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

[Lore]

 

[nipst@r]

Kickett as a rookie or ssp a possibility?

although assume the wa clubs might offer a train on spot.

 

[The Donners]

I’m happy I didn’t watch tonight. Last night was like watching paint dry. If you’re not a potential draftee, their family/friends or club people and you watched tonight you seriously need a better hobby!

 

[Yoda_]

Sifting through the Rookie Me Draft Guide, some decent players undrafted;

Ollie Greaves
Noah Hibbins~Hargreaves
Oskar Ainsworth
Tom Burton
Noah Chamberlain
Liam Hetherton
Louis Kellaway
Leon Kickett
Jesse Mellor
Riley Onley
Fred Rodriguez
Wes Walley
Xavier Bamert
Rory Wright
Toby Whan
Felix Kneipp
Harry Scott
Aaron Sharkie
Hunter Wright
Tom Blamires

 

[Old Campaigner]

Is Greeves the highest rated player to go undrafted?

I remember Jonty Schoenberg was highly rated a few years ago and never got on a list.

Clearly not highly rated if no one picked him. NHH too…

 

[boncer34]

looks like Matty Rosa agrees with my ball knowledge

I bloody well hope not

How is Zeke Uwland at 6, and Phillipou so low. Lindsay at 16? Look where Greeves is, may as well just say he isn’t getting drafted. I don’t understand how you rank a player? Even Farrow above Taylor makes no sense.

They be letting anyone be called draft experts these days.

 

[Duckworth]

Do we have any list spots left?

We have
36 Main + 6 Rookie + 1 Cat B.
We have 1 Cat B spot.
Martin ACL? would open up a rookie spot.
Otherwise, we are full.

 

[Old Campaigner]

I bloody well hope not

Lmao

 

[Yoda_]

We have
36 Main + 6 Rookie + 1 Cat B.
We have 1 Cat B spot.
Martin ACL? would open up a rookie spot.
Otherwise, we are full.

wouldn't surprise me if we placed Martin (ACL) on inactive list, we love ourselves a train on prospect

 

[naraku]

Sifting through the Rookie Me Draft Guide, some decent players undrafted;

Ollie Greaves
Noah Hibbins~Hargreaves
Oskar Ainsworth
Tom Burton
Noah Chamberlain
Liam Hetherton
Louis Kellaway
Leon Kickett
Jesse Mellor
Riley Onley
Fred Rodriguez
Wes Walley
Xavier Bamert
Rory Wright
Toby Whan
Felix Kneipp
Harry Scott
Aaron Sharkie
Hunter Wright
Tom Blamires

Richmond will rookie Kellaway I would assume.
There are some surprises still there, but I don't think we can rookie anyone other than a Cat B now...depending on Martin.

 

[Zach Package]

Reckon a handy draft to have at least one rookie pick in

Krasnadamskis
Wright
Bamert
NHH
Greeves
Rodriguez
Onley
Oodshorn-Bennier

All feel like draftable prospects, and that’s without considering state league mature agers like your Blamires, Voss, Scott type state leaguers that would probably have success if someone gave them a go.

 

[jdstorm]

May is the only one who's a genuine key fwd to pair next to caddy. The rest are better suited as third tall. Jones utility and I doubt Edwards and mcmahon are on the list next year. May might not either.

Given the list structure and defenders taken you’d assume Gerryn will move back into the forward line as VFL FF

Def AFL
McKay Reid Ridley Prior Redman Roberts McGrath

Def VFL
Blackison Hayes Cox Kondo Farrow SEH Nguyen

Forward
FF wright/Gerryn
CHF May/Mcmahon
3rd Caddy/Edwards
4th langers/Roby

The list finally looks balanced for the first time in a long time

 

[The Donners]

Sifting through the Rookie Me Draft Guide, some decent players undrafted;

Ollie Greaves
Noah Hibbins~Hargreaves
Oskar Ainsworth
Tom Burton
Noah Chamberlain
Liam Hetherton
Louis Kellaway
Leon Kickett
Jesse Mellor
Riley Onley
Fred Rodriguez
Wes Walley
Xavier Bamert
Rory Wright
Toby Whan Kenobi
Felix Kneipp
Harry Scott
Aaron Sharkie
Hunter Wright
Tom Blamires

Efa

 

[Call Me Cake]

Lots of KPP's in next year's draft apparently

 

[fl4gd0n5]

Given the list structure and defenders taken you’d assume Gerryn will move back into the forward line as VFL FF

Def AFL
McKay Reid Ridley Prior Redman Roberts McGrath

Def VFL
Blackison Hayes Cox Kondo Farrow SEH Nguyen

Forward
FF wright/Gerryn
CHF May/Mcmahon
3rd Caddy/Edwards
4th langers/Roby

The list finally looks balanced for the first time in a long time

If they play Wright, May, Caddy and Langford all in the AFL forward line I'll spew.

 

[ydc55]

Disappointed in kondo selection.
Last thing we needed was another slightly undersized defender.
I would have let Huss walk.
I wonder how close they were to doing this.
Greeves, nhh and Onley not getting drafted is a surprise

 

[jdstorm]

If they play Wright, May, Caddy and Langford all in the AFL forward line I'll spew.

with the extra bench spot It allows for a setup like this with 3 on the field at any given time.

I agree you wouldn’t want all 4 on field at the same time. However you also don’t want Langford/Caddy to be your tallest marking player and that would happen with 2MP in the ruck. So an extra tall forward seems essential

 

[Yoda_]

Lots of KPP's in next year's draft apparently

yep, adding onto the fact that (a) Mick Ablett is an idiot, (b) we have a few untried guys on the list still, and (c) 2026 has a fair few talls in it.

 

[eth-dog]

Disappointed in kondo selection.
Last thing we needed was another slightly undersized defender.
I would have let Huss walk.
I wonder how close they were to doing this.
Greeves, nhh and Onley not getting drafted is a surprise

I respectfully disagree on both. A medium intercept player is exactly what I wanted (which I agree Farrow is but if he transitions to midfield, then the Greek works). We currently have... Jordan Ridley.

I would have liked Huss to slip to Cat B but small forward is the other hole we had. As soon as we got through 36 we were never not matching as it required 0 points to match.

Greeves, speed? NHH maybe concussions?

 

[Hazardinho]

I bloody well hope not

1 month in big footy is a long time mate.

 

[boncer34]

1 month in big footy is a long time mate.

No.

Its 1 month.

 

[Keystone agony]

May is the only one who's a genuine key fwd to pair next to caddy. The rest are better suited as third tall. Jones utility and I doubt Edwards and mcmahon are on the list next year. May might not either.

Some would say Logan Morris is better as a 3rd tall because of his height, but he demands being the main man

Mcmahon is a genuine key, he is an old fashioned FF who comes from deep on leads atm

Same goes for Tom Edwards, he played as a KPF for swans his entire life

Whats the difference between 3rd tall and 2nd tall? Purely a few cms? Or something else

Its really nothing. Harry Jones played his best fwd as a top 2 tall fwd both in coates and AFL so far

Ive also completely forgot about Gerryn whos 200cm

I agree if we could get a top end tall but no point adding bulk lower end talls when other positions are far more required

 

[Old Campaigner]

1 month in big footy is a long time mate.

Yeah there’s a lot more phantom drafts to copy from for starters

 

[Lemons_]

Pumped with all selections. Thought we might go for a defender with Huss waiting behind a bid, now with Kondog we have kinda bulked up all our lines in our areas of biggest weakness (big bodied mids, medium transition defender, small forward). Biggest thing is we have begun to address transition play.

Huss, Kako and Caddy will be an exciting forward group.

 

[jdstorm]

Some would say Logan Morris is better as a 3rd tall because of his height, but he demands being the main man

Mcmahon is a genuine key, he is an old fashioned FF who comes from deep on leads atm

Same goes for Tom Edwards, he played as a KPF for swans his entire life

Whats the difference between 3rd tall and 2nd tall? Purely a few cms? Or something else

Its really nothing. Harry Jones played his best fwd as a top 2 tall fwd both in coates and AFL so far

Ive also completely forgot about Gerryn whos 200cm

I agree if we could get a top end tall but no point adding bulk lower end talls when other positions are far more required

I think you need to seperate role and option.

Ie Logan morris is a 3rd tall but a no1 target

Generally I’d say the main difference between your Key talls and your 3rd tall is your Keys are required to engage in more contested marking and neutralising contests where as a 3rd tall generally is more mobile and often has more isolated/1v1 matchups away from contest as an alternative target

 

[fl4gd0n5]

I think you need to seperate role and option.

Ie Logan morris is a 3rd tall but a no1 target

Generally I’d say the main difference between your Key talls and your 3rd tall is your Keys are required to engage in more contested marking and neutralising contests where as a 3rd tall generally is more mobile and often has more isolated/1v1 matchups away from contest as an alternative target

Have your own opinion and all that but that’s not really how it works. Richmond won a flag with Riewoldt and Townsend.

Every team plays their forward differently, and on top of that a player isn’t chained to a role. It has to be fluid because of the way the ball works and the size of the ground.

Essendon also plays around with the forwards, at times you’ll see Caddy or Wright marking in D50, Langford gets the ball in the defensive half also. They seem to like to clear out and run back hard to goal. It’s easier to score when counterattacking because the ball movement is poor when they go slow. You’re definitely right in that just because a player isn’t chained isn’t the tallest, that doesn’t mean they aren’t the main option. Langford draws the ball heaps when he plays forward. I don’t think Langford will be a deep forward next year, probably on the wing and around stoppages.

Regardless, Langford, Perkins and McMahon don’t mark it in packs so they aren’t good options to play a more traditional CHF role, but they’re good on the lead and kick goals. This doesn’t seem to be great for team balance but in struggling sides just kicking goals is helpful. Wright, Jones and Caddy are all great runners and can mark in packs so they’ll often play higher but Caddy and Wright also spend time deep. Jones has transitioned onto the wing but rarely since Rutten was the coach has he played as a main/deep forward.

I don’t know about May, he’s doing pretty well getting the ball to ground most of the time but he’s young. Edwards is a weird one, he looks ungainly and lost, but seems to know how to kick goals.