2009 Draft Camp Thread

[Palmer Stoat]

Re: Draft Camp predictions

great job by vinnie vegas coming into this thread and whinging about what might happen after the draft camp

exactly what u like to see from mods

Haha, gotta love the preemptive whinging.

 

[WOW Jones]

Wheres the goal kicking test and the put your head over the ball test and dare i say lay a tackle test....the camp is good for the scientists and the sports ed people to record and match there data !!! Im sure someone will really get excited about the draft camp and get a a warm fuzzy feeling about it ....

 

[beatlesmith]

Wheres the goal kicking test and the put your head over the ball test and dare i say lay a tackle test....the camp is good for the scientists and the sports ed people to record and match there data !!! Im sure someone will really get excited about the draft camp and get a a warm fuzzy feeling about it ....

???
That is what the championships and TAC cup are for, dumbarse.
The DC is very useful as it displays athletic capabilities peer to peer, something that is very hard to tell when watching a match.
The truth is that fitness and athleticism are as important to football as they have ever been. The game is much faster and more cardio-intensive than it used to be, hence the increasing emphasis on DC results.
Guys like Greg Williams are a dying breed.

 

[WOW Jones]

???
That is what the championships and TAC cup are for, dumbarse.
The DC is very useful as it displays athletic capabilities peer to peer, something that is very hard to tell when watching a match.
The truth is that fitness and athleticism are as important to football as they have ever been. The game is much faster and more cardio-intensive than it used to be, hence the increasing emphasis on DC results.
Guys like Greg Williams are a dying breed.

dumbarse is wot half the tossbags that get excited over dc results are !!!give me a greg williams any day to a trent croad !!! cya later beetle dick

 

[Vinnie Vegas]

Re: Draft Camp predictions

great job by vinnie vegas coming into this thread and whinging about what might happen after the draft camp

exactly what u like to see from mods

Apologies.

I should have just repeated a group of draft camp participant's names in a semi-random order, rather than attempting a bit of levity that has been taken way too seriously.

Many apologies, good sir.

 

[__aria__]

Re: Draft Camp predictions

no probs bro
very sorry this thread is beneath u

 

[Eastern Rangers]

Re: Draft Camp predictions

Lucas's stocks will rise after this, should do very well with 0-20 sprints, repeat sprints, time trail, beep test, kicking and vertical leap tests. Not sure how well he will do in the agility department but hes good speed so he should do well.

 

[jimmy181]

Re: Draft Camp predictions

Lucas's stocks will rise after this, should do very well with 0-20 sprints, repeat sprints, time trail, beep test, kicking and vertical leap tests. Not sure how well he will do in the agility department but hes good speed so he should do well.

yes agreed, excellent runner! think he made come into fremantle's calculations with a good draft camp if they cant get morabito

 

[Vader]

???
That is what the championships and TAC cup are for, dumbarse.
The DC is very useful as it displays athletic capabilities peer to peer, something that is very hard to tell when watching a match.
The truth is that fitness and athleticism are as important to football as they have ever been. The game is much faster and more cardio-intensive than it used to be, hence the increasing emphasis on DC results.
Guys like Greg Williams are a dying breed.

You do realise that the AFL has introduced a kicking skills test to the raft of tests conducted at draft camp this year?

The original question was nowhere near as dumb as you made it out to be.

You might want to familiarise yourself with the content of this article:
http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/82957/default.aspx

 

[Eastern Rangers]

The kicking results will be very intresting, certainly will suprise people.
Allot of these kids have been in the system for years, clubs that have eyes around all the junior comps can be relativly certain about what types of players they are going to get.
DC results can really make the difference between choosing one player and another, you cant underestimate the importance of particular athletic abilites, if one say top ten player in the draft has a great vertical leap or is quick but does not make full advantage of it then you can certainly get that player to work on his game once he joins your club.

 

[Junior Boy]

The kicking results will be very intresting, certainly will suprise people.
Allot of these kids have been in the system for years, clubs that have eyes around all the junior comps can be relativly certain about what types of players they are going to get.
DC results can really make the difference between choosing one player and another, you cant underestimate the importance of particular athletic abilites, if one say top ten player in the draft has a great vertical leap or is quick but does not make full advantage of it then you can certainly get that player to work on his game once he joins your club.

Well said mate. I think that the draft camp is more to get a better under-standing of endurance, agility ect ( the recruiters would already know but this just clarifies this)

 

[beatlesmith]

You do realise that the AFL has introduced a kicking skills test to the raft of tests conducted at draft camp this year?

The original question was nowhere near as dumb as you made it out to be.

You might want to familiarise yourself with the content of this article:
http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/82957/default.aspx

Give me a break.
I mentioned the kicking test twice in the OP, you patronizing malcontent.
Regardless of your pedanticism, the principle of the DC is, and always has been; athleticism and fitness.
The kicking test is really a gimmick and the scoring system is dumb. Also doesn't take in to account pressure, distraction or kicking on the run, let alone the ability to prove consistency.

 

[Burzum]

Re: Draft Camp predictions

I'm going to say that most of the tests will be won by people that nobody has really talked up yet, instantly rocketing those players into the first round of most of the mock drafts around here.

Whoa! Don't go out on a limb there, Vinnie!

 

[DCFCFAN84]

I think Morabito might finish top 3 in the repeat sprints he can really fly. What day does the camp actually start?

 

[Ollies]

How is the beep test measured? I thought it was how many sets you completed in a given time. Like an agility test with endurance component. AFL site has an article about Tom Scully which says he did one at the AIS and "had to be pulled up at 15.5". Any ideas?

 

[thedog]

Nat Fyfe has a crazy vertical leap. expect him to finish well in this department

 

[blues2010]

How is the beep test measured? I thought it was how many sets you completed in a given time. Like an agility test with endurance component. AFL site has an article about Tom Scully which says he did one at the AIS and "had to be pulled up at 15.5". Any ideas?

Scully was just showed on ten news and looked very sick. i don't think he will compete as just had minor knee surgery last week but if he did he would smash the 3k record and probably the beep test as well. He ran 9.26 on grass for the 3k earlier this year and the record is 9.46 or there abouts

 

[worsfold]

9.37 is the record
http://www.topendsports.com/sport/afl/testing-draft-results.htm

 

[Junior Boy]

Anybody have any results of some tests that have undergone thus far?

 

[adagio]

Kane Lucas ran 7.77s in the agility test, rivaling Hill's time last year. He says of all the tests that is probably his weakness and is looking forward to the endurance tests. Hell of an athlete.

 

[pacemaker]

Mora hasn't fully recovered from a quad injury from 3 weeks ago and wont be completing all the tests. Which is a good thing for WCE but i doubt he will slide down that far

 

[bulldogsman]

Top 5 for repeat sprints

Jack Fitzpatrick, Robbie Hicks, Jordan Williams, Gary Rohan, Jason Tutt

http://twitter.com/emmasq

 

[bulldogsman]

^^^ And the rest Dustin Martin, Lewis Jetta, Dylan Grimes, Brad Sheppard, Jake Melksham

 

[beatlesmith]

Colyer hasn't done jack shit yet. Will probably slide now. Still wouldn't mind him at 23.

 

[__aria__]

hopefully fitzpatrick carves it up and fools someone into taking him before our pick 21 rolls around