Game Day 2023 AFL DRAFT

[cmndstab]

Even though he is an elite kick, Schoenmaker’s lack of physicality is resulting in a big slide.

You prick Every single year this gives me deja vu whiplash!

 

[Crow_68]

Here come Port - Delean perhaps?

 

[Crow till I die]

No Ken in the room for the pear

 

[fuic08]

No Ken in the room for the pear

Dish lickers are on atm

 

[ams4crows]

Oooh Port traded up for the hardest name to pronounce!

 

[FR0GGY]

Port want to buy a vowel

 

[Tadpole]

Kezwick....


Or working with an overseas software developer saying ANZee

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That one as well.

 

[Danger in Texas]

Port said ‘Anastasopoulos Now’

 

[ABAB]

I've watched his highlights, and I have no issues at all with his talent - he looks like a gun. I get that he has midfield traits, and has been successful in that role as a junior. But he was asked directly where he would like/expect to play at AFL level and he said defence. Not "defence first up and then we'll see", not "wherever the club wants to play me". He just said defence. Hamish spoke about him as a defender. And when asked about the possibility of him being a midfielder, Hamish seemed to shrug it off. His comments sounded to me like he was saying "the time spent playing midfield as a junior will help round out his game" but that the club still saw him as a long-term defender. One who gets the ground ball well and has a great kick, sure, but a defender nonetheless.

I hope he does end up as a midfielder - we need one a lot more than a KPD. But it somehow feels like every year we take a talented player and then hope they will successfully switch positions. Rachele is a talented small forward, maybe he can move into the midfield one day. Rankine, ditto. Thilthorpe a talented ruck, perhaps he can be a KPF? For once I'd like to see us say "here is a dominant midfielder who plays in the midfield, we are expecting him to be a midfielder at AFL level."

My main concern is that we are spending all our best picks upgrading positions we've already filled with decent (or better than decent) youth (forward, defence), while neglecting positions of significant need (mid, ruck).

‘Hard to escape’: Top WA prospect Daniel Curtin opens up on draft rumours

‘Hard to escape’: Draft prodigy opens up on No.1 pick rumours amid big AFL trade mystery

www.foxsports.com.au

Asked to compare himself to an AFL player, Curtin named interceptor markers Darcy Moore and Sam Taylor, while he models his midfield game after Patrick Cripps given the Blues skipper carries a similar frame.

“I love having the ball in hand and using it. I’m a versatile player. Pretty good with the ball in hand. A good user by foot who competes well,” he said.

“I’m a big competitor, missing a lot of last year I had a lot of want built up inside me to try and make it into the AFL. I’m just really keen to get out there.”

An approximate 10cm growth spurt between the ages of 16 and 17 saw Curtin move from the midfield to playing key position, and he’s still putting on size after only going to the gym in recent years.

 

[bonehilda]

Port trade a F4 for 48 and Saints trade a F3 for 50 lol

 

[Jeffcrowe]

I'm more concerned with Gold Coast

Haven’t got us in same stratosphere as them on list talent

They are the giants of 2015-2018

Be very surprised if they aren’t top 4 from 2025 onwards

 

[MRB37]

Port trade a F4 for 48 and Saints trade a F3 for 50 lol

SOS slammed his laptop shut.

 

[Drummond]

Of course North could pick for needs they had 5 effing first rounders

How is that trade even allowed? What a joke.

 

[1990crow]

Haven’t got us in same stratosphere as them on list talent

They are the giants of 2015-2018

Be very surprised if they aren’t top 4 from 2025 onwards

That's my point. Not sure how we compete for a flag around 2025-2027.
Unless we are aiming for after that.

 

[1990crow]

Even though he is an elite kick, Schoenmaker’s lack of physicality is resulting in a big slide.

I'm shocked. Well, not shocked.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

How is that trade even allowed? What a joke.

They really should have had the new AFL exec last night announcing their picks for her hard work gifting them more picks as a thank you...

 

[Tadpole]

Port said ‘Anastasopoulos Now’

 

[Thunderstruck]

Bloody Port, he's a ripper

 

[Viva la Mattner]

Shocked that Arie Shoenmaker not taken

 

[Crow_68]

So Port have no first or fourth rounders next year.

 

[50BC]

Pick 48 for a future 4th? What a ridiculous trade, surely they could have got at least a F3. How can the AFL keep giving Nth extra picks if they just give them away

 

[whattagun07]

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is that effie stefanidis aahah

(and wog boy and the RAA guy?)

 

[Thunderstruck]

Shocked that Arie Shoenmaker not taken

I think his red flags are far too numerous for most

 

[Crow_68]

Weren’t we rumoured to be interested in Koen Sanchez?

 

[Tadpole]

is that effie stefanidis aahah

(and wog boy and the RAA guy?)

Wogs out of work.