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Sydney was my tip to drop down this year.

I'm not sure about finishing last though.

I still believe the bottom two will most likely be Carlton and Gold Coast. Both with young teams playing a lot of kids, without too much quality depth. It's a long season and the grind catches up to younger players first. Both teams could fall away pretty quickly like Gold Coast did last year.

Carlton better hope Liam Stocker and who ever they draft with Adelaides pick is worth last years trade, because handing pick 1 to Adelaide will really hurt when Rowell is exactly the player they need to round out their midfield.

Adelaide will be happy if they end up with pick 1, with two SA kids, Will Gould and Dylan Stephens being outside chances to climb up to pick 1, or they just pick Rowell, or trade pick 1 to Gold Coast if one or Rankine or Lukosius requests a trade back to SA.
Hey briz, I just had a quick look at the phantom draft board trying to find some opinions on our academy boy Will Martyn, saw him ranked in the mid 20s on a couple of power ranking boards but no write ups. What's seems to be the general vibe/opinion on him from those in the know?
 

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Hey briz, I just had a quick look at the phantom draft board trying to find some opinions on our academy boy Will Martyn, saw him ranked in the mid 20s on a couple of power ranking boards but no write ups. What's seems to be the general vibe/opinion on him from those in the know?
The commentary on Martyn from the Vic draft watchers has been that he can find the ball and rack up possessions, but needs to clean up his disposal.

Currently viewed more as a mid to late second or early third round prospect. Has been likened to SA's 2018 U18 captain, Luke Valente who went pick 32 last year (Valente would have gone a little earlier to Gold Coast, if Gold Coast hadn't of made a series of trades and kept their original picks, as Gold Coast really rated Jez McLennan and Luke Valente)


But there hasn't been much to go on yet. Wait until after the U18 Champs, when all the top kids have played against each other. A bit hard to judge the WA and SA talent when they're not playing against the other kids and teams in the NAB league.

Also, the academy teams are playing against weakened Vic teams, because the top 100 odd U18's and U17's played in two Vic Country versus Vic Metro trial matches the first weekend the academy teams played Vic clubs, and now private school footy is back, so almost all the top year 11 and 12 kids are playing private school footy, and we're again not playing against full strength Vic teams.


There's a new Brisbane Lions supporter commentating on the draft threads, specifically about the Brisbane academy games and kids. My guess is he's a parent of one of the academy kids. Offers some good insight, and I haven't been able to pick up any bias to one kid yet.


Just from reading the various draft pages it's a pretty open draft after the top 5 or so kids. Personally I like following Pie 4 Life's draft thread. His top 5 have been the best performed kids so far in the first month of footy.

Lachlan Ash was my hope for our first pick before the season started, but he has started the season on fire, showing great improvement from last year, and has rocketed up everyone's draft boards.

If Collingwood make the preliminary finals this year we're likely missing out on the second tier of mids and running defender types, and possibly looking at a few KPP's as the best available on board, going off the early season discussions.
 
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Hey briz, I just had a quick look at the phantom draft board trying to find some opinions on our academy boy Will Martyn, saw him ranked in the mid 20s on a couple of power ranking boards but no write ups. What's seems to be the general vibe/opinion on him from those in the know?
The fact he was selected to play for the AFL Academy against Casey Demons is a very good indicator on how he is rated by club recruiters. Tough inside mid who also works hard on the outside and has a good field kicking technique. His appeal will be his ability to play on the inside and also on a wing and still have an impact, handy forward aswel.

briztoon i would not agree with others about his disposal, a few of his errors come from trying to bite off more than he can chew, his technique especially kicking is one I really like, keeps the ball low and penetrates never looping his kicks which will hold up at the next level.
 

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The fact he was selected to play for the AFL Academy against Casey Demons is a very good indicator on how he is rated by club recruiters. Tough inside mid who also works hard on the outside and has a good field kicking technique. His appeal will be his ability to play on the inside and also on a wing and still have an impact, handy forward aswel.

briztoon i would not agree with others about his disposal, a few of his errors come from trying to bite off more than he can chew, his technique especially kicking is one I really like, keeps the ball low and penetrates never looping his kicks which will hold up at the next level.
Man, you must stalk our draft thread. lol

But you comments are always appreciated and welcome. You're much more informed than I am, as I am basically paraphrasing yours and Pie's work 99% of the time.
 
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Man, you must stalk our draft thread. lol

But you comments are always appreciated and welcome. You're much more informed than I am, as I am basically paraphrasing yours and Pie's work 99% of the time.
When I post on a thread even once I’ll get notified of posts from that thread so yeah expect me to bob up now and again :p
 
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