Levi West is 17 and would be eligible next season
Will Darcy has been invited to the Draft Combine so it's almost certain he's on our radar.
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The way our list is progressing I think we are looking at young players to take over when our older players retire , I am not sure we have a need for any particular spot .
O’Donnell seems to get better every week , Buss showed on Sunday he is getting more confidence in playing AFL .
With another pre season under their belts they will come good.
Our older players are now playing VFL eg Duryea and Jones .
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We won't be significant players in this years draft. Most likely we will only select 2 players and that might be pushed to 3 depending on the draft hand we can assemble.
Some of the players I've seen and tracked are:
Sam Grlj - A 182cm midfielder/defender. Very quick and evasive with good kicking skills.
Noah Hibbins-Hargreaves - A 186cm forward/winger. Skillful and a good goal kicker
Hunter Holmes - A 187cm midfielder. Very quick and skillful. Brother of Max
Tom Burton - A 178cm defender/midfielder. All round skills with his rebounding and kicking.Leave a comment:
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Must say, I’d assumed Darcy was a player for next year! Shows how little I follow junior footy these days…
If we assume we have 2 or 3 live picks, I wonder what attributes or roles we target?
We still have a need for developing key defenders, small forwards and small defenders (of both the running and lock down variety).
While we’ve made progress on the wings, it’s perhaps still an area of need.
If Cody is still challenged or a risk, a medium sized player who can mark would also be on my wish list.
If Sanders is a flight risk and Garcia an unproven commodity (or at least, an unlikely B+ grader) I also wonder if we need a coal face extractor?
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Has anyone got some names we should be looking at in the coming weeks?
I would imagine a small forward, a small defender and a midfielder with pace would be on our shopping list.
There is also Will Darcy to consider.
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See the full list of players who’ll be tested at the AFL draft combine 2025
More than 60 prospective draft talents will be pushed to the limits by the AFL ahead of November’s draft – but plenty of them are already tied to clubs. See the full list here.
Some 23 club-linked draft prospects are among 64 players who have been invited to attend the AFL’s national draft combine in October.
Five Gold Coast Suns Academy stars, four Sydney Swans Academy prospects and three Brisbane Lions Academy members are among those to earn an invitation to the event as the northern academies continue to churn out talent.
Among them are top-five draft prospects Zeke Uwland (Gold Coast), Daniel Annable (Brisbane Lions) and Dylan Patterson (Gold Coast), along with talented tall Max King (Sydney Swans).
Uwland – the younger brother of current Suns defender Bodhi – played his first game of the year in the VFL last weekend but some scouts still rate him as “the best player” in this year’s draft on the back of what he was able to produce as a bottom-age player in 2024.
The list of invitees also includes Carlton father-son prospect Harry Dean – who is rated by some scouts as a potential top-five talent – and Blues Next Generation Academy member Jack Ison.
Player Club State Linked toAdam Sweid Calder Cannons Vic Metro Essendon Aidan Schubert Central District South Australia Archie Ludowyke Sandringham Dragons Vic Metro Avery Thomas Tasmania Devils Tasmania Beau Addinsall Gold Coast Suns Academy Queensland Gold Coast Blake Oudshoorn-Bennier North Adelaide South Australia Blake Thredgold Sturt South Australia Cameron Nairn Central District South Australia Cody Curtin Claremont Western Australia Cooper Duff-Tytler Calder Cannons Vic Metro Daniel Annable Brisbane Lions Academy Queensland Brisbane Lions Dylan Patterson Gold Coast Suns Academy Queensland Gold Coast Dyson Sharp Central District South Australia Finn Davis Western Jets Vic Metro Fred Rodriguez South Fremantle Western Australia Harley Barker Sturt South Australia Harry Dean Murray Bushrangers Vic Country Carlton Harry Kyle Sydney Swans Academy NSW/ACT Sydney Hugo Mikunda Geelong Falcons Vic Country Hunter Holmes Oakleigh Chargers Vic Metro Hussien El Achkar Calder Cannons Vic Metro Essendon Isaac Waller Brisbane Lions Academy Queensland Brisbane Lions Jack Dalton Sandringham Dragons Vic Metro Jack Ison Oakleigh Chargers Vic Metro Carlton Jacob Farrow West Perth Western Australia Jai Murray Gold Coast Suns Academy Queensland Gold Coast Jesse Mellor Geelong Falcons Vic Country Geelong Jevan Phillipou Woodville-West Torrens South Australia Josh Lindsay Geelong Falcons Vic Country Koby Coulson Gold Coast Suns Academy Queensland Gold Coast Koby Evans Perth Western Australia West Coast Lachlan Carmichael Sydney Swans Academy NSW/ACT Sydney Lachy Dovaston Eastern Ranges Vic Metro Liam Hetherton Murray Bushrangers NSW/ACT Louis Emmett Oakleigh Chargers Vic Metro Louis Kellaway Sturt South Australia Richmond Matthew LeRay Central District South Australia Max King Sydney Swans Academy NSW/ACT Sydney Max Kondogiannis Oakleigh Chargers Vic Metro Mitchell Marsh West Adelaide South Australia Noah Chamberlain Sydney Swans Academy NSW/ACT Sydney Noah Hibbins-Hargreaves Dandenong Stingrays Vic Country Noah Roberts-Thomson Sturt South Australia Oliver Greeves Eastern Ranges Vic Metro Oskar Ainsworth Western Jets Vic Metro Riley Onley Murray Bushrangers Vic Country Sam Ainsworth Norwood South Australia Sam Allen Oakleigh Chargers Vic Metro Sam Cumming North Adelaide South Australia Sam Grlj Oakleigh Chargers Vic Metro Sam Swadling West Perth Western Australia Tairon Ah-Mu Dandenong Stingrays Vic Country Taj Murray North Adelaide Northern Territory Talor Byrne GWV Rebels Vic Country Thomas Burton Western Jets Vic Metro Tyan Prindable Brisbane Lions Academy Queensland Brisbane Lions Tylah Williams Swan Districts Western Australia West Coast Wes Walley Subiaco Western Australia West Coast Will Darcy Oakleigh Chargers Vic Metro Western Bulldogs Willem Duursma Gippsland Power Vic Country Xavier Taylor Eastern Ranges Vic Metro Zac McCarthy Oakleigh Chargers Vic Metro Collingwood Zane Peucker Woodville-West Torrens South Australia Zeke Uwland Gold Coast Suns Academy Queensland Gold Coast
Essendon NGA pair Adam Sweid and Hussien El Achkar – both considered to be top-30 prospects – have also been invited, as have Richmond father-son prospect Louis Kellaway (son of Duncan) and Western Bulldogs father-son prospect Will Darcy (son of Luke).
Darcy, a 197cm tall who is also the younger brother of current Bulldogs forward Sam, was not on a Coates Talent League list at the start of this year but has caught the eyes of scouts while playing school football for Scotch College.
Dyson Sharp headlines a group of 14 South Australian prospects firmly in the mix to be drafted, after the state claimed the title at the recent under-18 national championships.
A gun midfielder who can also push forward and hit the scoreboard, Sharp won the Larke Medal as the best player of the tournament to emerge as a potential top-five prospect this November.
Western Australia’s group of seven players includes West Coast NGA prospects Wes Walley, Tylah Williams and Kobe Evans.
A further group of 32 players have been invited to state draft combines, including Collingwood father-son prospect Tom McGuane and West Coast father-son prospect Charlie Banfield.
Melbourne father-son prospect Kalani White, who is also a member of the Gold Coast Suns Academy, has also been invited to a state combine.
The national draft combine will run from October 3-5, with players to have interviews with clubs at the MCG and physical testing to take place at the State Netball and Hockey Centre in Parkville.
The Victorian state combine will then be held on October 5, with state combines in South Australia (October 11) and Western Australia (October 12) scheduled for the following weekend.
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Our annual "strongly consider" a WA kid could bear fruit this year:
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Callum Twomey
Injury setbacks for a couple of draftees. Talented Sandringham Dragons small forward Ricky Theodoropoulos and Geelong NGA prospect Ben Rongdit have both done ACLs and will miss the rest of the year.Leave a comment:
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