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2023 Draft Thread.

In 2010 we finished 15th and had pick 35 at the draft. In 2023 we finished 13th and also got pick 35. Difference is that in 2010 it was our third rounder and in 2023 it’s our second rounder. Admittedly a couple of teams have been added, but it’s still almost a whole round of draft giveaways.

The consolation from this is that in 2010 we got David Astbury with that pick. With quite a few promising talls still available hopefully we can do similar this year.
 
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tigertim said:
Yeah, I reckon each draftee is told to hug everyone around them to try and elicit some on screen emotion and the zoom visions where the draftees mates jump all over them is just cringey.
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They did seem to hug everyone didn't they.

The AFL really set it up though with the decor. Brought some park benches in for an official event. I don't mind seeing the excitement of the players. I thought the genuine reactions from Oskar Ryan and his friends was great to see, he had no idea he was even a chance of being drafted in the 1st round.
 
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Rfc4Ever said:
Certainly was bogan central last night.

AFL needs to lift the professionalism.
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The Fox commentary team were obviously told to push the company line....

How many times did they mention what great memories families will have as they look back on these images in the years ahead!?

When they did that 1st cross to Bogan Central on the Gold Coast with the chief Boganeer, Jonathan Brown ...... and some young fella on the raspberry cordial was convulsing to camera.... I sort of knew then it was gonna be an extremely hard watch!

They didn't let me down.
 
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Redford said:
Flipped on SEN1116 for the first time in ages this morning. Boy, torrent of criticism from callers and texters re the amateurish nature of last night. I’m with them. Thought it was embarrassing. Looked like one big high school *smile* up. Blokes taking their shirts off, draftees stupid mates pulling silly faces in the background during interviews, lots of infantile screaming and yelling, looked like it was being held in a pub, amateurish tv coverage especially the interviews, guys presenting the jumpers to the draftees looked like they’d just got out of bed eg Michael Tuck. Gilbee in a hoodie etc etc. AFL couldn’t keep track of the trades and let viewers know where clubs stood in the draft order. And on and on and on….

The draft has always been an amateurish affair but amazingly, it’s getting worse. Looked like one big junior bogan *smile* up. Terrible look last night I thought.
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Six-figure bonuses all-round.
 
mrposhman said:
Yeah I'd like Murphy at our pick too. I reckon the Saints 2 picks in front of us are the biggest risk to take them.

Would you trade up to get him? Something like 30 and 40, for 35, 43 and a F3?
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I wouldn't trade a great deal to get it and I think the price will be high.

Murphy is an All-Austrlaian defender, VIC Metro MVP for the carnival and a mobile 200 cm athlete who loves to take contested marks. And reads the play very well. I would've tAiken him with a pick in the teens in this draft. If we can jag him I'll do cartwheels. It’s first round talent. I don’t understand the slide.

Not beyond the realms to get two of Murphy/Edwards/Reid.
 
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Am I the only one who can’t work out the Essendon trade with Geelong?
The cats were the only ones who could take Caddy so I would assume they took the deal knowing Essendon was going to take him. Surely if they were going to select him they would have said no? I can’t see how the extra pick would have changed their selection.
So the way I see it Essendon has handed over pick 31 to Geelong who weren’t going to pick Caddy anyway.
Have I missed something?
 
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tigertim said:
Yeah, I reckon each draftee is told to hug everyone around them to try and elicit some on screen emotion and the zoom visions where the draftees mates jump all over them is just cringey.
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The whole hugging everyone and back slapping was cringeworthy. I reckon one kid, think it was Will Green, hugged about 15 people before he got to the stage. It was like they were lining up on the street. By the end of it he looked like he didn't even know them; probably 5th cousins he's never met roped in for the occasion.

The whole telecast was a debacle. Topped off by Shifter Sheahan and Mick Ablett spouting nauseau inducing over the top platitudes on every draftee, their family and the club that drafted them.
 
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Sintiger said:
Am I the only one who can’t work out the Essendon trade with Geelong?
The cats were the only ones who could take Caddy so I would assume they took the deal knowing Essendon was going to take him. Surely if they were going to select him they would have said no? I can’t see how the extra pick would have changed their selection.
So the way I see it Essendon has handed over pick 31 to Geelong who weren’t going to pick Caddy anyway.
Have I missed something?
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I don't think you've missed anything. But Dodoro is a genius apparently so who are we to question it?
 
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Sintiger said:
Am I the only one who can’t work out the Essendon trade with Geelong?
The cats were the only ones who could take Caddy so I would assume they took the deal knowing Essendon was going to take him. Surely if they were going to select him they would have said no? I can’t see how the extra pick would have changed their selection.
So the way I see it Essendon has handed over pick 31 to Geelong who weren’t going to pick Caddy anyway.
Have I missed something?
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Maybe Caddy's overrated, not as good as most clubs thought and therefore a failure for the Bummers? Best outcome.
 
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Sintiger said:
Am I the only one who can’t work out the Essendon trade with Geelong?
The cats were the only ones who could take Caddy so I would assume they took the deal knowing Essendon was going to take him. Surely if they were going to select him they would have said no? I can’t see how the extra pick would have changed their selection.
So the way I see it Essendon has handed over pick 31 to Geelong who weren’t going to pick Caddy anyway.
Have I missed something?
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Correct but they called Essendon's bluff and got pick 31 for it. I don't mind what Dodo did because Nate is the perfect fit their needsand pick 31 will end up 35 ish in a draft that is a raffle after 15. Dodo got his blue chipper, Geelong got another ticket in the raffle and drafted the player that they wanted.

It's almost win/win. Geelong played it well and Essendon got their guy.
 
teh whole draft coverage is a lame attempt by the afl to turn it into a USA style sporting event. Always fails, fully cringe, and yes the broadcasters would absolutely be told how to frame things.
 
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As I've said, the only positive from the Suns academy concessions, and how eye-poppingly extreme it is, is that it will trigger change. Pretty slow on the uptake these journos, but this is telling, and pretty funny because the tone suggests these guys have just woken-up to whats going on:


These guys focus on only one facet of this multi-facetted rort, and one that I hadn't really considered because its peripheral, and that is the potential for soft corruption wink-wink deals between clubs so they don't bid, or bid a bit later. They aske the question; if North were willing to bid at 3, why not 2? (I think Sin answered that with the bonus $ factor, so its poor if pro journos don't know that). They do mention the fact that they got Read for 2 picks in the 30s, and state that that would never happen in a real market, which is the core issue.

Also interesting IMO opinion is the contrast with the above and similar rumblings, with AFL payroll journos like Twomey who peddlies this *smile* line about what a great job the Suns recruiters have done and suggest that it might be in any way difficult.

Changes will come in. They will probably include some or all of 1) the discount being reduced and/ or staged so it gets lower with each player or disappears after the first player, 2) club must use a pick in the same round as when the player is drafted, 3) review of the points allocation, 4) maybe a limit on players allowed to be matched.

This has been an outrageous rort even by AFL standards.
 
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Redford said:
Flipped on SEN1116 for the first time in ages this morning. Boy, torrent of criticism from callers and texters re the amateurish nature of last night. I’m with them. Thought it was embarrassing. Looked like one big high school *smile* up. Blokes taking their shirts off, draftees stupid mates pulling silly faces in the background during interviews, lots of infantile screaming and yelling, looked like it was being held in a pub, amateurish tv coverage especially the interviews, guys presenting the jumpers to the draftees looked like they’d just got out of bed eg Michael Tuck. Gilbee in a hoodie etc etc. AFL couldn’t keep track of the trades and let viewers know where clubs stood in the draft order. And on and on and on….

The draft has always been an amateurish affair but amazingly, it’s getting worse. Looked like one big junior bogan *smile* up. Terrible look last night I thought.
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This was a good representation of the night.:))

https://twitter.com/x/status/1726515200151671005
 
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Can someone clarify, was last night the 1st round of the draft or the opening round?
 
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