Naicos vs Washcroft

[TheUnicorn]

If you could draft one of these players regardless of your team's needs, based solely on the player and who they will become, who would you take?


Naicos

Team​

• AFL premiership player: 2023 (Collingwood)
• AFL minor premiership: 2023 (Collingwood)

Individual​

• 3x All-Australian team: 2023, 2024, 2025
• AFLCA Champion Player of the Year Award: 2024
• Leigh Matthews Trophy: 2025
• Lou Richards Medal: 2025
• Copeland Trophy: 2024
• AFL Rising Star: 2022
• AFLPA Best First Year Player: 2022
• AFLCA Best Young Player: 2023
• Anzac Day Medal: 2023
• 4x 22under22 team: 2022, 2023 (c), 2024 (c), 2025 (c)
• Collingwood co-vice captain: 2025
  
  
  

Washcroft​

Team

• 2× AFL premiership player: 2024, 2025
• McClelland Trophy/Club Championship: 2025

Individual

• 2× Norm Smith Medal: 2024, 2025
• AFLCA Gary Ayres Award: 2025
• Marcus Ashcroft Medal: R8, 2025
• Larke Medal: 2022
• AFL Goal of the Year: 2023
• AFL Rising Star nominee: 2023
• 2x 22under22 team: 2023, 2025

 

[danster168]

lol 2x norms? wasn't best on in either of the granny's

 

[T2B_]

Washcroft for the big dance heroics. Naicos would be handy for H&A impact though to get you there. But if its regardless of team needs, I'm gonna go the big game, big impact player.

 

[rye]

lol 2x norms? wasn't best on in either of the granny's

should the accolade not be listed dan?

 

[My Tilly]

Daicos.
More versatile and has copped more attention by the opposition in comparison to Ashcroft who has a star-studded midfield around him on a week to week basis.

 

[danster168]

should the accolade not be listed dan?

yeah I don't think so.

 

[bungalow_bill]

Washcroft for the big dance heroics. Naicos would be handy for H&A impact though to get you there. But if its regardless of team needs, I'm gonna go the big game, big impact player.

Yeah Nick is a very good H&A player but didn't do much come finals in 2025. Ranked 19th with 5 points in the Gary Ayres award. Ashcroft #1 with 26.5 points.

 

[My Tilly]

Yeah Nick is a very good H&A player but didn't do much come finals in 2025. Ranked 19th with 5 points in the Gary Ayres award. Ashcroft #1 with 26.5 points.

Helps having the likes of McCluggage, Neale, Dunkley & Bailey pulling their weight in comparison to Lipinski, Long, de Goey and old boys Pendles & Sidebottom.

Fact is, Daicos plays for Brisbane and we would be witnessing absurd performances as he would not have to carry the bulk of the midfield.

It's simply a perfect storm for Will Ashcroft at the moment.

 

[danster168]

2 absolute duckers and floppers though. They sold their soul early on in their careers and it's an image that's almost too hard to change now, as talented as they are.