Final Selection Order for 2008 Draft

[rogernumber10]

The final selection order for the 2008 Draft has been confirmed after the final list lodgement today. A further four players were delisted today. Shane Crawford (Hawthorn), Nathan Carroll ( Melbourne), Leigh Brown (North Melbourne) and Brad Howard (St Kilda).

1. MELBOURNE
2. WEST COAST EAGLES
3. FREMANTLE
4. PORT ADELAIDE
5. ESSENDON
6. CARLTON
7. BRISBANE LIONS
8. RICHMOND
9. NORTH MELBOURNE
10. ADELAIDE
11. COLLINGWOOD
12. SYDNEY
13. ST KILDA
14. WESTERN BULLDOGS (Ayce Cordy – F/S)
15. GEELONG
16. HAWTHORN
17. MELBOURNE
18. WEST COAST EAGLES
19. MELBOURNE
20. WEST COAST EAGLES
21. FREMANTLE
22. PORT ADELAIDE
23. ESSENDON
24. FREMANTLE
25. BRISBANE LIONS
26. RICHMOND
27. NORTH MELBOURNE
28. ADELAIDE
29. COLLINGWOOD
30. SYDNEY
31. WESTERN BULLDOGS
32. WESTERN BULLDOGS
33. GEELONG
34. HAWTHORN
35. MELBOURNE
36. WEST COAST EAGLES
37. FREMANTLE
38. PORT ADELAIDE
39. GEELONG
40. CARLTON
41. BRISBANE LIONS
42. PORT ADELAIDE
43. NORTH MELBOURNE
44. ADELAIDE
45. COLLINGWOOD
46. COLLINGWOOD
47. ST KILDA
48. ST.KILDA
49. GEELONG
50. HAWTHORN
51. MELBOURNE
52. WEST COAST EAGLES
53. FREMANTLE
54. PORT ADELAIDE
55. ESSENDON
56. FREMANTLE
57. BRISBANE LIONS
58. RICHMOND
59. NORTH MELBOURNE
60. ADELAIDE
61. SYDNEY
62. ST KILDA
63. HAWTHORN
64. MELBOURNE
65. CARLTON
66. PORT ADELAIDE
67. ESSENDON
68. FREMANTLE
69. BRISBANE LIONS
70. RICHMOND
71. NTH MELBOURNE
72. ADELAIDE
73. COLLINGWOOD
74. ST KILDA
75. HAWTHORN
76. MELBOURNE
77. FREMANTLE
78. PORT ADELAIDE
79. ESSENDON
80. CARLTON
81. BRISBANE LIONS
82. BRISBANE LIONS
83. ST KILDA
84. PORT ADELAIDE
85. CARLTON

CLUB NUMBER OF SELECTIONS SELECTION NUMBER
Adelaide 5 selections 10, 28, 44, 60, 72
Brisbane Lions 7 selections 7, 25, 41, 57, 69, 81, 82
Carlton 5 selections 6, 40, 65, 80, 85
Collingwood 5 selections 11, 29, 45, 46, 73
Essendon 5 selections 5, 23, 55, 67, 79
Fremantle 8 selections 3, 21, 24, 37, 53, 56, 68, 77
Geelong 4 selections 15, 33, 39, 49
Hawthorn 5 selections 16, 34, 50, 63, 75
Melbourne 7 selections 1, 17, 19, 35, 51, 64, 76
North Melbourne 5 selections 9, 27, 43, 59, 71
Port Adelaide 8 selections 4, 22, 38, 42, 54, 66, 78, 84
Richmond 4 selections 8, 26, 58, 70
St Kilda 6 selections 13, 47, 48, 62, 74, 83
Sydney 3 selections 12, 30, 61
West Coast 5 selections 2, 18, 20, 36, 52
W/Bulldogs 3 selections 14, (F/S Ayce Cordy), 31, 32

[wycbloods]

Thanks for that Rog. It will be interesting to see if Port are willing to use No.4 to get Hartlett as he wont be around when they have their second pick at No.22.

[NFC]

Thanks for that post.

Port sure do have a lot of picks. I hope it's 2004 all over again.

[dash61]

QUESTION : Im a little confused why Western Bullfrogs have to use their first round pick to pick a player up in the "Father & Son", what is the ruling on this as Im sure other clubs havent always used their round one pick??????????

12. SYDNEY
13. ST KILDA
14. WESTERN BULLDOGS (Ayce Cordy – F/S)
15. GEELONG
16. HAWTHORN

[GWW]

QUESTION : Im a little confused why Western Bullfrogs have to use their first round pick to pick a player up in the "Father & Son", what is the ruling on this as Im sure other clubs havent always used their round one pick??????????

12. SYDNEY
13. ST KILDA
14. WESTERN BULLDOGS (Ayce Cordy – F/S)
15. GEELONG
16. HAWTHORN

There's a bidding system now, one of the other clubs offered their 2nd round pick, so the Bulldogs had to use their 1st rounder to pick him up.

[JK]

QUESTION : Im a little confused why Western Bullfrogs have to use their first round pick to pick a player up in the "Father & Son", what is the ruling on this as Im sure other clubs havent always used their round one pick??????????

12. SYDNEY
13. ST KILDA
14. WESTERN BULLDOGS (Ayce Cordy – F/S)
15. GEELONG
16. HAWTHORN

There's a bidding system now, one of the other clubs offered their 2nd round pick, so the Bulldogs had to use their 1st rounder to pick him up.

Spot on mate, Saints IIRC

[westozfalcon]

I'm just wondering why the National Draft is held so late in the year.

Trade Week was held about a week after the Grand Final so why do clubs have to wait until the end of November to finalise their squads for 2009?

[GWW]

I'm just wondering why the National Draft is held so late in the year.

Trade Week was held about a week after the Grand Final so why do clubs have to wait until the end of November to finalise their squads for 2009?

I absolutely agree with that. I think they hold it off a bit for school exams (so those nominating who are at school aren't distracted), but i would have thought most states would have completed their exams by now.

[NFC]

I'm just wondering why the National Draft is held so late in the year.

Trade Week was held about a week after the Grand Final so why do clubs have to wait until the end of November to finalise their squads for 2009?

I absolutely agree with that. I think they hold it off a bit for school exams (so those nominating who are at school aren't distracted), but i would have thought most states would have completed their exams by now.

And don't ask me how they're meant to concentrate anyway!

[the big bang]

i know its a by-law of the AFLPA that no agent can approach a player or players family until after exams.

[Pag]

It's the last week of our Year 12 exams this coming week (Nov 17-21), so that's why the Draft is usually the last Saturday of November.

[rogernumber10]

Thanks for that Rog. It will be interesting to see if Port are willing to use No.4 to get Hartlett as he wont be around when they have their second pick at No.22.

If Geelong had pick four, I'd be using it on Tyrone Vickery. Think four might be a bit high for Hartlett in this draft with a few outstanding tall kids on offer, fine player that he will be though.

[CoverKing]

QUESTION : Im a little confused why Western Bullfrogs have to use their first round pick to pick a player up in the "Father & Son", what is the ruling on this as Im sure other clubs havent always used their round one pick??????????

12. SYDNEY
13. ST KILDA
14. WESTERN BULLDOGS (Ayce Cordy – F/S)
15. GEELONG
16. HAWTHORN

There's a bidding system now, one of the other clubs offered their 2nd round pick, so the Bulldogs had to use their 1st rounder to pick him up.

Spot on mate, Saints IIRC

actually bulldogs had to use their first round pick because another side (st kilda i think) offered to use their first round pick on that bloke..if a side used their second round pick the bulldogs only need to match that with a second round pick. For instance if the gun fijian was to be a father son player to hawthorn and melbourne offered to pick him up with their first pick (number 1 overall) hawthorn just need to say they would use their first pick to gain him which would be pick 16. they are matching melbournes bid by using the same pick in the same round no matter of wat club has the earlier pick. This concept all came up since tom hawkins was picked up and gary ablett jr in the mid 40's wen clearly they were definitely top 10 if not top 5 picks.

[JK]

QUESTION : Im a little confused why Western Bullfrogs have to use their first round pick to pick a player up in the "Father & Son", what is the ruling on this as Im sure other clubs havent always used their round one pick??????????

12. SYDNEY
13. ST KILDA
14. WESTERN BULLDOGS (Ayce Cordy – F/S)
15. GEELONG
16. HAWTHORN

There's a bidding system now, one of the other clubs offered their 2nd round pick, so the Bulldogs had to use their 1st rounder to pick him up.

Spot on mate, Saints IIRC

actually bulldogs had to use their first round pick because another side (st kilda i think) offered to use their first round pick on that bloke..if a side used their second round pick the bulldogs only need to match that with a second round pick. For instance if the gun fijian was to be a father son player to hawthorn and melbourne offered to pick him up with their first pick (number 1 overall) hawthorn just need to say they would use their first pick to gain him which would be pick 16. they are matching melbournes bid by using the same pick in the same round no matter of wat club has the earlier pick. This concept all came up since tom hawkins was picked up and gary ablett jr in the mid 40's wen clearly they were definitely top 10 if not top 5 picks.

Yep sorry, fair call ... I was meaning "spot on" more as in the process that was described ... I know many Doggies fans were dirty with the Saints, but most reports I read in the papers suggested Cordy was a bonafide 1st rounder anyway.

[CoverKing]

no need for sorry's and so iv heard, but i also heard the saints were 100% sure the bullies were going to take cordy no matter what so they put up there first round pick to make it worth while for the bullies and to take their first pick away...

[croc11]

So has anyone done a phantom draft for the Top 20-30 players?

[CoverKing]

So has anyone done a phantom draft for the Top 20-30 players?

there is one on the AFL website i believe...

[Pag]

There's a bidding system now, one of the other clubs offered their 2nd round pick, so the Bulldogs had to use their 1st rounder to pick him up.

Spot on mate, Saints IIRC

actually bulldogs had to use their first round pick because another side (st kilda i think) offered to use their first round pick on that bloke..if a side used their second round pick the bulldogs only need to match that with a second round pick. For instance if the gun fijian was to be a father son player to hawthorn and melbourne offered to pick him up with their first pick (number 1 overall) hawthorn just need to say they would use their first pick to gain him which would be pick 16. they are matching melbournes bid by using the same pick in the same round no matter of wat club has the earlier pick. This concept all came up since tom hawkins was picked up and gary ablett jr in the mid 40's wen clearly they were definitely top 10 if not top 5 picks.

Yep sorry, fair call ... I was meaning "spot on" more as in the process that was described ... I know many Doggies fans were dirty with the Saints, but most reports I read in the papers suggested Cordy was a bonafide 1st rounder anyway.

Clubs who make a bid for a player have to be serious when they do it, because if the father/son clubpasses the kid up, the bidding club is stuck with them. St Kilda would never have done it if they hadn't seriously believed Cordy was going to go in the top 16.

[CoverKing]

i know that PAG but im just stating that it could possibvly happen that clubs will bluff as such! they were more then happy to have cordy but at the same time they mite have been more then happy to let him go to the bulldogs if it makes them use their first round pick! it makes clubs earn players rightly under the father-son rule unlike previous years

[wycbloods]

Thanks for that Rog. It will be interesting to see if Port are willing to use No.4 to get Hartlett as he wont be around when they have their second pick at No.22.

If Geelong had pick four, I'd be using it on Tyrone Vickery. Think four might be a bit high for Hartlett in this draft with a few outstanding tall kids on offer, fine player that he will be though.

I too would be surprised if they did pick Hartlett with pick 4 but i know that they are very keen on him and have spoken quite extensively with him already. Tyrone Vickery would be a very good pick up for Port though. Guess we will have to wait and see.