Competitions WCE Board Mock Draft 2023

[Keys]

Draft Order and Selections

ROUND 1 :

1. West Coast - Harley Reid
2. Gold Coast - Jed Walter (Matched bid)
3. North Melbourne - Colby McKercher
4. North Melbourne - Zane Duursma
5. Hawthorn - Connor O’Sullivan
6. Western Bulldogs - Ryley Sanders
7. Melbourne - Daniel Curtin
8. Gold Coast - Ethan Read (Matched bid)
9. GWS - Nick Watson
10. Western Bulldogs - Jordan Croft (Matched bid)
11. Gold Coast - Jake Rogers (Matched bid)
12. Geelong - Nate Caddy
13. Essendon - Ollie Murphy
14. Adelaide - Darcy Wilson
15. Melbourne - James Leake
16. Hawthorn- Will McCabe (Matched bid)
17. Sydney - Archer Reid
18. St Kilda - Caleb Windsor
19. Adelaide - Arie Schoenmaker
20. North Melbourne - Will Green
21. GWS - Harry DeMattia
22. North Melbourne - Lance Collard
23. North Melbourne - Riley Hardeman
24. Collingwood - Charlie Edwards
25. Adelaide - Taylor Goad
26. St Kilda - Ashton Moir
27. Carlton - Koltyn Tholstrup

ROUND 2 :

28. West Coast - Zane Zakostelsky
24. Gold Coast Matched bid
29. Geelong - Archie Roberts
26. Gold Coast Matched bid
27. Gold Coast Matched bid
30. Carlton - Tew Jiath
31. Richmond - Will Patton
32. Brisbane - Caidyn Cleary (Bid not matched)
33. Essendon - Mitch Edwards
30. Gold Coast Matched bid
35. Gold Coast - Will Graham (Matched bid)
35. Collingwood - Angus Hastie
36. Fremantle - Phoenix Gothard
37. Essendon - Jack Delean
34. Gold Coast Matched bid
38. West Coast - Cooper Simpson
36. Gold Coast Matched bid
39. Brisbane - Joel Freijah
40. St Kilda - Luke Lloyd
39. Gold Coast (surplus from Read bid) Matched bid
41. Richmond - Charlie McCormack (Bid not matched)
41. Gold Coast (traded from Melbourne) Matched bid
42. Western Bulldogs - Luamon Lual (Matched bid)
43. GWS - Billy Wilson

ROUND 3 :

41. Hawthorn Matched bid
44. Sydney - Koen Sanchez
45. Fremantle - Logan Morris
44. Hawthorn Matched bid
45. Western Bulldogs Matched bid
45. Hawthorn Matched bid
47. Western Bulldogs Matched bid
46. Brisbane - Riley Weatherill
49. Western Bulldogs Matched bid
50. Western Bulldogs Matched bid
47. Sydney - Wil Dawson
47. Western Bulldogs Matched bid
48. North Melbourne - Liam Fawcett
49. West Coast - Lachie Charleson
50. Fremantle - Nathan Philactides

ROUND 4 :

51. Carlton - Joe Fonti
52. Port Adelaide - Kane McAuliffe
53. Hawthorn (surplus from McCabe bid) - Clay Hall
54. Geelong - Kade De La Rue

ROUND 5 :

55. West Coast - Shaun Mannagh
56. Geelong Harvey Johnstone
57. St Kilda - George Stevens
58. Geelong - Pass

ROUND 6 :

59. St Kilda - Will Lorenz
60. Port Adelaide - Bodie Ryan
61. Western Bulldogs
62. Melbourne (traded from Gold Coast)
62. Gold Coast Matched bid
63. Western Bulldogs - Pass
64. Western Bulldogs - Pass
65. Gold Coast Matched bid
66. Gold Coast Matched bid
65. Hawthorn - Pass
66. Gold Coast - Pass
67. Gold Coast - Pass

NB: I have removed picks that clubs aren’t going to use based on Cal Twomey’s analysis of how many selections each club is expected to make

 

[eaglevision]

Fox Sports top 50 is an interesting read and spead.

They have at or around our picks


1 Reid
27 Sanchez ( a bit early even they say)
29 Dimattia
30 Mitch Edwards
32 Goad
36 ZZ
38 Dealan
39 Will Dawson
40 Cooper Simpson
44 Moir
48 Clay Hall
49 Joel Freijah

Need to get that 58 into the mid to late 40's.

Live picks 1, 29, 42 and 55.

And we are supposidly chasing the Suns pick 24 which becomes 30. Trade for 24 and 38 with a F2nd F4th and 58?

1 Reid
29 Demattia
30 ZZ or Goad
42 Moir
43 Freijah (reminds me of Yeo how he moves, strong in the hips. Or Hall if we want a big mid.

3 balanced mids. Reid, Demattia and Freijah. Mids who can play back or forward.

1 tall

1 Forward / Mid. Moir also potentially a utility who can play elsewhere.


And PS Murphy ranked at 19. Must having the same dream I had.

Those picks are a dream draft for us, cannot be better. Also shows why I was pissed we didn’t play hardball with Brockman and send them 58 or 62 with the threat of PSD. All of a sudden pick 44 would have been very handy to use or to trade up with points.

 

[ArdentEagle]

We're going to end up with one of GC picks in 20's so no need to stress there.
Dawson may go a lot earlier than expected to NM if rumours are true.

 

[WCE_phil]

This is just a feeling but I think ZZ lasts to our third pick. Key defenders tend to slide, he is amazing athletically and I rate him far higher but to the casual observer (and some recruiters) 'he's just a tweener ruck'

 

[Bleedblueandgold]

Why did this turn into the general draft thread lol.

 

[AsterixTheGaul]

This is just a feeling but I think ZZ lasts to our third pick. Key defenders tend to slide, he is amazing athletically and I rate him far higher but to the casual observer (and some recruiters) 'he's just a tweener ruck'

Agree and one of his best attributes is winning contested ball. I hope the Pieman continues his recent trend in valuing that

 

[squashface]

Why did this turn into the general draft thread lol.

We don't have enough already

 

[Cornelius Roy]

This is just a feeling but I think ZZ lasts to our third pick. Key defenders tend to slide, he is amazing athletically and I rate him far higher but to the casual observer (and some recruiters) 'he's just a tweener ruck'

Philactides was one talked about highly early on in the piece but appears to have slid. Do you see value in him late as a positional need for us or is the slide justified?

Understand if you can’t say anything given proximity to the draft.