BigFooty Official 2018 Big Footy Phantom Draft

[Pie 4 Life]

Richmond select Hugo Munn.

Not the quickest key forward you will ever see, but I love his thirst for the contest and looking at the depth in the position for the Tigers, they do not have a heap after their two elites. Getting some extra depth there, especially one who can ruck/forward is important IMO. Might not be there at the next pick, hence going now.

cotter101

 

[dermott]

ill match the bid, if it was before my first i wouldnt have matched, also id be lynched by the Hawks board if i didnt

Lynched drawn and quartered more likely. We want the Mozzie.

 

[briztoon]

Brisbane go tall and take Hudson Garoni who I feel should have gone earlier.

Will get write ups tomorrow as my laptop is in the office

I know you're a fan of Garoni, but it feels like we have an overabundance of young talls in the squad already. I'm outa my depth this far in to the draft, guessing there weren't any HBF types with line breaking speed left to look at?

 

[Gosaints12]

Pick 62 - St Kilda - Angus Hanrahan (Sandringham Dragons/Vic Metro)

Write up to come, but an exciting forward with good skills and upside. Joins his teammate Max King at the Saints.

We don’t have that pick anymore we have it West Coast, (originally pick 57)

 

[Pie 4 Life]

We don’t have that pick anymore we have it West Coast, (originally pick 57)

I just go by the OP order

 

[Gosaints12]

I just go by the OP order

Fair enough

 

[Davo-27]

Pick 50 - Xavier O'Neill 183cm 75kg (Oakleigh Chargers)

another under rated midfielder from Oakleigh, good size, seems energetic on field, always notice him freeing up a team mate with a handball and has a wonderful kick which is a strength, he also has good numbers in tackles and marks which indicates his work-rate around the ground(1 %, team work) and has the flexibility to play as a flanker, the reason why i went mid/flanker here was because there wasnt any reliable tall at this pick and the Hawks have an abundance of medium forwards and defenders, so mids and talls was the strategy at this pick, Noah Gown might come into consideration if he was still around, whereas Garoni and O'Reilly didnt peak my interest as much, Hamill, Ross and Vandermeer are others i was hoping for so it was a choice between O'Neill a mid/flanker over Vandermeer a flanker/mid, Tom Joyce was also a consideration but i had less information on him.

Pick 63 - Irving Mosquito 175cm 69kg (Gippsland Power)

small forward who is a burst player and a goal kicking opportunist, averages a goal a game, finished 5th or 6th in the Morrish Medal, has some raw talent, but also needs a lot of work to get to the next level, has some good agility and burst speed, can go missing in games for long periods, Gippsland tried him in the midfield to give him more exposure with mixed results, his left foot kicking can be a mix of very good to ordinary, but he is a highlight package of a player, so when he does get it right its usually the highlight of the game, but as i said i wouldnt have matched before our first pick as i think he is a project and pick 50 was much more valuable

Snoop Dog

 

[Snoop Dog]

Pick 62 - St Kilda - Angus Hanrahan (Sandringham Dragons/Vic Metro)

Write up to come, but an exciting forward with good skills and upside. Joins his teammate Max King at the Saints.

Wow he lasted a long time. Was next up for me.

 

[Snoop Dog]

We don’t have that pick anymore we have it West Coast, (originally pick 57)

Pie 4 Life

No the order is correct. With movement around matching selections the order obviously changes. All good.

 

[Snoop Dog]

LemmingMaster you are up

 

[cotter101]

Great gets cotter, Jezz McClennan, Connor McFadyen, Tom Berry and Hudson Garoni, of the players available at your selections I think your picks were spot on.

I don't know much about Garoni other than he's a key forward and IIRC you have mentioned being a fan of him throughout the year. Did you consider a mature age player instead of Garoni eg. Marlion Pickett, Nick Hind, Michael Gibbons.

I know you're a fan of Garoni, but it feels like we have an overabundance of young talls in the squad already. I'm outa my depth this far in to the draft, guessing there weren't any HBF types with line breaking speed left to look at?

We do have a somewhat abundance of tall’s on the list. I feel Andrews, Adams, Skinner, Payne, Walker, Eagles as key defenders with Hipwood, McStay, Ballenden, Skinner and Fullerton as forwards.

4 of those players could well be coming to the end in 2019.

Garoni for mine was too good to pass up. Fair to say I rate him higher than most around here.

 

[Snoop Dog]

We do have a somewhat abundance of tall’s on the list. I feel Andrews, Adams, Skinner, Payne, Walker, Eagles as key defenders with Hipwood, McStay, Ballenden, Skinner and Fullerton as forwards.

4 of those players could well be coming to the end in 2019.

Garoni for mine was too good to pass up. Fair to say I rate him higher than most around here.

I just pm'd you. Think you have taken to many picks so am going to take Garoni out and stick back in the pool and mark that last selection as a pass. When the Lions took Lyons they went back to 3 live selections. I may have that wrong so will leave until you confirm.

 

[AsterixTheGaul]

Snoop Dog - any reason why you are still showing collingwood with 54 ad 55 as passes? It is playing with the numbering in my spreadsheet!

 

[LemmingMaster]

Pick 65 - Carlton - Tom Joyce
giantroo

 

[Pie 4 Life]

Snoop Dog - any reason why you are still showing collingwood with 54 ad 55 as passes? It is playing with the numbering in my spreadsheet!

Knightmare passing the picks might have something to do with it

 

[Eastcoasteagle]

Pick 63 - Richmond bid Irving Mosquito (Hawthorn NGA).

Over to Davo-27 if he wants him.

Richmond trying to add to their Mosquito fleet!

 

[ArdentEagle]

I wanted to pick this guy, but I was going to take Damon Greaves here because nobody else is talking about him. Now I don't have to. And I'm just going to copy and paste the profile I wrote a week ago...

Pick 59 Fremantle - Tom Lewis (179cm, 80kg from Sturt)

I'm a big fan of Tom Lewis. I had him top 20 all year, but dropped him down into the 30s in my most recent rankings - more because I didn't want it to seem too SA biased. But if I update before the draft, he'll be right back up there. It's hard to call someone a steal before they're even drafted, but if he gets picked where the talk seems to be then he'll be a massive steal in my opinion.

If we're talking true inside midfielders, the bottom of every pack getting the ball out kind. Then Lewis is arguably the best in the draft. There's Ely Smith and Rhylee West too, but Lewis is that good. Put him one on one with Liam Stocker (the TAC Cup Morrish Medal winner as an inside midfielder) and I'd back Lewis to win more often than not. He won Sturt's Reserves B&F playing less games than most - reserves, not U18s. Could pretty much count on him to get double figure contested possessions and tackles.

Skills wise, he has elite hands amongst the draft prospects. In close he can get the handball out anywhere, sometimes seeming to contort his body to get it to the open player. For a stocky player, he has good control over his body movements and is slippery in close - hence his good agility testing at the Combine. I'm sure with some more training, he'd be able to drop like Selwood in a tackle every time. While his tackling is super, good technique and strong. Leadership qualities are high from all reports, a lead by example type.

Every year there's that a handful of players for which people say 'if only he was 5cm taller then he'd be a first rounder'. Lewis is one of the few that I think that's true for. His strengths aren't typically the ones that recruiters overlook size for early on in the draft. He doesn't have the speed of Ian Hill or the versatility of another small like Ned McHenry. If you draft him, he's playing as an inside midfielder. I'm sure he could rotate through the forward line with his defensive work, but it's not something you're banking on. He does have average speed, kicking is better over shorter distances. Perhaps some recruiters will have doubts over his crash and bash style - will he still be able to run through packs, will bigger and better tacklers wrap him up before he can squeeze out.

From the sounds of it, there's plenty of interest - generally as a later pick though. But come the third round, I don't think you'll find a much better prospect. And I'd back him to play early and have a successful career. And for Fremantle specifically, I think he'd be a really solid pickup with our third or fourth selection. He'd be a good replacement for Neale and can do the dirty work with Brayshaw in the middle, letting Cerra stay clean and add the polish. With Banfield, Fyfe and Blakely in the middle too, his height wouldn't be a real issue. While Crowden could then focus on developing as a half forward, not needing to split his time in the middle.

Ironically this sounds a lot like Lachie Neale.
Fair comparison?

 

[AsterixTheGaul]

Knightmare passing the picks might have something to do with it

I understand that it but thought we just go to the next and ignore the number so we go 1 to ...

No drama

 

[jerms]

Ironically this sounds a lot like Lachie Neale.
Fair comparison?

https://thewest.com.au/sport/freman...e-20-sturt-midfielder-tom-lewis-ng-b88998790z

 

[ArdentEagle]

https://thewest.com.au/sport/freman...e-20-sturt-midfielder-tom-lewis-ng-b88998790z

Hahahahaha - Well that answers it.
Thanks mate.

 

[giantroo]

Pick 66 - North Melbourne | Zac Foot | H: 180cm W: 71kg | Forward | Dandenong Stingrays

After missing out on his chance to be picked up by the Stingrays last year, this speedy forward was picked up by the Rays in 2018 and has not disappointed them. Foot was named in the 2018 TAC Cup team of the year after kicking multiple bags of 3 + goals. Foot has electrifying pace, marking power and goal sense, which is something North Melbourne desperately needed.


D_P_S

 

[eDPS]

Geelong with their last pick take father son Oscar Brownless

LemmingMaster

 

[AlecDuncan]

What happened to pick 65?

 

[LemmingMaster]

Pick 68 - Carlton - Ben Jarvis

 

[LemmingMaster]

What happened to pick 65?

I picked Tom Joyce.