Draft Expert eDPS Draft Thread - 2025 Edition

[Jack Richards]

Potentially, I should have added Blamires somewhere aswell as it’s likely he gets taken but wanted to focus more on the draft age talent

Where do you see Blamires taken pick range wise?

 

[eDPS]

Sinnema isn't Cat B though? And how don't the dees have an extra rookie list spot after delisting Kynan Brown, Sestan, Hore and Verrall from the rookie list?

I’m not sure if Moniz-Wakefield is being upgraded to cat A or main list. If you take 3 in the main draft and rookie A for AMW it leaves 1 rookie spot or main list spot which is what I have Kalani White filling

 

[Johnny Bananas]

38 - GEELONG - Hugo Mikunda

I'm reading the RMC draft guide and it appears to describe him as a small forward whose weaknesses are pressure and scoring. But he's draftable? I could be showing my ignorance here, but I thought teams want small forwards to be good at at least one of those things.

 

[eDPS]

I'm reading the RMC draft guide and it appears to describe him as a small forward whose weaknesses are pressure and scoring. But he's draftable? I could be showing my ignorance here, but I thought teams want small forwards to be good at at least one of those things.

He is the type of player that creates scores for others and link up at half forward. He might be able to do that on a wing aswell instead, if he hit the scoreboard as much as say Dovaston I feel he would be a top 20 lock but he has enough tools to persist with and could start to develop more of an eye around the big sticks.

 

[eDPS]

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Still a bit of a wait until it’s out, it will be up tomorrow but not on Bigfooty first. I will include the summary and the full lists the exercise was based on in their own thread tomorrow night.

This took alot to do and has exhausted me a bit but I’m so happy with how it turned out and has given me so much knowledge on every clubs lists and studying the similarities and differences each list has.

The seperate thread with all my research on 2025 lists

Analysis - AFL List’s Breakdown 2025

Hello all over the past month I’ve been hard at work trying to get every AFL list organised by position to try and get a grasp on how each club builds their list and see if there are any similarities amongst them aswell. I got these positions cross-referenced with supporters from each club to...

www.bigfooty.com

 

[Duckworth]

Exactly. Now you get it.

You realise this isn't the actual draft? Be a bit grateful for the work that has gone into it. The parameters that were set out were pretty clear.

 

[txbyhull]

I'm reading the RMC draft guide and it appears to describe him as a small forward whose weaknesses are pressure and scoring. But he's draftable? I could be showing my ignorance here, but I thought teams want small forwards to be good at at least one of those things.

Well would you look at that, guess I’m not the only one

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Well would you look at that, guess I’m not the only one

I didn't say you were.

 

[Pure_Ownage]

Find it odd that none of the rumours ever having you getting ahead of the bid.

Maybe getting before the bid is the longest shot but getting a 2nd top 5 player (XT/cumming most likely) with Dean, ison, Jagga last year and Walker next year is a nice little rebuild on the fly.

None of the clubs above Carlton want to sell.

 

[Pure_Ownage]

Phantom Draft 2025

1 - WEST COAST - Willem Duursma
2 - GOLD COAST - Zeke Uwland (Bid Matched)
3 - WEST COAST - Cooper Duff-Tytler
4 - BRISBANE - Daniel Annable (Bid Matched)
5 - CARLTON - Harry Dean (Bid Matched)
6 - RICHMOND - Sullivan Robey
7 - RICHMOND - Xavier Taylor
8 - GOLD COAST - Dylan Patterson
9 - ESSENDON - Sam Cumming
10 - ESSENDON - Dyson Sharp
11 - MELBOURNE - Sam Grlj
12 - MELBOURNE - Jacob Farrow
13 - HAWTHORN - Josh Lindsay
14 - GWS - Oskar Taylor
15 - WEST COAST - Aidan Schubert
16 - WESTERN BULLDOGS - Lachlan Dovaston
17 - ADELAIDE - Jevan Phillipou
18 - GEELONG - Harley Barker
19 - ESSENDON - Adam Sweid (Bid Matched)
20 - GOLD COAST - Beau Addinsall (Bid Matched)
21 - FREMANTLE - Latrelle Pickett
22 - HAWTHORN - Mitch Marsh
23 - SYDNEY - Harry Kyle (Bid Matched)
24 - SYDNEY - Lachlan Carmichael (Bid Matched)
25 - NORTH MELBOURNE - Matthew LeRay
26 - NORTH MELBOURNE - Max Kondogiannis
27 - ESSENDON - Rory Wright
28 - CARLTON (Dean match) - Archie Ludowyke
29 - ESSENDON - Hussein El Achkar
30 - WEST COAST - Tylah Williams (Bid Matched)
31 - WESTERN BULLDOGS - Noah Hibbins-Hargreaves
32 - SYDNEY - Max King (Bid Matched)
33 - GWS - Cameron Nairn
34 - CARLTON - Jack Ison (Bid Matched)
35 - MELBOURNE - Oliver Greeves
36 - COLLINGWOOD - Zac McCarthy (Bid Matched
37 - RICHMOND - Louis Emmett
38 - GEELONG - Hugo Mikunda
39 - WEST COAST - Charlie Banfield (Crows would bid)
40 - GOLD COAST - Jai Murray (Bid matched)
41 - COLLINGWOOD - Blake Thredgold
42 - ST KILDA - Kye Fincher (Bid Matched)
43 - NORTH MELBOURNE - Jack Dalton
44 - GEELONG - Jesse Mellor (Bid matched)
45 - GOLD COAST - Koby Coulson (Bid Matched)
46 - FREMANTLE - Talor Byrne
47 - ADELAIDE - Blake Oudshoorn-Bennier
48 - PORT ADELAIDE - Zane Peucker
49 - BRISBANE - Fergus McFadyen
50 - COLLINGWOOD - Fred Rodriguez
51 - BRISBANE - Tyan Prindable
52 - COLLINGWOOD - Sam Swadling
53 - HAWTHORN - Riley Onley


Rookie Draft and Pre-Season Draft

GOLD COAST - Leon Kickett
ADELAIDE - Callum Ah Chee


WEST COAST - Hunter Holmes
RICHMOND- Louis Kellaway
MELBOURNE - Kalani White
PORT ADELAIDE - Cody Curtin
ST KILDA- Zac Harding
WESTERN BULLDOGS - Will Darcy
FREMANTLE - Oskar Ainsworth
COLLINGWOOD- Thomas McGuane
HAWTHORN - Tom Burton
ADELAIDE - Mitchell Stevens

WEST COAST- Koby Evans
ST KILDA- Avery Thomas
FREMANTLE- Marcus Krasnadamskis
HAWTHORN- Jasper Hay

HAWTHORN- Liam Hetherton


Cat B
ADELAIDE - Indy Cotton
BRISBANE- Isaac Waller
FREMANTLE- Toby Whan & Ryda Luke
GEELONG - Ben Rongdit
SYDNEY- Noah Chamberlain & Kaiden McNamara
WEST COAST- Wes Walley & Koby Evans

Geelong only have 2 senior list spots so we are either taking mellor at 40 or we hope he gets through and we cat b him over rongdit if theres a bid after 40 we dont have the list spot to match (same as saints with hoffmann). That said i think we will trade 19 into next year if we can get a buyer on the night (wont be easy but theres an extra list spot).

 

[Calcium Man]

None of the clubs above Carlton want to sell.

Yeah but the rumours are constantly suggesting Bombers and Dees are trying to get pick 2 or 3 and both WC and Richmond have said they’re open to offers.

I’m not expecting either team to trade down or that blues have the same capital as other two. I just find it odd that the talk with Bombers/Dees is trading up but blues is down when like the northern clubs have shown trading up ahead of a bid is a good strat.

 

[eDPS]

Geelong only have 2 senior list spots so we are either taking mellor at 40 or we hope he gets through and we cat b him over rongdit if theres a bid after 40 we dont have the list spot to match (same as saints with hoffmann). That said i think we will trade 19 into next year if we can get a buyer on the night (wont be easy but theres an extra list spot).

Unless you have a rookie upgrade I don’t know about you have 35 currently on the main list with a max of 38 possible. If I’m wrong I do appreciate it as I want these to be as accurate as possible.

 

[Pure_Ownage]

Unless you have a rookie upgrade I don’t know about you have 35 currently on the main list with a max of 38 possible. If I’m wrong I do appreciate it as I want these to be as accurate as possible.

Mullin is still on the rookie list and has to be upgraded.
It's Duncan Guthrie kmf (re rookie) stevens (re rookie) off the main list and worpel mullin and 2 picks onto the main list.
Clohesy delisted so we have one cat a and one cat b spot available.
The club re-signed bews and Wiltshire which i didnt expect hence the squeeze.

 

[eDPS]

Mullin is still on the rookie list and has to be upgraded.
It's Duncan Guthrie kmf (re rookie) stevens (re rookie) off the main list and worpel mullin and 2 picks onto the main list.
Clohesy delisted so we have one cat a and one cat b spot available.
The club re-signed bews and Wiltshire which i didnt expect hence the squeeze.

Ok I didn’t know about the Mullin upgrade but it makes sense

 

[RanaNaved]

eDPS, do you know how CDT tested in the verticals?

 

[eDPS]

eDPS, do you know how CDT tested in the verticals?

Just outside the top 10

 

[RanaNaved]

Just outside the top 10

Cheers, a lot of people are saying he's got a poor leap, but it's obviously pretty good

 

[Barrybran]

Cheers, a lot of people are saying he's got a poor leap, but it's obviously pretty good

A lot of people hit the panic button because he wasn't top 10. His leap is still above average.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Bryce Sanders is an interesting one, his draft guide profile reads well and he played all four national championships games. Plus he did well at the state combine, 87cm running vertical jump and 3.01 20m sprint. I know he's raw and has little exposure from prior years, but is he a realistic chance to get drafted and make it at the next level?

Speaking of state combine results, I notice a big discrepancies on what's been reported for Rod Ali's running vertical jump on the SANFL page versus what's on RMC. Does the SANFL simply have it wrong?

2025 AFL and AFLW State Combine Results - SANFL

Glenelg's Latrelle Pickett tests his agility skills at the 2025 Telstra AFL State Combine. Picture - Peter Argent

sanfl.com.au

TOP 5s | 2025 AFL State Draft Combines

The 2025 AFL State Draft Combines produced some impressive results and we have released the top fives across the nation.

central.rookieme.com

 

[eDPS]

Bryce Sanders is an interesting one, his draft guide profile reads well and he played all four national championships games. Plus he did well at the state combine, 87cm running vertical jump and 3.01 20m sprint. I know he's raw and has little exposure from prior years, but is he a realistic chance to get drafted and make it at the next level?

Speaking of state combine results, I notice a big discrepancies on what's been reported for Rod Ali's running vertical jump on the SANFL page versus what's on RMC. Does the SANFL simply have it wrong?

2025 AFL and AFLW State Combine Results - SANFL

Glenelg's Latrelle Pickett tests his agility skills at the 2025 Telstra AFL State Combine. Picture - Peter Argent

sanfl.com.au

TOP 5s | 2025 AFL State Draft Combines

The 2025 AFL State Draft Combines produced some impressive results and we have released the top fives across the nation.

central.rookieme.com

Rookie Me do the tests so that should answer your question.

 

[blueiris]

Thoughts on Kondogiannis and if he’s available at 37 or Lions next pick after Annable

 

[briztoon]

Thoughts on Kondogiannis and if he’s available at 37 or Lions next pick after Annable

Finnegan Davis.

 

[eDPS]

Thoughts on Kondogiannis and if he’s available at 37 or Lions next pick after Annable

Obvious bias aside I really like him, was amongst the best intercept players at the champs and has plenty of scope for improvement. Not sure he makes it that far with the lack of depth in quality defenders this year but you never know

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Obvious bias aside I really like him, was amongst the best intercept players at the champs and has plenty of scope for improvement. Not sure he makes it that far with the lack of depth in quality defenders this year but you never know

How about Sanders, how likely is he to get drafted?

 

[eDPS]

How about Sanders, how likely is he to get drafted?

Pretty tough to value the proper tall defenders who aren’t Dean and Thredgold. One club could really like him and take him in the National but I don’t see him getting drafted.