2020 draft watch

[comrade]

Re: 2020 draft watch

JUH, Raak & Finlay Macrae will be the designated 2020 prospects training with us over the pre-season, starting from Monday onwards.

[choconmientay]

Re: 2020 draft watch

JUH, Raak & Finlay Macrae will be the designated 2020 prospects training with us over the pre-season, starting from Monday onwards.

I just read that as well.

Here is the link to Cal T AFL article

[Axe Man]

Re: 2020 draft watch

JUH, Raak & Finlay Macrae will be the designated 2020 prospects training with us over the pre-season, starting from Monday onwards.

That seems to suggest that Nick Stevens is not NGA eligble as mentioned in the other thread.

Didn't know that younger brothers got to train at the older brothers club.

[comrade]

Re: 2020 draft watch

That seems to suggest that Nick Stevens is not NGA eligble as mentioned in the other thread.

Didn't know that younger brothers got to train at the older brothers club.

Yeah, you can scratch Stevens off our list of NGA prospects.

[Bornadog]

Re: 2020 draft watch

Best future stars: Top AFL draft prospects to follow in 2020


Including:

Jamarra Ugle-Hagan

Club: Oakleigh Chargers/Vic Country
Position: Key Forward
Size: 194cm, 79kg

Champion Data player comparison: Lance Franklin

Foxfooty.com.au says: Ugle-Hagan is the early favourite for the No. 1 pick despite being a next-generation academy member for the Western Bulldogs. The Dogs will have first dibs on the talented forward who has been compared to Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin, with a club at the top of the draft a certainty to bid on the academy prospect. The mobile left footer will need to add size to his frame over coming years, but it’s his eye-catching leap and impact which makes him a tasty prospect. The key forward can change a game in the space of five minutes and if he improves his consistency, he will develop into one of the best young players in the AFL competition.

[comrade]

Re: 2020 draft watch

Best future stars: Top AFL draft prospects to follow in 2020


Including:

Jamarra Ugle-Hagan

Club: Oakleigh Chargers/Vic Country
Position: Key Forward
Size: 194cm, 79kg

Champion Data player comparison: Lance Franklin

Foxfooty.com.au says: Ugle-Hagan is the early favourite for the No. 1 pick despite being a next-generation academy member for the Western Bulldogs. The Dogs will have first dibs on the talented forward who has been compared to Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin, with a club at the top of the draft a certainty to bid on the academy prospect. The mobile left footer will need to add size to his frame over coming years, but it’s his eye-catching leap and impact which makes him a tasty prospect. The key forward can change a game in the space of five minutes and if he improves his consistency, he will develop into one of the best young players in the AFL competition.

Apparently he played in a practice match today and performed well. Hard to get excited, tbh.

[GVGjr]

Re: 2020 draft watch

Recruiters to fly Blind

Clubs will be forced to select players virtually sight unseen at this year's national draft with AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan conceding he is not optimistic that community football or elite underage competitions will resume this season.

He said he was confident a national draft would occur but when it would be held and whether its format would stay the same remained as uncertain as most other aspects of the game in 2020.

McLachlan said that recruiters would need to "rely on past form and what the guys did in their second last year" in 2019 when selecting players to add to their list for 2021 and beyond.

"What I am confident about is that there will be a draft and there will be a lot of unexposed form and it will throw its own challenges and opportunities," McLachlan told Fox Footy.

Recruiters and list managers have been stood down temporarily at all clubs and there is an expectation that their ranks will be thinner when the game resumes, with the reduction in the soft cap forcing clubs to find cost savings throughout football departments.

However, there are huge number of issues list management teams will need to work through with the 50 per cent pay cut agreed to by players - that sources confirmed is across the board - even if the season does resume one of the more certain components of the space.

Clubs are unsure whether a new collective bargaining will be negotiated that reduces total player payments, which was set to be $13,013,257 million per club in 2020 and rising two per cent per annum until the broadcasting agreement expired in 2022.

They are also uncertain as to how existing contracts might be treated as a result of the economic calamity hitting football and whether long-term contracts might be renegotiated.

They were furiously working this week to develop new strategies if list sizes are reduced.

Sources said that a future CBA would take into account the disproportionate impact the 50 per cent cut would have on players such as Carlton's Jack Martin, who was set to earn $1 million in 2020 in a heavily front-ended five year deal, although it was uncertain exactly how the discrepancies would be addressed. Players have already received five months of their year's earnings.

Added to that is the need to identify underage talent without seeing them play in 2020 as well as the complications that were expected to arise at this year's national draft with a high number of father-son prospects and next generation academy graduates in the pool.

One experienced club recruiter said they were well placed to assess the form of players eligible for the draft for the first time this season.

"It would be obviously be more difficult but the work we have done in 2019 sets us up," the recruiter said.

He also said if list sizes were reduced clubs with experienced players coming out of contract at the end of 2020 would be in a good position to quickly adapt and potentially grab players from other clubs who might be delisted.

McLachlan indicated there were no definitive plans around how future pathways would be structured but he hinted that he suspected clubs might look at drafting more state league prospects at the end of the season because their form was more predictable.

McLachlan confirmed the AFL would do what it needed to do to get the remaining 144 games played when medical experts convinced them they were safe to resume without endangering the community or players.

"As long as it's appropriate in that context, we'll do what we need to do," McLachlan said.

AFLPA CEO Paul Marsh, who struck the pay deal with the AFL late on Friday, said the players were prepared to do what was required within reason to complete the games but they would not expose them to risks of long-term injury in doing so.

Marsh said there were contingencies being put in place to help players on low earnings with a hardship fund of $500,000 established as part of the new agreement.

[Twodogs]

Re: 2020 draft watch

It's a good thing that we have been tracking Marra for so long then.

We have known where our picks are going for a while now.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: 2020 draft watch

For kids sake, I’d like to see all clubs go given three extra selections in the rookie draft. So as many kids as possible get drafted.

If no more games are played, we have pick 2 and I don’t see the need that GCS nominate Ugle-Hagan. Are they suggesting we get pick 2 and JUH, Raak & Macca? Could be a huge silver lining if that’s how the afel is ordering the draft if no more games are played.

[mjp]

Re: 2020 draft watch

For kids sake, I’d like to see all clubs go given three extra selections in the rookie draft. So as many kids as possible get drafted.

If no more games are played, we have pick 2 and I don’t see the need that GCS nominate Ugle-Hagan. Are they suggesting we get pick 2 and JUH, Raak & Macca? Could be a huge silver lining if that’s how the afel is ordering the draft if no more games are played.

I've been told to expect a National Championships but no u18's footy.

[bulldogtragic]

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I've been told to expect a National Championships but no u18's footy.

How do you pick a side in these times then?

[Bornadog]

Re: 2020 draft watch

How do you pick a side in these times then?

Academy plus father son - done.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: 2020 draft watch

Academy plus father son - done.

Sorry, I don’t follow. I was asking MJP how you pick a Champs side with no form.

[mjp]

Re: 2020 draft watch

Well...all the states have academies now for which they are paid significant money by the AFL.

I guess those kids play and everyone else misses out.

I am as confused as you but am relaying the info (1st hand this time) that I have.

[jeemak]

Re: 2020 draft watch

I'd be thinking a carnival with extended squads and more (shorter) games before the trade and draft periods would be the way to go. In parallel to this run state based carnivals for whoever at best guess misses out, once again with extended squads and more games. Get it over and done with across three to four weeks.