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Draft Review 2017 - Revisit the 2017 AFL draft

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The Old Dark Navy's said:
You might want to look up what 'fact' means. You can't say Freo are winners and Carlton are losers and claim it as fact because it hasn't been determined. The nonsense saying he can't say Carlton turbo charged their midfield is a head scratcher. We added a lot of pace with Dow, O'Brien and Garlett and it will speed up our fairly slow midfield. Not sure what our lack of a AA midfielder has to do with anything. Perhaps you misunderstood what he meant by turbo charged.[/Q
You should have got Hartung as well haha
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ShaunWDT said:
The annual dumbest comment of the year more like it, this is literally a forum for people to give their opinion, jog on.
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Then call it a prediction thread.

Your worthless opinion is based on the posts of Knightmare, a bigfooty poster. If you're going to start putting winner and loser labels on clubs based on amateur input, then there's no helping you.
 
Geelong absolutely nailed the second round of the draft with Lochie Fogarty, Kelly and Constable. I'd happily trade second round picks with them and than Miers is the cream on the cake.


Hate to pot my own here but I don't understand West Coast's draft strategy in particular in the second round where we loaded up with picks from the trade period.

After getting a tall with 13, surprising to say the least but understandable, they needed some quality midfielders and passed on Kelly at 21 before seeing him go to Geelong before our next pick, Ryan we reached to high for and may have been scared off after seeing Kelly go.

Ainsworth is the most logical pick of the four second rounders and I'm a fan of his, I like Petrucelle's sprint power but again it wasn't a needs based pick when someone like Worpel is still available. I'll back in the picks of Brander (future KPP), Allen (tall utility?), Ryan (small forward), Ainsworth (inside mid) and Brayshaw (mid - fwd) but Petrucelle is still a head scratcher.
 
Cerra's GF reaction analysis:

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HumanMeatball said:
This is why stats are irrelevant and you know nothing about football. Hartung is a soft outside cat, with disgusting decision making, average skills and is just a dumb footballer. Hell he is an athlete not a footballer. He will be delisted in 2 years. Dud
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Seem Hartung has already been drafted by the hawks, North can offer the one year if they want, and that's what has happened, according to the draft rules.
 
RUNVS said:
I wonder if Hunter Clark is going to spend much of his career being compared to Jaeger O'Meara.
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How do you rate the Ling and the other Sydney picks?

The swans are some of the better drafters in recent years.
 
BoxGerman said:
The annual dumbest thread of the year. Naturally full of keyboard experts who think they know better than professional recruiters.
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Because professional recruiters are known to always get it right.

:rolleyes:

Calls it the "annual dumbest thread of the year" but just has to read it and post in it.
 
btdg said:
This has to be just about the hardest draft I can remember to evaluate immediately after. It's a weak draft. and while we are all carried away now, any evaluation is pure guesswork, and more so than other years

I think the top 5 will be fine - solid, not necessarily stars, but decent afl standard midfielders (and 1-2 will probably be better, LDU the most likely imo). The next 9-10 will have some picks that look horrible in 5 years time. Any of that group could be out of the league in 3 years and I wouldn't be surprised. In the 15-30 range (and maybe one or two after that) I reckon every player looks like a great role player, if you squint a particular way, and they have some luck and everything pans out right. But I'd almost say MOST of that group will fail.

After 30, it honestly looks a complete crapshoot to me. Teams have swung for the fences with their preferred guys, but this year it just looks like guesswork in that range.

The teams most are saying 'won' the draft had a heap of picks in the 15-30 bracket. Richmond, Geelong, etc. Their guys have some skills that stand out, as well as a heap of flaws. Easy to look at and think 'wow, that's perfect for their team'. And maybe, in top 4 teams, where they can play to their strengths and have Dangerfield/Martin et al cover their weaknesses, that'll work really well. I think that's why Geelong and Richmonds guys look great, while West Coast and GC picks in the same range don't. But there's also a solid chance we look back and think it was insane that Geelong took a mature aged Kelly, and that Constable slid for a reason, Richmond were silly taking 2 bigs in a weak year, etc.

Similarly, Hawthorn seem to have completely foregone doing any prep for the draft at all. Given they had no picks inside the top 40, I reckon they just skimmed bigfooty. "Worpel is available? I've heard of him, let's do it. Moore is rated highly on Bishop's top 50? Take him too. Hey, Knight,are has Jackson Ross at pick 30 - lets snap him up." Actually not a bad strategy - it's not like we expect anything from those picks. Same with Port too - just firing at popular guys who slid.
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Absolutely Port Adelaide were playing "who is the best available" with their picks, they made that call during the trade period last 2 years. Having said that they were looking at ruck backup and unsuprisingly they couldnt get the words "Sam Hayes" out quick enough.
 

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Kangaroos4eva said:
How do you rate the Ling and the other Sydney picks?

The swans are some of the better drafters in recent years.
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I must admit I had not done any research what so ever on any of our 3 draft picks but now we have them, looking at their highlights and what their former coaches have said I am quite excited. Ling and Stoddart are both players the Swans really need in an attacking halfback who can kick. Ling especially is supposed to be a great decision maker as well.

I know when Jones goes for runs out of defence it opens everything up and makes it much easier for the Swans to score so run out of defence has clearly been something the Swans have targetted in this years draft. I love players who can and are very willing to take the game on and run past or through packs of other players.

As for McCartin, well it is hard to tell at this stage but I like that he is very young (30th of December was his date of birth), and he seems to be a very hard runner. Apparently needs to fix his kicking though so I hope the next year while he is at school when he comes to Swans HQ he spends most of his time in the gym and with Tony Lockett.
 
Snake_Baker said:
Whoa!

4. NORTH MELBOURNE: LUKE DAVIES-UNIACKE, midfielder, Dandenong Stingrays

Forget about Jack Higgins, this is the steal of the draft. Mark my words, Davies-Uniacke is a future All-Australian captain and Brownlow medallist. Not enough hyperbole for you? Try this. I would rather Davies-Uniacke at his age and contract than a Dustin Martin or Josh Kelly clogging up my list for a decade.

Value: A+ Team fit: A

http://www.footyology.com.au/bede-briscomb-rates-your-clubs-afl-draft-performance/
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It reads like a Groin guru post.
 
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