Recruiting AFL Draft Watch 2025 - Picks 9, 10, 13, 37

[Lore]

 

[Milanista28]

Get Heppell to hand him his jumper on stage.

 

[Tygrys]

Sorry for the intrusion, but you people would know better than anyone. But how many of the top open pool prospects are Essendon supporters? I know Robey is too (but Taylor isn’t) but what’s the latest count? Heard Duursma & CDT are as well? If so can’t remember so many at the pointy end of a draft supporting one club?

 

[Snake Charmer]

Robey strikes me as the type of player that would be most valuable in a side with established meat and potato players around him. We don't have that.

Caldwell and Durham are pretty close to that as mids. + Merrett. Getting Robey and Sharp in is my dream result. Give our midfield real bite.

 

[Hazardinho]

Sorry for the intrusion, but you people would know better than anyone. But how many of the top open pool prospects are Essendon supporters? I know Robey is too (but Taylor isn’t) but what’s the latest count? Heard Duursma & CDT are as well? If so can’t remember so many at the pointy end of a draft supporting one club?

Richmond just don’t have our motion

 

[Zach Package]

My latest and predictive way to solve the list spots conundrum is Jevan Phillipou getting through to pick 21 and the Saints trading us their future first to get to him.

Gives us another deathride and with one less player coming in we are less hard up for spots.

 

[Calcium Man]

Sorry for the intrusion, but you people would know better than anyone. But how many of the top open pool prospects are Essendon supporters? I know Robey is too (but Taylor isn’t) but what’s the latest count? Heard Duursma & CDT are as well? If so can’t remember so many at the pointy end of a draft supporting one club?

Duursma - lions but no one now as his siblings were at other clubs
CDT and Cumming - hawks
Robey and Sharp - Bombers
Grlj - Blues
XT - Tigers

 

[Kyptastic]

Gettable:

• Cal still thinks Duursma and CDT are the likely selections for West Coast
• Essendon hasn't done as much work on Taylor as other clubs (other clubs think Essendon are more midfield focused)
• Essendon showing interest in getting Carlton's Pick 9 (no indication about how we would do that)
• Essendon likely to be the first team to consider Sharp and have done a lot of work on him
• Some Essendon interest in Greaves
• Essendon showed some interest in getting pick 15 from Gold Coast for picks in the 20s
• Grlj still in Richmond's range for picks 3 and 4
• Farrow in Essendon's range for 5 and 6, unlikely to get past 12
• Aidan Schubert could slip through to Essendon's third pick
• Earliest Cal can see a Sweid bid is 20. No certainty of taking him or El-Achkar
• No formal offer from Essendon for a top 2 pick. Robey, Cumming, Sharp, Farrow or Taylor as the main options for Essendon's two picks
• Unlikely that CDT gets past Richmond

 

[Howard Moon]

Lots of sharp doubts here, even the indignity of comparison with Hobbs! I don't recall Hobbs winning a Larke medal...infact let's look back at the winners since 2010 for example

2024- Langford / Lombard tick/undecided
2023- Sanders tick
2022- Ashcroft tick
2019- Roberston ehh
2018-Walsh tick
2017- Allen tick
2016- Graham...solid citizen
2015- Schache ehh
2014-Petracca tick
2013- Sheed tick
2012-Whitfield tick
2011- Coniglio tick

On those stats alone it seems you can't fake being the best player at championships - heavily weighted towards a good player coming from the Larke winner- safe bet id say.

(Which is better than our actual drafting record in top areas)

 

[jdstorm]

With Essendon aiming for 4 picks this draft I could see them doing something with Carlton say our 3 2nds + F2 and no Dean bid for 9 and 11

Works for both clubs

 

[Donflicted]

With Essendon aiming for 4 picks this draft I could see them doing something with Carlton say our 3 2nds + F2 and no Dean bid for 9 and 11

Works for both clubs

Blues wont say yes to that tbh we are winning big there

 

[Hazardinho]

Gettable:

• Cal still thinks Duursma and CDT are the likely selections for West Coast
• Essendon hasn't done as much work on Taylor as other clubs (other clubs think Essendon are more midfield focused)
• Essendon showing interest in getting Carlton's Pick 9 (no indication about how we would do that)
• Essendon likely to be the first team to consider Sharp and have done a lot of work on him
• Some Essendon interest in Greaves
• Essendon showed some interest in getting pick 15 from Gold Coast for picks in the 20s
• Grlj still in Richmond's range for picks 3 and 4
• Farrow in Essendon's range for 5 and 6, unlikely to get past 12
• Aidan Schubert could slip through to Essendon's third pick
• Earliest Cal can see a Sweid bid is 20. No certainty of taking him or El-Achkar
• No formal offer from Essendon for a top 2 pick. Robey, Cumming, Sharp, Farrow or Taylor as the main options for Essendon's two picks
• Unlikely that CDT gets past Richmond

Schubert Wasn’t included in our first two selections is a massive win

 

[jdstorm]

Blues wont say yes to that tbh we are winning big there

It’s picks 13 and 15 after bids.

Blues get back Harry Dean (pick 9 via points) plus their other academy player. No defecit (important for them) and F2 which should be low 20’s in a draft people actually want to be in.

I assume they’d want more but under the new points system it’s not as bad as under the old one




















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[rusman]

With bid matching. Do the points value lock in pre draft?

Or say we get a bid at 20 for sweid does it then check points ranking. As in our pick 30 is now like 25 due to carl/gc bids?

 

[eth-dog]

With bid matching. Do the points value lock in pre draft?

Or say we get a bid at 20 for sweid does it then check points ranking. As in our pick 30 is now like 25 due to carl/gc bids?

No. So when picks are removed, our picks move up.

 

[cAsEy_18]

Twomey tone read - he both thinks/wants robey to go to us, and he thinks Richmond is going to take him.

 

[fl4gd0n5]

No. So when picks are removed, our picks move up.

I don’t think they can get worse though? Eg when Gold Coast match a bid on Uwland with picks in the 20’s and Essendon’s picks slide back, I don’t think in the scenario they lose value? Could be wrong on that but I thought they didn’t change at all.

 

[Donflicted]

It’s picks 13 and 15 after bids.

Blues get back Harry Dean (pick 9 via points) plus their other academy player. No defecit (important for them) and F2 which should be low 20’s in a draft people actually want to be in.

I assume they’d want more but under the new points system it’s not as bad as under the old one




















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i mean i get your point but they could just use 9 let 11 slide to 14 then take Dean and another first rounder

 

[joey_jo_jo]

Find it weird we havent shown much interest in Grlj.
Personally feel like we are one of the slowest lists in the comp and I would love to have a guy like him on the list

 

[jdstorm]

With bid matching. Do the points value lock in pre draft?

Or say we get a bid at 20 for sweid does it then check points ranking. As in our pick 30 is now like 25 due to carl/gc bids?

It locks in at the point of the bid.

So once uwland is bid on the picks Gold Coast use to match will disappear and later picks will move up however many spots.

 

[Tygrys]

Duursma - lions but no one now as his siblings were at other clubs
CDT and Cumming - hawks
Robey and Sharp - Bombers
Grlj - Blues
XT - Tigers

I was clearly misinformed but thank you

 

[rusman]

No. So when picks are removed, our picks move up.

So you mean value locks in at the time of the bid?

So Carlton’s pick 9 43 and 54 for our 3 seconds could work out. They get more points at the time of dean bid.

Then by time sweid or Huss come round we could have around 38ish and 48 maybe (I can’t figure it out ). So probs not enough so for sweid but enough for Huss.

Robey Sharp farrow and huss

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Robey Sharp Marsh swied Huss

 

[joey_jo_jo]

I was clearly misinformed but thank you

There was a few CDT articles linking him to us more because he is in our NGA zone and would've qualified if his grandparents moved here from Sri Lanka after his dad was born rather than a year before so you mightve got that mixed up with CDT supporting us.

Side note: almost every sri lankan friend or relative I know who migrated around that time ended up going for hawks because of their dominant 80s

 

[doug85]

Sounds like we’re interested in Schubert with a later pick.

 

[Westlo]

Getting Cumming, Sharp & Schubert just by staying put would be an incredible result

 

[ghostdog]

I actually think he’s exactly what we need. He’s a massive competitor, loud, vocal organiser down back. Great athlete. Can play on smalls on talls. I feel like the back 6 needs some swagger, extroverted personality that we don’t get from Rids, Reid, McGrath, McKay, Hayes, Prior. Would love to pair Taylor with Roberts long term and Redman Short term. I reckon Taylor would be third on my draft board behind CDT and Duursma. Just my two cents.

I agree, we need a mongrel back there.
If you read my post again, you'll see it says 'this year.'

I think players like CDT, Cumming, Sharp and Robey are too good to pass up at 5/6, and are a more immediate need. That said, I won't be unhappy with any of them, including XTaylor.