2025 Draft Watch

[Bulldogs201616]

Dogs getting Dovaston would appeal to the Bulldog faithful.
Good effort by the way.

Just out of curiosity, if you had to narrow our range down to 4 players for our pick who would they be? ie any surprises?.

As for Dovaston I'm torn between him and Oscar Taylor. It would be a flip of the coin for me happy with either

[Bulldogs201616]

Dogs getting Dovaston would appeal to the Bulldog faithful.
Good effort by the way.

Just out of curiosity, if you had to narrow our range down to 4 players for our pick who would they be? ie any surprises?.

No real surprises but I'd go with Dovaston O.taylor, NHH, Phillipou (Since you mentioned him the other day I had a look and he would be perfect for us)

[GVGjr]

16 Dogs Dovaston
17 Adelaide Phillipou
18 Geelong NHH
19 Carl O.taylor
20 Sydney King Bid
21 Ess Sweid bid
21 Freo L.Pickett
22 Hawks Marsh


The other day I posted a mock draft without the updates so here is the updated version. I have done it that no more draft trades happen. If I'm wrong about how far Carlton slide back let me know.

Sun's lions lose all there first round picks due to matching bids. And as Carlton had two first they matched it with one and the remaining points needed caused there other first round to slide back.

Dogs getting Dovaston would appeal to the Bulldog faithful.
Good effort by the way.

Just out of curiosity, if you had to narrow our range down to 4 players for our pick who would they be? ie any surprises?.

[lemmon]

I heard Robey interviewed on the Gettable podcast with Cam Twomey. Super impressive kid, one of the more mature youngsters you'd hear.

Kind of hope he gets to the Bombers because you could tell he absolutely loves the club. Very mixed feelings considering the absolute hatred I have for all things Dons haha.

[Bulldogs201616]

1 WCE Duursma
2 Sun's Uwland bid
3 WCE CDT
4 Rich Robey
5 Lions Annable bid
6 Sun's Patterson bid
7 Rich Grji
8 Carlton Dean bid
9 Ess X Taylor
10 Ess Sharp
11 Dees Cumming
12 Dees Schubert
13 Hawks Greeves
14 GWS Lindsay
15 Wce Farrow
16 Dogs Dovaston
17 Adelaide Phillipou
18 Geelong NHH
19 Carl O.taylor
20 Sydney King Bid
21 Ess Sweid bid
21 Freo L.Pickett
22 Hawks Marsh


The other day I posted a mock draft without the updates so here is the updated version. I have done it that no more draft trades happen. If I'm wrong about how far Carlton slide back let me know.

Sun's lions lose all there first round picks due to matching bids. And as Carlton had two first they matched it with one and the remaining points needed caused there other first round to slide back.

[Willow18]

Xavier Taylor is a really good defender but I don't think we should trade up to position ourselves for him.
The cost of doing so would limit us going forward.
Perhaps a better option might be to trade down and position ourselves to draft Blake Thredgold?

Here is an option (without a lot of thought) we might consider

We trade with North offering our pick 14, 33 and a F3 for North's pick 25, 46 and their F1
North get back into the 1st round and pick 46 doesn't mean a lot for them. A F3 might appeal
They go into the draft with picks 14, 26, 33 and 57

North's F1 helps us if there is a chance we can land Butters. Thredgold is a good defender and pick 46 gives some points for Darcy.
I'm sure we could argue of a bit of positioning but essentially there are some other options to consider

I think we’d need to put up our future 1st in that deal to even it out haha

[GVGjr]

Xavier Taylor is a really good defender but I don't think we should trade up to position ourselves for him.
The cost of doing so would limit us going forward.
Perhaps a better option might be to trade down and position ourselves to draft Blake Thredgold?

Here is an option (without a lot of thought) we might consider

We trade with North offering our pick 14, 33 and a F3 for North's pick 25, 46 and their F1
North get back into the 1st round and pick 46 doesn't mean a lot for them. A F3 might appeal
They go into the draft with picks 14, 26, 33 and 57

North's F1 helps us if there is a chance we can land Butters. Thredgold is a good defender and pick 46 gives some points for Darcy.
I'm sure we could argue of a bit of positioning but essentially there are some other options to consider

[Warrnambulldog]

This might put the Butters trade in doubt, do we trade up a future pick to get up to Xavier Taylor? Is he ready made enough to make an impact for us next year, something like Sam De Konig was able to impact as a key defender in his first year?
Xavier Taylor looks an A grade defender like a young Cal Wilkie does he not?
I do like our current draft position to find a flank/wing player with some sizzle which would be a nice addition to what we have

[doggies ftw]

Great summary, I might have a look at Lindsay over the weekend.

Yeah just to clarify I don’t know anything about this kid in particular, but it’s definitely becoming a pretty hard to ignore trend with juniors and their CP rate in general. It’s tough to judge if that’s their role on the outside but realistically you’d think the junior programs would be putting them in positions to show their ability in the contest throughout the year if they’re capable enough.

[Jasper]

His contested possession rate is abysmal though and there’s a pretty longstanding trend of juniors with such low contested possession rates being massive draft busts, ie your Toumpass & Aish’s

Id assume that’s what recruiters knocks are him, obviously everyone has to be assessed on their own merits but if you’re not winning the ball for yourself at junior level it doesn’t get any easier I guess, no matter how good you are on the outside

Great summary, I might have a look at Lindsay over the weekend.

[Jasper]

Appears to be plenty of talent around our pick?

It seems so. Despite some otherwise negative comments on the depth of the draft it's even enough.
I keep an eye ot for Tom Burton and he rarely gets a mention in top 40 drafts.
If he is missing out then it's an even draft

[NAUGHTY100]

Paraphrasing SEN just now.

Sam Edmund to Chad Cornes , “Where do you reckon Butters goes?”
Chad Cornes, “He absolutely loves the Bulldogs. Absolutely loves them.”

Chad is fairly sure.

As for Butters , and him comming to us , there should be a Fingers crossed emoji , because iv got everything crossed that Butters love for us comes to frooition .

[Critter]

Paraphrasing SEN just now.

Sam Edmund to Chad Cornes , “Where do you reckon Butters goes?”
Chad Cornes, “He absolutely loves the Bulldogs. Absolutely loves them.”

Chad is fairly sure.

[doggies ftw]

Thanks for that and the YouTube tip. The first sentence had me sold immediately. I have thought for a long time that a Gulden type would be perfect for us. The difference he makes for Sydney is extraordinary. Absolute match winner. If Lindsay gets somewhere near that he would help us enormously. I guess the recruiting skill is to judge whether he could be that good at AFL level.

His contested possession rate is abysmal though and there’s a pretty longstanding trend of juniors with such low contested possession rates being massive draft busts, ie your Toumpass & Aish’s

Id assume that’s what recruiters knocks are him, obviously everyone has to be assessed on their own merits but if you’re not winning the ball for yourself at junior level it doesn’t get any easier I guess, no matter how good you are on the outside

[Willow18]

Cal Twomey’s top 20

1. Willem Duursma - utility
2. Zeke Uwland - def/mid (Suns)
3. Cooper Duff-Tytler - ruck
4. Dylan Patterson - mid/fwd (Suns)
5. Daniel Annable - mid (Lions)
6. Sullivan Robey - mid/fwd
7. Xavier Taylor - key def
8. Harry Dean - key back (Blues)
9. Dyson Sharp - mid (SA)
10. Samuel Cumming - mid (SA)
11. Aidan Schubert - ruck/fwd (SA)
12. Sam Grlj - speedy mid
13. Jacob Farrow - half back/mid (WA)
14. Josh Lindsay - rebound def
15. Jevan Phillipou - mid/fwd (SA)
16. Oliver Greeves - mid
17. Mitch Marsh - fwd (SA)
18. Lachy Dovaston - small fwd
19. Oskar Taylor - half back
20. Noah Hibbins-Hargreaves - fwd

as predicted, same top 20 as Dylan Alexander, Grlj, Lindsay & Dovaston the biggest differences between the two.