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After much waiting the day has arrived – the 2018 AFL Draft begins tonight at Marvel Stadium. Join The Roar for a live blog of every pick and every player selected on Day 1, starting from 7pm AEDT.
Unlike previous years where the entire draft has taken place over the course of a single evening, the 2018 edition will be split over two days as the introduction of live trading will require more time between selections.
The AFL has confirmed that there will be five minutes between picks in the first round, and it’s likely that clubs will have the same amount of time between their selections in the second round and later.
Only the first round will be picked tonight, starting with Carlton at pick 1.
Expert opinion is widely unanimous on how the first eight or so picks will go with the Blues seemingly a certainty to select Sam Walsh at No.1.
Gold Coast are then tipped to pick South Australian duo Jack Lukosius and Izak Rankine with picks two and three, before St Kilda are expected to round out an awesome foursome with Max King.
Port are heavily tipped to pick up a local boy in Conor Rozee at pick 5 before the Suns have another crack with pick 6, and all the talk is that they’ll go with Ben King.
Bailey Smith is then likely to join the Western Bulldogs at pick 7 and Jye Caldwell at pick 8.
It’s a strong chance also that we’ll see a bid for Nick Blakey and possibly also one for Tarryn Thomas at some point in that mix, they’ll join Sydney and North Melbourne respectively.
Of course, following the introduction of live trading this year, there are certainly no guarantees about which clubs will pick who or even what order they’ll do it in.
We could be in for a long one tonight with news today that an AFL ‘dress rehearsal’ for the new draft yesterday turned into something of a debacle following some tech failures.
What are the odds that the AFL has waved a magic wand and fixed everything in the space of 24 hours? One would think pretty low, but we’ll have our fingers crossed.
Join The Roar for a live blog of every pick and every player selected on Day 1, starting from 7pm AEDT.
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