Draft Camp Results

[sydney-dog]

The results are in
4:59:29 PM Fri 6 October, 2006
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2006 NAB AFL Draft Camp results - Top 10 fitness results

Height
Matthew Leuenberger - 203.2cm
Sean Hampson - 200.8cm
Kurt Tippett - 200.6cm
Daniel Currie - 200.4cm
Brent Renouf - 200.3cm
Scott Gumbleton - 197.1cm
Lachlan Hansen - 196.7cm
Ben Reid - 196.4cm
Jesse White - 196.3cm
Eric McKenzie - 195.8cm

Mass (Weight)
Jesse White - 101.4kg
Justin Hardy - 97.3kg
Kurt Tippett - 95.9kg
Chris Dawes - 95.6kg
Sean Hampson - 93.1kg
Matthew Leuenberger - 92.9kg
Scott Gumbleton - 92.8kg
Brent Renouf - 92.5kg
Robert Tarrant - 91.9kg
Alex Lee - 91.8kg

Agility
David Armitage - 7.88 sec
Daniel Hayes - 8.04 sec
Andrejs Everitt - 8.06 sec
Tom Hislop - 8.10 sec
Simon Hogan - 8.14 sec
Kyle Reimers - 8.16 sec
Gavin Urquhart - 8.17 sec
Nathan Djerrkura - 8.18 sec
Colin Garland - 8.18 sec
Brock O'Brien - 8.19 sec

Repeat Sprints - 30 metres
Simon Hogan - 24.67 sec
Tim Houlihan - 24.72 sec
Clint Benjamin - 24.74 sec
Joe Anderson - 24.76 sec
Nathan Djerrkura - 25.00 sec
Nathan Brown - 25.07 sec
Nathan Krakouer - 25.08 sec
Mark Austin - 25.09 sec
Mitchell Brown - 25.34 sec
Jarryd Allen - 25.36 sec


Vertical jump - standing
Shane Edwards - 69cm
Daniel Hayes - 68cm
Clint Benjamin - 67cm
Eric McKenzie - 66cm
Jarryd Morton - 66cm
Clayton Collard - 66cm
Brent Renouf - 65cm
Joel Selwood - 65cm
James Sellar - 65cm
Nick Smith - 65cm

20-metre sprint
Nathan Krakouer - 2.83 sec
Nathan Djerrkura - 2.90 sec
Nathan Brown - 2.91 sec
Simon Hogan - 2.91 sec
Brock O'Brien - 2.92 sec
Shaun Grigg - 2.92 sec
Ben Reid - 2.93 sec
Ben Ross - 2.94 sec
Clint Benjamin - 2.95 sec
Travis Boak - 2.96 sec

Shuttle Run (Beep test)
Simon Hogan - level 15.04
Tim Houlihan - level 15.04
Shane Edwards - level 15.04
Bachar Houli - level 14.09
James Thomson - level 14.08
Joe Anderson - level 14.04
Nathan Djerrkura - level 14.04
Will Schofield - level 14.04
Lachlan Hansen - level 14.04
David Armitage - level 14.03

Handspan
Jesse White - 26.7cm
Kurt Tippett - 26.3cm
Brent Renouf - 25.4cm
Tom Collier - 25.2cm
Chris Schmidt - 25.2cm
Justin Hardy - 25.0cm
Sean Hampson - 25.0cm
Mark Austin - 24.9cm
Andrejs Everitt - 24.9cm
Daniel Currie - 24.6cm

Three-km time-trial
Tim Houlihan - 9:37 mins
Simon Hogan - 9:55 mins
Shane Edwards - 10:00 mins
James Thomson - 10:13 mins
Daniel Dzufer - 10:14 mins
Bachar Houli - 10:23 mins
Brent Renouf - 10:27 mins
Will Schofield - 10:34 mins
Haydyn Kiel - 10:35 mins
David Armitage/Jarryn Geary - 10:36 mins

But did anyone test them to see if they can play footy ?????

[ORDoubleBlues]

Good question that one SD.
Know that David Spriggs tore it up at his draft camp some years back but has been a disappointment on the whole and looks like his AFL career is over but there is obviously many examples of this.
Interesting for mine that only 9 South Australian based juniors/players were invited to the draft camp and that (all bias aside) only three clubs at most seem to have any interest in Tom Hurley as he was not required at this camp and will only be at local screening. Looks like he's been given the rap of being too small and not quick enough but reading of the play and football smarts that you can't teach, make up for some deficiences. Compare this to Queensland where they had a record 20!!!!! players at the draft camp. Find it hard to believe that they have that many more prospects than us but I'll wait 'til draft day to see how many of those 20 get drafted.

Brent Renouf, he wouldn't be any relation to the woman who had that book out some years back called "How I made $3 million with only one c*** working for me" .

[sydney-dog]

ORDoubleBlues

It does make you think whether the Greg William's of this world will get drafted, their is so much science involved these days, it's almost like trying to find the perfect athlete to coach how to play footy, rather then just drafting a natually gifted footballer

[Dutchy]

Im sure last night on KG's show Kevin Sheehan said Gibbsy got 15 something in the beep test

Neil Craig would get a boner over these stats

[am Bays]

I disagree, some of these top 10 results wouldn't have made the top 10 a couple of years ago, the 3 km time trial results are pretty good for the top 5 the rest aren't much chop.

Only three guys could crack level 15 for the beep test.

the average score for teh standing VJ four years ago was 65 cm the top guys would crack 70.

Don't get me wrong some these results are excellent but what was an average scores in 2002 & 2003 are all top 10 scores this year.

it seems to me that they are going more for footballers ATM than athletes.

[ORDoubleBlues]

ORDoubleBlues

It does make you think whether the Greg William's of this world will get drafted, their is so much science involved these days, it's almost like trying to find the perfect athlete to coach how to play footy, rather then just drafting a natually gifted footballer

Know what you're saying.
Greg Williams himself had a fairly tough time breaking in as it was, imagine how he'd go now!
Tassie, you do have a point.
Know that a poster from footysa (who I don't think post's here and hope he doesn't mind me stealing his thunder) said about 12 months ago how a book called "moneyball" was one of the hot topics of the 2004 draft camp. It was a book about how Billy Beane, who was the manager of the Oakland Athletics at the time, built one of the most succesful teams in the 2002 major league baseball season with the lowest payroll in the majors by drafting and trading for guys on their ability to do the job, not how great of an athlete they were (to cut a long story short).

[Blue Boy]

I like the look of Edwards from the cocks - played well last week in the final at senior level and has backed it up with the testing at draft camp.

He is ready to go and might suprise !!

[Rooster Chic]

A great teacher of mine, David Parkin said recently that the results gained from the tests taken out at Draft Camp have no correlation to playing 50 AFL games, which is what it's all about, isnt it? It's just a reaon to get the 90 best Aussie young 'talents' together to test thier character.

[am Bays]

I'll think you find RC that the studies conducted in 1999 and 2002 (I think) stated that no one single test (singular) at the draft camp can predict whether a player can play 1, 5, 10, 50 or 200 games. As is known to all and sundary teh draft camp doesn't test if tehy can play only if they have the physical attributes to play.

It is well documented that the draft camp has increased players draft ranking and decreased it, and has highlighted physical attributes of players to get them Rookie listed. I know one player who got 15+ and could run and jump 95 cm + on the running VJ, it got him rookie listed at melbourne, who then found out whilst he was a grreat athlete he couldn't quite cut it at senior VFL level.....

Camp is only used as a guide to see if players have the physical abilities to play AFl and to a lesser extent the psychological ability to play. The U/18 champs is the primary tool used to test how well players can play.

Unless you are a gun, like Gibbs, Gumbleton Hanson, selwood etc as that would have been known for the last 2 years after the U/16s champs and games played over the past two years at state league and TAC Cup level.

[Booney]

Neil Craig would get a boner over these stats

Yes he would.It goes to prove though,all this means farg all if you cant get the footy.

[Maddogmike]

Brett Burton was one of the first drafted for his abililty to run and jump. He was only an Eagles junior/reserves player before making the crows list.