Midseason draft

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MID-SEASON DRAFT SET

The MID-SEASON Rookie Draft is set to take place between rounds 11 and 12 with more than half of the competition's clubs currently holding open selections.

Clubs were told on Wednesday that the intake of picks for the mid-season draft will be staged on Wednesday, May 29.

Given the draft order is based on the ladder at that point of the season, the draft needs to be staged before the bye weeks start and clubs have played different amount of games, with the bye rounds running from round 12-15 this year.

There are currently 13 potential open list spots around the competition for clubs to use at the mid-season draft.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1105460/roos-ruck-to-roll-on-flag-cat-to-wait-father-son-dog-in-talks

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There’s an expectation that the Tigers will select Mutaz El Nour in the mid season draft.

A 22 year old key defender with strong signs of athleticism, kicking and intercept marking.

A product of our VFL team, surprised he wasn’t somewhat taken from us somehow.

https://twitter.com/jamesdevennn/status/1781607577316729224

[Diocletian]

Assumed we would but now that bloke's said it not so sure ...is absolutely full of it and yet to get a single thing right...

Will McLachlan from the the Geelong Falcons Footy Factory™ is another I'd wouldn't be unhappy with....arguably more a long term pick than immediate need though...

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Possible open list spots ahead of Mid-Season Rookie Draft
(as of April 21, 2024)

Adelaide: 2 (Wayne Milera, Patrick Parnell)
Brisbane: 2 (Keidean Coleman, Tom Doedee)
Carlton: 2 (Sam Docherty, Jack Silvagni)
Collingwood: 2 (Dan McStay, Nathan Murphy)
Essendon: 1 (Jaiden Hunter)
Fremantle: 1 (Left open from 2023)
Geelong: 0
Gold Coast: 1 (Left open from 2023)
Greater Western Sydney: 0
Hawthorn: 0
Melbourne: 1 (Angus Brayshaw)
North Melbourne: 2 (Callum Coleman-Jones, Josh Goater)
Port Adelaide: 0
Richmond: 2 (Judson Clarke, Josh Gibcus)
St Kilda: 0
Sydney: 0
West Coast: 0
Western Bulldogs: 1 (Bailey Smith)

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1110562/your-clubs-list-status-ahead-of-the-mid-season-rookie-draft

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Richmond “will be active” at AFL Mid-Season Draft, the players they could consider

The Tigers are in line to get early access to the top-rated prospects of this year’s MSD crop.

Mitch Keating
zerohanger.com
May 9, 2024

Richmond "will be active" at this month's Mid-Season Draft as the club looks to recover from a difficult start to life under new coach Adem Yze.

The Tigers' ongoing injury woes have restricted the club's ability to press for a finals spot, winning just one of their eight matches in 2024 to sit only above a winless North Melbourne unit.

Richmond's misfortunes, both with injuries and on the ladder, have them placed to get early access to the nation's most in-demand over-age talent at the Mid-Season Draft.

Season-ending setbacks to third-year duo Josh Gibcus and Judson Clarke will mean the Tigers can open two list spots for the May intake by moving the pair to their inactive list.

Currently 17th on the ladder, and with 13 clubs currently able to partake in the Mid-Season Draft, the Tigers sit with the second and 15th overall selections for the draft.

The final draft order - which is set in reverse of the ladder after Round 11 - will be determined by any further long-term injury setbacks or retirements across the competition.

Likely to have access to a top five selection, the Tigers will use their opening pick before weighing up their options on draft night come the second round.

"Yeah, we will be (active)," Yze said when quizzed by Zero Hanger.

"We've got a couple of players injured long term. So we've got two spots. Whether we fill in both or whether we just go with one... but yeah, we will be active."

Richmond recruited Matt Coulthard and James Trezise at last year's Mid-Season Draft with Picks 4 and 13 respectively, with the latter plucked out of the club's VFL program.

Arguably two of the Mid-Season Draft's biggest success stories have come from the Tigers' reserves, with breakout Bomber Sam Durham and Hawthorn's Massimo D'Ambrosio both drafted to Essendon.

Richmond might not need to look too far again this year, with VFL-listed defender Mutaz El Nour continuing to show promise at the level for the Tigers' reserves.

Alongside fellow tall Tom Brindley and former Port Adelaide player Joel Garner, El Nour has been among the Tigers' best performers in the VFL and could be considered for the Mid-Season Draft.

Richmond will heavily lean toward selecting the best available talent with its first pick, but will be keen to bolster its key forward stocks following a lean opening eight matches.

The absence of Tom Lynch and Noah Balta has given Mykelti Lefau a chance to prove his value, however recruit Jacob Koschitzke has struggled to fire.

South Adelaide teenager Noah Howes could be on for Richmond to consider, bringing a 196cm frame and plenty of promise after five league matches for the Panthers this year.

Collingwood VFL forward Jack Hutchinson and West Perth's Jasper Scaife are also highly-rated emerging forwards.

The 2024 Mid-Season Draft will take place on Wednesday, May 29.

https://www.zerohanger.com/richmond-will-be-active-at-afl-mid-season-draft-the-players-they-could-consider-150455/

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 RCD 31 disposals 10 clearances 4 marks 2 tackles in the VFL today

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RCD 31 disposals 10 clearances 4 marks 2 tackles in the VFL today

 Yep, he's going really well at Williamstown

But let's be honest there's no way we'd redraft him

That would mean admitting they got it wrong

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2024 Mid-Season Draft: ‘The number one’ mid-season AFL draft prospect revealed... and the team holding the cards

This year’s mid-season draft is scheduled for Wednesday, May 29 — between Rounds 11 and 12 — with a host of veiled talent set to put their hands up for long-awaited AFL opportunities.

While the picking order is still subject to change through the coming rounds, names are starting to separate themselves from the pack.

“Jack Hutchinson, the high-flyer from Collingwood (VFL), 190 centimetres, taking some great marks. He’s a talent,” said Herald Sun journalist Jay Clark on Fox Footy’s Midweek Tackle.

Hutchinson, a 22-year-old Wonthaggi product who plays a general forward role, is widely seen as the best available player of the 2024 crop, but the question is whether the current No.1 pick-holders view the VFL Magpie as a necessary commodity.

“Hutchinson, you speak to most recruiters, they say he’s the number one at this stage, but do North Melbourne need his type?” Clark asked.

“I think that’s a real conundrum, because they’ve got a couple of those types.”

Jaidyn Stephenson (189 centimetres), Eddie Ford (189), Cam Zurhaar (190), Zane Duursma (190) and Tyler Sellers (193) are all similar types to Hutchinson — pushing the possibility that the skyscraper slips past the Roos’ first selection.

Hutchinson, Will McLachlan (Geelong Falcons, forward-midfielder), Joe Pike (Geelong Falcons, ruckman), Jasper Scaife (West Perth, key forward), Jacob Blight (Peel Thunder, key defender) and Oskar Smart (Essendon VFL, small forward) are among the most sought-after names at this year’s intake.

McLachlan and Pike, both over-agers who returned to the Falcons this year, were a part of the Young Guns squad that played a pair of matches against Vic Metro and Vic Country in April, while Scaife and Blight were named in the 34-man WAFL State squad that will face South Australia on May 19.

“Those are the guys that are recruiters are talking about,” Clark continued. “It’s interesting the way it’s all shaping up, because I think Hawthorn and Richmond are looking at big men — they need key forwards and key defenders.”

Meantime, the Tigers have an ACL victim of their own in luckless defender Josh Gibcus, while spearhead forward Tom Lynch (hamstring) has also gone down after missing nearly all of last season.

As things presently stand, North Melbourne will pick first, Richmond second, and then Hawthorn third.

13 clubs currently have the opportunity to make at least one selection, while the Lions (four open list spots), Crows (three), Tigers, (two), Roos (two) and Blues (two) have at least two vacancies.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2024-midseason-rookie-draft-which-teams-have-picks-which-players-will-be-picked-jack-hutchinson-will-mclachlan-joe-pike-midweek-tackle-comments-reaction-latest-news/news-story/9e71e6556be71a2b153f92dab15f70cb

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RCD 31 disposals 10 clearances 4 marks 2 tackles in the VFL today

 Yep, he's going really well at Williamstown

But let's be honest there's no way we'd redraft him

That would mean admitting they got it wrong

Or he just isn’t good enough. Evidenced by the fact that no side picked him up since we delisted him.

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If we were to revisit former delisted players there’s a bloke running around for Glenelg who’s won the SANFL goal kicking 3 times .