It would say something about EFC management and the 2019 non-trade decision if they were truly blindsided…
1 Like
There’s worse clubs he could have gone than Freo.
Good luck to Sweid. Hope he has a great career
8 Likes
Sydney have a ‘behind the scenes’ video from their draft night: https://www.sydneyswans.com.au/video/1935395/behind-the-scenes-of-an-afl-draft-inside-sydney?videoId=1935395&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1764049337001
I just took a screenshot from the 33 second mark of what appears to be their player rankings. Interesting exercise would be to attempt to guess which players at which position e.g. I’d guess they have Harry Dean ranked 6th (Key Defender), and CDT (Ruck) ranked 10th!
15 Likes
What would High defender mean? I assume a defender that can get high up the ground? So I suppose that could be Farrow; maybe Patterson?
1 Like
I assumed hybrid defender to be Farrow as he’s a d/m and high defender to be more of a lockdown (Taylor).
1 Like
I think that makes sense, considering how many hybrid defenders are on that sheet. So that’d be guys like Patterson, Farrow, Oscar Taylor, Lindsay, and Harry Kyle etc.
Assuming transition mid is someone who can carry the ball and attacking mid is someone who hunts the ball.
- Duursma - Attacking mid
- Uwland - Transition mid
- Annable - Attacking mid
- Patterson - Transition mid
- Robey - Attacking mid
- Dean - Key defender
- X. Taylor - Hybrid defender
- Farrow - High Defender
- Cumming - Transition mid
- CDT - Ruck
- Sharp - Attacking mid
- Grlj - Hybrid defender ?
- O. Taylor - Hybrid defender ?
5 Likes
I’ve got Patterson as high defender, Taylor/Farrow as Hybrid defenders.
Grlj as a transition kid which they probably had ranked a bit higher.
Wonder what the [1] means? Cant be f/s as surely they would have another market for academy?
And they would def have academy players listed in the top 10
Watched a bit. They had us as the earliest possible bid on Kyle.
And it was a shame there was no footage of them reacting to the GWS shenanigans.
1 Like
Wow good spot.
No forwards interestingly in that list, wasnt the year to get them at the top end of the draft. Lets hope next year has more forward talent at our picks.
2 Likes
Interesting listening to the Richmond recruitment guy. He has a couple of different interviews on YouTube. One with Richo and another with a YouTuber.
He mentions Robey in both. With Richo, he talks about Robey coming through late gave him anxiety, Cumming having exposed form over 2-3 years and Grjl being the needs pick who they ranked highly. He talks about looking at all the footage from Rowville and Robey’s GPS numbers. Basically the reason they went with Cumming.
3 Likes
In the interview with the YouTuber the Richmond recruiter mentions what they look for in key forwards.
They want key forwards who competes, don’t get out marked - brings the ball to the ground, high number of marking situations, work rate, leading patterns and footy smarts. Dodoro drafting Harry Jones as a forward still puzzles me, when Harry ticks only one of these criteria.
He kept saying they are looking for speed and running power with midfielders and they ability to use the ball on the outside. Drafting Hobbs, Begley, Dylan Clarke etc even Tsatas… Dodoro basically killed our club for decades.
18 Likes
The guess is as good as any, but given recruiters see pools in many weird and wonderful ways, it is highly possible that the names had a fair bit of variance compared with where they ended up. 1 could have been someone they thought was a chance to get to their pick who they wanted, or perhaps it could have denoted that there was only 1 of that type that they rated, and so although they rated that player highly, that they might actually take them higher. Or some other random thing.
1 Like
Interesting to note how even the prospects are. Clearly no major standouts.
1 Like
This is a common view amongst recruiters, don’t have to be a super star and super athletic just need to compete at a minimum.
6 Likes
Agreed, except going off the ratings it feels like the top two could have almost been a tier of their own.
Pick 1 (almost certainly Duursma) in particular looks rated a very clear step ahead of the pack.
Although, we don’t have a scale on their ratings or how they are derived. They clearly didn’t have CDT as the second best on the list though.
6 Likes
Except we do t know their rating system. If there’s a large component about their own list need, or something else that is factored into the decision making, for their specific drafting, then as far as overall quality we can’t know.
(And is the ranking system the same for types etc, and in that case is it comparable between types etc….)
2 Likes
Dodoro was seemingly often lured in by perceived athletic prowess. The best runner not however correlating to best footballer
If we had only one pick in 2020 he would have gone Nik Cox IMO
Neither Jones or Cox for varying reasons have come on like had hoped, both showed talent initially though.