For all the people worried about us trading away our 2018 draft picks, I came across this article today
http://www.afc.com.au/news/2016-05-09/bumper-2017-draft-looms
May 9, 2016 12:42 PM
Clubs may be more reluctant to trade future draft selections this year with a bumper crop of prospects expected to be available in 2017.
Recruiters have been excited about next year's NAB AFL Draft pool since the under-16 carnival last year, when a mix of talls, midfielders and smaller types shone across both divisions.
NAB AFL Academy coach Brenton Sanderson, who recently led the level one academy squad of 2017 hopefuls on a tour of New Zealand, said clubs were already looking forward to next year's draft.
"This is a really exciting young group, and the water cooler talk at the moment around here is that this is a very strong draft. The 2017 draft looks to be a very strong draft," Sanderson told
AFL.com.au's
Road to the Draftpodcast.
"I've seen so much great young talent in this group already. This year's draft coming up looks to be full of great midfielders, and the 2017 draft there's some fantastic talls and a good couple of ruckman in there as well.
"I don't want to jump too early, but it (the 2017 crop) looks to be a really strong group."
I'm not joking when I say that I'm pretty sure every single year I've been following the draft has predicted the next year to be a 'superdraft'