AFL Player # 2: Sam Draper

[Dave]

Contract Status: Out of contract 2025
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 20, TheUnicorn

 

[Lore]

Meanwhile, on the Essendon website:

Youngster in focus: Sam Draper

Dons Digital catches up with emerging ruckman Sam Draper to talk pre-season and 2021 goals.

www.essendonfc.com.au

 

[Megabattimus]

 

[andleanback]

Meanwhile, on the Essendon website:

Youngster in focus: Sam Draper

Dons Digital catches up with emerging ruckman Sam Draper to talk pre-season and 2021 goals.

www.essendonfc.com.au

 

[eth-dog]

Bunk Moreland the curse of a ruckman in a small number.

 

[VelvetSledge]

Man, T-Bell really passed the torch

 

[BrunoV]

Didn't he do one of the big sessions recently?

I wouldn't worry unless he is listed in the injury reports.

ant555 has said this in another thread but work loads are managed. There is threshold level of work for a player to have completed to be in the range of optimum fitness (at least in terms of what the training program is trying to achieve). It would likely equate to about 80% of sessions (which is not to say that's the only way the level can be achieved). If Draper has been flying to this point, and worked hard over NYE, he could already be close enough to the required level to be 100% for a practice match in 2 weeks. At this stage it could just be about maintaining the gains of the rest of the pre-season.

The reason you pull him from a session is that if he is sore or even hinting at being sore there isn't much benefit, in a physiological sense, to work him into the red zone where an injury is more likely to occur.

Ideally he can just do every session without incident, because that helps with touch, etc, but it's rarely the case anyone can get through that workload at the best of times and particularly while still developing physically. Remember, he's learning how to put a >110kg rig through a midfielders workload.

 

[boncer34]

rumply this is your fault.

 

[rumply]

rumply this is your fault.

Me & my spelling

 

[staaation]

GIVE ME AN UPDATE RIGHT NOW

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Bunk Moreland the curse of a ruckman in a small number.

It never goes well. We need to stop it. Big men need big numbers. 38 was perfect.

Ah well. It opens for the door for Cox to quickly become the league’s best ruckman. Should be there by the end of 2021 now.

 

[Old Campaigner]

Is there an upper limit on the number you can give an AFL listed player? A stud like him would've worn #69 like a glove.

 

[BrunoV]

Is there an upper limit on the number you can give an AFL listed player? A stud like him would've worn #69 like a glove.

88 but it's controversial.

 

[yodellinhank]

Anybody else's junior footy team have a kid run out in #111 because there was duplicate #11 jumpers?

 

[eth-dog]

Anybody else's junior footy team have a kid run out in #111 because there was duplicate #11 jumpers?

Happens in threes footy too

 

[VelvetSledge]

Anybody else's junior footy team have a kid run out in #111 because there was duplicate #11 jumpers?

We did that, but only because they ran out of #3s so we used Roman numerals for that one kid

 

[Pweter]

Anybody else's junior footy team have a kid run out in #111 because there was duplicate #11 jumpers?

If one of the 1s was a strip of strapping tape, yes

 

[mike14]

Anybody else's junior footy team have a kid run out in #111 because there was duplicate #11 jumpers?

We always went with #77. Strapping tape can solve almost anything...

 

[HollyValentine]

Draper

 

[DERO]

are the rumours premature?

 

[Don Won]

are the rumours premature?

Running and kicking freely today, but didn’t play the practice match

 

[rumply]

Running and kicking freely today, but didn’t play the practice match

Easing the big fella in, no rush.

 

[tenderwarrior]

Somebody I know who claims to have inside knowledge tells me he has a leg injury.. i know that is a bit vague!

Anyway, I hope he is okay. He has huge upside.

 

['51 Bewick]

Somebody I know who claims to have inside knowledge tells me he has a leg injury.. i know that is a bit vague!

Nice story

 

[VelvetSledge]

I love the headline of this thread. We have rumours that players AREN'T injured now.

 

[tenderwarrior]

Nice story

You told me last year you knew somebody at the club that gives you information, so I assumed that if you made a claim it had some weight behind it, so asked the question here to see if somebody had more information. No offence intended.