2008 Draft Camp Results,News,Videos

Just got info on todays preceedings in the camp.

Wrap up of day 1
http://bigpondvideo.com/afl/80446

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Our recruiting managers have interviewed Tom Hill in one of the videos.

Jason McCartney at Draft Camp

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20m results

1. #39 Ashley Smith, Dandenong, Defender - 2.80 secs
2. #65 Jack Watts, Sandringham, Tall Forward - 2.82 secs
3. #12 Stephen Hill, West perth, Midfielder - 2.83 secs
4. #75 Nic Naitanui, Swan Districts, Ruck - 2.86 secs
5. #34 Tom Swift, Claremont, Midfielder - 2.89 secs
6. #15 Ryan Schoenmakers, Norwood, Forward - 2.90 secs
7. #3 Sam Blease, Eastern, Midfielder - 2.91 secs
7. #17 Nick Heyne, Gippsland, Forward - 2.91 secs
9. #43 Taylor Hunt, Sandringham, Defender - 2.92 secs
9. #30 Luke Shuey, Oakleigh, Midfielder - 2.92 secs
9. #33 Matthew DeBoer, Claremont, Midfielder - 2.92 secs
12.#74 Tyrone Vickery, Sandringham, Ruck - 2.94 secs
12.#21 Bryce Carroll, Western Jets, Forward - 2.94 secs





All I have so far. Results should come out over the next day or so.




Here's an article on a hopeful.



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Simple goal drives hopeful Zaharakis

By Katrina Gill 8:33 AM Thu 02 October, 2008
David Zaharakis hopes the NAB AFL Draft Camp fast-tracks his dream



THE NAB AFL Draft Camp is the final chance hopefuls have to impress the 150-strong horde of recruiters and coaches that converge on Canberra each year.
For some prospective draftees, their results at the camp will dictate whether they get selected in November.
But for a handful of other AFL aspirants, the three-day trip to the Australian Institute of Sport is spent nervously hoping they’ve already done enough to convince a club to pick them.
Eighteen-year-old Vic Metro midfielder David Zaharakis is one player feeling the toll of a hectic 2008 season.
Zaharakis starred in the under-18 championships earlier this year and earned All-Australian selection, before he was struck down by glandular fever.
Last year the prolific ball winner, who was overlooked at the 2007 NAB AFL Draft, registered 2.94 in the blue-ribbon 20m sprint event – just outside outside Port Adelaide speedster Danyle Pearce’s record time of 2.79 set in 2004.
This year Zaharakis will join fancies like Hamish Hartlett and Jackson Trengrove on the sidelines, restricted to impressing would-be suitors off the track.
"I was diagnosed with glandular fever two weeks ago and the blood test suggested I’d had it for at least two weeks, so I’ve had it for a month or so now," Zaharakis said on Wednesday.
"I had it for the last game of the year and, if we’d made the finals in the TAC Cup, I wouldn’t have been playing.
"I’m not doing any physical testing because of it. Everyone is saying to me, 'You’re lucky you’re not doing the tests', but I actually wanted to do them to see where I'm at.
"I guess I’ll stand around, get interviewed all week and try and impress that way."
The life-long Essendon supporter had already spoken with Richmond before lunchtime on day one and, like most draftees, had more interviews scheduled well into the evening.
"The interviews are a bit intimidating because there are six or seven guys with their eyes all fixed on you and you’ve got to answer a question while they make notes, record your voice what you’re saying and videotape you," he said.
"I’d like to know what they write. It’s a good experience though and I guess you’d rather the clubs want to talk to you than not."
Zaharakis put in five consistent performances across the under-18s carnival and, despite being one of the smallest players at this year’s camp (180cm, 73kg) was hopeful of joining an AFL club next year.
"I don’t care where I go- I just want to play AFL," he said.
"Firstly, I want to enjoy this week. You can’t just let the experience go by, you have to enjoy it and then we’ll see what happens in November."

Thanks for putting this up, you're one level below Eugene imo.

jozeph said:

Thanks for putting this up, you're one level below Eugene imo.

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Chuffed to hear that.

We should draft Zaharakis, we need another sub 6ft player

Got more info.


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Top 30 looks amazing (names mentioned by Mccartney)

9 mids
S.Blease
Suban
Walters
S.Hill
Harteltt
Rich
Ziebell
Swift
S.Sidebottom

10 Forwards and Backs
Yarran
Heyne
Schoenmakers
L.Johnstone
J.Trengove
Watts
T.Lynch
Cornelius
L.Jones
Hurley

4 Rucks
Mckernan
Roughead
Natunai
Vickery

Add in players such as
Broadbent
Okeffe
Cahill
Zaharakis
Deboer
Pearce
A.Cordy (pick 14)
M.Robinson

Draft Camp Results: http://www.afl.com.au/News/NEWSARTICLE/tabid/208/Default.aspx?newsId=68589

Top ten's FYI

Standing Vertical Jump (cm's)

1. Nicholas Naitanui - 78cm
2. Shaun McKernan – 74cm
3. Tom Swift – 72cm
=3. Stephen Hill – 72cm
4. Jack Watts – 70cm
=4. Sam Blease – 70cm
5. Ryan Schoenmakers – 69cm
6. Nick Heyne – 69cm
=6. Bryce Carroll – 69cm
7. Michael Gugliotta – 67cm
=7. Ashley Smith – 67cm
=7. Alistair Smith – 67cm

20-Metre Sprint (seconds)

1. Ashley Smith – 2.80
2. Jack Watts – 2.82
3. Stephen Hill – 2.83
4. Nicholas Naitanui – 2.86
5. Tom Swift – 2.89
6. Ryan Shoenmakers – 2.90
7. Nick Heyne – 2.91
=7. Sam Blease – 2.91
8. Luke Shuey – 2.92
=8. Taylor Hunt – 2.92
=8. Matthew DeBoer – 2.92

Agility (seconds)

1. Stephen Hill – 7.77 (new record)
2. Jack Watts – 8.03
3. James Strauss – 8.18
4. Nick Suban – 8.25
5. Ayce Cordy – 8.27
6. Shaun McKernan – 8.31
7. Neville Jetta – 8.32
=7. Dan Hannebery – 8.32
8. Luke Shuey – 8.34
9. Liam Jones – 8.35

Shuttle Run / Beep Test (level)

1. Chris Hall – 14.6
2. Rory Sloane – 14.5
=2. Steele Sidebottom – 14.5
3. Luke Shuey – 14.4
4. Jarrad Blight – 14.3
=4. Tyson Slattery – 14.3
5. Dan Hannebery - `14.2
=5. Ian Richardson – 14.2
6. Tom Lynch – 14.1
=6. Tom Swift – 14.1

3km Time Trial (minutes, seconds)

1. Dan Hannebery – 10.17
2. Steele Sidebottom – 10.32
3. Sam McGarry – 10.41
4. Tyson Slattery – 10.42
=4. Chris Hall – 10.42
5. Michael Gugliotta – 10.43
6. Rory Sloane – 10.44
7. Matthew DeBoer – 10.53
8. Jarrad Blight – 10.57
=8 Matthew Broadbent – 10.57

Jack Ziebell
20m Sprint: 3.11s
Agility: 8.62
Beep test: 13.3

Michael Hurley
Height:192.6
20m Sprint:3.11
Agility: 8.62

Steele Sidebottom
20m Sprint: 3.25
Agility: 8.53

Shaun McKernan
20m Sprint: 2.95

Tyrone Vickery
20m Sprint: 2.94

Duo seeks end to uncertainty

Emma Quayle | October 4, 2008

JACKSON Trengove is a key defender of the future, with speed, spring and a fondness for making big, thumping spoils. Last year, he played on Matthew Kreuzer during the TAC Cup finals, and made him work very hard. A few weeks earlier, he took on Ben McEvoy, and frustrated the normally unflappable player who would later become the No. 9 draft pick.
Tom Swift is a smart, smooth midfielder, who can dance through the centre square, feed the ball out or run it away himself. He's quick, too, and at some stage in his career will wind up in an AFL team's leadership group.
Early this year, both Trengove and Swift were seen as two of the brightest prospects in the 2008 draft. Both should still be chosen high; Trengove is still a likely top-10 pick, and the rumour mill has Swift in Geelong's sights.
But Trengove hasn't played football for five months and Swift has played only a handful of matches in the past two seasons. They are the two big mysteries of this year's draft.
Swift's first problem arose in April last year: the day before his Australian Institute of Sport-AFL Academy group left for its tour of South Africa, the group played a game against Perth at Subiaco Oval.
Early in the game, he twisted the wrong way, fell and found out not long afterwards that he had ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.
At the time — even though he was too young for the draft and had another year up his sleeve — he felt certain his chance was gone.
"I thought the clubs wouldn't look too positively on it, that it was over for me, but then I started to be more positive," he said.
Swift took it easy through the pre-season, came back in round four and played four games for the Claremont Colts before joining the under-18 West Australian state team.
He felt like he was getting better but in the final trial game before the national championships he landed awkwardly. This time, he injured the ligament running down the side of his right knee.
"At the time, I thought I'd done my knee again," Swift said. "I think once you've done one, you have that fear. But the left knee actually took a bit of impact on the landing, and it stayed strong when my right knee buckled. So it was disappointing, especially so close to the carnival, but I still felt like it was good signs for my left knee."
Trengove was injured while training with the Vic Metro team, the day before it flew to Tasmania to play its second game of the carnival. He was running with the ball and wasn't expecting the smother that crashed across his right knee.

As he hobbled off the track, he told himself he would be fine but the following morning, he was in pain, lots of it, and found out he had torn his hamstring from the top of his fibula bone. He watched Metro win the carnival while taking stats in the coach's box. He's had to learn some patience as he has worked through his rehab program, but he's not let himself worry about what the injury might mean come draft day.
"It was a bit hard because I'm the sort of person who just likes to jump in and do everything at once, but it's been OK. The clubs don't seem too worried about it, so that's a good sign," Trengove said.
"I just tried not to think of the draft and the camp … I thought whatever happened would happen and a part of me wanted to think about it and wonder about it, but I knew I couldn't change it. I wasn't able to play, so there was nothing I could do. I just had to do what I could do, and wait to get better."
Swift feels similarly. Had he re-injured himself in his first or second game back, he suspects he would be feeling a lot of uncertainty now. But he will be ready to go when he joins his new team for pre-season training, and the fact he had begun to find some form has made him believe he will belong, wherever he ends up.
"The best thing was that I was improving with every game. That was the most positive thing. And everyone always said it would happen that way, but you don't really agree with it until it actually happens," said Swift, who used his right knee injury to work on his left-foot kick and worked to build up his core strength.
"I was feeling really confident going into that last game, and I've tried to hold on to that.
"It was unfortunate and disappointing, and the last two years haven't been great. But I was able to prove to myself that I could get back and play some good footy even after the adversity I had the year before and that's been good for me.
"I probably still have a lot to prove, and it messed with my head a bit, but I feel like I've been able to put it all in the past now.
"If I'm lucky enough to be drafted by a club, I feel like I can go there and be just like any other player on the list. That's what I'm looking forward to."
As he hobbled off the track, he told himself he would be fine but the following morning, he was in pain, lots of it, and found out he had torn his hamstring from the top of his fibula bone. He watched Metro win the carnival while taking stats in the coach's box. He's had to learn some patience as he has worked through his rehab program, but he's not let himself worry about what the injury might mean come draft day.
"It was a bit hard because I'm the sort of person who just likes to jump in and do everything at once, but it's been OK. The clubs don't seem too worried about it, so that's a good sign," Trengove said.
"I just tried not to think of the draft and the camp … I thought whatever happened would happen and a part of me wanted to think about it and wonder about it, but I knew I couldn't change it. I wasn't able to play, so there was nothing I could do. I just had to do what I could do, and wait to get better."
Swift feels similarly. Had he re-injured himself in his first or second game back, he suspects he would be feeling a lot of uncertainty now. But he will be ready to go when he joins his new team for pre-season training, and the fact he had begun to find some form has made him believe he will belong, wherever he ends up.
"The best thing was that I was improving with every game. That was the most positive thing. And everyone always said it would happen that way, but you don't really agree with it until it actually happens," said Swift, who used his right knee injury to work on his left-foot kick and worked to build up his core strength.
"I was feeling really confident going into that last game, and I've tried to hold on to that.
"It was unfortunate and disappointing, and the last two years haven't been great. But I was able to prove to myself that I could get back and play some good footy even after the adversity I had the year before and that's been good for me.
"I probably still have a lot to prove, and it messed with my head a bit, but I feel like I've been able to put it all in the past now.
"If I'm lucky enough to be drafted by a club, I feel like I can go there and be just like any other player on the list. That's what I'm looking forward to."

budge11 said:

Standing Vertical Jump (cm's)

1. Nicholas Naitanui - 78cm

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I thought he was expected to hit 85+, what happened?