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sunman453 said:
An underage kid to watch out for next year is Brad Scheer. won the 16s div 2 mvp for Queensland as well as the div 2 best and fairest. made his QAFL debut as a 15 year old and earned himself a rising star nomination with a 5 goal effort. strong bodied mid who is rarely outmarked
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Yeah but he is a GC academy member if I remember correctly so hardly the place to pump him up.
 
Voss the boss said:
http://www.lions.com.au/news/2014-08-06/eight-academy-hopefuls

A total of eight eligible Hyundai Brisbane Lions Academy members have been lodged by the Club as potential bid selections ahead of the 2014 NAB AFL National Draft.

The list includes: Harris Andrews (Aspley Hornets/Wilston Grange), Darcy Cameron-Reeves (Redlands/Morningside), Liam Dawson (Aspley Hornets/Wilston Grange), Matthew Hammelmann (Redlands/Morningside), Daniel Henderson (Maroochydore), William Kristelly (Maroochydore), Cameron Stevenson (Aspley/ University of Queensland), Matthew Ubergang (Redlands/ Western Magpies).

All eight of the aforementioned players may be eligible to be taken at the Father/Son and Academy bidding meeting on Monday 6 October.

The Lions will have until Friday 3 October to decide which of the eight players, if any, the Club wishes to nominate ahead of that bidding meeting.
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Priorities might have changed a bit with Qld boys,Harris Andrews has 13 clubs interested apparently
 

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I reckon it has as much to do with him being a bit of a late riser. Suspect clubs will know less about him than the more watched picks, so they want to run the rule over him at the combine.
 
Dylan12 said:
2014 - 15 NAB-AFL Academy Squads:

Level 1 (Qld) - Jack Bowes, Brad Scheer, Jacob Allison and Curtis Marsden

cotter101 know anything about these boys?
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Brad Scheer the pick of that lot, playing some really impressive football for Palm Beach in the QAFL. Unfortunately is a GC academy lad, looks like a good one too.
 
Ironmonger said:
Hmm. That profile seems to be a bit an outlier in terms of where he might be taken in the draft.
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For all my scepticism about the perceived draft value of the academy kids, he's one that I can genuinely see being a bit of a 'late riser'. Under the current system I wouldn't be shocked to see the Lions forced to use their 3rd round pick on him, and I think they'd take him. He's got a bit of a Kurt Tippett vibe about him IMO.
 

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Interesting write up from Paige but I don't get overly excited by her player profiles as sometimes they can be a bit over the top. Not to take anything away from Harris as I don't really know a thing about him. Do we have our future full back here? I hope so. I've felt for awhile that he and Dawson and Hammelman would be taken it will be interesting as to where.
 
TheBrownDog said:
If we take Andrews as well as one of Hammelmann or Uebergang, we'd have to be going small with our first pick right?
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Depending on who would be there I am starting to get that feeling. So much so that I'm reading about Brayshaw and others.
 
jjami15 said:
Interesting write up from Paige but I don't get overly excited by her player profiles as sometimes they can be a bit over the top. Not to take anything away from Harris as I don't really know a thing about him. Do we have our future full back here? I hope so. I've felt for awhile that he and Dawson and Hammelman would be taken it will be interesting as to where.
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Yeah, - from that profile

It’s easy to understand why clubs would be so interested in the gigantic key forward, who looks more a ruck prospect rather than a bona fide goal kicking monster.
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198 & 91 kg?

From the draft watch on Brayshaw

Ollie Wines/Luke Dunstan/Joel Selwood type inside mid who will play form day 1 and find plenty of the ball. Gets a huge number of tackles each week. Laid 20 in a single game last year or the year before which is even more impressive when you consider that the #1 slight on most top young mids is their defensive efforts.
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Will do for me.
 
If we rate the likes of Andrews and Hammelman highly enough, we will go a mid, likely to be Brayshaw. Wouldnt be a bad outcome. If we still view them very much as prospects who might not turn out, we will still take a Wright if available.
 

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Panthera said:
Brayshaw massive risk with the GHF...especially with the North Melbourne connection :thumbsdown:
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I would have thought he'd take any chance to get away from his uncle.
 
chopperduck said:
If we rate the likes of Andrews and Hammelman highly enough, we will go a mid, likely to be Brayshaw. Wouldnt be a bad outcome. If we still view them very much as prospects who might not turn out, we will still take a Wright if available.
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the issue is if more than likely brayshaw isn't available at our pick, there is no other real standout top quality midfielder that warrants a top 4/5
Panthera said:
Brayshaw massive risk with the GHF...especially with the North Melbourne connection :thumbsdown:
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yes exactly what I was worried about brayshaw the flight risk
 
Is he actually a flight risk or are we just assuming that because of his last name?

If we have pick 4 and Brayshaw isnt there then im happy to grab whoever fell out of the top 3. Really, I think taking the best available at 4 is looking more and more likely the way to go.
 
Back on topic though, I do wonder how much the academy class alters our overall drafting. Lots of talls this year, so are we tempted to draft a mid instead? Surely when 2 or 3 of your picks are taken on academy players it does have to impact your overall drafting strategy.
 
I think you also have to look forward as well. Next year and the year after I think we have a few really nice midfield prospects coming through. Next year is also a very good midfield draft in general much more so than this year. If there is a chance to lock up my talls this year I do it and rely on the midfield depth over the next couple to fill any small/medium holes.

Of next year's group only Dennis looks like a draftable prospect from the talls. On the smalls there is Keays, Mosley, Corvo, Wagner and Yusia-Marcic who have all shown a bit a times. The following year we have Allison who made the AIS team for next year and I am yet to see in person but by the sound of it will end up flanker or even tall mid at the next level. Hipwood I also have high hopes for and it will be interesting to see where he ends up height wise. He might be a KP.
 
It seems like the academy under-agers have filling in a lot as NEAFL top ups for us this year. To those who've kept better track of this, has that happened as often in previous years or are we getting under-agers in more frequently?

On the face of it, it seems like a great idea to get those promising kids playing against the bigger bodies as early as possible.
 

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