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

[Lore]

 

[Tazdog]

Admin feel free to delete if thread not necessary. SSP watch with a few train on players (Binns, Setterfield). Who is training with the club? What holes do we need to fill?

 

[Tazdog]

Does anyone know how many spots we have to fill and if anyone other than Jaxon Binns or Will Settterfield has been given permission to train on during the SSP window? Do we look at NHH or is surely snapped up by someone else?

 

[ant555]

No list spots. Binns is VFL. Only way a list spot opens is if someone gets an LTI over summer.

List info is here

Team Mgmt. - Current Contract Status (AFL & AFLW) - Updated in OP

Lore's 2025 Essendon List with Weekly Players Update (past versions) 44 total list size including Senior and Rookie + 2 Cat B. AFL Senior List: 36-38 players (36) link Bryan, Nick –2027 link Caddy, Nate – 2028 link Caldwell, Jye – 2028 link Clarke, Angus– 2028 link Cox, Nik – 2026 link...

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[Jack Richards]

IF we could, I would look at Blamires.

 

[eth-dog]

We can look at alternative talent pathways but that's about it. Blamires I'm keen to see if he can back it up.

 

[Sporno 4 Pyros]

Interesting that we would have gone for Josh Lindsay over Dovaston with Pick11 if things had gone differently on draft night

Inside the draft: The calculated roll of the dice that saw the Bombers get their man

Callum Twomey takes a closer look at the wheeling and dealing behind the scenes at the 2025 Telstra AFL Draft

www.afl.com.au

 

[jannissary]

Interesting that we would have gone for Josh Lindsay over Dovaston with Pick11 if things had gone differently on draft night

Inside the draft: The calculated roll of the dice that saw the Bombers get their man

Callum Twomey takes a closer look at the wheeling and dealing behind the scenes at the 2025 Telstra AFL Draft

www.afl.com.au

tldr pro essendon propaganda

 

[doug85]

Interesting that we would have gone for Josh Lindsay over Dovaston with Pick11 if things had gone differently on draft night

Inside the draft: The calculated roll of the dice that saw the Bombers get their man

Callum Twomey takes a closer look at the wheeling and dealing behind the scenes at the 2025 Telstra AFL Draft

www.afl.com.au

Seems we’re prioritising foot skills. Good

 

[King Patty]

Seems we’re prioritising foot skills. Good

Yep, footskills, competitiveness and size.

 

[jctrout]

Yep, footskills, competitiveness and size.

Pretty much everything DoDo didn't

 

[Scottie65]

Where was robey today at training??? Don’t tell me he’s pulled a hammy already

 

[ant555]

Interesting that we would have gone for Josh Lindsay over Dovaston with Pick11 if things had gone differently on draft night

Inside the draft: The calculated roll of the dice that saw the Bombers get their man

Callum Twomey takes a closer look at the wheeling and dealing behind the scenes at the 2025 Telstra AFL Draft

www.afl.com.au

Drafted Kako last year and HEA this year. I would say they where looking to plug a couple of other gaps. Another small forward would be on the cards again next year.

 

[doug85]

A lot of people were bummed we didn’t get band 1 for Draper. It turns out we managed to get the 3 players we would’ve taken if we got band 1.

In the end, it cost us very very little

 

[jdstorm]

A lot of people were bummed we didn’t get band 1 for Draper. It turns out we managed to get the 3 players we would’ve taken if we got band 1.

In the end, it cost us very very little

Adam Sweid

 

[doug85]

Adam Sweid

We didn’t bid on him with 36. Why would we have bid on him with 27 or 30?

 

[eth-dog]

We didn’t bid on him with 36. Why would we have bid on him with 27 or 30?

Because we wouldn't have had a 160 odd point deficit in the first round next year?

 

[doug85]

Because we wouldn't have had a 160 odd point deficit in the first round next year?

Was it just the deficit? Or was he not that high on the board for us

 

[Yoda_]

Brodie McClachlan informed Williamstown he wont be playing VFL football next year, turns up on the Hawthorn train on list

 

[jdstorm]

Was it just the deficit? Or was he not that high on the board for us

It wasn’t even the defecit. It was that the defecit would have had to come off our FRP next year and worse case would turn pick 4 into pick 5


If it was just burning a 2nd we would have let him

 

[eth-dog]

Was it just the deficit? Or was he not that high on the board for us

I think it was mostly the deficit.

 

[jdstorm]

I think it was mostly the deficit.

First round defecit

 

[doug85]

I think it was mostly the deficit.

Fair enough, I still don’t consider it a massive loss.

 

[Keystone agony]

Yep, footskills, competitiveness and size.

Not sure Lindsay necessarily ia known for the latter 2 but i think i did end up having him ahead of farrow but im fine with Farrow, not much in it and looking more at Farrow footage it seems ok

 

[Old Campaigner]

Be a bit of a bummer for him if the horks decide to go with someone else

 

[Yoda_]

Not sure Lindsay necessarily ia known for the latter 2 but i think i did end up having him ahead of farrow but im fine with Farrow, not much in it and looking more at Farrow footage it seems ok

The undertone in comments of selecting Farrow is his midfield potential