Live Chat 2017 AFL Draft - #2, #5, #42, #60, #66, #70, #77, #80, #90

Which players do we take with #2 & #5?

  • Luke Davies-Uniacke

    Votes: 128 77.6%
  • Cameron Rayner

    Votes: 25 15.2%
  • Darcy Fogarty

    Votes: 42 25.5%
  • Adam Cerra

    Votes: 12 7.3%
  • Jaidyn Stephenson

    Votes: 8 4.8%
  • Paddy Dow

    Votes: 28 17.0%
  • Andrew Brayshaw

    Votes: 56 33.9%
  • Jack Higgins

    Votes: 3 1.8%
  • Sam Hayes

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • Jarrod Brander

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • Aaron Naughton

    Votes: 8 4.8%
  • Oscar Allen

    Votes: 4 2.4%
  • Nick Coffield

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Charlie Constable

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • Hunter Clark

    Votes: 2 1.2%
  • Noah Balta

    Votes: 2 1.2%
  • Aiden Bonar

    Votes: 2 1.2%

  • Total voters
    165
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and then come back again if anyone #7 and under becomes a superstar. I actually think he'd be a great fit for Collingwood. They have like 1 tall on their entire list.
It really is an easy kill for anyone with an axe to grind, it's lose-lose-lose-win.
Lose - someone else taken after him turns into a star
Lose - don't take him and he turns into a star
Lose - take him and he is serviceable but players taken after him have arguably better performances or are better suited to what we need in five years time etc
Win - take him and he turns into a star
 

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Sooooooo, we’re all agreed on LDU at #2?

Whoot!
My mind changes hourly and TBH it’s gotten to the point where I don’t care because whatever two players we pick, we’ll be getting two very, very good/elite boys of the class of 2017 and hopefully go on to play 200+ games in purple.
 
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Naughton is easily WA's best prospect but anyone involved with the State 18's Championship;) nationally will tell you he's not a top 5 talent.
Clearly Vic bias, WA did well in the championships therefore they have lots of better players who are being overlooked because of the bias media influencing our well-payed, professional recruiters to overlooking local talent (and jeopardizing their career) in order to appease the average supporter. /s

edit: /s means sarcasm
 
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Michael Johnson was taken on the psd. That year the National Draft at pick 5 was a midfielder Brock McLean.

I know who'd I rather pick. Mids always dominate the draft and not all top 5 mids turn out to be A grade players.
 
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Michael Johnson was taken on the psd. That year the National Draft at pick 5 was a midfielder Brock McLean.

I know who'd I rather pick. Mids always dominate the draft and not all top 5 mids turn out to be A grade players.
Man, if theirs ever been a better example of cherry picking convenient facts I'd like to see it
 

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Its not a mock draft, just a ranking but I do like Twomey's ratings.

Rayner + Stephenson is definitely exciting prospect. I like all of you can't make up my mind. The only think I know is I want at least 1 of the forward/mid guys. I am not even that fussy about which one. Rayner, Stevo or the Fog.

Also, can someone explain to me the idea that Naughton is a dead-set guaranteed 200 gamers of Johnno standards but most likely half the top end mids are going to be spuds?

KPP are no more immune to not making the grade, there are just less of them and more mids so there are more failures in the latter.
 

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Clearly Vic bias, WA did well in the championships therefore they have lots of better players who are being overlooked because of the bias media influencing our well-payed, professional recruiters to overlooking local talent (and jeopardizing their career) in order to appease the average supporter. /s
Yep this

WA had a terrific state champs with them matching it with both Metro and Country. That wasn't achieved by a team full of average to less than average players. When we look back at this draft in 5 years I guarantee the AFL media will have over rated many players.
 

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Yep this

WA had a terrific state champs with them matching it with both Metro and Country. That wasn't achieved by a team full of average to less than average players. When we look back at this draft in 5 years I guarantee the AFL media will have over rated many players.
Pretty sure there is a healthy dose of sarcasm in that post...
 

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Michael Johnson was taken on the psd. That year the National Draft at pick 5 was a midfielder Brock McLean.

I know who'd I rather pick. Mids always dominate the draft and not all top 5 mids turn out to be A grade players.
Our list needs more A-grade mid potential.At the moment we only have 1 A-grade mid(Fyfe).
 

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Yep this

WA had a terrific state champs with them matching it with both Metro and Country. That wasn't achieved by a team full of average to less than average players. When we look back at this draft in 5 years I guarantee the AFL media will have over rated many players.
Including West Aussies. Trust me WA was as surprised as anyone at how well they went in the Championships.
 

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Yep this

WA had a terrific state champs with them matching it with both Metro and Country. That wasn't achieved by a team full of average to less than average players. When we look back at this draft in 5 years I guarantee the AFL media will have over rated many players.
Nah. It’s just that Sumich is a super coach and can turn a team of spuds into a team of contenders.



How do I turn on the Sarcastica font?
 

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Our list needs more A-grade mid potential.At the moment we only have 1 A-grade mid(Fyfe).
Harsh on Neale, but I do agree we need more depth. We also need PLENTY of blokes who can kick goals.

Also Bennell (if fit) and possibly Blakely might fit into that category at some point.
 

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Man, if theirs ever been a better example of cherry picking convenient facts I'd like to see it
It's still a fact though

Every year there's highly touted players who go early and don't live up to expectations. There are others that include KPB who are picked late who have far better.
 

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Including West Aussies. Trust me WA was as surprised as anyone at how well they went in the Championships.
I personally think it is the mids and flankers from WA that are getting underrated. WA didn't compete because Allen and Naughton were unbeatable (they were both very good mind), they competed because they had an even spread. Not an outstanding amount of top talent but good depth. Also had a few u17 guys contribute.

Think there will be a few picked later that will surprise - especially the Vic media who will act like they came out of nowhere.
 

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It's still a fact though

Every year there's highly touted players who go early and don't live up to expectations. There are others that include KPB who are picked late who have far better.
So what are you saying exactly? You know Naughton is a guaranteed gun (because Johnno was taken in the pre-season draft the same year the number 5 pick was a spud mid) and the midfielder (even though we don't know who it is yet) is more than likely a spud therefore we should take Naughton?
 

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Clearly Vic bias, WA did well in the championships therefore they have lots of better players who are being overlooked because of the bias media influencing our well-payed, professional recruiters to overlooking local talent (and jeopardizing their career) in order to appease the average supporter. /s
This must be what West Coast saw and why they went for so many second round draft picks. I hope for our sake they’ve overrated them and it was Allen and Naughton making them look better.
 

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So what are you saying exactly? You know Naughton is a guaranteed gun (because Johnno was taken in the pre-season draft the same year the number 5 pick was a spud mid) and the midfielder (even though we don't know who it is yet) is more than likely a spud therefore we should take Naughton?
I can see Naughton being.a low risk pick. He could easily be a 200 game player. If Freo don't pick him he'll slip through our fingers.

Pretty much everyone wants two mids from this draft.
 

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I can see Naughton being.a low risk pick. He could easily be a 200 game player. If Freo don't pick him he'll slip through our fingers.

Pretty much everyone wants two mids from this draft.
What is your basis for this? How are you judging him against the top 5 mids?

He COULD easily be a 200 gamer, or a Legend, or do 3 ACLs, be the KPD version of Suban or just be a flatout spud.
 

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LDU looking pretty likely to be available at pick 2. Do we want him? Convince me Tundrawolf.
There are a number that would be great picks, so I'm pretty sure most of us will be happy if we pick up 2 of the expected top 6 or 7.

We really can't go wrong with a combo of 2 of LDU, Rayner, Dow, Fogarty, Stephenson, Brayshaw or Cerra.
Cerra is probably too similar to LDU in size and style so I think we'll go with Brayshaw, Stephenson or Fogarty at 5. I'm expecting Dow to go at 1 and Rayner to go at 3, but that order will change 100 times before draft day. It also wouldn't surprise me if we went Brayshaw and Fogarty.

Sorry I probably didn't really convince you ha!
 

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What is your basis for this? How are you judging him against the top 5 mids?

He COULD easily be a 200 gamer, or a Legend, or do 3 ACLs, be the KPD version of Suban or just be a flatout spud.
When people make predictions they don't think to themselves 'he might do 3 ACLs so let's not draft him'

I'm basing it on having watched all his Peel games live and seeing how he reads the play, his skill set and football smarts and how they could adapt to the AFL environment.

How do you base your predictions?
 
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