2013 National Draft

[Dobie G]

The 2013 class could go either way in a fairly weak draft, though players coming into Port now would have a far better opportunity to succeed than what they had pre-Kenny.
A fair assessment of the draft which happens to be very similar to a recent post.

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Port Adelaide

Pick 21: Jarman Impey (Murray Bushrangers) 178 cm 76 kg
Impey is a versatile small who was very good late in the season after being moved to defence. He has shown an ability to play forward and run through the midfield but coach Ken Hinkley intends to play him off half back where the Power can utilise his speed and tackling pressure. This pick could go either way as Impey could become very good or he could fail.

Pick 45: Mitch Harvey (North Adelaide) 195 cm 97 kg
Port needed another key forward and Harvey was the best available. He is big and strong but by no means is he immobile. He isn’t ready to go yet despite his big frame and will take a while to get his endurance up to an acceptable level but he is a good selection here.

Pick 52: Darcy Byrne-Jones (Oakleigh Chargers) 180 cm 69 kg
Byrne-Jones is a skinny half back flanker who reminds me of Jasper Pittard. The Power probably weren’t expecting him to be still here and took him despite already picking another flanker in Impey. He is quick and has very good endurance and loves to take the game on from half back, but he knows his main role is to defend and he does that well. He needs to put on a bit of weight and is one to look out for in a year or so.

Pick 68: Karl Amon (Sandringham Dragons) 180 cm 73 kg
Amon doesn’t get a lot of the footy but he makes it count when he does. He has excellent foot skills and is very quick and tested very well in both the endurance testing and speed testing at the Combine. He is a speculative pick at 68 but he has the tools to be a handy role player off a wing or flank.

Overall Grade: B-
Port filled a couple of needs by getting two running defenders and a tall forward as well as picking up Amon. They wouldn’t have expected Byrne-Jones to still be there so that is a bonus but I feel as though they should have taken a midfielder somewhere.

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[Concussion]

Has anyone noticed we have picked up players that are athletic utilities with defensive mindsets. It seems that with the Interchange cap looking to be reduced again over the coming years we need players that can stay on the field and be used for rotations in the middle and at each end of the ground whilst keeping constant defensive pressure on the opponent. I like the inclusions, however am a little concerned with our Ruck Depth and think we might bring in a mature age ruck (maybe Baulderstone?) as a Rookie as Renouf, while serviceable, isn't reliable enough as back-up considering his injury history.

 

[PJ Power]

Not surprising we rate quite lowly in the ranking assessment. Clearly the author rates Crouch very, very highly and Impey as a hit or miss.
Still I'm very comfortable that we made good selections for our club and where we are currently at.
FWIW Crouch will play a lot of AFL footy and may well cream it.
What we know is that if our list remains stable in maintaining its better players over the duration of their careers, we know we have six good-excellent mids who were all taken first round.
We then have flanker-mid depth of a proven and high level - Gray, Broadbent and Monfries.
So before we need to speculate at all, we have 9 mids under the age of 26-27, with the least guarantees at present being Moore, who is looking good.
Then we can speculate on Polec who's ceiling if it pays off is very high, Newton, Young, AhChee.
To me that is enough depth and more importantly quality.
If Moore reaches his potential and Polec fires, then we will have an insanely good midfield.

So we did the right thing and improved what we didn't have and IMO we did the best we could to achieve it. Outside observers will judge our draft on whether we reached or nabbed sliders based on phantom drafts.
Insiders will get what we did.

No-one would have talked Motlop, Christensen, Walters up at drafting the way Matt Crouch has been. They would have been labelled as hit or miss. I'd take any of these three in a heartbeat to add to our list.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Enjoyed Russell Jackson's draft review in The Guardian, just a little less than deadly serious (upset a Richmond supporter* )

AFL draft review

Port Adelaide

Pick 21 – Jarman Impey, Pick 45 – Mitchell Harvey, Pick 52 – Darcy Byrne-Jones, Pick 68 – Karl Amon
Fast and versatile utility Jarman Impey was probably a “best player available” selection for Port, while key forward Harvey offers size and a genuinely ridiculous hairstyle. The aforementioned medium-defender Darcy Byrne-Jones looks like an Egon Schiele painting but hopefully he’s able to express himself on field as well. If not, life as someone’s muse awaits. After Port’s successes in recent drafts, anything they get from Karl Amon can be considered cream.

AFL draft review

*Frankston product Sam Lloyd impressed many who watched him in the VFL last season. If he’s spent more than five minutes standing out the front of Frankston train station, Tigers fans can at least be assured that he’ll be able to handle any and all abuse they throw at him.

 

[kaysee]

I saw a picture of the top 10 today and Boyd looked like the frigging Hulk among the Avengers.

Yep... he is an impressive specimen with a great demeanor to match... which is why I would have happily given up our First Round + Hartlett for him. IMO he will have a Paul Salmon/Nick Reiwoldt type career... going to be wonderful to watch.

 

[Dobie G]

Another review- Amon- the midfielder, missed out on a comment here

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PORT ADELAIDE
21 Jarman Impey - def/fwd
45 Mitch Harvey - forward
52 Darcy Byrne-Jones - defender
68 Karl Amon - midfielder
What they needed: Some more height.
What they got: Exactly that in SA forward Harvey, a giant who could become Jay Schulz's eventual replacement and fit nicely with the likes of Justin Westhoff and John Butcher up forward, should the latter develop. Impey is a utility with good hands who can play as a small defender or forward. There's not much of Byrne-Jones, who will need time to fill out. But he has speed and endurance and was on several clubs' late draft wishlist.

http://www.sportal.com.au/afl/news/...t-at-2013-afl-draft/7gdjr81ct9fg1kf4o07d3k3tm
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[Peck]

I'm not entirely comfortable with us avoiding inside midfielders. I realise that we have enough *now* but we won't when Kornes and Cassisi retire. Hopefully we pick someone up next year.

 

[finbarr]

Cornes an inside midfielder?

 

[Macca19]

Its up to Newton & AhChee really. Both have good clearance winning ability. If both fail to come on next year, I'd say an inside mid will be high priority for next year.

 

[FishingRick04]

Not surprising we rate quite lowly in the ranking assessment. Clearly the author rates Crouch very, very highly and Impey as a hit or miss.
Still I'm very comfortable that we made good selections for our club and where we are currently at.
FWIW Crouch will play a lot of AFL footy and may well cream it.

No-one would have talked Motlop, Christensen, Walters up at drafting the way Matt Crouch has been. They would have been labelled as hit or miss. I'd take any of these three in a heartbeat to add to our list.

Crows had him in the top 13 draft players apparently

 

[PJ Power]

Crows had him in the top 13 draft players apparently

Crouch?

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Crouch?

Yeah, Wildy or Shuttleworth said that today on AA.

 

[Sneeky]

The 2013 class could go either way in a fairly weak draft, though players coming into Port now would have a far better opportunity to succeed than what they had pre-Kenny.
A fair assessment of the draft which happens to be very similar to a recent post.

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How can they rate the crows at A? Which is on par with Brisbane who had an unreal draft. Also gave Carlton B, which is less than the crows. Sillys. Don't get me wrong, I think crouch will be a gun player but those ratings are pretty blind sighted.

 

[Dobie G]

How can they rate the crows at A? Which is on par with Brisbane who had an unreal draft. Also gave Carlton B, which is less than the crows. Sillys. Don't get me wrong, I think crouch will be a gun player but those ratings are pretty blind sighted.

It's an opinion, could be right or wrong, one to revisit in a few years.

 

[squinto]

It's gonna be hard to watch if Polec doesn't deliver and McCarthy does. But then again would Kenny and Parker have taken him if we still had pick 14??

Also many of the Phantom Drafts had Lewis Taylor at pick 14, who was still available at our first pick.
He was also described in the earlier phantom drafts as being quick and being able to play a variety of positions/roles. Some good clips of him for Vic Country & their Captain too!

 

[Dobie G]

Here's another view of the draft from WA, Port and 9 other clubs don't get a mention.
Potential winners and losers from the AFL draft, winners listed were GWS, collingwood, brisbane and st kilda.

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POTENTIAL LOSERS
ADELAIDE
Felt the pinch in their second year of draft penalties. Excluded from the first and second last year and this year, they traded club champion Bernie Vince for pick 23, which they used to grab Matt Crouch, the brother of their emerging midfielder Brad Crouch.
ESSENDON
Another to feel the strain under draft penalties - and they have another year of sanctions to go. The Bombers took Zach Merrett at pick 26, the brother of their utility Jackson Merrett, and gambled on a lightly-framed goalsneak, Orazio Fantasia, with pick 55.
CARLTON
The Blues raised eyebrows by completely ignorning their dearth of key fowards, instead plumping for a midfielder (Patrick Crippes, pick 13), a tall defender (Cameron Giles, pick 39) and another on-baller (Nick Holman (pick 51).
SYDNEY
With just one pick inside the top, the Swans were also battling to add genuine talent - but have long preferred to trade shrewdly anyway. They added Zak Jones (pick 15), a versatile defender with pace and solid aerial ability, and took a punt on Aliir Aliir with pick 44, a Kenyan-born defender of Sudanese heritage.

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[Powerade 08]

How can they rate the crows at A? Which is on par with Brisbane who had an unreal draft. Also gave Carlton B, which is less than the crows. Sillys. Don't get me wrong, I think crouch will be a gun player but those ratings are pretty blind sighted.

Both should get a fail - Adelaide for actively trying to trade into this draft and Brisbane for having so many picks.

Also many of the Phantom Drafts had Lewis Taylor at pick 14, who was still available at our first pick.
He was also described in the earlier phantom drafts as being quick and being able to play a variety of positions/roles. Some good clips of him for Vic Country & their Captain too!

We would not have taken him. Not an AFL player.

FWIW Crouch will play a lot of AFL footy

Doubt it. We should be comparing our pick to Dumont and Hewett who look like better prospects.

 

[Powerade 08]

Aliir Aliir (He is the black dude who gets a good run in every other players highlight vid) is the worst player ever drafted so I don't have much hope for the guys taken after him.

 

[FallingLiefs]

Aliir Aliir (He is the black dude who gets a good run in every other players highlight vid) is the worst player ever drafted so I don't have much hope for the guys taken after him.

What a shit comment. Aliir was a ruck man last year in Queensland and come over to wa by himself to improve his footy. He then played a position he had never played before and was selected for WA. He is a great guy and has all athletic properties for the modern KPD. Just because he is a project and things you read say he won't make doesn't mean he will fail. Sydney obviously aren't stupid. Comments like this are naive especially from someone that has probably never seen him live. Regardless late picks have low strike rate often only the people that work hard will succeed and Aliir will try.


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[Malibu#27]

Heard last night that Dunstans old man was 100% confident port were taking him if he was there at their pick.

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[n4nirvana]

Heard last night that Dunstans old man was 100% confident port were taking him if he was there at their pick.

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So means Port would only accept Dunstan as the slider

but (obviously) not Dumont or Hewett

 

[philthy05]

i too would think that inside mid specialist win it out of the pack in and under mid would be high on our priority list in the next couple of years.

if you look at the plethora of inside mids that were available this draft though many of them were not very good runners. wondering whether hinks might want an inside guy to also be a hard hard runner. like wines for example. none of the inside mids this year run like he does.

 

[Nemisis]

Dumont is a hard runner - I still cant believe we overlooked the lad. Good luck to him at the Kangas

 

[finbarr]

So means Port would only accept Dunstan as the slider

but (obviously) not Dumont or Hewett

So it means Richardson 100% cut our lunch.

 

[Powerade 08]

What a shit comment. Aliir was a ruck man last year in Queensland and come over to wa by himself to improve his footy. He then played a position he had never played before and was selected for WA. He is a great guy and has all athletic properties for the modern KPD. Just because he is a project and things you read say he won't make doesn't mean he will fail. Sydney obviously aren't stupid. Comments like this are naive especially from someone that has probably never seen him live. Regardless late picks have low strike rate often only the people that work hard will succeed and Aliir will try.


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Good to see we agree.