21st century Mock Draft

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So this is my thinking. I am thinking this could be an all encompassing 21st century mock draft. This is we line up every player drafted in the 21st century as an 18 year old, knowing the players they became and we decide who goes where.

For the draft order I am thinking the current ladder

So

Pick 1 - North Melbourne
Pick 2 - Richmond
Pick 3 - West Coast
Pick 4 - Adelaide
Pick 5 - St Kilda
Pick 6 - Brisbane
Pick 7 - Hawthorn
Pick 8 - Western Bulldogs
Pick 9 - Melbourne
Pick 10 - Gold Coast
Pick 11 - GWS
Pick 12 - Fremantle
Pick 13 - Collingwood
Pick 14 - Geelong
Pick 15 - Port Adelaide
Pick 16 - Essendon
Pick 17 - Carlton
Pick 18 - Sydney

and so on for 3 rounds.

The rules are to treat this like an actual mock draft, so pick the player who is either best available or best suits your list.

So my general idea is people will nominate a club they want to pick for, and hopefully we get enough people who want to participate so we don't have any double ups. I hope to go for 3 rounds but we will see how it goes.

Now the rule here is that you are only able to pick players who were drafted in the 2000 draft or later, I know technically 2000 is not the 21st century but these players would have only started playing in 2001 which is the 21st century. I have also made some lists of players who have won the All Australian at least 3 times, but also included some other awards too, but by no means do you only need to select from the list.

You are also free to nominate someone who has been retired for 5 years, or if you feel really confident, happy to include a player who is only in their second year, if you believe they have enough talent to be ahead of more established players. For instance it would not surprise me if Nick Daicos or Harley Reid end up in the first or second rounds despite having very little experience compared to a lot of players on this list.

So here we go

Key Forwards
8 – Lance Franklin | 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018
5 - Tom Hawkins | 2012, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
5 - Nick Riewoldt | 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2014
3 - Jeremy Cameron | 2013, 2019, 2022
3 - Josh Kennedy | 2015, 2016, 2017
3 - Jack Riewoldt | 2010, 2015, 2018

Key Defenders
5 - Alex Rance | 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
4 - Jeremy McGovern | 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

Ruckmen
6 - Dean Cox | 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012
6 - Max Gawn | 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
4 - Aaron Sandilands | 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014
3 - Nick Naitanui | 2012, 2020, 2021

Midfielder
8 – Gary Ablett Jr. | 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
8 – Patrick Dangerfield | 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
6 - Chris Judd | 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
6 - Joel Selwood | 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017
6 - Scott Pendlebury | 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2019
5 - Dane Swan | 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
5 - Marcus Bontempelli | 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023
4 - Dustin Martin | 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020
4 - Christian Petracca | 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
3 - Clayton Oliver | 2018, 2021, 2022
3 - Patrick Cripps | 2018, 2019, 2022
3 - Travis Boak | 2013, 2014, 2020
3 - Josh Kennedy | 2012, 2014, 2016
3 - Sam Mitchell | 2011, 2013, 2015

Other Defenders
5 - Tom Stewart | 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
3 - Luke Hodge | 2005, 2008, 2010

Other Forwards
4 - Cyril Rioli | 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015
3 - Eddie Betts | 2015, 2016, 2017
3 - Tom Greene | 2016, 2021, 2023
3 - Robby Grey | 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018

Coleman Medal
4 - Lance Franklin | 2008, 2011, 2014, 2017
3 - Jack Riewoldt | 2010, 2012, 2018
2 - Josh Kennedy | 2015, 2016
2 - Charlie Curnow | 2022, 2023
1 - Tom Hawkins | 2021
1 - Jeremy Carmeron | 2019
1 - Jarryd Roughead | 2013

Norm Smith Medal
3 - Dustin Martin | 2017, 2019, 2020
2 - Luke Hodge | 2008, 2014

Brownlow Medal
2 - Gary Ablett Jnr | 2009, 2013
2 - Nate Fyfe | 2015, 2019
2 - Lachie Neale | 2020, 2023
2 - Chris Judd | 2004, 2010

If I have missed anyone who has 3 All Australians or more feel very free to tell me.

For anyone who wants to refresh their memories

en.wikipedia.org

All-Australian team - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

List of Brownlow Medal winners - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

Norm Smith Medal - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org


North Melbourne Sphynx
Richmond reggie
West Coast ArdentEagle
Adelaide eth-dog
St Kilda Mr Meow
Brisbane eth-dog
Hawthorn Guardian Hawk
Western Bulldogs PhoenixBonez
Melbourne MarcMaverick
Gold Coast WilloTree
GWS boncer34
Fremantle Purple7x08_24
Collingwood Fadge
Geelong Lingsface
Port Adelaide whatwhatsaywhat
Essendon RedmanWasHere
Carlton MC Bad Genius
Sydney theasian

If anyone wants to be assigned a specific team please say so. Lets see if this works :p

and so far

Pick 1 - North Melbourne - Lance Franklin
Pick 2 - Richmond - Gary Ablett Jnr
Pick 3 - West Coast - Max Gawn
Pick 4 - Adelaide - Chris Judd
Pick 5 - St Kilda - Patrick Dangerfield
Pick 6 - Brisbane - Dean Cox
Pick 7 - Hawthorn - Nick Riewoldt
Pick 8 - Western Bulldogs - Marcus Bontempelli
Pick 9 - Melbourne - Dustin Martin
Pick 10 - Gold Coast - Josh Kennedy (KPF)
Pick 11 - GWS - Alex Rance
Pick 12 - Fremantle - Charlie Curnow
Pick 13 - Collingwood - Joel Selwood
Pick 14 - Geelong - Nate Fyfe
Pick 15 - Port Adelaide - Tom Stewart
Pick 16 - Essendon - Mark Coughlan
Pick 17 - Carlton - Aaron Sandilands
Pick 18 - Sydney - Brian Lake

Round 2
Pick 19 - North Melbourne - Scott Pendlebury
Pick 20 - Richmond - Jeremy Cameron
Pick 21 - West Coast - Luke Hodge
Pick 22 - Adelaide - Brodie Grundy
Pick 23 - St Kilda - Dane Swan
Pick 24 - Brisbane - Harry Taylor
Pick 25 - Hawthorn - Christian Petracca
Pick 26 - Western Bulldogs - Jeremy McGovern
Pick 27 - Melbourne - Jack Riewoldt
Pick 28 - Gold Coast - Shannon Hurn
Pick 29 - GWS - Jaryd Roughead
Pick 30 - Fremantle - Brendon Goddard
Pick 31 - Collingwood - Tom Hawkins
Pick 32 - Geelong- Zach Merrett
Pick 33 - Port Adelaide - Tom Lynch
Pick 34 - Essendon - Ben McEvoy
Pick 35 - Carlton - Stephen Milne
Pick 36 - Sydney - Taylor Walker

Round 3
Pick 37 - North Melboune - Steve Johnson
Pick 38 - Richmond - Nic Naitanui
Pick 39 - West Coast - Cyril Rioli
Pick 40 - Adelaide - Michael Hurley
Pick 41 - St Kilda - Toby Greene
Pick 42 - Brisbane - Andrew Mackie
Pick 43 - Hawthorn - Harris Andrews
Pick 44 - Western Bulldogs - Eddie Betts
Pick 45 - Melbourne - Lachie Neale
Pick 46 - Gold Coast - Harley Reid
Pick 47 - GWS - Nick Daicos
Pick 48 - Fremantle - Leigh Montagna
Pick 49 - Collingwood - Jacob Weitering
Pick 50 - Geelong - Daniel Kerr
Pick 51 - Port Adelaide - Kysaiah Pickett
Pick 52 - Essendon - Drew Petrie
Pick 53 - Carlton - Nick Blakey
Pick 54 - Sydney - Sam Mitchell

Round 4
Pick 55 - North Melbourne - Darcy Moore
Pick 56 - Richmond - Jimmy Bartel
Pick 57 - West Coast - Patrick Cripps
Pick 58 - Adelaide - Luke Breust
Pick 59 - St Kilda - Shaun Burgoyne
Pick 60 - Brisbane - Steele Sidebottom
Pick 61 - Hawthorn - Steven May
Pick 62 - Western Bulldogs - Josh Gibson
Pick 63 - Melbourne - Mark Blitcavs
Pick 64 - Gold Coast - Michael Walters
Pick 65 - GWS - Bradley Hill
Pick 66 - Fremantle - Izak Rankine
Pick 67 - Collingwood - Josh Kennedy (mid)
Pick 68 - Geelong - Joe Daniher
Pick 69 - Port Adelaide - Clayton Oliver
Pick 70 - Essendon - Daniel Talia
Pick 71 - Carlton - Sam Taylor
Pick 72 - Sydney - Robbie Gray
 
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ArdentEagle said:
WCE pick 39
Cyril Rioli (Proven match winner, X-Factor, Dynamic) - Hardest to replace here.

Full write up later. Just had a burst water pipe here.

eth-dog
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The most delicious selection thus far.
 
ArdentEagle said:
WCE pick 39
Cyril Rioli (Proven match winner, X-Factor, Dynamic) - Hardest to replace here.

Full write up later. Just had a burst water pipe here.

eth-dog
You're up
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He was my 3rd round, possibly 4th but knew would never make it that far down.
 
Mr Meow said:
I have to say I'm shocked at all of the rucks that have already been taken.

Cox and Gawn are understandable as generational talents that also essentially give you an extra prolific midfielder. The rest, I think you can find value via trade/free agency/later picks.

The great Brisbane, Geelong, Hawthorn and Richmond sides this century overall had some decent but not world beater ruckmen. How many AAs between them as ruckmen?

NicNat was a very good player, but Richmond have Nank for a few years yet and could do with elite wing/mids and forward/mids primarily.
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My thoughts were that there are a truckload of gun mids, including some Brownlow Medallists, still available and a few of them may still be around next round. NicNat and Ablett starting their careers together at the same club at the same time is an exciting prospect and NicNat will be ready to take on the number one ruck role when Nank is cooked
 

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reggie said:
My thoughts were that there are a truckload of gun mids, including some Brownlow Medallists, still available and a few of them may still be around next round. NicNat and Ablett starting their careers together at the same club at the same time is an exciting prospect and NicNat will be ready to take on the number one ruck role when Nank is cooked
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Yeah that makes sense. Don't get me wrong, they'd be a deadly combo! And the midfield depth is strong. There will be some very good mids taken in the 4th round, especially if everyone is of the same thinking in the 3rd and ignoring them!
 
I'm so happy we can take players from the club we support now. I genuinely believe this guy is supremely underrated as a key defender, and I didn't think he'd last this long.

Pick 40: Michael Hurley.

Butts, Keane and Murray are solid citizens but possess limited attacking prowess so upgrading one of them to a star key defender and allowing the likes of Michaelanny and Worrell to be more attacking is exactly what's needed here.

Mr Meow
 
PhoenixBonez said:
Enright just misses out on eligibility for this one unfortunately.
Bartel I would take before a few players already picked.. but still heaps of gun players available.
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Ahh yes 1999.

The Geelong drafter picking Zach Merrett over Jimmy. Hand in your membership and scarf son. See youself out.
 
sleep said:
Ahh yes 1999.

The Geelong drafter picking Zach Merrett over Jimmy. Hand in your membership and scarf son. See youself out.
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I somewhat agree, but maybe they were deliberately avoiding drafting Geelong players? I skipped out on Riewoldt for St Kilda as I just thought it would take the fun out of it, simply re-doing their best draft pick ever. And then skipped on Hawkins for St Kilda as that would've been me simply adding two Geelong players to their team with the first two draft picks. So there is an element of not being predictable on fronts like that.

Still - Jimmeh!
 
Mr Meow said:
I somewhat agree, but maybe they were deliberately avoiding drafting Geelong players? I skipped out on Riewoldt for St Kilda as I just thought it would take the fun out of it, simply re-doing their best draft pick ever. And then skipped on Hawkins for St Kilda as that would've been me simply adding two Geelong players to their team with the first two draft picks. So there is an element of not being predictable on fronts like that.

Still - Jimmeh!
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Fair, the mix and match element makes the exercise a bit more fun.

But if you wanna WIN then JIMMEH!
 
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eth-dog said:
I'm so happy we can take players from the club we support now. I genuinely believe this guy is supremely underrated as a key defender, and I didn't think he'd last this long.

Pick 40: Michael Hurley.

Butts, Keane and Murray are solid citizens but possess limited attacking prowess so upgrading one of them to a star key defender and allowing the likes of Michaelanny and Worrell to be more attacking is exactly what's needed here.

Mr Meow
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Great pick. When I was looking through the AA teams, Hurley's name came up a couple of times and he may have made the squad of 44 others. Also a good swingman, so for St Kilda I wouldn't have minded him partnering either King up forward or Wilkie/Battle in defence. He was someone I was considering, but maybe hoping would slip to round 4.

With Pick 41, St Kilda select Toby Greene.

We are ecstatic that Greene has fallen this far. He is a match winning superstar, who proved a capable midfielder early before transitioning to a dynamite forward who plays taller than his size. The positional flexibility as a fwd/mid is something we are after - Greene and Owens will be our Chapman/SJ for years to come and get the best out of King.

And yes I had Bartel on the table, but am trying not to simply flood St Kilda's team with Geelong players as a GFC supporter.
 

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Mr Meow said:
And yes I had Bartel on the table, but am trying not to simply flood St Kilda's team with Geelong players as a GFC supporter.
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Don't forget Boris as asst coach.
 
RUNVS said:
Pick 1 - North Melbourne - Lance Franklin
Pick 2 - Richmond - Gary Ablett Jnr
Pick 3 - West Coast - Max Gawn
Pick 4 - Adelaide - Chris Judd
Pick 5 - St Kilda - Patrick Dangerfield
Pick 6 - Brisbane - Dean Cox
Pick 7 - Hawthorn - Nick Riewoldt
Pick 8 - Western Bulldogs - Marcus Bontempelli
Pick 9 - Melbourne - Dustin Martin
Pick 10 - Gold Coast - Josh Kennedy (KPF)
Pick 11 - GWS - Alex Rance
Pick 12 - Fremantle - Charlie Curnow
Pick 13 - Collingwood - Joel Selwood
Pick 14 - Geelong - Nate Fyfe
Pick 15 - Port Adelaide - Tom Stewart
Pick 16 - Essendon - Mark Coughlan
Pick 17 - Carlton - Aaron Sandilands
Pick 18 - Sydney - Brian Lake

Round 2
Pick 19 - North Melbourne - Scott Pendlebury
Pick 20 - Richmond - Jeremy Cameron
Pick 21 - West Coast - Luke Hodge
Pick 22 - Adelaide - Brodie Grundy
Pick 23 - St Kilda - Dane Swan
Pick 24 - Brisbane - Harry Taylor
Pick 25 - St Kilda - Christian Petracca
Pick 26 - Western Bulldogs - Jeremy McGovern
Pick 27 - Melbourne - Jack Riewoldt
Pick 28 - Gold Coast - Shannon Hurn
Pick 29 - GWS - Jaryd Roughead
Pick 30 - Fremantle - Brendon Goddard
Pick 31 - Collingwood - Tom Hawkins
Pick 32 - Geelong- Zach Merrett
Pick 33 - Port Adelaide - Tom Lynch
Pick 34 - Essendon - Ben McEvoy
Pick 35 - Carlton - Stephen Milne
Pick 36 - Sydney - Taylor Walker

Round 3
Pick 37 - North Melboune - Steve Johnson
Pick 38 - Richmond - Nic Naitanui
Pick 39 - West Coast - Cyril Rioli
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St Kilda would also like to express deep gratitude to RUNVS for gifting them Christian Petracca (was this a Priority Pick I was unaware of...for being St Kilda?).

Petracca joining Dangerfield and Swan will set up our midfield for the next decade. Condolences to Guardian Hawk and Hawthorn.

eth-dog back to you and Brisbane, dawg.
 
There were two I really liked for this pick. I wanted to get a medium defender who rebounded well. In the end this guy was a multiple premiership winner who was a little underrated due to how many guns he was surrounded by.

Pick 42: Andrew Mackie
 
eth-dog said:
There were two I really liked for this pick. I wanted to get a medium defender who rebounded well. In the end this guy was a multiple premiership winner who was a little underrated due to how many guns he was surrounded by.

Pick 42: Andrew Mackie
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Excellent choice. And during the early days of Geelong's premiership era, either Mackie or Enright would often play as a run and gun wingman ala Holmes/Dempsey today. But more reliable ball users/decision makers (of course the latter two have time). So you could easily have Mackie up with McLuggage or gun slinging with Kiddie Coleman across half back.

He loved a 50m goal on the run too, did Mack.
 
Mr Meow said:
Excellent choice. And during the early days of Geelong's premiership era, either Mackie or Enright would often play as a run and gun wingman ala Holmes/Dempsey today. But more reliable ball users/decision makers (of course the latter two have time). So you could easily have Mackie up with McLuggage or gun slinging with Kiddie Coleman across half back.
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I'm happy to have a back 7 consisting of Andrews and Taylor on the talls, Starcevich and Mackie as mediums, then McKenna, Coleman and Wilmot as running smalls.

A winger was under consideration though.
 
Hawthorn's biggest list deficiency needs to be addressed and I gambled on enough quality ones still being available in the 3rd round, so with Pick 43, Hawthorn select...

Harris Andrews
 
PhoenixBonez said:
Pick 44 Bulldogs - Eddie Betts
Best small forward of the 21st century with 640 goals to his name.
Imagine a young Eddie Betts coming into a forward line with Naughton, Ugle-Hagan, Weightman and Sam Darcy as a combo for the next 10 years 😍 not to mention a young Bont to start his career forward

MarcMaverick
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I was very close to picking Eddie. Great choice!!

I ended up going Cyril as a wanted someone who could have bursts in the midfield.

Also big game player.

Really couldn't go wrong with either 😆

The Bulldogs forward line is sexy af
 
Mr Meow said:
St Kilda would also like to express deep gratitude to RUNVS for gifting them Christian Petracca (was this a Priority Pick I was unaware of...for being St Kilda?).

Petracca joining Dangerfield and Swan will set up our midfield for the next decade. Condolences to Guardian Hawk and Hawthorn.

eth-dog back to you and Brisbane, dawg.
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Haha.

Thanks for the heads up. Fixed.
 
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Also just realised but how the hell is Sam Taylor still on the board? Absolute gun.
 
PhoenixBonez said:
Pick 44 Bulldogs - Eddie Betts
Best small forward of the 21st century with 640 goals to his name.
Imagine a young Eddie Betts coming into a forward line with Naughton, Ugle-Hagan, Weightman and Sam Darcy as a combo for the next 10 years 😍 not to mention a young Bont to start his career forward

MarcMaverick
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I Was going to pivk him next
 
RUNVS said:
Also just realised but how the hell is Sam Taylor still on the board? Absolute gun.
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Because there's some absolute greats already picked and we are barely 35 picks in?

Is Taylor in the best 35 players of the last 25 years? No way imo.

Great young player but the likes of Rance, Taylor, McGovern, Stewart are well ahead of him before even getting to forwards, mids etc.


I'm not sure what others opinions are, but I'm happy to do 20+ rounds tbh if people are willing.
 

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