Recruiting AFL Draft Watch 2024 - Live from 6:45pm Wednesday 20th November!

[Nuggs Bunny]

When is the draft
Coverage on the AFL website starts at 6:45pm on Wednesday 20th November, tune in on FoxFooty and Kayo from 7pm

How can I watch?
AFL website through the Draft Hub or through your Kayo or FoxFooty subscription

What are our picks?
Check out Lore's 2024 draft spreadsheet below

Spoiler: 2024 Draft Order

Who is looking good this year?
Cal Twomey's Top 30 Phantom Draft
Essendon Draft Preview from Rookie Me Central

 

[Red Black and Blue]

Cal Twomey's Phantom Form Guide October extra: The 10 next best

AFL.com.au's draft guru Cal Twomey looks at the players who were unlucky to miss being in October's Phantom Form Guide

www.afl.com.au

A few of these boys will be around when we get into the draft. Particularly Gerreyn, Davis and Alger for us.

Like Algers build, different size player but Allen, Curnow and Caddy all have those disproportionately long arms.

Gerreyn a bit of Visitini/Marshall type prospet. Would like another developing tall on the list and he gives us a few cracks at it.

 

[faible]

There has to be some chance that we lose all 3 rucks end of this year, and more chance we lose 2, certainty to lose 1

Its not like were doing anything in 2025, having 4 rucks or 3 knowing that it becomes at least 3 the next year isnt an issue

We dont want to be in a position where we lose 2 rucks and there isnt anything viable

Can only mean having to signifcantly up our offers to one of them, which is probably already happening without another ruck. We want to be in a position where were ok having Draper leave so we get a 1st rounder

We can get one in his prime age, as a stop gap, who played really good footy in 2022. He also adds super aggression which id love to see on the training track and in ruck battles

Both Bryan and Draper leaving makes little to no sense for them career wise.

If Draper leaves Bryan has the keys to the city.

AFL Out of Contract Players in 2025

List of AFL players coming out of contract at the end of 2025.

www.footywire.com

Meanwhile, in 2025 you have plenty of rucks OOC (let alone the 2nd string rucks that you can usually get cheap in a trade when contracted anyway).

From a very brief look;

Keiran Strachan
Reilly O'Brien
Darcy Fort
Tom De Koning
Toby Conway
Brynn Teakle
Dante Visentini
Peter Ladhams

Are all OOC next year, would all (excepting TDK) come pretty cheap. Then there's heaps of mature bodies rolling around in the VFL that could fill a spot for a year.

Preuss simply makes no sense for a single year, let alone two. A horrendous pickup, in a position we don't at all need another body. Chances of both Draper and Bryan leaving next year are very low, as the moment one leaves the other knows they've got the first ruck spot all to themselves. Finding a warm body that's got better availability than Pruess is also not very hard, the best season he's ever played was 10 games. Everything about this suggestion is bad.

 

[Vindicater]

Doesnt have to be Preuss

But yeh would be for 2 years

He has aggression that none of our players have

So you want us to give two years to what would amount to our fifth ruck on the list?

 

[King Patty]

Cal Twomey's Phantom Form Guide October extra: The 10 next best

AFL.com.au's draft guru Cal Twomey looks at the players who were unlucky to miss being in October's Phantom Form Guide

www.afl.com.au

A few of these boys will be around when we get into the draft. Particularly Gerreyn, Davis and Alger for us.

Like Algers build, different size player but Allen, Curnow and Caddy all have those disproportionately long arms.

Gerreyn a bit of Visitini/Marshall type prospect. Would like another developing tall on the list and he gives us a few cracks at it.

I like Gerreyn as a late pick tall forward/Ruck

I have us taking
kako

then maybe trading up for one of the following guys:
Shanahan KF
Berry SF
Olliver SD
Hannaford SF
even M Whitlock KD/KF


if we dont try and trade up then it all depends on who slides to 40ish from top 30 prosepcts and do they fill a need - Key forward /small forward / small defender/halfback

 

[Zach Package]

Cal Twomey's Phantom Form Guide October extra: The 10 next best

AFL.com.au's draft guru Cal Twomey looks at the players who were unlucky to miss being in October's Phantom Form Guide

www.afl.com.au

A few of these boys will be around when we get into the draft. Particularly Gerreyn, Davis and Alger for us.

Like Algers build, different size player but Allen, Curnow and Caddy all have those disproportionately long arms.

Gerreyn a bit of Visitini/Marshall type prospet. Would like another developing tall on the list and he gives us a few cracks at it.

You should draft a player like Ough every year and just see what happens. A bit like Pat Voss. Big, versatile frame and can run.

Could conceivably end up a centreman or a flank/genuine kp option at either end like a Mihocek or Logue slightly smaller mobile type.

 

[Keystone agony]

He’s played a lot of wing just isn’t that good there

Unfortunately not been better anywhere else yet

 

[Keystone agony]

Having multiple backup rucks is not a priority for a re-building team. The ruck is one position, that can be filled by a single player. That list spot is better used for having another swing at the draft.

But Rosa has already said 4 is the number of draft picks

We have 7 list spots. 2 likely to be FAs and 1 leftover

 

[Donflicted]

Like Hamish Davies dont think he will still be on the board however

 

[Keystone agony]

So you want us to give two years to what would amount to our fifth ruck on the list?

I wouldnt be against it considering our ruck situation

Maybe 1 year is fine for a guy like Preuss with incentives for 2

 

[faible]

Maybe 1 year is fine for a guy like Preuss with incentives for 2

No. Just stop.

It was a bad suggestion. Could have left it at a one time thing. No need to triple and quadruple down on it.

 

[Donflicted]

Just bring Jake Kelly

29

Jake Kelly

Age

29

Ht

190cm

Wt

90kg

Pos.

D/M

Career

Season

Last 5

D

14.5

4star

K

8.3

3star

HB

6.3

4star

M

4.6

4star

T

2.6

4star

MG

157.8

2star

D

8.1

2star

K

6.3

3star

HB

1.9

1star

M

3.3

3star

T

2.6

4star

MG

104.1

2star

D

14.8

4star

K

9.0

4star

HB

5.8

4star

M

6.0

5star

T

4.2

5star

MG

107.0

2star

back and play him as a ruck his already a forward winger and defender whats one more string to the bow

 

[Blind Turn]

eDPS im intrigued by the numbers produced by Jack Oughs. He’s a tall mid who looks like he will fill out significantly, has a neat kicking style, and seemed to have an upward trajectory in form as a midfielder. He will also fall around our pick 28 if we don’t trade it out. Do you think much of him?

 

[doug85]

eDPS im intrigued by the numbers produced by Jack Oughs. He’s a tall mid who looks like he will fill out significantly, has a neat kicking style, and seemed to have an upward trajectory in form as a midfielder. He will also fall around our pick 28 if we don’t trade it out. Do you think much of him?

Is ‘Ough’ pronounced like ‘Cough’? Because that’s a very unfortunate name.

 

[ant555]

But Rosa has already said 4 is the number of draft picks

We have 7 list spots. 2 likely to be FAs and 1 leftover

SSP.
Also he did not say 100% it would be 4.

 

[Vindicater]

I wouldnt be against it considering our ruck situation

Maybe 1 year is fine for a guy like Preuss with incentives for 2

Our current ruck situation is that we have 3 full time rucks and 2 ruck forwards...

Giving one year to a journeyman ruck is bad enough. Two is madness.

 

[eDPS]

eDPS im intrigued by the numbers produced by Jack Oughs. He’s a tall mid who looks like he will fill out significantly, has a neat kicking style, and seemed to have an upward trajectory in form as a midfielder. He will also fall around our pick 28 if we don’t trade it out. Do you think much of him?

I don’t mind him, not the quickest but can play a range of roles and is fairly clean and composed with the ball. He sits in the 25-45 range for me

 

[Call Me Cake]

More players taken between picks 11-20 have reached 300+ games than those at pick 2, and more have reached 260+ games than those between 6-10.

 

[Blind Turn]

I don’t mind him, not the quickest but can play a range of roles and is fairly clean and composed with the ball. He sits in the 25-45 range for me

Hmmm, lack of pace might be an issue with the fast transition play of AFL level footy. But a 194cm player who shows an ability to consistently find the footy 30+ times could be a real find at the 30ish point of the draft. I’ll be interested to see how he goes wherever he lands.

 

[Blind Turn]

Is ‘Ough’ pronounced like ‘Cough’? Because that’s a very unfortunate name.

I certainly hope so. Hearing Bruce commentate his name would’ve been deliciously wrong.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Is ‘Ough’ pronounced like ‘Cough’? Because that’s a very unfortunate name.

I think it's pronounced 'oh'

 

[smithy2221]

Is ‘Ough’ pronounced like ‘Cough’? Because that’s a very unfortunate

I think it's pronounced 'oh'

It’s owwww l

 

[jdstorm]

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More players taken between picks 11-20 have reached 300+ games than those at pick 2, and more have reached 260+ games than those between 6-10.

pretty disengenious since the 11-20 range has 10 people a year vs 5 in the range before and only 1 pick 2 and 5 times more likely then the 6-10 range

So your almost 10 times more likely to have a 300 gamer at pick 2 then at any given pick in the 11-20 range

 

[Yoda_]

Dont know anything about Jack Ough, what I do like about the reading is the meat and potatoes type of player we have avoided under lord Voldemort

Taking one every draft should almost be mandatory and cut the lowest denominator at years end

 

[dank420_]

Jack Oof

 

[Lore]

Jacko is probably the most Aussie name he could get, Jackoff probably the funniest. I’m sure BT will find a way to make a mess of it regardless.