Review Best Draft Year - Worst Draft Year

[Jeffcrowe]

TBC...

Awesome work thanks Vader

 

[Jeffcrowe]

2014
National Draft
14 - Jake Lever
35 - Harrison Wigg
43 - Mitch McGovern
58 - Harry Dear

Rookie Draft
9 - Reilly O'Brien
27 - Keenan Ramsey
44 - Anthony Wilson

Lever is definitely an AFL player, though he's now a massively overpaid sheet anchor around Melbourne's neck. Mitch McGovern is an exciting forward, who is a regular in our best 22, but has yet to really tear a game apart. O'Brien is still Jacobs' heir in waiting. That's the positive side of the story.

On the other side, Wilson never looked like it, and Ramsey's one eye proved too much of a limitation. Wigg has already been traded, and Dear hasn't done enough to earn himself an AFL debut.

This draft is a real mixed bag. Definitely not as positive as 2013, or even 2012 for that matter.

Still pretty handy though Vader , one of Levers 1st round picks helped us net Gibbs
and we may get a top 10-12 in a strong draft this year

Mitch McGovern hasn't hit over 60% of his full potential - just hope he does one day . Could be a star of the comp IF he gets it together

 

[Cleric]

1992
National Draft:
26 - Marty McKinnon
41 - Brooke Fogden
56 - Matthew Powell
86 - Sam Smart
116 - Michael Godden

Pre-Season Draft
11 - Darryl Wakelin
27 - Josh Mail
42 - Nick Pesch
55 - Simon Pedler

Mid-Season Draft:
6 - Jim West
21 - Andrew Geddes
32 - Alan Schwartz

Marty McKinnon played 84 games - 25 for Adelaide, 54 for Geelong, 7 for Brisbane. The rest of them were nothing to write home about.

I worked with Michael Godden when he was drafted. Did his knee in the first year and never got a run at it.

 

[Vader]

Still pretty handy though Vader , one of Levers 1st round picks helped us net Gibbs
and we may get a top 10-12 in a strong draft this year

This is an exercise in examining how our draft selection teams did on draft day. It's not about examining the 2nd or 3rd order effects, such as who we got when Player X was subsequently traded several years down the line. Yes, I guess that's part of the legacy of those selections, but I'm focused on the primary effects, not the secondary and tertiary effects.

 

[Coopers]

You'd have to say a big wow with 2012 and 2013 - many clubs didn't have as good a draft as us and we had the sanctions!

 

[macca23]

2000
National Draft
7 - Laurence Angwin
38 - Michael Handby
48 - Matthew Smith (calling macca23)
53 - Hayden Skipworth
67 - Graham Johncock

Pre-Season Draft
5 - Chris Ladhams
12 - Adam Richardson

Rookie Draft
6 - Kane McLean
22 - Justin Cicolella (again)
37 - Matthew Golding (again)
40 - James Gallagher

Angwin was our highest ever draft pick, and he was a complete and utter head case. Thank-you Gary Ayres.

Skippy had a surprisingly long AFL career. Adelaide delisted him in 2006, after 44 games. He went back to the VFL, and was rewarded when Essendon drafted him in 2008. He played 11 games for them in 2009, before being delisted once again.

Johncock will be remembered as one of Adelaide's favourite defenders. 227 games is a great return for pick #67.

Smith spent 5 years on Adelaide's senior list, and never even looked like playing a senior game. Macca will tell you that he was the ultimate "built like Tarzan, plays like Jane" player. That's probably not PC any more, now that we have an AFLW team.

Correct. If Smith was playing in the AFLW comp, Jane would thrash the pants off of him. To complement his ball skills of an average U/8 lesser player, he had the pace of a competitor in a 3 legged race. What were they thinking???

Being totally honest about it, how ironical is it that the only player out of the 5 drafted that was really worth having was Johncock, the one taken towards the tail end of the draft. 227 games is worthy of a first rounder let alone pick 67.

 

[Vader]

Another thing that strikes me about Adelaide's drafting is the number of players we've drafted on multiple occasions. Ben Marsh, Linden Stevens, Justin Cicolella, Matthew Golding, Robert Shirley, Hayden Skipworth, Matthew Smith, Jason Porplyzia, Will Young, James Craig, Sam Shaw, Cam Ellis-Yolmen. It's not a short list.

 

[jo172]

Another thing that strikes me about Adelaide's drafting is the number of players we've drafted on multiple occasions. Ben Marsh, Linden Stevens, Justin Cicolella, Matthew Golding, Robert Shirley, Hayden Skipworth, Matthew Smith, Jason Porplyzia, Will Young, James Craig, Sam Shaw, Cam Ellis-Yolmen. It's not a short list.

For a few of those blokes wasn't there a rule if you were a local you could only spend one year on the rookie list? So you had to re rookie draft them?

You've also missed Nick Joyce who was more collateral damage of Tippettgate from memory

 

[Vader]

For a few of those blokes wasn't there a rule if you were a local you could only spend one year on the rookie list? So you had to re rookie draft them?

Possibly, but I thought most of them were local boys.

You've also missed Nick Joyce who was more collateral damage of Tippettgate from memory

I did too.

 

[Dan2352]

You'd have to say a big wow with 2012 and 2013 - many clubs didn't have as good a draft as us and we had the sanctions!

And seemed to lead to a change in the way AFC look at rookies... several rookies with us seem to be given 2-3 years to develop and see what they can achieve... rather than 12 months and out the door...