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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Mr Meow said:
Do we really want people to struggle too much, given the pace this one has crawled to in trying to get to the end of round 3? :p
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It's clearly not a struggle to select good players that is slowing this down. There are heaps of Brownlow winners and multiple All Australians unselected at the moment.
 

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I am travelling today to another country so i will put a 5-6 player preference

1- Josh Gibson
2- Joe Daniher
3- Tom Barass
4- Harry Mckay
5- Dane Rampe
 
Lingsface said:
I am travelling today to another country so i will put a 5-6 player preference

1- Josh Gibson
2- Joe Daniher
3- Tom Barass
4- Harry Mckay
5- Dane Rampe
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Rutten and Talia were both very good KPD's too.

Gibson has been on my radar. St Kilda's defence is probably their strongest point already, but he'd still be an upgrade as an intercepting/rebounding machine who can play tall or small.
 
Sorry for the delay everyone. Had to head back to bed this morning after vomiting. Fun day!

After filling key gaps with an imposing ruckman and an opportunist up in the forward 50, the Blues have turned to its back six in the third round. In somewhat of a smokey, Carlton have opted for an awkward but an utterly unique player. Someone who can help out Weitering to repel opposition advances, but even more importantly, can break the lines on the rebound and get the ball as quickly as possible down to McKay and Curnow. With their hearts in their mouths, Blues fans will have a new cult hero for the next decade plus, flush with All Australian guernseys (I might be getting a little carried away now). I'm of course talking about the mullet-wearing, no-shouldered, absolute goodwill that is The Lizard.

<insert poor attempt at using MS Paint to put Nick Blakey in a Carlton guernsey here>

Pick #53 - Carlton Blues - Nick Blakey

You're next, theasian.
 
MC Bad Genius said:
Sorry for the delay everyone. Had to head back to bed this morning after vomiting. Fun day!

After filling key gaps with an imposing ruckman and an opportunist up in the forward 50, the Blues have turned to its back six in the third round. In somewhat of a smokey, Carlton have opted for an awkward but an utterly unique player. Someone who can help out Weitering to repel opposition advances, but even more importantly, can break the lines on the rebound and get the ball as quickly as possible down to McKay and Curnow. With their hearts in their mouths, Blues fans will have a new cult hero for the next decade plus, flush with All Australian guernseys (I might be getting a little carried away now). I'm of course talking about the mullet-wearing, no-shouldered, absolute goodwill that is The Lizard.

<insert poor attempt at using MS Paint to put Nick Blakey in a Carlton guernsey here>

Pick #53 - Carlton Blues - Nick Blakey

You're next, theasian.
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Blakey is a great choice, they have a need for speed and that will suit Curnow/McKay's service (with Milne crumbing) brilliantly. As well as giving them another player who is strong defensively.

Still, their forward line remains a Robbie Gray, Paul Chapman or Le Cras short to me (excluding Betts for it being too samey as their previous team).
 

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Mr Meow said:
Blakey is a great choice, they have a need for speed and that will suit Curnow/McKay's service (with Milne crumbing) brilliantly. As well as giving them another player who is strong defensively.

Still, their forward line remains a Robbie Gray, Paul Chapman or Le Cras short to me (excluding Betts for it being too samey as their previous team).
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Sshhhh ... ut up!!!
 
For me, this has been great fun but a little depressing.

We (WCE) have so many needs/deficiencies that I will add 4 genuine Superstars and the team still isn't complete.

Without being silly, I need at least 7 to cover our glaring needs let alone any icing players.

I'll have full reasoning for each pick, after the draft is complete. I've had to think laterally a bit and almost get two for one players, just to help cover all needs.
 
I love how Carlton's defence is absolute dogshit outside of Weitering and Saad (note: Newman is excellent offensively but horrible defensively) and the only defender they've picked is an unaccountable medium defender.
 
eth-dog said:
I love how Carlton's defence is absolute dogshit outside of Weitering and Saad (note: Newman is excellent offensively but horrible defensively) and the only defender they've picked is an unaccountable medium defender.
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In the sense that he intercepts and repels, is Blakey bad defensively? It's the whole offence is your best form of defence angle. I still think Gibson or Rutten/Talia would've been a wiser choice, but I'm all for maverick picks.
 
Mr Meow said:
In the sense that he intercepts and repels, is Blakey bad defensively? It's the whole offence is your best form of defence angle. I still think Gibson or Rutten/Talia would've been a wiser choice, but I'm all for maverick picks.
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Blakey is terrible defensively. You still need players that can effectively lock down to allow the Blakey, Ridley, Stewart types to do what they do.

I know they're somewhat maligned on the Cats board but guys like Kolodjasnij and O'Connor allow Stewart and Holmes free reign, same with guys like Laverde and Kelly for us or McCartin and Fox for the Swans.

Carlton's defensive balance is out of whack. They don't need maverick types. They need lock down defenders.

I'm not complaining though.
 
eth-dog said:
Blakey is terrible defensively. You still need players that can effectively lock down to allow the Blakey, Ridley, Stewart types to do what they do.

I know they're somewhat maligned on the Cats board but guys like Kolodjasnij and O'Connor allow Stewart and Holmes free reign, same with guys like Laverde and Kelly for us or McCartin and Fox for the Swans.

Carlton's defensive balance is out of whack. They don't need maverick types. They need lock down defenders.

I'm not complaining though.
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Yeah, I can't argue with that, although I admit I haven't found Blakey as extraordinarily bad defensively as you. But you're right that you can't have a defence full of Blakey's.

Who would you have picked for them (all three picks) so far, out of interest?

I'd have gone Pendles, then Stevie J, then Rutten/Vlastuin

Or Hodge, then Stevie J, then Gray.
 
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Guardian Hawk said:
I'll set some ground rules including reasonable time limits and the recommendation to pass through a list of options if you know you will be away. If the time limit elapses, I will recommend that a default pick is assigned. My thought is that this default pick will be the next highest unselected player in terms of total Brownlow votes.

I know some would like to 'punish' someone who takes too long with a crap player but this will only lead to further disengagement if people end up with Barnaby French instead of Josh Kennedy.

If someone is repeatedly missing a (reasonably set) deadline (say 3 times) then we can look to replace them with someone that wants to be engaged.
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In the past draft and trade games we've done on this site we've usually set a time limit of about 12 hours. Gives everyone a chance to check at some stage in the day in no matter whether in the east or west or overseas.

Repeated misses means finding a replacement
 
Mr Meow said:
Yeah, I can't argue with that, although I admit I haven't found Blakey as extraordinarily bad defensively as you. But you're right that you can't have a defence full of Blakey's.

Who would you have picked for them (all three picks) so far, out of interest?
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He's terrible. But that's the same with a lot of those types. That's why you have proper lock down defenders there as well.

Harry Taylor first pick. Best key defender on the board. Probably Andrew Mackie second, who is a lot more balanced than Blakey and a forward who's still on the board for the third that I'm hoping slips to me.
 
eth-dog said:
He's terrible. But that's the same with a lot of those types. That's why you have proper lock down defenders there as well.

Harry Taylor first pick. Best key defender on the board. Probably Andrew Mackie second, who is a lot more balanced than Blakey and a forward who's still on the board for the third that I'm hoping slips to me.
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To be fair, he didn’t get to take his first pick and might not have gone with a ruck in Sandilands! Second pick of a small fwd in Milne is fair too I think.
 
PhoenixBonez said:
To be fair, he didn’t get to take his first pick and might not have gone with a ruck in Sandilands! Second pick of a small fwd in Milne is fair too I think.
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Don't mind the small forward, just wouldn't be what I'd use it on.
 

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