Strategy 2016 Draft Needs

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What are they testing at the combine today?

Day 1 is usually introduction and physical measurements, Height, Weight, Handspan etc along with interviews and Medicals as far as I know..

Then :

Draft prospects will participate in an in-depth evaluation of their potential to play at the highest level during the four-day event at Etihad Stadium.

Testing will measure athletic attributes such as speed, agility and endurance along with refined drills to assess their football skills.

Friday will be highlighted by the Matthew Lloyd clean hands test, the Nathan Buckley kicking test and the Brad Johnson goal-kicking test.

Saturday is a big day for testing and will include the sprint and agility tests as well as the beep test.

The Combine finishes up on Sunday with the 3km time trial.

 

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Emma Quayle's Annual Combine Harvester is out where she collates all the individual player's Talent Managers for their insights into the youngsters...

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/tradin...ft-the-combine-harvester-20161005-grvi2t.html

Couldn't resist...my boy Jarrod Berry...

Born: 5.2.1998

Height: 191cm

Weight: 80kg

AFL bio: Versatile defender-midfielder with excellent athletic ability and game sense. A prolific ball-winner who won Vic Country's Most Valuable Player award in 2014 and All-Australian honours last year before injury interrupted his 2016. Member of the NAB AFL Academy.

"Jarrod's an outstanding leader. He's a boy you'd want to go to war with. He does everything possible to become better in everything he does. He jumps on his bike to go to the gym by himself and after games, when everyone else is gone, he'll be the one in here doing his rehab. He's just determined to get the best out of himself and whoever picks him up will be very pleased with the person they're bringing in. He can play in various positions; I don't think you can pigeonhole him. He's showed he can play the half-back role, he's showed this year that he can play on-ball and he's a very dangerous player when he goes forward as well. He hasn't had a good run at it because of injury this year, but he has many strings to his bow."

Phil Partington, North Ballarat talent manager

 

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Did they say basketball background? This guy might be a smokey for us

Mitch McCarthy (Dandenong Stingrays)

Born: 10.10.1997

Height: 196cm

Weight: 87kg

AFL bio: Very athletic tall forward who returned from a stint in the US at high school pursuing basketball to play for Vic Country in the NAB AFL Under-18 Championships, averaging 15 hitouts. Quick and agile, he's still developing his skill set.

"Mitch is an elite basketballer but he's been involved with our program all the way through which is why he couldn't be taken as a category B rookie. When he was 16 he'd come and train here, be on the track for 30 minutes and then go off to basketball training. He went away to school in America to do year 12 and had a few college scouts interested, but he rang me up at the end of his 18th year and said he hated it and wanted to come home, so we got him back in. He still has a lot to learn and needs to just keep playing the game, but his testing has been really good, he's come on well and he looks to me like a key defender. In his best two games for us he did some really good things behind the ball. He's 196 but I think he has some growing still do do and he's going to end up a monster. He has an Indigenous background: his mum's mum is part of the stolen generation and that's something he really started to identify with at around 15 or 16."

Mark Wheeler, Dandenong talent manager

 

[Stiffy_18]

If we keep our pick, we all expect us to draft a midfielder but I would not be surprised in the slightest if we select a key forward. Our young key forward stocks are low and even at the end of last year's trade period we said over the next couple of years we will focus on getting some talls to develop.

Midfield is more of an instant need for us. It would be nice to add a gun young midfielder but I suspect we might go for talls.

 

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http://m.afl.com.au/news/2016-10-06/hawks-or-crows.mobileapp

 

[latinoheat]

If we keep our pick, we all expect us to draft a midfielder but I would not be surprised in the slightest if we select a key forward. Our young key forward stocks are low and even at the end of last year's trade period we said over the next couple of years we will focus on getting some talls to develop.

Midfield is more of an instant need for us. It would be nice to add a gun young midfielder but I suspect we might go for talls.

Agree, we should probably look at picking up a KPF with one of our picks. I guess Keath is an option, believe he played as a forward as a 17/18 yo. Probably why we bid on the guy from Brissie 2 years ago (forgot his name) and Himmelberg last year.

 

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SA Draft hopeful Tyson Stengle doing the paperwork at the combine....

Really hope this kid gets a crack, has come from a long way back regarding his family background.

 

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Tyson's Medical....

 

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Tyson's Medical....

Jeez...intimidating much? Have a bunch of old blokes stand around staring at you while another old bloke feels you up. Can think of better ways to spend a Friday afternoon.

 

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SA's Kym LeBois getting the 3rd degree..

 

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SA's Sam Walker...note Essendon's Doc Bruce Reid front and centre..

 

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Probable No.1 Draft Pick Hugh McCluggage doing the Psychomotor test...

 

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http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-10-06/nab-afl-draft-combine-the-big-preview

 

[Jeffcrowe]

If we keep our pick, we all expect us to draft a midfielder but I would not be surprised in the slightest if we select a key forward. Our young key forward stocks are low and even at the end of last year's trade period we said over the next couple of years we will focus on getting some talls to develop.

Midfield is more of an instant need for us. It would be nice to add a gun young midfielder but I suspect we might go for talls.

There ain't none to draft
There is Marshall - who is more a westhoff / hentschel type and Battle who is potentially more a Tom Lynch (crows) roamer type even though he doesn't use his endurance yet

Next year will be more prosperous for key forwards

 

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Tyson's Medical....

The whole thing really is a sick meat market

 

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One of the very few genuine talls in this draft I would use a later [speculative] pick on and see how he develops, has a leap that has to be seen to be believed and the only time I saw him live looked to have speed and athleticism in spades. Plenty to work with. I posted some video footage of him earlier in this thread...

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-ne...-mccarthy-chose-football-20161006-grwovg.html

Why draft prospect Mitch McCarthy chose football

• Emma Quayle
• Mitch McCarthy didn't realise how much he truly loved football until he was living on the other side of the world and couldn't watch a game on television, let alone kick a ball around.
  
  The teenager spent six months last year living in California, going to high school, cramming in even more classes online and playing basketball in front of college scouts and coaches.
  
  
  
  
  MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 06: AFL draft prospect Mitch McCarthy poses for a photo at Etihad Stadium on October 6, 2016 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Patrick Scala/Fairfax Media) Photo: Pat Scala
  He went there feeling like basketball owned all of his heart but finished the year with four things: offers from three colleges and the knowledge that what he really wanted to do was come home.
  
  "There were a few factors," said McCarthy, who arrived back in Melbourne on Christmas Day with his parents and older sister, who moved to the US with him and were living a few hours away in San Diego.
  
  One was fatigue. High school in LA was fun; there was homecoming, and the prom, "just like all the TV shows." But to qualify for college McCarthy had to be extremely disciplined and do hour upon hour of catching up.
  
  Completing all the core subjects he needed meant spending all day at school then going home to do more work in his own time, in between training and playing for Village Christian High School.
  
  He did 400 hours of online study in one semester, on top of everything else. "It was good for me and it made me work hard and be organised, but it also took a toll," he said. "I never really got a rest. By the end, it was really full-on."
  
  The second thing McCarthy knew was that he was a little bit homesick; even though his family was just a four-hour drive away, he was seeing them once a month or less.
  
  On top of that, there was footy; he made his mind up just as a number of players from his team the Dandenong Stingrays - Jacob Weitering, Kieran Collins, Brandon White - became AFL draftees last November.
  
  "More than anything, I really missed footy. I was starved of it," said McCarthy.
  
  "Every time I saw someone kick an American footy or I kicked one myself it would bring back memories and I couldn't even watch the game on TV, so being that far away made me see how much I loved it.
  
  "I thought about it a lot and decided I really wanted to have a shot at it, and see what I could do."
  
  McCarthy made a quick impression, despite his late start. He is tall, he loves to run and he can jump.
  
  His biggest challenge was to re-learn how the game is played - "it changes so much from the under-16s to the under-18s, I had never heard of structures before" - a process that wasn't helped when he suffered a navicular stress fracture just nine games in, one week after he had felt like he might just be starting to work the whole thing out.
  
  It was tough. "It was heartbreaking and at first I was thinking, 'year over, career over, everything over," said McCarthy, who let his foot rest for 12 weeks and recently started running again.
  
  He won't be able to do any of the testing at this week's combine - a frustration, because he wanted to get a sense of where he might fit in - but will step up his running in the next few weeks.
  
  "It's 100 per cent now. I jumped to conclusions at first, but it was a tiny, tiny crack and everything that's happened since and everything I've been told about it has been very reassuring."
  
  When he came back from America, some clubs wondered whether they might have been able to sign McCarthy as a category b rookie. They couldn't; the few under-16 games he played for the Stringrays meant he was not eligible.
  
  More recently he has been nominated by St Kilda as an indigenous prospect the club may get to list as a next generation academy rookie, should he be overlooked in next month's national draft.
  
  It was only a few years ago - when previously unknown siblings of his mother started calling her to introduce themselves - that she and the family began to learn more about where they had come from.
  
  "It all came out of the blue. People were out there putting together the family history and one day someone rang her saying, 'I think I'm your sister," McCarthy said.
  
  "My mum is one of 10, now. One of my uncles is an elder and I love catching up with him because he's just like a book, with all the history he throws at you.
  
  "It's still very new and my knowledge on it is pretty limited, but my mum can talk about it all for hours. It's something I'm very interested in getting involved with and learning a lot more about."

 

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Basketballer? Ogilvie will be all over him!

 

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Pass lol marty36

 

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Long day for the youngsters...still going at 7PM

 

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Impressive effort by SA's Sam Walker looking at this...

 

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Jonty's kicking drill..

 

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Brandan Parfitt North Adelaide NT/SA clean hands drill..

 

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Ben Jarman's goal kicking drill...