AFL Player 16: Archie Perkins

[Beerfish]

Contract Status: Out of contract 2026
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 9, sup3rfish

 

[JayJ20]

Have a look at this. It's brave when an interstate team benefits from it apparently:

Chad Wingard's Giant refusal in lead-up to draft

EXCLUSIVE: Chad Wingard opens up on why GWS didn't draft him

www.afl.com.au

Speaking exclusively to AFL.com.au, Wingard said he didn't slip under their radar, he just didn't want to be part of what they were building.

He said he had no option but to be totally up front with then senior assistant coach Mark Williams and coach Kevin Sheedy when the pair interviewed him ahead of the draft.

In what was a brave, considerate and mature move, he made it clear to the Giants they'd regret drafting him.

"I was pretty honest in how I was feeling," Wingard said.

"They're trying to build a team from nothing and if I lied to them and said 'yeah I want to be here and I'm going to be here for your future', they're putting all their chips on me [only] to find I want to go home in two years.

"They're pretty much going to lose me for nothing.

"So I think that because I was so honest, they still got to pick someone else who wanted to be there and they didn't get nothing for their pick three, four or five which was what they would have had [me at]."

 

[Schnitzengruben]

Video deleted. What did I miss?

It was the clip of Gil saying "Essendon pick...." then it cuts to Archie skulling a beverage and he says something like "loosest campaigner in Portsea". Obviously a video one of his mates took at a party. Was pretty harmless tbh.

 

[Bipolar Bear]

they still got to pick someone else who wanted to be there and they didn't get nothing for their pick three

Didn't they get Jarred Polec there? lol

 

[BrunoV]

I was getting greedy when Hollands got as close as he did but it was always Perkins that struck me as the guy who would be available and we just had to take.

Don't really care about the flashy stuff, I just want to bank a 188cm midfielder with elite running power, who can play inside and out. Hopefully the flashy stuff is what turns him into a really special player.

 

[Corleone]

Robbie D'Orazio: “Look, boys want to be him and girls want to be with him. He’s a ripper.”

 

[Mercurial89]

Its weird, people laugh and poke fun at all the psych stuff that clubs and recruiters do and them trying to find out whether they have "it" yet when a player says he doesn't want to go interstate publicly everyone sits around and plays armchair psychologist.

 

[lenny2013]

Not the typical Essendon vanilla pick of the last 15 years. Which hopefully is a good thing.

 

[Corleone]

AFL INDUSTRY: "We want players to be open and honest"

PLAYER: Gives an honest answer

AFL INDUSTRY:

 

[Vander18]

Footy really has changed.....Imagine Archie playing with us in the 80’s.

Wonder what TD, Merv, Harvs, Roger et al would have made of his straw boater? Merv may have killed him.

 

[Lore]

Footy really has changed.....Imagine Archie playing with us in the 80’s.

Wonder what TD, Merv, Harvs, Roger et al would have made of his straw boater? Merv may have killed him.

They’d have to catch him first What they might’ve called a larrikin.

He seems like the type that will knuckle down and earn the respect on the field anyway, even if he isn’t their cup of tea off field.

 

[Vander18]

Not the typical Essendon vanilla pick of the last 15 years. Which hopefully is a good thing.

Exactly - here’s hoping he’s more Buddy Franklin than Mitch Thorp.

 

[Bombermania]

Footy really has changed.....Imagine Archie playing with us in the 80’s.

Wonder what TD, Merv, Harvs, Roger et al would have made of his straw boater? Merv may have killed him.

Archie might have suited the 80s because he likes a beer and a piss take.

 

[DapperJong]

WeIrD UnIt

oDd CaT

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

What would the AFL prefer, players say nothing and guys like Hately and Caldwell just walk after couple of years?

 

[TheGrizz]

Dont care if he is a strangest cat out there.

If he locks in at training and in games he could wear a sombrero around the club for all i care

 

[Vander18]

What would the AFL prefer, players say nothing and guys like Hately and Caldwell just walk after couple of years?

The other question is....did the club ask a questions that led to that response? If so, you cant expect the bloke to lie. Don't ask the question if you don't want to know the answer

I guess the line is saying you don't want to move interstate as opposed to saying you wont move interstate. The former is perfectly reasonable if you are asked the question, the latter probably starts to veer into tampering.

 

[brain taylor]

might reserve judgement on what an 18 year old wears on his head and says on tv considering I was the dumbest campaigner alive when I was a teenager.

 

[Bombermania]

The club will probably include those hat's Archie wears in the membership package.

 

[eth-dog]

Robert Shaw like him - good enough for me.

The other question is....did the club ask a questions that led to that response? If so, you cant expect the bloke to lie. Don't ask the question if you don't want to know the answer

I guess the line is saying you don't want to move interstate as opposed to saying you wont move interstate. The former is perfectly reasonable if you are asked the question, the latter probably starts to veer into tampering.

He said he felt he wasn't ready to move interstate.

 

[Bombermania]

People complaining about his wanting to stay in Victoria sound like they have never been to a job interview.

 

[Vander18]

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Dont think

He said he felt he wasn't ready to move interstate.

Yes. He did.

 

[Vander18]

They’d have to catch him first What they might’ve called a larrikin.

He seems like the type that will knuckle down and earn the respect on the field anyway, even if he isn’t their cup of tea off field.

I'm not sure he would have given a flying **** what they thought of him Which I kind of like.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

People complaining about his wanting to stay in Victoria sound like they have never been to a job interview.

The only thing I’d say to that is, is if you put your name down for the draft you’re accepting that you will be available to play for any of the 18 clubs.

If a job ad said good chance you would be working interstate then you wouldn’t apply if you didn’t want to go

 

[The Prosecutor]

What was the video?

Video deleted. What did I miss?

First half was Gil about to read out Archie's name (Essendon selects...), followed by a cut to Archie, shirtless, doing a shot and calling himself the loosest campaigner in Portsea (and seemingly not holding the shot down).

 

[Dave]

The only thing I’d say to that is, is if you put your name down for the draft you’re accepting that you will be available to play for any of the 18 clubs.

If a job ad said good chance you would be working interstate then you wouldn’t apply if you didn’t want to go

Yep, coz there’s plenty of other elite comps a footballer can work in......