere

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SOS strikes me the same way Beaston did you.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

speaking of Sydney. at the doggies, Dalrymple nailed alot of picks from both early to rookie.

at Sydney his first round picks weren't great, but how much input would Kinnear Beatson have had on early rounds? he strikes me as a bloke who likes to get what he wants.

just find it strange he would lose his first round touch by going elsewhere

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I'd suggest that Sheldrick would have played by now if he'd been one of ours.
Hell, Luke Parker couldn't crack a game for ages.
Sydney have a history of holding young players back, remember when Mitchell was unleashed?

- Angus Sheldrick

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[stavro#4]

Thats the thing every draft is different and this years group there will be kids taken in the 50's that might have been considered around 30 in past years. To make such broad statements is simply not accurate and misleading.

As an example the draft year Allison was taken in at #26 - 2020 was really shallow and washed out before he was taken. Some punters are suggesting next years draft will be similiar.

My point was more a case of you don’t go into a draft thinking.

I’m going to take this kid in a “live” draft at pick 43 and we are confident he will be there.


Once the second round is half way through everyone is reevaluating their talent boards and see what’s left and do they move up/down or out

 

[stavro#4]

Elwood Peckett with 5 goals BoG yesterday.

Kicked 2.1 the week before. With 19 touches and 13 tackles.

 

[Miha]

Elwood Peckett with 5 goals BoG yesterday.

Kicked 2.1 the week before. With 19 touches and 13 tackles.

Wonder if he’ll bolt up a little in the draft

 

[gubby88]

Elwood Peckett with 5 goals BoG yesterday.

Kicked 2.1 the week before. With 19 touches and 13 tackles.

started in the guts and drifted forward as well apparantly

 

[Diehard Saint]

If we leap frog GC and Melbourne by years end. I'm going to be certifiably I know.

I mean what the hell’s wrong with them?
Haven’t they got pride or something to play for??

 

[Diehard Saint]

Elwood Peckett with 5 goals BoG yesterday.

Kicked 2.1 the week before. With 19 touches and 13 tackles.

Excuse the ignorance but is he eligible for this year’s draft and F/S?
Maybe we’ll have some luck for a change.

 

[beside the seaside]

Excuse the ignorance but is he eligible for this year’s draft and F/S?
Maybe we’ll have some luck for a change.

Yes he's a father son this year for us, and by the look of his recent form a certainty to get picked up.

 

[gubby88]

I mean what the hell’s wrong with them?
Haven’t they got pride or something to play for??

find it funny, that with all the talent Clarko and Dimma have at their disposal....they still cant beat Ross and his soliders


yet Ross is defensive and cant coach in todays game....whodathunkit

 

[stavro#4]

Excuse the ignorance but is he eligible for this year’s draft and F/S?
Maybe we’ll have some luck for a change.

Yeah he is eligible and making a late run.

Has “something” - very raw and not sure what his ceiling maybe.

 

[SteeleSaints]

I watched the Dandenong vs Bushrangers game overnight, the game stats havent been posted yet. Peckett kicked 5 goals and played really well, you would think he is a certainty to get picked up now. Cooper Hynes BOG by a fair margin if he keeps playing like that he will be a bolter come draft night. Some of his skills and evasive work were sublime. Langford was a bit quiter but his intent in everything he does screams AFL football IMO.

I am still trying to work out why scouts/punters are rating the Whitlock twins so highly. Both remind me of watching Max Knobel run around they are all arms and legs. Jack was easily beaten by Riak Andrew in a number of one on one contests. For me I wouldn't be interested at looking at either prior to the top 40.

Joe Berry played through the midfield and didnt excel, he looks a lot better when left around goals.

I was impressed with a tall Murray defender Reuben Bourke 196cms. He didnt get a lot of it but what he does is at 110% and plays with a hard edge, doesnt take a backward step which I like to see. He hasnt been mentioned in any of the phantoms but is another smoky to be considered late.

 

[Tommy Wigs]

If we leap frog GC and Melbourne by years end. I'm going to be certifiably filthy .....

I suppose at least they play each other. But we may well go past the loser. Unbelievable

 

[Tommy Wigs]

Jobe Shanahan played VFL for Essendon today, 4 goals and 9 possessions. No to shabby for hs first game.

Probably sneaking too high now (for a second rdr), but sounds like he was good in defence last year too.

 

[TheJackal]

Josh Smillie looks like he's going full tank now, 10 touches is incredibly poor assuming he was fit.

 

[Sarcoidevo]

Stats say Peckett kicked 6 this week and 3 last week... at least on the playhq site

 

[11men1cup]

I hope Nick Daicos had his fun as the best F/S in the AFL because Elwood will become a legend.


*Off pure vibe

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