Game Day 2022 AFL Draft

[Tonga Bob]

If anybody wants to have a crack at predicting the draft* then Dear Leader Chief has some swag up for grabs.

Win Prizes - 2022 Official BigFooty Draft Tipping Competition - Joint winners JT_the_Man and the Ziebull!

The BigFooty Official Draft Tipping Competition is back again for 2022! Tip the first round of the draft and WIN. PRIZES 1st place = 2 year BigFooty Platinum membership + shiny badge thanks to Chief 2nd place = 1 year BigFooty Platinum membership Entries close 7:00 PM AEDT on Monday November...

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* Draft Responsibly.

 

[Tonga Bob]

Morning friends,

Well it's that time of the year again, Draft Day. And thanks to our recruitment of Generational Talent Luke Jackson

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Luke Jackson

Age

24

Ht

199cm

Wt

102kg

Pos.

F/R

Career

Season

Last 5

D

8.3

2star

K

3.3

1star

HB

5.0

4star

M

1.5

2star

T

1.0

3star

G

0.3

3star

D

8.3

2star

K

3.3

1star

HB

5.0

3star

M

1.5

2star

T

1.0

2star

G

0.3

3star

D

8.3

3star

K

3.3

2star

HB

5.0

4star

M

1.5

2star

T

1.0

3star

G

0.3

3star

, our Draft Day begins tomorrow (the Steerage Class of draft picks).

Here's what some of the draft gurus/pundits/clairvoyants say will transpire over the next couple of days:

[INSERT MOCK DRAFTS HERE]
Callum Twomey (AFL.com): Cal Twomey's 2022 Phantom Draft: Top 30, late picks, club whispers

Chris Doerre aka Knightmare (ESPN): ESPN's three-round phantom draft for 2022

Ben Waterworth (Fox Sports): AFL phantom draft 2022: Every first round pick and bid predicted in Fox Footy mock draft

SEN (SEN): SEN's 2022 AFL mock phantom draft

Michael Alvaro (Rooke Me Central): Rookie Me Central's 2022 Phantom AFL Draft

Michael's colleague Declan Reeve:


Mitch Keating (Zero Hanger): 2022 AFL Mock Draft: Picks 1-20 (final edition)

The Doc (The Mongrel Punt): The Doc's 2022 AFL Mock Draft - The Mongrel Punt

Jasper Chellappah (The Inner Sanctum): The Inner Sanctum's 2022 AFL Phantom Draft



How do you think things will go? Who do you want in purple?

Get your bricks ready folks, and LLLLLLLLLLLLLET'S GET READY TO DRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!​

 

[Tonga Bob]

While you're here, take a few minutes out of your Draft Day(s) to cast a vote on the 2022 Game Previews poll.

Win Prizes - Season 2022 Game Previews

Welcome back everyone. So I finally found my To Do list from a while ago, and written in red between "Mow the back yard" and "Get your act together" is "Wrap up the Game Preview thread" which I must have overlooked. Boy is there egg on my face! We ended up having ten game previews this season...

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[Tonga Bob]

To prepare you for the next couple of days, here is a handy reference of gifs to use depending on the situation.

A) First up is the gif for when we draft someone you really wanted:



B) Next is a gif for when you see someone on the draft board that you recognise:

C) Next is a gif for when we pick somebody that you haven't heard of:



D) Next is a gif for when you agree with another poster, no matter how different your opinions may usually be:



E) Next is a gif for when you're asked for an opinion on who we should draft but you have NFI on who the potential draftees are:



F) Next is a gif for when you see a player you wanted go to another club (the Ed Allan gif):

G) Next is a gif for when a player from a lower level (ie: WAFL etc) team that you follow gets drafted:



H) Next is a gif for when you REALLY don't like what we've done on Draft Days (iykyk):

I) But ultimately, whoever we select should be receiving this gif:

 

[Tonga Bob]

Welcome back everyone. After a first night of Draft Days where some clubs did some stuff, today's the day for the real prospectors to step up and find the gems that the greedy clubs failed to see with their first-round blinkers on. Time to get to work.

[INSERT VINCE MCMAHON POWER WALKING ONLY IT'S PETER BELL'S HEAD GIF]​

 

[Tonga Bob]

Well punters the main draft is done. We've come away with Benjamin Button the red-headed key defender, Tom 'Doc' Emmett (who only has 4 unique letters in his name), SoT (son of Trent) the Gippsland Giant and Corey (gory, story, allegory and Montessori for those playing at home). All have their own stories to tell, but now they're ours so get around them! Personally I'm sad that Wagner got rid of that sweet mo, although I'm hoping we pick it up as a rookie.

Speaking of, today sees the pre-season & rookie drafts take place. Kicks off at 3pm VFL time which is lunchtime back in the Motherland, with the rookies going off around 3:20pm or so. We've got a couple of NGA kids to look forward to, and possibly another surprise in store. We're pretty wacky like that.

One final note - VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE GAME PREVIEW OR FREO WILL PASS ON ALL ROOKIE PICKS! BOB MURPHY TOLD ME SO.