List Mgmt. 2025 AFL Draft - The Final Countdown

[beema limapep]

It will be

1. Durrsma
2. CDT
3. Robey
4. Grlj
5 to 30 - who GAF
38. Who knows.

 

[blaisee]

It will be

1. Durrsma
2. CDT
3. Robey
4. Grlj
5 to 30 - who GAF
38. Who knows.

Maybe, but the question is, who will hold pick 3?

 

[jthanos]

It will be

1. Durrsma
2. CDT
3. Robey
4. Grlj
5 to 30 - who GAF
38. Who knows.

The talk is Robey wil be #2....

 

[Stylo]

I’m curious who would people take in a hypothetical choice between Dyson Sharp and Jagga Smith?

Both prolific juniors & inside mids with limited positional versatility. Both probably have similar strengths and knocks. Jagga probably shades Sharp for agility but Sharp is bigger, stronger, a better mark.

Yet Jagga went pick 3 in a super draft and Sharp is drifting towards 10 and beyond in a much weaker crop according to some mocks.

 

[sante]

I haven’t seen any vision or highlights of any of the draftees but I reckon Robey will be a bust

 

[Damo80]

If we take a medium defender in XT with a rare as hens teeth top 5 pick then Blair needs to be bulleted. Its key position or mids only with those high picks. Medium defenders particular ones as vanilla as XT are a dime a dozen from Round 2 onwards.

It's probably not too unfair to compare to Vlastuin. Rated top 10. Competitive HBF that you draft hoping might transition to midfield at some stage of their AFL career. While Vlas hasn't ever done that, you'd still have to be pretty happy with the return on that top 10 pick.

If, as you suggested, we should look to mid/KPP with those picks, the players you're referring to with the benefit of hindsight are: T Menzel, Jaksch, Jesse Lonergan, Corr, Garner, Josh Simpson (who?!), Ben Kennedy, Broomhead, Hrovat. Corr is the only one remotely in the conversation! I think we get sucked into assuming 1st round = guaranteed success. I call it the Shifter Sheehan effect, where they all sound like bloody superstars!

 

[Drunken Wookie]

Dovaston is Temu Watson. Watson just better all round.

watched watsons draft higlights, i dont see a vast difference. watson is faster but dovaston is much better in the contest becomes an extra mid at ground level. you can almost guarantee he will be a gun goal kicking small forward. not many other guarantees in this draft.

 

[Coach_Required]

The talk is Robey wil be #2....

If that happens, I reckon we would end up taking CDT instead of Taylor.

Personally i think i would still be coping a ban on draft night lol

 

[Stylo]

watched watsons draft higlights, i dont see a vast difference. watson is faster but dovaston is much better in the contest becomes an extra mid at ground level. you can almost guarantee he will be a gun goal kicking small forward. not many other guarantees in this draft.

Everyone compares him to Watson because he’s a little dude with a mullet but I think he plays more like a Brent Daniels. Which isn’t a bad thing at all

 

[Damo80]

watched watsons draft higlights, i dont see a vast difference. watson is faster but dovaston is much better in the contest becomes an extra mid at ground level. you can almost guarantee he will be a gun goal kicking small forward. not many other guarantees in this draft.

I'm just playing the %'s. Not many that size make it. Watson's speed and finishing are what I see that set him above most others. I didn't see the finishing class from Dovaston in his finals games, and I think that'll be the difference.

 

[Drunken Wookie]

Everyone compares him to Watson because he’s a little dude with a mullet but I think he plays more like a Brent Daniels. Which isn’t a bad thing at all

this is true, im only using him as an example of a short ass forward that went in the top 5.

 

[Wrenny]

Not to be dramatic but if we take Taylor over Robey I’m 100% done with football forever.

 

[KrispyKreme]

maybe we don’t take dovaston this year, because we want Arki Butler next year

 

[_RT_]

Exactly Mate, he’s guessing and would have zero inside knowledge

Are you sure about that?

 

[Karp3_dm]

Every one should get used to x and the griller

Reckon jasper is bang on

Absolute rocks in your brain if you think Blair is picking a vanilla half back with picks 3 or 4

 

[_RT_]

I haven’t seen any vision or highlights of any of the draftees but I reckon Robey will be a bust

 

[Danog]

It will be

1. Durrsma
2. CDT
3. Robey
4. Grlj
5 to 30 - who GAF
38. Who knows.

Hopefully Essendon and Melbourne both come for pick 4. We tell Essendon we'll trade with them over Melbourne if we know who theyre going to take, so our player will still be there. 38 becomes 21 as a result.

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Sharp
Robey
Cumming
Grlj

Sharp & Cumming pure mids.
The other 2 not so sure.

 

[Karp3_dm]

Sharp & Cumming pure mids.
The other 2 not so sure.

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

nick watson went at 5 and i reckon dovaston stacks up pretty favourably next to him

Can he kick longer than 20mtrs?

 

[lalorGOAT]

ESPN should stick to American sports, Jesus Christ......

 

[_RT_]

At the end of the day all the discussion and debate on this board about the draftee will come down to the following:

In Blair/Rhy We Trust

Blair will ensure that if we trade back we will get the right deal for doing so and will come out well in front.

Rhy will have learnt plenty under Toce even though it was for just a year and will have adopted the same sort of philosophies that guided Toce as a recruiter and will not doubt ensure that we pick up the right type of player for what our rebuild requires.

 

[ShereKhan]

Did he ?

Where was Langford meant to go ?
He was always in the pick #6-10 range and went exactly where predicted
its only Twomey with his info about Richmond having an interest that pushed him up similar to Grlj this year

My memory is Langford was never outside the top half dozen… ever. And Twomey had him regularly rated as his personal #1 or #2. If Langford was ever rated beyond #6 then I can’t recall it.

 

[Charlie Pannam]

I’m curious who would people take in a hypothetical choice between Dyson Sharp and Jagga Smith?

Both prolific juniors & inside mids with limited positional versatility. Both probably have similar strengths and knocks. Jagga probably shades Sharp for agility but Sharp is bigger, stronger, a better mark.

Yet Jagga went pick 3 in a super draft and Sharp is drifting towards 10 and beyond in a much weaker crop according to some mocks.

Not comparing the 2 Smith and Sharp, this is more an observation - last years crop of midfielders seemed to be producing lot bigger numbers than this years.
From memory Smith and Reid in particular were churning out mid 30s and some 40+ possesion games. Langford not far behind.
There has been some big numbers from Greeves one from Robey, but not as regularly as last season.

Having said that I’m not sure exactly how much junior football Sharp has played at state level this year.

 

[Wrenny]

maybe we don’t take dovaston this year, because we want Arki Butler next year

Or……