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Preview - 2022 AFL Draft General Discussion

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NATIONAL:
Vic Country

Jaxon Binns (Dandenong Stingrays)
Hugh Bond (GWV Rebels)
Coby Burgiel (Gippsland Power)
Aaron Cadman (GWV Rebels)
Jhye Clark (Geelong Falcons)
Brayden George (Murray Bushrangers)
Oliver Hollands (Murray Bushrangers)
Bailey Humphrey (Gippsland Power)
Henry Hustwaite (Dandenong Stingrays)
Max Knobel (Gippsland Power)
Jacob Konstanty (Gippsland Power)
Noah Long (Bendigo Pioneers)
Toby McMullin (Sandringham Dragons)
Caleb Mitchell (Murray Bushrangers)
Olivier Northam (Geelong Falcons)
Jack O'Sullivan (Oakleigh Chargers)
Mitch Szybkowski (Dandenong Stingrays)
Cooper Vickery (Gippsland Power)
James Van Es (GWV Rebels)


Vic Metro

Will Ashcroft (Sandringham Dragons)
Charlie Clarke (Sandringham Dragons)
Alwyn Davey (Oakleigh Chargers)
Blake Drury (Oakleigh Chargers)
Max Gruzewski (Oakleigh Chargers)
Lewis Hayes (Eastern Ranges)
Olli Hotton (Sandringham Dragons)
Matthew Jefferson (Oakleigh Chargers)
Cameron Mackenzie (Sandringham Dragons)
Harry Sheezel (Sandringham Dragons)
Luke Teal (Oakleigh Chargers)
Elijah Tsatas (Oakleigh Chargers)
George Wardlaw (Oakleigh Chargers)
Josh Weddle (Oakleigh Chargers)


South Australia

Harry Barnett (West Adelaide)
Adam D'Aloia (Woodville-West Torrens)
Will Dowling (North Adelaide)
Phoenix Foster (Norwood)
Isaac Keeler (North Adelaide)
Harry Lemmey (West Adelaide)
Jaiden Magor (South Adelaide)
Max Michalanney (Norwood)
Mattaes Phillipou (Woodville-West Torrens)
Jakob Ryan (Glenelg)
Nick Sadler (Sturt)
Tom Scully (West Adelaide)
Will Verrall (South Adelaide)


Western Australia

Jed Adams (Peel Thunder)
Edward Allan (Claremont)
Jedd Busslinger (East Perth)
Harry Cole (Claremont)
Hugh Davies (Claremont)
Tyrell Dewar (Subiaco)
Sam Gilbey (Claremont)
Reuben Ginbey (East Perth)
Steely Green (South Fremantle)
Jed Hagan (East Fremantle)
Elijah Hewett (Swan Districts)
Darcy Jones (Swan Districts)


New South Wales
Jason Gillbee (Bendigo Pioneers)
Nick Madden (GWS Academy)
Harry Rowston (GWS Academy)

Northern Territory
Lloyd Johnston (NT Thunder)
Anthony Munkara (NT/West Adelaide)

Queensland
Shadeau Brain (Brisbane Academy)
Jaspa Fletcher (Brisbane Academy)

Tasmania
Seth Campbell (Tasmania Devils)
Lachlan Cowan (Tasmania Devils)
Tom McCallum (Tasmania Devils)
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STATE
VIC METRO

Jakob Anderson (Sandringham Dragons)
Yuyu Ashwin (Oakleigh Chargers)
Josh Bennetts (Eastern Ranges)
Jayden Davey (Oakleigh Chargers)
Darcy Edmends (Northern Knights)
Will Elliott (Oakleigh Chargers)
Harry Flynn (Eastern Ranges)
Darcy Gilbert (Sandringham Dragons)
Cooper Harvey (Northern Knights)
Jamie Hope (Sandringham Dragons)
Jerome Lawrence (Oakleigh Chargers)
Bailey Macdonald (Oakleigh Chargers)
Hudson O'Keeffe (Oakleigh Chargers)
Paul Pascu (Calder Cannons)
Matthew Payne (Western Jets)
Rye Penny (Calder Cannons)
Jovan Petric (Western Jets)
Osca Riccardi (Geelong Falcons)
Christopher Rousakis (Sandringham Dragons)
Nathan Scollo (Sandringham Dragons)
Clay Tucker (Eastern Ranges)
Callum Verrell (Eastern Ranges)
Kai Windsor (Eastern Ranges)


VIC COUNTRY

Charlie Barnett (Bendigo Pioneers)
Taj Campbell-Farrell (Dandenong Stingrays)
Ted Clohesy (Geelong Falcons)
Finn Emile-Brennan (Dandenong Stingrays)
Felix Fogaty (GWV Rebels)
Harvey Gallagher (Bendigo Pioneers)
Michael Kiraly (Bendigo Pioneers)
Oscar Murdoch (Geelong Falcons)
Hugo Nosiara (Dandenong Stingrays)
Jonti Schuback (Gippsland Power)
Ziggy Toledo (Dandenong Stingrays)


SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Shaun Bennier (North Adelaide)
Tom Emmett (Sturt)
Oscar Kregar (West Adelaide)
Archie Lovelock (Glenelg)
Baynen Lowe (Norwood)
Kyle Marshall (South Adelaide)
Darcy Minchella (West Adelaide)
Rhett Montgomerie (Central District)
Kobe Ryan (West Adelaide)
Lachlan Scannell (Glenelg)
Oscar Steene (West Adelaide)
Frank Szekely (North Adelaide)
Brodie Tuck (Central District)
Jake Walker (Glenelg)


WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Kane Bevan (West Perth)
Jackson Broadbent (Peel Thunder)
Jack Cleaver (East Fremantle)
Josh Draper (Peel Thunder)
Griff Julian (West Perth)
Bailey Maxwell (East Perth)
Connor McDonald (Perth)
Toby McQuilkin (South Fremantle)
Baxter Philip (Perth)
Jasper Scaife (West Perth)
Kaleb Smith (East Fremantle)
Conrad Williams (Claremont)


NEW SOUTH WALES/ACT

Kaelan Bradtke (Sydney Swans VFL)
Will Edwards (Sydney Swans Academy)

TASMANIA

Brandon Leary (Tasmania Devils)
Cameron Owen (Tasmania Devils)

QUEENSLAND

Brinn Little (Gold Coast Suns Academy)

NT

Beau Tedcastle (GWV Rebels)
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giantroo said:

AFL DRAFT COMBINE RESULTS 2022​

Vertical Jump ​

75cm – Darcy Jones (WA)
75cm – James Van Es (VIC C)
72cm – Jack O’Sullivan (VIC M)
70cm – Olli Hotton (VIC M)
70cm – Reuben Ginbey (WA)
70cm – Elijah Hewett (WA)
69cm – Jacob Konstanty (VIC C)
68cm – Blake Drury (VIC M)
68cm – Tyrell Dewar (WA)
68cm – Josh Weddle (VIC M)
68cm – Edward Allan (WA)

Running Vertical Jump ​

98cm – James Van Es (VIC C)
90cm – Josh Weddle (VIC M)
90cm – Will Verrall (SA)
89cm – Jack O’Sullivan (VIC M)
87cm – Darcy Jones (WA)
87cm – Mattaes Phillipou (SA)
84cm – Toby McMullin (VIC M)
83cm – Mitch Szybkowski (VIC C)
83cm – Reuben Ginbey (WA)
83cm – Anthony Munkara (ALLIES)
83cm – Lachlan Cowan (ALLIES)

Agility ​

7.072sec – Darcy Jones (WA)
8.182sec – Jaxon Binns (VIC C)
8.217sec – Elijah Hewett (WA)
8.247sec – Steely Green (WA)
8.255sec – Edward Allan (WA)
8.267sec – Luke Teal (VIC M)
8.285sec – Toby McMullin (VIC M)
8.292sec – Jacob Konstanty (VIC C)
8.325sec – Harry Rowston (ALLIES)
8.343sec – Noah Long (VIC C)

20m Sprint ​

2.814sec – Edward Allan (WA)
2.880sec – Toby McMullin (VIC M)
2.883sec – Coby Burgiel (VIC C)
2.910sec – James Van Es (VIC C)
2.912sec – Darcy Jones (WA)
2.924sec – Olli Hotton (VIC M)
2.928sec – Reuben Ginbey (WA)
2.929sec – Cooper Vickery (VIC C)
2.937sec – Josh Weddle (VIC M)
2.951sec – Lloyd Johnston (ALLIES)

2km Time Trial​

5min 54sec – Ollie Hollands (VIC C)
5min 54sec – Jason Gillbee (ALLIES)
6min 00sec – Jaxon Binns (VIC C)
6min 03sec – Josh Weddle (VIC M)
6min 15sec – Reuben Ginbey (WA)
6min 16sec – Jakob Ryan (SA)
6min 17sec – Steely Green (WA)
6min 21sec – Will Dowling (SA)
6min 25sec – Blake Drury (VIC M)
6min 25sec – Seth Campbell (ALLIES)
6min 25sec – Mattaes Phillipou (SA)
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briztoon said:
We’re happy for him to slide out of the first round.
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Don't think you'd like hearing this up at the Lions, your recruiting staff look like they might be doing some overtime this season.....


Potential No.1 draft pick Will Ashcroft says a decision on whether to nominate as a father-son to Brisbane at the end of the year will be “weighed up pretty heavily” as he increasingly sets down roots in Melbourne.
The son of three-time Brisbane Lions premiership player Marcus Ashcroft, the 17-year-old is seen by recruiters as one of the standout players in this year’s draft pool but will have the choice to nominate for the club where his father played 318 AFL games.
Ashcroft grew up in Queensland, where his father was an assistant coach and later football manager of the Gold Coast Suns.
However, the family moved to Melbourne at the start of 2018 and Ashcroft completed his school studies at Brighton Grammar last year.
He has recently commenced a business and sports management course at Deakin University in Burwood.

“I love it in Melbourne. I think I’m a Melburnian now – I’ve been here for long enough,” Ashcroft said on Saturday.

“I’m at uni here, my whole family’s here and I’m playing footy here so at the moment I’m just trying to take it day by day, to be honest.

“I think it (the father-son decision) is in the back of my mind at the moment.

“It’s not at the forefront. I’m just trying to improve my game and looking forward to the year ahead.

“But I think when the time comes it will be weighed up pretty heavily.

“It’s a pretty big decision for myself and my family. So it’s definitely there but it’s nowhere near time to think about that.”

One senior recruiter said Ashcroft was a player who “doesn’t have too many deficiencies” as a midfielder with good endurance who can win the ball on the inside and outside of the contest. Some VFL matches with the Lions this year are a possibility, but Ashcroft said he was very much committed to playing with the Dragons in the NAB League and continuing his growth as a player after lining up for only “10 or 12” games across the past two years.
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Mutineer said:
Don't think you'd like hearing this up at the Lions, your recruiting staff look like they might be doing some overtime this season.....

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If you want my honest opinion.

I’ll buy you a crows membership for the next 10 years if he doesn’t nominate Brisbane.

It’s a fluff piece article, written to wind up Lions supporters, and Ashcroft is just being politic.

Kid came up here when he finished Uni and did 2 weeks quarantine, and was out training with our boys on the first day he was allowed out.

He could have waited until we dropped our border requirements and came up without having to do quarantine, but he chose to do quarantine.

He was up here before our draftees, and both he and Fletcher were part of the club match sims while the draftees were still doing laps. I know this, because I was there watching.

Ashcroft will be a Lion.
 
briztoon said:
Oh btw, and not being nasty Jen, no team is paying 2 firsts for JDG. Most teams probably wouldn’t even take him if you packaged a first with him, and tried to sell him off to the lowest bidder.
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Sorry... that's not what I meant.

I mean an extra 1st, meaning we'd have two 1sts (including our own)
 

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Mutineer said:
Kobe never takes a backward step even against the bigger bodies.....I think we know someone who might have to elevate him up their board eventually...;)
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Yeah sorry I have him too low 😂
 
eDPS said:
You might have heard of this kid before, Tsatas was it? Yeah he went alright
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It appears as though the Oakleigh Chargers boys performed really well at the testing. Elijah Tsatas did well in the 20m but struggled in the yo-yo test.
George Wardlaw did well in the jumping but was down on the 20m and yo—yo.
I’ve been told that probably the best overall performer was Riley Voulanas….he was right up there in the 20m and yo-yo test…..I’ve identified him as a real bolter for this seasons draft previously.
 
kevinwilliamson said:
George Wardlaw did well in the jumping but was down on the 20m
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He got 0.02 less than Tsatas in the 20 meter sprint, I'd say that's considerably better than most expected
 
kevinwilliamson said:
It appears as though the Oakleigh Chargers boys performed really well at the testing. Elijah Tsatas did well in the 20m but struggled in the yo-yo test.
George Wardlaw did well in the jumping but was down on the 20m and yo—yo.
I’ve been told that probably the best overall performer was Riley Voulanas….he was right up there in the 20m and yo-yo test…..I’ve identified him as a real bolter for this seasons draft previously.
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Where are u seeing the results?
 
kevinwilliamson said:
It appears as though the Oakleigh Chargers boys performed really well at the testing. Elijah Tsatas did well in the 20m but struggled in the yo-yo test.
George Wardlaw did well in the jumping but was down on the 20m and yo—yo.
I’ve been told that probably the best overall performer was Riley Voulanas….he was right up there in the 20m and yo-yo test…..I’ve identified him as a real bolter for this seasons draft previously.
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I think Tsatas got 20.8 which isn’t horrible
 
eDPS said:
I think Tsatas got 20.8 which isn’t horrible
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20.8 is definitely not horrible, but the testing showed that there are certainly better athletes out there and if they can also play, then we need to keep an eye on them. Ultimately you need to be able to play footy.
 

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kevinwilliamson said:
20.8 is definitely not horrible, but the testing showed that there are certainly better athletes out there and if they can also play, then we need to keep an eye on them. Ultimately you need to be able to play footy.
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He ran a 2.90 20m which is absolutely elite.

There really isn't many better athletes out there....
 
Sphynx said:
He ran a 2.90 20m which is absolutely elite.

There really isn't many better athletes out there....
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It was actually 2.93 I was given the wrong info at the time
 
From what I have been told there were 5 or 6 that ran a 20m sub 3 as well including a couple of bottom agers. I haven’t heard much about the agility test. Any strong performances?
 
Jen2310 said:
Yet..

Still plenty of time haha.

Or unless JDG leaves and get 2 x 1st rounders. Lemmey has to be first picked by the pies if he is available, then go with best mid.
But Lemmey is my 1st priority... just need to keep a watchful eye out on those who need a key forward like North.
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Key back is much more pressing as we have some young key forwards - Edwards, CCJ, Comben and Larkey is only 23. Hopefully we get a good look at them this year so we start to find out where they are at.

Wouldn’t surprise if we tried to turn our early 1st round pick into a couple of 1st rounders.
 
RedmanWasHere said:
Is the Ace of Spades your No. 1 SA kid?
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There is zero chance he is. I would be very very surprised if he is taken top 20. Ordinary runner who can only play mid. Super inside the contest though. Might be the best pure ball winner in the draft but his flaws are a worry.
 

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RedmanWasHere said:
Harry Lemmey.

Lemmy is the lead singer of Motörhead and Ace of Spades is a song of theirs.
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Is this another reference I'm too young to understand?
I would've gone with 'The Game' or 'King of Kings' for the Triple H connection
 
foodles05 said:
There is zero chance he is. I would be very very surprised if he is taken top 20. Ordinary runner who can only play mid. Super inside the contest though. Might be the best pure ball winner in the draft but his flaws are a worry.
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he single handedly made SA more competitive in the midfield in the u19's series last year, i think people are underselling his abilities, also was really good in the u17's games, performing in big games for me is more important than combine results(although i dont know his combine results and if they are good or bad tbh), but we'll let his footy do the talking this year and see where he lands?

P.S. but i agree, if Lemmey has a big year he might go top 3 or so potentially.
 
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Davo-27 said:
he single handedly made SA more competitive in the midfield in the u19's series last year, i think people are underselling his abilities, also was really good in the u17's games, performing in big games for me is more important than combine results(although i dont know his combine results and if they are good or bad tbh), but we'll let his footy do the talking this year and see where he lands?

P.S. but i agree, if Lemmey has a big year he might go top 3 or so potentially.
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Clearly footy performance is more important than combine stuff. However depending on who you are and what you will be asked to do at the next level certain measurements can be very important. Arlo Draper is a brilliant example. He tested terribly for aerobic conditioning and as a result was drafted purely on what he could be as a forward. That ended up being quite late. If he was judged purely on field he was one of SA's most exciting players. It can certainly hurt you but Adam could prove me wrong of that there is not doubt.

Ripping kid by the way and I'm behind him all the way. As professional as it gets for his age so whatever he has he will get out of himself. Clubs will certainly love his character.
 
briztoon said:
Didn’t read Jens post that way at all.
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Her post was clumsily written, but I assumed she meant 2 firsts in total, not two for JDG (as that's insanity).
 
EARLY NO.1 PICK CONTENDERS SET TO STAR
BRISBANE father-son prospect Will Ashcroft heads a group of four draftees who will start the season as the leading No.1 pick contenders in 2022.

Ashcroft, the son of Lions champion and three-time premiership player Marcus, is tied to the club under the rule and trained there over summer. The powerful midfielder starred at under-17s level last year and is likely to make a call on his nomination later in the season.

A father-son has never been bid on with the No.1 pick, with Sam Darcy (who last year received a bid at No.2 from the Giants) the earliest ever father-son taken.

Club recruiters feel there is another three players who will start the season in the mix for the top pick, with Oakleigh Chargers midfield pair George Wardlaw and Elijah Tsatas and West Adelaide tall forward Harry Lemmey the standouts heading into the 2022 draft season.

Wardlaw is a tough inside midfielder who played at NAB League level last season and also performed well for Vic Metro in the under-17s program, where he excelled with his contested disposals, while Tsatas' brilliant speed, run and carry was also on show for Vic Metro.

Lemmey's credentials are already strong as a young key position player, with the 199cm forward debuting at senior SANFL level last year. He finished the season with 17 goals from seven games for West Adelaide's under-18s, including 3.2 from 20 disposals and 10 marks in the preliminary final.

The SANFL under-18s competition begins this weekend while the NAB League has a round of practice games before the start of its season next week.

Powerful Murray Bushrangers prospect Brayden George, a forward/midfielder, is another who starts the season as a top-10 chance. – Callum Twomey
 
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