Draft Day winners and losers?

[Dry Rot]

Any clubs you thought did overly well given their picks? And did any clubs stuff up a selection or two?

[Mantis]

Re: Draft Day winners and losers?

West Coast did well getting Swift at 20.... Well so I have been told.

[Scorlibo]

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I think Carlton has done well. I had all of Yarran, Robinson and O'Keefe in my top 20 players going into the draft. Port Adelaide also with the Trengove steal and then two very solid picks in Banner and Broadbent.

[Missing Dog]

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Fremantle made some strange picks, maybe rating players to highly (Hill, Ballentyne)

Carlton did well with the picks they had

[LostDoggy]

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I think Collingwood got a "Steele" with Steele Sidebottom falling outside the top 10..

[GVGjr]

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Given the depth of the draft I think everyone would be happy. I agree that Freo's selections were a little surprising.

[KT31]

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Roughhead at 31 and three talls to build a team around and also it being the last Clayton draft, I think we are onto a winner.

[bulldogtragic]

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Many had Roughead as a very early second rounder.
Many had Ayce top 5 if not father-son.
Jones looks like a possible talent.

I'd say we were a winner today.

[GVGjr]

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Adelaide are a clear winner in my book.
Davis the local boy is the key defender that could play some senior football
McKernan is a key forward who can do some ruck work
Sloane is a hard working midfielder
and to top if off the land Tom Lee who was on our radar as a marking forward and a big versatile tall in Will Young

I'd almost give them an A+ for that effort. McKernan lasting to their 2nd pick was gold for them.

Of the others I thought North did very well as did West Coast.

[mjp]

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Brisbane got the best player in the draft at pick 7. I think that makes them the winners!

[azabob]

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Emma Quayle's view on our picks from The Sunday Age;

So maybe Clayton & Co. did do well.

"Only three picks for the Bulldogs, but they are up there with Adelaide as my big winners. Ayce Cordy — at 202 centimetres, with his agility — is a unique player. Roughead could easily prove the best ruckmen of this pool — his actual ruck work is a highlight — and Jones will take some developing, but is a very talented, smart player. Add these three young talls to Jarrad Grant and Jarrad Boumann, and surely two or three will come through."

[Go_Dogs]

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Quite a few winners, Adelaide as mentioned, I think Essendon, Carlton, Brisbane, Port and West Coast all did really well too.

Going to be exciting watching this crop develop, it seems to be the best and most intriguing draft ever.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Draft Day winners and losers?

No winners or losers yet. You could have 1 pick and he could turn out to be the next Whitten. Everyone that had a chance to pick him then becomes a loser.

[LostDoggy]

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I think the likes of Hislop and Davenport will turn out to be great selections. The bottom end of the draft, they are talented players with a few years under their belts, almost ready to step up to the starting 22's of their respective clubs.

[mighty_west]

Re: Draft Day winners and losers?

Every player selected is a winner!

It's now up to each and every one to make the most of the chance they have.