2025 Draft Thread

[Sarcoidevo]

Sorry Mods if I am jumping the gun but I think it's time to fire up this bad boy as we enter the 2nd half of the season and also with the U18 National Championship is upon us

See below the U18 NC Fixture

Sun, June 1: Allies v South Australia, 12pm AEST, Blacktown ISP

Sat, June 7: Western Australia v Vic Country, 10am AWST, Mineral Resources Park

Sun, June 8: South Australia v Vic Metro, 11.15am ACST, Alberton Oval

Sun, June 15: South Australia v Western Australia, 12pm ACST, Alberton Oval

Sun, June 29: Vic Country v South Australia, 10.30am AEST, Venue TBC (Victoria)

Sun, June 29: Allies v Western Australia, 1pm AEST, Venue TBC (Victoria)

Sat, July 5: Allies v Vic Country, 12.15pm AEST, Ikon Park

Sun, July 6: Western Australia v Vic Metro, 12pm AWST, Venue TBC (Western Australia)

Sun, July 13: Allies v Vic Metro, 10.30am AEST, Brighton Hones Arena

Sun, July 20: Vic Country v Vic Metro, 11am AEST, RSEA Park

Any reports from these games let's keep here

SA bt Allies on the weekend ... report below

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1331313...-as-sa-edges-past-allies-in-u18-champs-opener

 

[sauce_head]

Daily summary thread please!

(Sorry it’s a traditional request so may as well get it in early)

 

[Sarcoidevo]

Kye Fincher watch

Played for Brighton Grammar on weekend v Wesley ... from Zerohangar

Meanwhile, in the APS competition, Archie Ludowyke was the dominant forward in Brighton Grammar's big win over Wesley, with Kye Fincher clinical in the midfield

Hard to find APS stats however Kye should play this weekend for Vic Metro??

 

[jwikked]

I like the idea of an early thread. If only to remind those when those games are being played

 

[11men1cup]

Any half back flankers that can play mid?

 

[Sarcoidevo]

I have changed this to DRAFT thread .... as there seems to be plenty of TRADING talk (FAs and what not) on the List Management thread

We can keep this exclusively for 2025 DRAFT talk and U18 Champs & Coates League/WA Colts/SA U18 watch

 

[BrutThough]

Any half back flankers that can play mid?

Fincher is your man.

 

[The Jack]

Competition time.

How many Father Sons and NGA's will be selected in the top 30 picks this year?

What pick will the original pick 30 turn into?

 

[akaifu]

Fred Rodriguez and Archie Ludowyke please

 

[Gavinmitchell11]

Fred Rodriguez and Archie Ludowyke please

Fred looks the goods.



The play at around 2:15 where he flat foots a handball Harveyesque and then follows up for the left foot delivery is class.

 

[gringo2011]

Grlj has so much pace, I reckon he could be an upmarket Zac Jones. Reminds me of a faster Lauchie Ash otherwise.

 

[ThomasR]

I've found it interesting how we have picked players with late birthdays with almost all of our early picks lately

August - Wilson
October - Travaglia
November - Tauru, Barrat
December - Phillipou

Could well be a coincidence, but then there is also this post from the head of analytics & strategy at the club, showing the clear bias in perception towards players with early birthdays



I'd imagine this will likely smooth out as the year progresses, but perhaps not entirely. Tauru certainly came from the clouds as a top 10 pick

Remarkably Pou and Jagga Smith are only a month away from being in the same draft class. Pick 10 and pick 3 in their respective drafts... but who goes first in 2023 if Pou has one more year of top-age juniors under the belt and Jagga one fewer?

Granted it's one small element in a number of things but it'll be interesting to see if we go that way again. Ludowyke and Hibbins-Hargreaves (Nov bdays) might be around the mark at our pick this year.

 

[Tommy Wigs]

I've found it interesting how we have picked players with late birthdays with almost all of our early picks lately

August - Wilson
October - Travaglia
November - Tauru, Barrat
December - Phillipou

Could well be a coincidence, but then there is also this post from the head of analytics & strategy at the club, showing the clear bias in perception towards players with early birthdays



I'd imagine this will likely smooth out as the year progresses, but perhaps not entirely. Tauru certainly came from the clouds as a top 10 pick

Remarkably Pou and Jagga Smith are only a month away from being in the same draft class. Pick 10 and pick 3 in their respective drafts... but who goes first in 2023 if Pou has one more year of top-age juniors under the belt and Jagga one fewer?

Granted it's one small element in a number of things but it'll be interesting to see if we go that way again. Ludowyke and Hibbins-Hargreaves (Nov bdays) might be around the mark at our pick this year.

We certainly have and Fincher is another one. (Pou was two drafts prior to Jagga)

 

[Hayes4PM]

Grlj has so much pace, I reckon he could be an upmarket Zac Jones. Reminds me of a faster Lauchie Ash otherwise.

I'd like to buy a vowel thanks Sam

 

[brian478274]

Anyone know Ollie Greeves testing results

 

[Ads734]

Anyone know Ollie Greeves testing results

He doesn’t seem super quick in games tbh. I feel smiley was a tad faster but gee he is enormous.

 

[brian478274]

He doesn’t seem super quick in games tbh. I feel smiley was a tad faster but gee he is enormous.

Yeah agree, thats why I’m curious to see what they are

 

[Sarcoidevo]

The Scouting Notes from the rookieme site have been posted for the SA v Vic Metro game and disappointingly it doesn't feature Fincher with his 27 possessions

Though they did feature other VM players who got 11 & 13 disposals which is strange

 

[akaifu]

The Scouting Notes from the rookieme site have been posted for the SA v Vic Metro game and disappointingly it doesn't feature Fincher with his 27 possessions

Though they did feature other VM players who got 11 & 13 disposals which is strange

Fincher stuffed the stats sheet but was hardly noticeable from what I saw

 

[Sarcoidevo]

How invisible can you be having 18 kicks? ... 2nd most on the ground

 

[ThomasR]

How invisible can you be having 18 kicks? ... 2nd most on the ground

Stream was down for the first quarter and a bit when he got a stack of footy - so no idea what was happening there

From the bits I saw he looked solid enough but would really like to see him run through the middle, it's hard to tell if he has much of a contested game. Racked them up similar to how Arie does in the VFL so can't read too much into the stats but at least he was out there providing an option

 

[MOLTEN GANGLANDS]

The Scouting Notes from the rookieme site have been posted for the SA v Vic Metro game and disappointingly it doesn't feature Fincher with his 27 possessions

Though they did feature other VM players who got 11 & 13 disposals which is strange

I feel like this happens a bit with NGA's or academy picks, fly under the radar a bit because only one team can get them

 

[Sarcoidevo]

Well one of the players they had notes for was Jack Ison (Carlton NGA) who had 11 disposals

Scouting Notes: 2025 AFL U18s - South Australia vs. Vic Metro

South Australia has moved to 2-0 at the Under 18 National Championships after thumping Vic Metro by 61 points on Sunday.

central.rookieme.com

 

[botts]

Well one of the players they had notes for was Jack Ison (Carlton NGA) who had 11 disposals

Scouting Notes: 2025 AFL U18s - South Australia vs. Vic Metro

South Australia has moved to 2-0 at the Under 18 National Championships after thumping Vic Metro by 61 points on Sunday.

central.rookieme.com

I watch the whole metro vs sa game. Fincher was really good the whole game. Not sure why he isn’t getting any love

 

[L_W_P]

Competition time.

How many Father Sons and NGA's will be selected in the top 30 picks this year?

What pick will the original pick 30 turn into?

Given that also covers the start of the 2nd round I'm going to say that the original pick 30 ends up around pick 42.