List Mgmt. 2026 Draftee/NGA/FS Discussion

[WCEswift]

Our next premiership ruck might be in this group.

Axel Walsh and mccarthy from swan districts too

 

[Happy Mastenator]

Axel Walsh and mccarthy from swan districts too

Aren’t they the the year after?

 

[Eastern Rangers]

Aren’t they the the year after?

But should play champs. Although Axel could play anywhere.

 

[WCEswift]

Aren’t they the the year after?

if they are the swan districcts kid will be terrifying by then

 

[WCE777]

This will open a can of worms!!

I just did an anylisis of our current list and where and where not our talent is.
We will all disagree on who are A & B grade players and with such a young list a lot of the younger crew are on potential.
Here is my best team of 2026 R1.

Here is my grading:
B: Starcevich, Edwards, Hough
HB: Ginbey, Young, McCarthy
C: Davis, Yeo, Duursma
HF: Hewett, Shanahan, Baker
FF: Kelly, Waterman, Cripps
FOL: Flynn, H Reid, Graham
INT: Dev, Brockman, A Reid, Duggan, Allan

I have intentially left out players that wont be playing R1 IMO.
They are graded here:
A Grade: Lindsay, CDT obvious as they are elite at their role and project A grade.

B Grade: Brock/Hall/Gross/Maric/S Allen/Rodriguez/Newton/T Williams.

Depth grade: Grego/Cole/Bazzo/Johnston/Long/Hutch/Dewar/JW/Owies/Champion/BW/Barnett/McRae/Schoenburg.

Depth grade is full of players who are not going to make it and are depth and role players going foward.

These are solely my opinion but it shows a lack of A grade talent in certian areas.

Midfield, KPD are the glaring areas where we need A grade talent from 2026 draft and trade period on, high pressure SF's are also a concern but NGA's should fill this and players not making A grade in other midfield roles may fill another couple.

I will put Gross/S Allan in this catergory as they look to be the players who may fall out of full time midfielders for another A grade mid.

We can't take a team to 2027 and beyond with the Tassie draft and not have most of the list puzzles in place.
When I look at this team it still looks 2 elite mids and 2 elite KPD's short.

 

[KevinTaylor]

Salutes to all the boys flogging their guts out at the moment trying to impress the coaches.

My boy is a 2008 kid so Ive seen heaps of this years boys.
My roughie punt is on Cody Lee from Perth(No hes not mine). Always been a very solid junior player up forward with a sweet left foot and strong hands.
He has had massive improvement. Grown plenty, gotten a bit of angry in his game and looked super solid down back for Wesley.
He got a call up for the u18s summer squad and touch wood will have a gun draft year.
Any ideas if I cant put a punt on this?

I dont understand how he's NGA eligible but he is

 

[KevinTaylor]

Also, I thought it was interesting that Garrison was the only NGA boy this year to get a gig at preseason.
Keeping their options open, hiding them. I have no idea, but Im sure its a stronger group than previous years.