Game Day 2021 AFL Draft & AFL Rookie Draft

[GingerDocker]

This is the guy I'd like us to speculate on, both for his potential ceiling and fills a bit of a hole on our list.

Love his disposal, his side step, and acceleration.

 

[wayToGo_]

What’s the word on Benning for those who’ve seen him play live ?
Is he good ?
Would he make a suitable Lobb replacement in future ?
Early days and water under the bridge I know but interested to hear positives and negatives

Has heaps of athleticism and talent. Just (a) raw and (b) inconsistent. Both things I'd back our coaches to fix.

 

[FreoRicci]

Damn. Missed out on the younger Serong. Just nabbed before us

 

[ROGS]

The real winners of this draft at Cockburn have been lachie Schultz, Mitch Crowden and trav colyer.
no competition whatsoever for their spots introduced to the list so far.
We surely will grab a small forwards with good upside tomorrow in the rookie draft?

Tyrone Thorne from Thunder would be perfect as he is goal sneek with some X factor

 

[Coxy101]

Will be interesting to see if anyone rolls the dice on Cripps as a Rookie.

 

[Shadow Man]

Will be interesting to see if anyone rolls the dice on Cripps as a Rookie.

Kade Dittmar goes alright, like the cut of his jib...

 

[_007_]

In hindsight it would have been nice to trade up after Benning made it past 40. Zac Taylor and Arlo Draper both still on the board.

 

[Dockernut]

Love our draft haul. But I’m a bit disappointed that the Eagles improved from their shitful efforts yesterday.

 

[Docker82]

What are your thoughts for rookie draft given how the draft panned out?

Can’t say an 18 year old from the WAFL Colts stands out in my mind. I reckon we’ll go local though.

I’ll nominate a third player from Subiaco for us - Nick Martin is one that has impressed me. 20 year old, 190cm medium tall who was part of their premiership side this year. Doubt we pick him though.

Only thought the third tall forward was a good idea if Benning slipped through to Cat B tbh. We still need general forwards and maybe a winger.

 

[Diverbelow]

Sorry to see Serong go to hawks. That just means hawks will go all out to get Caleb in a couple of years.

 

[Chris25]

So before I decide who to draft...can someone smarter than me give an update on list spots?

Do we have just the one spot free now? Or can we take a rookie tomorrow and still save a spot for pre season…

 

[Bastyy]

So before I decide who to draft...can someone smarter than me give an update on list spots?

Do we have just the one spot free now? Or can we take a rookie tomorrow and still save a spot for pre season…

Just the one free spot

 

[Purple Jesus]

The scum are gloating saying they had a better draft than we did... how exactly you delusional cockbags?

 

[Superkoops]

In hindsight it would have been nice to trade up after Benning made it past 40. Zac Taylor and Arlo Draper both still on the board.

How do you propose we trade up? We only had a F1 and F4. The only thing I thought we could have done is try to trade our pick 54 when it was around 52 for a F4. There were a few trades involving F4. The Eagles trade of their F4 to Port for the pick 62 they used on Greg Clark was an odd one. They had a pick soon after and all the other clubs between passed. I can only assume it was some goodwill trade as part of Port giving them a F2 to move from 14 to 12.

Ended up 12, F4 > 14, 62, F2

 

[Docker82]

Looking at the current situation there won’t be many more players drafted for the first time tomorrow.

I counted 100 list spots available (not including Liam Jones

19

Liam Jones

Age

34

Ht

199cm

Wt

98kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

9.4

2star

K

6.5

3star

HB

2.9

3star

M

4.3

4star

T

2.0

4star

MG

134.5

2star

D

7.6

2star

K

6.1

3star

HB

1.4

1star

M

4.1

4star

T

1.4

2star

MG

116.3

2star

D

9.4

3star

K

7.4

3star

HB

2.0

2star

M

4.0

4star

T

2.2

4star

) across clubs senior and Cat A rookie lists for next season.

65 were drafted tonight, whilst a further 14 have been promised spots on the list of the club that delisted them. I’m guessing here that there’s another 3-5 delisted players picked up.

Looking at around 16-18 spots left on AFL lists. Probably close to half of those end up being passed for the SPP.

Wouldn’t even be surprised if we pass our one live selection tomorrow tbh.

 

[Scham]

Cripps for me. Perhaps Brown, Fejo or Schlensog.

 

[sherrif]

Can’t say an 18 year old from the WAFL Colts stands out in my mind. I reckon we’ll go local though.

I’ll nominate a third player from Subiaco for us - Nick Martin is one that has impressed me. 20 year old, 190cm medium tall who was part of their premiership side this year. Doubt we pick him though.

Only thought the third tall forward was a good idea if Benning slipped through to Cat B tbh. We still need general forwards and maybe a winger.

I think we have one more pick that can either be in the rookie draft or if we take a player in the PSD or a delisted free agent. Greg Clark from Subiaco would be my choice. Just think he is now a cut above local level. We have been rumoured to have interest in him pre draft.

 

[Chris25]

Just the one free spot

In that case, I reckon we probably pass and hold onto the list spot.

I wouldn’t mind Jahmal Stretch. Or one of the SA outside runners in Lewis Rayson and Isaac Birt. But we can get a few in to trial over summer.

Hopefully not Josh Cripps for me. There’d be a few other KPFs I’d take a punt on before him.

 

[Spirit Level]

Anyone think the risk of losing Serong is slightly greater now little brother is at the Hawks?

 

[groggm]

I think we have one more pick that can either be in the rookie draft or if we take a player in the PSD or a delisted free agent. Greg Clark from Subiaco would be my choice. Just think he is now a cut above local level. We have been rumoured to have interest in him pre draft.

Gone to WC

 

[groggm]

Anyone think the risk of losing Serong is slightly greater now little brother is at the Hawks?

Our serong is well on the way to becoming a star (if he isn't already) how often does a gun player leave his club to join a mediocre sibling..

 

[Madas]

Sorry to see Serong go to hawks. That just means hawks will go all out to get Caleb in a couple of years.

We passed on one of our late picks
What number was it ?

 

[gaskin]

We passed on one of our late picks
What number was it ?

The one before we took Benning.

 

[Lach72]

I wonder whether Rankin going before our let pick spiked our cannon?

 

[Lach72]

Eagles got some nice players in the end