Competitions 2024 Mock Draft

[eth-dog]

Same as usual.

Trades have to clear the usual rules. Double ups allowed if not enough people sign up. I'll take Fremantle

Rules:

1. Trades must be within the 200 point threshold between picks or include future picks
2. Clock is on between 8 am and 10 pm. Need to take your pick within 8 hours of that time frame (so if someone picks at 8:30 PM, the next person has until 2:30 the next day). Otherwise they get the next unlinked (NGA etc) player on eDPS rankings.

Adelaide: King Patty
Brisbane: boncer34
Carlton: Milanista28
Collingwood: jdstorm
Essendon: RedmanWasHere
Fremantle: eth-dog
Geelong: Vindicater
Gold Coast: eth-dog
Greater Western Sydney: Red Black and Blue
Hawthorne: ydc55
Melbourne: doug85
North Melbourne: Atavistic
Port Adelaide: eDPS
Richmond: boncer34
St. Kilda: Vindicater
Sydney: Zach Package
West Coast: eDPS
Western Bulldogs: ydc55



The above is for bid matching references. Please pin this if you can Lore.

Round 1	Club	Player
1	Brisbane	Levi Ashcroft
2	Richmond	Jagga Smith
3	Richmond	Sam Lalor
4	Carlton	Finn O'Sullivan
5	Adelaide	Sid Draper
6	Melbourne	Alixzander Tauru
7	Gold Coast	Leonardo Lombard
8	Essendon	Isaac Kako
9	Richmond	Harry Armstrong
10	St Kilda	Harvey Langford
11	St Kilda	Murphy Reid
12	Melbourne	Josh Smillie
13	North Melbourne	Luke Trainor
14	North Melbourne	Joe Berry
15	Sydney	Xavier Lindsay
16	Port Adelaide	Bo Allan
17	Fremantle	Tobie Travaglia
18	Greater Western Sydney	Taj Hotton
19	Greater Western Sydney	Cooper Hynes
20	Western Bulldogs	Harrison Oliver
21	Richmond	Jack Whitlock
22	West Coast	Jobe Shanahan
23	Richmond	Matt Whitlock
24	Greater Western Sydney	Oliver Hannaford
25	Sydney	Jesse Dattoli
26	Western Bulldogs	Alec Dodson

Round 2	Club	Player
27	Western Bulldogs	Will Hayes
28	Brisbane	Sam Marshall
29	Carlton	Ben Camporeale
30	Western Bulldogs	Tom Gross
31	West Coast	James Barrat
32	Western Bulldogs	Jonty Faull
33	Port Adelaide	Cody Anderson
34	Fremantle	Hamish Davis
35	St Kilda	Christian Moraes
36	Adelaide	Tyler Welsh
37	Hawthorne	Kayle Gerreyn
38	Port Adelaide	Jack Ough
39	Greater Western Sydney	Jasper Alger

Round 3	Club	Player
40	West Coast	Noah Mraz
41	Geelong	Charlie Nicholls
42	Essendon	Charlie West
43	St Kilda	Tom Sims
44	Essendon	Jacob Newton
45	Port Adelaide	Angus Clarke
46	Collingwood	Hugh Boxshall
47	Essendon	Gabriel Stumpf
48	Essendon	Zak Johnson
49	Collingwood	Josh Dolan
50	Essendon	Ollie Warburton
51	Greater Western Sydney	Bailey McKenzie
52	Geelong	Sam Davidson
53	Collingwood	Rye Hourigan
54	Sydney	Xavier Kardachi

Round 4	Club	Player
55	Carlton	Harry O'Farrell
56	Essendon	Lucas Ravenhill
57	Fremantle	Lachie Jacques
58	Carlton	Rhys Unwin
59	Carlton	Lucas Camporeale
60	Gold Coast	Malakai Champion
61	Hawthorne	Luke Kennedy
62	West Coast	Archer Day-Wicks
63	Gold Coast	Ned Bowman
64	Greater Western Sydney	Logan Smith
65	Geelong	Xavier Ivisic
66	Hawthorne	Nash King
67	Brisbane	Noah Caracella

Trades:

1. Richmond receive picks 2 and 62; North Melbourne receive picks 10 and 11
2. West Coast receives picks 19 and 44; Sydney receives picks 12
3. Essendon receive picks 35 and 48; Western Bulldogs receive picks 28
4. Western Bulldogs receive picks 26, 27 and F4; Richmond receive F1 and F3
5. Brisbane in: pick 53; Richmond in: F3
6. Adelaide in: Picks 68, 70 and F4; Gold Coast in: F3

Bids:

1. Richmond bid on Levi Ashcroft with pick 1. Brisbane match the 2400 points with 27 (703), 34 (542), 42 (395), 43 (378), 49 (287) and 60 (146) pushes back to pick 69
2. Richmond bid on Leonardo Lombard with pick 7. Gold Coast match the 1315 points with picks 38 (465), 40 (429), 47 (316) and 56 (194) moving to pick 66 (89 points)
3. Richmond bid on Isaac Kako with pick 8. Essendon match the 1241 points with picks 32 (584), 35 (522), and 39 (446) moves back to 48 (311 points)
4. Western Bulldogs bid on Sam Marshall with pick 28. Brisbane match 480 points with picks 53 (233), 57 (182) and 66 (80) moving back to 73 (15 points)
5. Western Bulldogs bid on Ben Camporeale with pick 29. Carlton match 456 points with pick 38 (465) and gain a 9 point surplus next season.
6. Port Adelaide bid on Cody Anderson with pick 33. Hawthorne pass
7. Hawthorne bid on Tyler Welsh with pick 36. Adelaide match 305 points with picks 55, 68 and 70.
8. Gold Coast bid on Malakai Champion with pick 60. West Coast pass

 

[ydc55]

Pretty happy with the Bulldogs drafting.
Best small defender in the draft- Harrison Oliver
Best Ruckman- Alex Dodson
Hayes is one of the better wing prospects.
Gross is a flat out competitor who will be a combative small forward who compliments weighman and west.
Faull probably was not a real list need but was the best tall forward in the Coates finals series and I have a feeling he will be ok. I also think, like his dad, Croft will end up as a tall defender. This balances their depth charts a little.
I pretty much gave up a future first for Dodson and Hayes which I thought was fair,
The bulldogs ruck depth is poor.
English- Darcy and Lobb who you would prefer to play elsewhere, Lachie smith.
Will Hayes

40

Will Hayes

Age

29

Ht

181cm

Wt

77kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

15.6

4star

K

8.6

3star

HB

7.0

4star

M

4.0

4star

T

3.3

5star

CL

0.9

3star

No current season stats available

D

15.8

4star

K

8.4

4star

HB

7.4

5star

M

4.2

4star

T

2.6

4star

CL

0.4

3star

reminds me of Shane edwards

10

Shane Edwards

Age

36

Ht

182cm

Wt

78kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

17.2

4star

K

8.1

3star

HB

9.1

5star

M

2.6

3star

T

2.9

4star

CL

3.0

4star

D

16.4

4star

K

6.6

3star

HB

9.8

5star

M

0.6

1star

T

3.0

4star

CL

4.2

5star

D

8.6

3star

K

5.2

2star

HB

3.4

3star

M

3.4

4star

T

1.2

3star

- speed, agility and X factor
I am fascinated where he goes in the real thing.
Probably a little later.
My only disappointment was I thought I might nab Hotton with my first selection and then grab Oliver and Dodson together.
But for injury I think hotton would be in the group with O’Sullivan,lalor and smith.

 

[Vindicater]

With their last pick Geelong take the local boy

Xavier Ivisic.

Nifty little midfielder who can run all day.

ydc55

 

[eth-dog]

ydc55 picks Nash King. boncer34 with the last pick

 

[Milanista28]

Carlton leave the draft happy, traded a lot to get to the tippy top of this draft, super pleased Finn O'Sullivan slipped through, a dynamic midfielder with forward ability, we think he's a plug and play footballer and will give us plenty of selection pressure early in the season.

We were unable to trade out of our 2nd round position (we tried ) and an earlier than expected bid on Ben Camporeale did see us use that 2nd round selection to match, we were quick to match as we believe so much in Ben, a strong and capable midfielder who isn't afraid to get his hands dirty.

Post bid we had to bide our time until the 50s, with plenty of quality left on the board we were quick on the clock to snare Harry O'Farrell, bit of a swing man, we see his future in defense, we wanted to sure up that area of the ground, we believe our talls forward of the ball will have us contending for quite some time, we wanted another big boy behind the ball, we believe he has the attitude and resilience needed to succeed in an AFL environment.

Rhys Unwin is a player we're rapt fell to us late, a guy who doesn't play like his name suggests, he's a fighter and wants to win at all costs, forward smarts, evasiveness and clean hands at ground level is what makes us excited for his future.

We wrap our draft up with the other half of the Camporeale twins, Lucas Camporeale has pedigree of the highest order, like his brother he's a fighter and we can't wait to see what he can do in the Navy blue.

**** Carlton!

 

[boncer34]

Brisbane take son of a premiership gun in Noah Caracella

 

[eth-dog]

And we're done! Thanks for participating everyone. And before you ask RedmanWasHere no, we will not do a rookie draft or next year's first round.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

And we're done! Thanks for participating everyone. And before you ask RedmanWasHere no, we will not do a rookie draft or next year's first round.

LOL.

I'm too predictable hey.

 

[eth-dog]

LOL.

I'm too predictable hey.

You ask literally every year

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Going through all of our selections, we've all used at least 2 selections.

Not sure Essendon will use 7 selections but I thought to try to cover some bases and give my last selection to a develop worthy type.

28 of the 67 names would move states in this mock.

The bunching together of players with a commonality is a smart idea and would help to alleviate alleged homesickness fears or concerns.

Brisbane's bunching of McCluggage and Berry in 2016 the biggest masterstroke of this drafting.


To everyone here, well done.

You did well.

To those who "took" players away from others, that's your luck.

Look forward to doing this in 2025.

When the 2027 edition comes around, I look forward to seeing how we work with Tassie's selection allocations.

2026 will be run as per normal.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Isaac Kako​

Charlie West​

Jacob Newton​

Gabriel Stumpf​

Zak Johnson​

Ollie Warburton​

Lucas Ravenhill​

A good mix of talls, smalls and mediums.

My expectations would be to try and play Kako early while any of the middle 5 would be given chances to debut later in the season.

Ravenhill would be more of a 2026-27 go.

If there was to have been a rookie draft, I'd've sent Nguyen to the NGA pile FWIW.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

Stoked with GWS hand. Pretty much a forward line make over in the coming years.

Daniels and Jones to the midfield. Hannaford, Hynes, Hotton in a rotational mid/forward roles alongside them.

Love Alger, was tempted to go early at the Hannaford spot. So strong over head and great at competing at ground level. Very strong for the guy who might be the youngest in the eventual draft.

Mckenzie to the Stringer spot or hopeful upgrade on Riccardi.

 

[jdstorm]

Collingwood write up.

Going into the draft I was really hoping to get 2 talls to sure up that part of the list with some aging guys in those spots.

Unfortunately there was a run on those a bit too early and given the state of picks already traded out the value was just to stay put and take the guys who slipped.

Really excited to bring in Hugh Boxshall, Tye Hourigan and Josh Dolan.

Boxshall is a nice value balanced contested mid which they need. Dolan is a good Mid/SF and the pies love being SF heavy. Both guys will be VFL projects.

Hourigan is the guy I’m most excited for. Mid sized sweeper and a good user. From that covid class just under the radar. Think he will play this year. Should allow Maynard to play smaller

Isaac Kako​

Charlie West​

Jacob Newton​

Gabriel Stumpf​

Zak Johnson​

Ollie Warburton​

Lucas Ravenhill​

A good mix of talls, smalls and mediums.

My expectations would be to try and play Kako early while any of the middle 5 would be given chances to debut later in the season.

Ravenhill would be more of a 2026-27 go.

If there was to have been a rookie draft, I'd've sent Nguyen to the NGA pile FWIW.

Classic Dodorro draft only talls, smalls and HB flankers. 185 is almost a small in the modern afl

Decent talent but really uninspiring and doesn’t suit our list

 

[eth-dog]

Gold Coast summary:

The bid on Lombard was earlier than we would have liked, I was hoping for a couple of picks in the early to mid fifties but had to match. I'm not a big fan of the small forward crop at the Suns so Champion at pick 60 was definitely one I wanted. Ned Bowman was the best player left on the board IMO and will be a handy half forward, possibly moving up to a wing.

Fremantle summary:

As far as I'm concerned I got a top 10 level player at 17 in Travaglia. I would have taken him at pick 6 for Freo let alone 17, he's the perfect addition to their side off half back and maybe end up on a wing for them. Davis I see as a medium forward and I think he'll end up in the late first round as a high possession half forward so I couldn't pass him up. Lachie Jacques was quite simply the best player available at 57. Hell, if I'd gotten 35 I'd have been deciding between him and Jack Ough as to who I took there.

Gold Coast had a decent draft without being brilliant but given Freo finished with 17, 34 and 57 and I took players who were top 10, 20 and 35 prospects with those picks I honestly think I've knocked this out of the park.

 

[Red Black and Blue]

Gold Coast summary:

The bid on Lombard was earlier than we would have liked, I was hoping for a couple of picks in the early to mid fifties but had to match. I'm not a big fan of the small forward crop at the Suns so Champion at pick 60 was definitely one I wanted. Ned Bowman was the best player left on the board IMO and will be a handy half forward, possibly moving up to a wing.

Fremantle summary:

As far as I'm concerned I got a top 10 level player at 17 in Travaglia. I would have taken him at pick 6 for Freo let alone 17, he's the perfect addition to their side off half back and maybe end up on a wing for them. Davis I see as a medium forward and I think he'll end up in the late first round as a high possession half forward so I couldn't pass him up. Lachie Jacques was quite simply the best player available at 57. Hell, if I'd gotten 35 I'd have been deciding between him and Jack Ough as to who I took there.

Gold Coast had a decent draft without being brilliant but given Freo finished with 17, 34 and 57 and I took players who were top 10, 20 and 35 prospects with those picks I honestly think I've knocked this out of the park.

Who were you gonna go at 17 if Travaglia wasn't there?

 

[eth-dog]

Who were you gonna go at 17 if Travaglia wasn't there?

Once it got past the North picks I knew one of Berry, Allan, Travaglia or Hotton would last.

 

[ydc55]

Hawthorn summary

Cody Anderson way too early a bid to match.
Hawthorn have Newcombe, worpel and Nash who are all tough inside types.
I am not convinced about Cody’s level of class.
Kayle Gerreyn has some X factor and could be above average if cards fall his way. If the hawks find a partner for cal dear they are going to be formidable. Mitch Lewis struggles to get on the park.
I am an unabashed Luke Kennedy fan. Not sure I have read one comment about him on our draft thread. I implore bombers fans to check him out. We could do much worse in November.
Nash king is a reliable hard working footballer. Probably doesn’t suit hawks needs but I would take him over Anderson anyway.
Ed, the man who wears a horrific chargers scarf took day- wicks who I hoped would be available.
Blokes I considered late were malofai- Forbes, riley bice, Isaiah winder, Asher eastham, Josh Murphy, Lennox Hoffman and Floyd burmiester.

 

[eDPS]

Ed, the man who wears a horrific chargers scarf

That’s the one bit of Oakleigh gear I don’t actually have

 

[Vindicater]

St Kilda walk away happy with their four picks I think.

Langford and Reid are excellent midfielders and will play fairly early.

Moraes is a utility who can fill some holes while Sims is a tall project forward/ruck as coverage for Marshall.

 

[Vindicater]

Geelong did not enter the draft until late but managed to grab some guys who will suit their style.

Nichols is an interesting utility type.
Davidson as a mature ager who can play right away.
Took a flyer on the local kid with their last pick as a hard working midfielder.