AFL Player # 2: Sam Draper

[Dave]

Contract Status: Out of contract 2025
My Boy Draft 2024: Pick 20, TheUnicorn

 

[parishfanclub]

Anyone got a video of him on BBC?

 

[freddy mercury]

Think that he may be standing on the higher bit of the slope.

 

[Drummer_19]

Anyone got a video of him on BBC?

Gross.

 

[DERO]

OH BABY

 

[VelvetSledge]

Can confirm, arms bigger than 99% of the blokes in the league. Only Scott Thompson and Majak Daw trump him on the pipes.

 

[eDPS]

 

[The Fact]

Subtitles were stuffed lol

 

[Vindicater]

Love the fact that he "talks the talk"

 

[TonaldDrump]

H

His arms are ******* huge for an 18 year old.

 

[ezard15]

He MUST have played Aussie rules before this year. I say that having watched his highlights videos. Maybe just a lot of kick to kick.

 

[Vindicater]

He MUST have played Aussie rules before this year. I say that having watched his highlights videos. Maybe just a lot of kick to kick.

Probably spent most of the time kicking the ball around at lunchtime. I know thats what I did in high school.

 

[ezard15]

Probably spent most of the time kicking the ball around at lunchtime. I know thats what I did in high school.

That's probably it.

Very different to the mike Pyke/Mason Cox scenario.

 

[Vindicater]

Hopefully has the aggression to go along with the big body.

 

[CBombers17]

Handy size - for pulling trees out of the ground with bare hands.

 

[TheGrizz]

Watch this space if Leuey follows the lead of tommy Bellchambers.

Draper could be in for some early game time (given leuey's pre-2016 injury history)

 

[Rack Watts]

Watch this space if Leuey follows the lead of tommy Bellchambers.

Draper could be in for some early game time (given leuey's pre-2016 injury history)

Thinking the same, Leuenberger not known for having a healthy run at it.

 

[Maddogm]

Would need to be a LTI to someone, we have no room to promote rookies

 

[Rack Watts]

Would need to be a LTI to someone, we have no room to promote rookies

I'm sure Bellchambers will be out all year, always 'has a problem', but is always 'ready for a big pre-season'.

 

[bjisgod9]

I'm sure Bellchambers will be out all year, always 'has a problem', but is always 'ready for a big pre-season'.

Geez, think we can afford to be slightly more optimistic than this. Sure, the last few years haven't filled me with heaps of confidence but he will be back running in 4 weeks, not a serious injury. Hope you're wrong

 

[WEEVZ]

Geez, think we can afford to be slightly more optimistic than this. Sure, the last few years haven't filled me with heaps of confidence but he will be back running in 4 weeks, not a serious injury. Hope you're wrong

He'll be back training in 4 weeks yes, but they said it'd be 8 weeks before he might be available to play again.

 

[WEEVZ]

I'm sure Bellchambers will be out all year, always 'has a problem', but is always 'ready for a big pre-season'.

Few rucks out of contract at the end of the season: Reilly O'Brien (ADE), Brodie Grundy (COLL), Keegan Brooksby (GCS), Matthew Flynn (GWS), Tom Hickey (STK), etc.

 

[BomberFan355]

Draper has hardly trained with tendinitis in both knees.

 

[60sbomber]

If Luenberger were to go down with an injury we are truly screwed, at least until Bellchambers is ready to play, and that seems to be about rd 4 or 5 at best, given no training, a cleanup op, recovery, some training and a few VFL games.
Draper is not even a possibility, given no training still due to tendinitis, plus he is a rookie and no LTI.
McKernan is the closest to an option, but he is a rookie and would require a LTI. It can't be Bellchambers as that would condemn him to not playing within the first 12 wks of the season (rd 11?).
I can't see any other options.

 

[Liberator]

If Luenberger were to go down with an injury we are truly screwed, at least until Bellchambers is ready to play, and that seems to be about rd 4 or 5 at best, given no training, a cleanup op, recovery, some training and a few VFL games.
Draper is not even a possibility, given no training still due to tendinitis, plus he is a rookie and no LTI.
McKernan is the closest to an option, but he is a rookie and would require a LTI. It can't be Bellchambers as that would condemn him to not playing within the first 12 wks of the season (rd 11?).
I can't see any other options.

Yes, we still really need more stock in the ruck. Draper was a step in the right direction, but a speculative step for a long-term pay-off.
Stewart is being overrated a bit around here, in terms of his ruck capacities (reading his profile over on the giants board is pretty instructive). Smack is a part timer at best. Joe should go nowhere near the ruck. Ambrose is about ten inches too short, and is much better down back anyway.
I really hope Luey holds together!

 

[bjisgod9]

He'll be back training in 4 weeks yes, but they said it'd be 8 weeks before he might be available to play again.

Yeah but that was my point, we're 8 weeks away from the start of the real season, if he may be available to play in 8 weeks then it's a bit drastic to say that he won't play a game all year.

Either way, it is a massive concern that we are relying on Leunberger to be injury free for the start of the season at least. Not many other sides have more than 4 ruck men on the list though, just terribly unlucky if none are fit to play.