Episode Transcript
Hello, and welcome to CAD Sports Mocket Draft for twenty twenty five.
I've got down Batm here with me and we're going to run through every club's picks one by one.
We've got different teams that we've been allocated to select for and we're basically just playing the roles of recruiters, aren't we, Dan.
Speaker 2That's right.
Speaker 3Yeah, we're picking probably more on lists needs, you know, looking with the clubs that we have what would suit best essentially, and we're going to go through the entire first round.
Should be around in a low twenties of picks.
Expect a few bids and there's going to be some early I think.
In terms of the club breakdown, Cave has got Adelaide, Brisbane, carlin Essenon Fremantle, North, Melbourne, West Coast and the Bulldogs, and I have Geelong Gold Coast, gws Hawthorne, Melbourne and Richmond.
Speaker 4Well.
Speaker 3Cave is on the clock West Coast.
Who are you taking with the number one pick?
Speaker 1Yes, I'm going to start off with which isn't much of a surprise, I know, but I think he SAIDs very well.
He's one hundred and ninety three centim at a midfield forward, I think is where he plays his best footy.
He did play a little bit of defense this year as well, but youngest brother of Xavier, Yasmin and Zaya were all in the AFL system already, but they've all said it all along that he might be the best of the lot, which would be pretty exciting for the Eagles.
So he's also got a connection with Harley Reed already.
Just makes sense for him to go over there, and I think between him and Harley they can make a pretty formidable force in the midfield for years to come for the Eagles.
Speaker 3In terms of a player comparison, like who do you sort of think he does play like?
Speaker 1Well, he says he tries to look up to a bit of Marcus Bonton Pelli and I guess you can see that a little bit because he is a similar height.
Yeah, I mean he might be exactly the same height almost as in the end, but yeah, he's he can impact both at ground level and in the air as well, and as we said, between midfield and forward as well.
So yeah, I think he's very much along those lines.
Speaker 3And back to you with West Coast, obviously, that pick they received its conversation for losing Oscar Allen.
Speaker 2Who are you going to take with pick two?
Speaker 1Yeah, so I've bit to talk about Westcast potentially bidding on Harry Dean at this pick, who's Calton father son.
But this is, as we said, just what we think they should do, not what they might do, which she'll be in the fanom draft that we'll do next week.
But I'm going to go with Cooper duff tit lare at number two.
Not going to place a bit for the West Coast, just because I think getting in the number one and two picks it gives you something to sell to your membership next year, and it gives you some hope that you've got the two best players in the country.
And Cooper's very much deserving of picked two anyway.
Two hundred and one centimeter Rock Forward.
I've got to know him a little bit this year.
He's doing a little bit of a draft documentary with him called Chasing the Dream, which will be out soon, so keeping on the Code Sports website for that.
But yeah, he's very much a Luk Jackson type.
He's got the ability to win the footy at contest after the rock contest goes forward, kicks goals, very mobile athletic and I think he's going to be a serious player of the future.
So he fits a need for West Coast, which is they need some height on their list and they don't know much of that at the moment, so I think that's a perfect fit for him.
So we've got Desmer and Duff title they go on the West Coast at one to two and onto Richmond, on to Richmond.
Speaker 3But when you look at from here and you look at how the draft boards do stack up, there is a lot of Academy kids and that's probably a bit of a hinter as what I'm looking at here with Richmond, I'm actually going to place a bid on Zeke Yawned from the Gold Coast Signs.
Speaker 2Academy missed all of the year.
Speaker 3Most of the year this year with a back injury, but returned and was able to have an impact at VFO level, but had so much impact last year as bottom ajor was an under eighteen All Australian and as Gold Coast me, I'm going to match that bid.
We've you know, we've got the picks during the trade period to account for those points and there may be another bid coming very soon.
At the moment picks fifteen and eighteen of the Suns equates to two ninety seven points.
Just punch the numbers in on the calculator there and the points for a pick three bid, which is ninety percent, you get a ten percent discount on what the points are.
Speaker 2There has been a bit of a change to the points.
Speaker 3You can read about all that in the in the article that will go up on co Sports later.
But yeah, so that'll essentially take back fifteen and eighteen roughly, and they'll might get a pick out.
Speaker 2The back for that.
But I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3The Tigers aren't done yet.
Obviously, the Suns nabbed Damien Hardwick and Dan Yeoland.
Maybe this is just a little bit of revenge, but we do also really rate Dylan Patterson of the Gold Coast Sons Academy.
Bidman is going for the second bid in a row, and Patterson just has that need for speed, comes from a bit of a rugby background as well.
Speaker 2I spoke with him at the draft combine.
Speaker 3He's super confident and I have no doubt he's going to be a star and going to be a favorite of many into the future.
But back to back bids for Gold Coast it's not ideal all up.
For these two picks.
The bid at these two bids, it'll be three zerosy seven hundred and ninety one points, and it's harder to get that in the past.
You've seen Will Ashcroft Levi Ashcroft joined Brisbane with a lot of picks in the twenties.
That doesn't cut it this year with the new Draft Value Index.
Speaker 1So and of course only the tempers discount this year as opposed to twenty percent in previous years.
Speaker 2That's all right.
Speaker 3Yeah, So for these two picks, it wipes out picks fifteen, eighteen, twenty four, twenty eight and fifty two, which is three eight hundred and five points, and for the two bids is three thousand, seven hundred and ninety one, So pretty close.
Maybe just a little pick out of the back for the Suns, but that does hurt them when they've got bo adm so or Jai Murray and Kobe Colson as well tied to the club.
Speaker 2So it'll be interesting to.
Speaker 3See if that does actually happen on Draft night because it may impact what they do.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's going to be hard for them to get any others really in, isn't it.
If they do get bids out early on those first two who we expect.
So yeah, it's going to be interesting.
Number five.
Speaker 4Are you going to go another bid.
Speaker 2Or another bit?
Speaker 3I mean, dan Adamile is that may come in a little bit, but we're going to go for the actual player now, A little bit of a surprise.
If it's said this two months ago, it would have been a bit of a surprise.
We had a huge final series for the Eastern rain including best On in the Grand Final.
It's Eastern Rangers medium defender Xavier Taylor.
They stocked up in the forward line last year.
But Taylor doesn't just feel a need.
He's also a Richmond fan as well, modeled his game on Nick lost Stone, and he's really the complete package of defender with his ball us, reading the play and work one on one.
Speaker 2He stops Smalls and tools this year.
Speaker 3But I think he has a scope as well to boss him into a player like a Josh Weddle.
He sort of started out as his lockdown key defender, almost a sort of smaller key defender in his draft year and look what he is now.
I think Xavier Taylor has the capability to do that, and he's you know, He's quietly confident, has a bit of a strut about him, which I like, and I think he did suit really well at the club he grew up supporting.
Speaker 1Yeah yeah, and Nick Boston's only got a couple of years left in him as good as he's been over the journey for the Tigers, so that'd be pretty handy replacement for him.
Speaker 3Number six Bent's back, We're going with Dan Annibal, a ball magnet midfielder, super clean from the Lions academy.
And it won't be me matching my own by this time over.
Speaker 4To Uka, that'll be me.
I've got the line.
Speaker 1So yeah, I think one hundred and eighty four center right around baller is Dan Annibal.
I'm a pretty big fan of the way he goes about it.
We saw that in the Australi Under od An Games earlier this year, Whichie captained also for the Allies.
He was pretty impressive.
Clearly, the lines have already got a pretty stacked midfield Locky Neil Hugh, McCluggage, Josh Dunkley, Ashcroft times two and even a bit of Rainer and Zorka, so I'm not sure where he fits in necessarily straight away he'll probably had to find another position, whether it's half forward, half back, on a wing somewhere to get a game in the short term.
But in the long term, I think he's going to be that gun on baller at AFL level, and the lines have got plenty of draft points to match a big here, so they just can't pass up on him.
I am going to take him, which gives you another pick for Richmond at seven.
They've only picked one player so far.
Speaker 2Anyway, go on at the five picks in the first round this year.
Speaker 3They technically have the five picks now with all the bids, but yeah, it's another difficult toss up, going essentially between a really late bolta in Sulimon Roby that the name on everyone's lips, and Sam Grill.
Speaker 2But I'll look at that Tiger's side.
Speaker 3I feel like they can afford to pick a bit more on upside, and you know, even a bit of need as well.
Just looking at where the game is going, I'm going to go with Sam Grill one hundred and eighty two centimeter midfielder or half back.
He's low production, high impact and I think there's plenty of Max Holmes about Sam Grill, and we know the tiger's traded away, they pick the Cats ended up using to pick Maxims that expecuative selection back in twenty twenty.
I think that's probably his ceiling to be that Max Holmes type.
And it's grill g r l J but pronounced grill.
And he always turns up the heat.
And he's already pressed in the Yellow and Black this year as well, played a couple of VFL games for them, so it's very good he so surely has a bit of a connection there and yeah, could end up a Tiger on Draft night.
Speaker 4Yep.
Speaker 1I've got the Bombers at pick eight.
No, I'm actually going to put the bid on Harry Dean here because he hasn't got one yet.
I'm surprised a little surprise.
He got past Richmond and West Coast, I guess, but he.
Speaker 2Didn't want to make it six bids.
Speaker 4Didn't.
Speaker 1No, that's fair enough, so I think the Bombers can go again too, arch enemy here and in the Blues and place I bid and I've got Carlton as well, So clearly going to match that bid on on Harry father son prospect for the for Carlton as the son of Peter who played in two Premierships for Carlton.
One hundred and ninety four centimeter defend, a real compd a good one on one intercepts of footy, uses it well going the other way as well.
I think he's what Esson and needs, hence the bid.
But he also fits in beautifully for the Blues, who of course have Mitch mccalvin who's got one more year left and nearing the end, and Jacksonvanni obviously gone to some Kilda, so they need to replenish that back line and improve that back line strength and so Harry is perfect for that and he looks pretty capable of playing right away next to year to me.
So that's number eight at number nine.
It is Christmas come early for us and in here Sullivan Roby who you mentioned earlier as a potential for Richmond.
If he gets through to hear the Bombers are laughing, that is yeah, amazing result for them.
So he's one hundred and ninety two centimeter forward who kicks goals, can find the footy through the midfield as well, big and powerful player and he can add some real incident to the Essen side.
Speaker 4Next year.
Speaker 1He was at the game against the Western Jets late in the year where he had forty touches and kicked three goals in that Cod Stellant League World Card round and then also the Grand final week kicked four goals.
Speaker 2With the broken colar, owners with the broken.
Speaker 1Collar, and that's so yeah, a tough, powerful as we said, big fan of this guy.
He was playing roval under nineteen's in the first half of this year, So talk about a bolt that's as big as you get right there.
Speaker 4And then going to take him.
Speaker 3The next pick, Yes, and like obviously a lot has been made of their first round choices in the past, he'd say, Sulvan Roby, even though he's had that awesome back end of the year, it's probably a little bit of a risk, maybe a bit more of a safer bet.
Speaker 4Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1So I think then at ten you just a lock in someone who is bankable.
You know what you're going to get, and I think that is dice and Sharp from South Australia.
So if i'm Essen and I probably want two things here.
I want a gun midfielder and I want some leadership.
Because we saw Jack Merritt almost walked out of the club.
There's not a lot of leadership there at the moment, so Dyson gives you both to that.
He's one hundred and eighty seven cinemeter on baller captain South Australia at the Underrounding National Championships which they won.
He also won the Lark Metal as the best player of the tournament, so he can be pushed forward to and impact the school board as well, either boy sitting up teammates or kicking goals himself.
And he's already played significant senior samful footy over there in South Australia, so I think he's already made prospect who can play straight away for the Bombers next year and that is what they need.
Speaker 3Just rewinding a bit, Carlton Vans might be a little bit confused about what's happening with their picks, and obviously with last year we saw what Essendon did in training into his draft with Isaac Cauco as the picks sort of the picks a movie a bit obviously with bids.
But Karlin do have those two early selections.
But why, I guess, why wouldn't they look to maybe bank some more picks or anything like that, Like why why why they might they stay still.
Speaker 1Well I think they need the points because if a big does come from Save West Coast at pick two, they're not going to they want to give up and put some points out the back for that.
They're still going to get another player in the first round anyway, regardless of where a bid comes for a Dean if it's before that, so they still get a player plus Dean in the first round.
Speaker 4So good resolve for cart Ney.
Speaker 3And the other thing that obviously complicates things is Cody Walker next year exactly.
Speaker 1They don't want to push.
They've got two first rounds for next year.
They don't want to lose points from next year because they have to match a bid on him and he's probably going to be pick one or two next year.
So yeah, it's a bit of a balancing game for the Blues at the moment.
But yeah, I think it just makes sense to stay where they are heading into the draft.
Speaker 3And that big system may change as well going to next year, whether it is you need to pick within five or ten.
So yeah, it's probably best not to take the punt.
I'm next with Melbourne and you know, you don't be blind Freddy to see that they've they've struggled with the.
Speaker 2Movement of the.
Speaker 3Ball and they don't have any you know, I guess great targets up forward, and their delivery has been quite poor as we've seen sort of since their their premiership years.
So with that in mind, I'm going for two needs picks here because I feel it is pretty even at this sort of stretch of the draft.
I'm going with Aiden Schubert from the Central from Central District, a key forward or ruckman.
Stubert has the stickiest hands is in the business, and he's super athletic.
He's a former state basketball representative and only really fully committed to footy this year, and I think he can develop into a pretty formidable forward rock option for the D's.
Kick ten goals at the National Championships which was really his sort of his breakout display and his tested marking mobility was unreal, and he had had a super two kilometer time.
Speaker 2Trial as well.
Speaker 3So a guy with plenty of upside might not play right away for the De's, but I don't think they're really mining about that with the with Stephen King and what looks like a.
Speaker 2Bit of a rebuild.
Speaker 3They went with a Lindsay last year in Xavier on going for another smaller defender whose last name is Lindsay, Josh Lindsay from the Geelong Falcons.
He was the MVP for VIC Country the National Championships and I think most observers would say that he's the best kick in this draft.
He's got a left foot laser which hits targets all over the ground, primarily across half back.
There have been some question marks over his his contested game and whether he can potentially evolved into a midfielder in the future.
Speaker 2He does model his.
Speaker 3Game on Errol Gordon and his ultra professional in the way he goes about it.
Actually bought some fourteen one hundred dollars recovery boots at the start of the year, uses it all the time.
So I think he has the capability to play next year.
And he's a big watch for super coaches as well, especially if he's on the kickings.
I think he could rack up a few cheapies and yeah, it should be a good option for the Demons into the future to address that issue.
Speaker 4Yep, pick thirteen.
Hawthorne's up.
Speaker 3That's right, And when I look at Hawthorne, it's what do they actually need?
So I guess the obvious pick might be an Olie Grieves here, who they tried to get as an n GA, but I'm going to back yeah you Cam McKenzie's Henry housewaits Josh Wards to sort of fill that void of James Warpole, and I'm going to take a little bit of a punt here.
This might be a little bit of a reach, but he's certainly rising in the back half of the year.
And also at the combine is Oscar Taylor from the easterns one hundred and eighty three centimeters defender.
I feel like a blistering heartback would be the cherry on top of what is a pretty impressive defensive unit for the Hawks.
He brings break neck speed, agility, and a daring kick to the table, which in the modern game where ball movement is king, I think that's a really game changing combination.
He didn't feature at all for vic Metro at the National Championships, just like Sullivan Roby, who has taken a few picks earlier in this mock draft, but he surged up draft boards and he finished his draft year with the best twenty meters sprint in the country two point eight two three seconds.
If you don't mind and the second best agility test, So yeah, he can break the game open.
Speaker 2And he's also a great kick.
Speaker 3So yeah, I think whether he plays next year not one hundred percent sure, but yeah, I think he's the sort of guy that you put off half back.
You can bind him with the likes of your Carl Aimns and your garm in Ps.
They don't necessarily have that speed, but Oscarto I think gives them a real point of difference.
Speaker 1Less you to play Josh Wettle somewhere else maybe as well out of the back line number fourteen.
We've got gws on the clock.
Speaker 3He had a bolt before, a bit of a slider here, and the Giants do love a first round shock.
But I think the only surprise here is that Sam Cumming remains on the board.
He is a quick midfielder forward, he's great overhead.
There's been some comparisons there to Rory Sloan and he's had impact at senior level already.
In this Sam for we kicked three goals in one game for North Adelaide.
He's a decent size as well, at one eighty four centimeters.
And you think about the Giants, they're always, you know, being extra careful about the go home factor.
This kid's from Wentworth around Horsham and he's actually been boarding in Adelaide for the last couple of years there, so I think that's a big tick for the go home factor, and he is happy to go anywhere.
Speaker 4No club close to home there is a fifteen.
Speaker 1I've got West cast back up, so I'm going to go with Jacob Farrow here.
I know the Eagles are clearly backing themselves to pick players from interstate, even though they've had a lot of struggles in recent years.
But if you've got a talented West Australian talent here.
Speaker 4Still available, I think you just go the best from the West.
Speaker 1So he's one hundred and eighty eight centimeter defend as drawn comparisons to Hayden Young and Jordan Dawson type players, so used as a ball beautifully.
He's got some speed and agility as well, so I think you'll start at half back.
He could potentially develop into a midfielder later on like those guys have.
But yeah, I think he's a great fit for the Eagles as the third pick behind Derzmre and Duff Titler.
So another sort of different type to those two as well.
Speaker 3And usually it would be good for a w A club to target a West Australian, but he actually doesn't support any team all eighteen AFL club guernseys in his wardrobes, so and he can he knows any player number or even the boots of players.
Speaker 2So definitely plenty of knowledge of the.
Speaker 4Word for that, and that's nuffy.
Speaker 3But anyway, go on the Bulldogs with pick sixteen.
Obviously they're well stocked for tolls.
They've sort of more gone for smaller types of past a couple of drafts.
Speaker 2Who are you looking at for the Bulldogs?
Speaker 4Yeah, I'm looking at the front half.
Speaker 1I think obviously having Cuddy Weightman missed a lot of this year and and miss a lot of foot the last couple of years and probably doesn't help.
But that's kind of my thinking here.
I don't think they did another tall obviously in that front half, they've got plenty of them.
So I'm looking players like Javan, Philip Po, Lckie Doveston and Noah hians Hard Graves.
But I'm going to take Philipo.
So he's one hundred and eighty three cent forty missed the underrated National champs for South Australia with a broken arm, but he's got an elite athletic profile, nice skill set.
Obviously brother of Matthaeas that Sekilda, But yeah, I think you can also have a run in the midfield in time as well.
So I just think, yeah, he's very much in the picture at this mark and Bulldogs lock him in.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's a good pick.
Speaker 3And I did see somewhere that he asked who I think it might have been fox Footy, asked him who should be the number one pick and he chose himself.
Speaker 2So he's fifteen picks late.
Speaker 1Matthayas was a little bit like that, I think too, but both very talent players.
So yeah, no, love a bit of confidence, that's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 3Absolutely onto Adelaide here obviously.
I've looked for a bit of bit of midfield, sort of a taller midfield option, and there's one who's still on the board.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 1Well they had a bit of a look around Clayton Olivan, didn't they, And was a bit of talk about a few other players this year.
But there's one on the board and that he's Oliver Graves, who you mentioned before in relation to Hawthorne.
But I think he was sort of considered a top ten potential pick at the start of the year, so ciding to seventeen is a little bit of a slide, I guess, But yeah, he's one hundred and ninety one centiment to midfielder.
Had a very strong and consistent year.
He was VIC Metro's MVP at the National Championships.
He just knows how to find the footy, win his own ball, and the knock on him is his transition running, obviously, but I think you can work on that when you get him in the system.
If you you know, you can get the high performance team on him and have a big pre season and he'll be better.
Speaker 2But from now, of course not anymore.
Speaker 4But no, I think he's.
Speaker 1Exactly the type of player you could just picture in an Adelaide jumper running around.
They'd love those stronger bodied types, don't they.
And Adelaide's clearest game was probably its biggest weakness this year.
So yeah, I think I think he fit him well.
Speaker 3Him and Sid Draper are a pretty good combination into the future I reckon yes, which I'm a club that I'm quite familiar with, as with Geelong Addy.
But so in terms of what they need you look at.
I was looking at maybe at small forward here in Lockie Doveston or Latrell Picket, but again I'm going to go for a bit of a needs j Jeremy Cameron.
It turns thirty three next year, and behind shann and Neil there's there's not a great deal, especially in that sort of over one ninety three sort of bracket.
I'm going to go with a guy I think could be end up being the best key forward in the pool, and that's Archie Ludwick from the Sandra Ham Dragons.
He was a top ten contender earlier in the year, but stuffered a PC or blow at the National Championships and probably didn't perform as he would have liked, you know, earlier in the year as well.
But yeah, one ninety five centimeters or seven centimeters rather and grown a bit throughout the year, and yeah, could be a bit of a project player that the Cats do it all the time with Shannon Neil and with Tom Howgens in the past they played that maybe year or two in the VFL while you know, Jeremy Cameron is still kicking bags of goals and then they'll be ready to unleash him in a few years.
Speaker 4Yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, I think Ludiwick could have been a lot higher pick than than eighteen if if he had to played a full season in the end this year, but obviously that Pco injury didn't help.
I've got Carlton at nineteen, and I'm going to go with the best small forward in the draft class, and that's Luckie Daviston.
So I think it's a dream come true for the Blues if they can get him here.
That is what they need, and they've needed a small forward for quite a while ever since Eddie Betts left.
Really they haven't had too many that have filled that spot all that well.
So he's one hundred and seventy eight centimeters, he's got some real nick some vibes about him.
He kicked thirty eight goals from sixteen games for the Eastern Rangers this year and booted nine goals from four games for Metro at the National Championships as well.
So I think the Blues would be pretty lucky to land him at pick nineteen.
And obviously, as we said, this second pick for the Blues has slid back a bit because they had to give up some points to match that b on Harry Dean earlier, so that is why they have picked nineteen.
Speaker 4If anyone is wondering.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's a great result for Calen, especially if that becomes that late for Harry Dean on to Fremantle.
Speaker 2They had some issues in the forward half this.
Speaker 1Year, yeah, and I think they've identified that themselves too, that the forward line is where they need to work on because they were getting it inside fifty plenty of times.
They had a pretty good midfield, but they weren't converting it as well as they could have when they did get it down there.
So I think Noah Hibbins hard Graves from the Danny Kongs Sting Rays as their man from Dandy Oong to the Dockers.
He can play half forward, he can be a match winner.
He can also have a run up on a wing through the midfield a little bit.
So he shoved a big country in that game against Wa where he kicked four goals and a half that he can turn games.
He's very exciting players.
So I think there's a fun fact that he actually kicked twenty goals in one game at under seventeen level while he was still just fourteen years old playing for Mornings and a few years back, so it just goes to show how talented he is.
And yeah, I think the docors will be pretty thrilled to get him through the door.
Speaker 3So next is essenon with pick twenty one.
Who are you thinking, for instance the selection of this mock draft.
Speaker 4Yeah, so I fomd the Bombers.
Speaker 1I'm pretty happy that they bid hasn't come on my MGA prospects in Adam Swade and Hassein al Ashka, because it gives me another chance to pick another good player before I get them in the door.
Speaker 4So I'm going to go with.
Speaker 1Mitch Marsh who's a one ninety one centiment of Mark looking forward to kicks goals from South Australia.
He had a really good National Championships for South Australia and kick four goals in one of those games.
He's been liking a bit to Jeremy Cameron, who's also got the big engine.
He can find the footy in different ways.
He works out up the ground, he can take a mark in the air, so he's really really strong player and I think with Nate Caddy there at the Bombers, he needs a little bit of help.
You've got Petter Wright and Kyle Langford obviously coming towards the end of their careers.
So I think Mitch can team up with Caddy and make a pretty formidable duo and that Bomber's Ford line in the years to come.
Speaker 3Yeah, I really like that selection onto Hawthorne that you mentioned that Adam Swayde hadn't received a bid.
Obviously there was a bit of animosity between Hawthorne and Esenden during the Zach merritt saga during the trade period.
Speaker 2And I'm going to be a little bit cheeky.
Speaker 3Here in place a bid on Adam Swayde the Essendon NNGA prospect.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay, well we'll match that as the Bombers.
So yeah, glad, as I said, glad, Glad it came a little bit later than then picked twenty one, but yeah, I think Adam Swade came into this year as a real unknown because he missed his whole bottom age year with an ACL injury which he suffered in twenty twenty three.
So but he was a shining light for the Colder Cannons.
Also Vic Metro at the under od Inter National Championships.
He looks up to Nick Dakos so he's not quite we're not saying he's going to be that good, but he's he's very clever midfielder type who can also sort of push forward impact the school board.
So he spent in the James Hurd Academy since he was fifteen, and so I think it's just come on down Adam to the Bombers.
Speaker 3And yeah, he'll be paired with saying lash guy.
And they're pretty close.
Speaker 4They are.
Speaker 1Yeah, they say that they've spent more time together this year than they have with their own family.
So yeah, they've been playing footy together, going to school together, driving around that, all sorts of things.
So yeah, very good mate.
So I think they'll they'll they'll be good picks for the Bombers.
And I saying I'll get a bid pretty soon after.
Speaker 3This, I reckon, yeah, well Hawthorne could be even cheek here and go with Alashka with the bid, but we're gonna close out the first round with our own selection.
You look at Hawthorne and Jack Dunstan took out there.
Hawthorne's best and Ferris this year, but he does turn at thirty four.
He did turn thirty four rather this month and I'm looking at a medium forward to potentially replace him into the future.
And that's Cam Nan from Central Districts.
It's five centimeters smaller than Gunsten, but he has a huge engine just like Gunsen.
Was fourth and the two kilometer time trial with a time of six minutes and forty or fourteen seconds.
He has vice like hands overhead and he's a really accurate goalkicker as well.
He's stunned recruiters during the National Championships with a seven goal haul against WA and he's shown you can impact in midfield rolls a bit further up the ground at sample under eighteen levels.
So yeah, I really like this pick to close out the mock draft for Hawthorne.
Speaker 1Yeah, well that's it for round one of the drafts.
So we're going to add a few more picks online.
Speaker 3We're going to go to pick thirty I think, yeah for the stay tuned for that on the Code Sports website, so.
Speaker 4Check that out.
Speaker 1But yeah, big, big three weeks ahead before the draft, and yeah, we've got a fair bit coming up.
Speaker 2Yeah, we sure do.
Speaker 3We've got our top fifty dropping in a couple of days.
Speaker 2Stay tuned for that.
Speaker 3We got Draft Intel every Friday with all the snippets and getting to know the prospects, but also the latest news as well, and then the main event will be the early fandom draft from caval.
He's been making calls all morning trying to work out who's going.
Speaker 2Well, how are you going with that at the moment.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's a working progress, but we'll get it up for next Wednesday as a planned.
So yeah, an early one as we say, but there's going to be a lot of bids and it's it's going to be messy, but we'll see here we go.
Speaker 3Yeah, an absolute nightmare to put together that one, but yeah, and obviously plenty of features as well, getting to know all the draft prospects ahead of the draft in just a few weeks time, and yeah, you can see it all on Code Sports.
Speaker 2Catch you then,
