GEELONG holds the two most prized picks in October’s 2018 AFL Women’s Draft ahead of the trade period kicking off. The Cats are one of two expansion sides in the competition next season, with North Melbourne adopting an experience-first mentality.<\/p>\n
Whilst the Cats have picked up a number of experienced faces including Melbourne’s Mel Hickey<\/strong> and Richelle Cranston<\/strong>, and GWS’ Phoebe McWilliams<\/strong> and Maddy Boyd<\/strong>, North Melbourne has gone all-out in search of experienced talent with 2018 AFLW Best and Fairest winner Emma Kearney\u00a0<\/strong>and teammate Jemma Bruton<\/strong>, Brisbane’s Kaitlyn Ashmore<\/strong>\u00a0among four Lions, and four of Collingwood’s top players in Emma King<\/strong>, Jennifer Garner<\/strong>, Jess Duffin<\/strong> and Mo Hope<\/strong> among others.<\/p>\n North Melbourne’s ambitious title-tilt has seen the Kangaroos penalised in the draft order, moved to last (or twelfth pick in the first round) and the final pick in each round thereafter. However, excluding Adelaide, Brisbane, Fremantle and GWS GIANTS who can still only have access to players that nominate their respective state, the Kangaroos effectively have pick eight. Geelong on the other hand, have been compensated as a new side in the competition, with picks one and two, as well as picks 14 and 15 (effectively picks 10 and 11 in the Victorian draft).<\/p>\n The Kangaroos have also only been allocated five selections in the draft (no compensation pick), with each of the established Victorian clubs receiving a pick at the start of a round based on the quality lost from their list. Collingwood was deemed to have lost the most quality and thus received pick nine in the Victorian draft as compensation, whilst the Western Bulldogs received pick 18, Melbourne received pick 25 and Carlton received pick 33.<\/p>\n Effectively Geelong head into the draft with four picks inside the top 10 and six inside the top 16, while Collingwood has four inside the top 20 – the most of any established club. Wooden spooners Carlton will enter the draft with pick three. Of course, all of this can change with the re-signing and trade period kicking off today and going until June 4.<\/p>\n Club by club picks (Victorian draft):<\/strong><\/p>\n Carlton:<\/strong> 3, 12, 19, 26, 32, 33 ROUND ONE ROUND TWO ROUND THREE ROUND FOUR ROUND FIVE GEELONG holds the two most prized picks in October’s 2018 AFL Women’s Draft ahead of the trade period kicking off. The Cats are one of two expansion sides in the competition next season, with North Melbourne adopting an experience-first mentality. Whilst the Cats have picked up a number of experienced faces including Melbourne’s Mel Hickey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3115,8,137],"tags":[3022,3058,4696,5166,3179,3040,3064,3015,2768,3035,3034],"class_list":["post-35199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aflw","category-news","category-womens","tag-emma-kearney","tag-emma-king","tag-jemma-bruton","tag-jennifer-garner","tag-jess-duffin","tag-kaitlyn-ashmore","tag-maddy-boyd","tag-mel-hickey","tag-mo-hope","tag-phoebe-mcwilliams","tag-richelle-cranston"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Collingwood:<\/strong> 4, 9, 13, 20, 27, 34
Geelong:<\/strong> 1, 2, 7, 10, 11, 16, 23, 30, 37
Melbourne:<\/strong> 5, 14, 21, 25, 28, 35
North Melbourne:<\/strong> 8, 17, 24, 31, 38
Western Bulldogs:<\/strong> 6, 15, 18, 22, 29, 36<\/p>\nSelection order for the 2018 NAB AFL Women’s Draft<\/strong><\/h4>\n
<\/strong>1\u00a0Geelong Cats (compensation pick)
2 Geelong Cats (compensation pick)
3 Carlton
4 Fremantle
5 Collingwood
6 Adelaide
7 GWS Giants
8 Melbourne
9 Brisbane Lions
10 Western Bulldogs
11 Geelong Cats
12 North Melbourne<\/p>\n
<\/strong>13\u00a0Collingwood (compensation pick)
<\/strong>14 Geelong Cats (compensation pick)
<\/strong>15 Geelong Cats (compensation pick)
<\/strong>16 Carlton
<\/strong>17 Fremantle
<\/strong>18 Collingwood
<\/strong>19 Adelaide
<\/strong>20 GWS Giants
<\/strong>21 Melbourne
<\/strong>22 Brisbane Lions
<\/strong>23 Western Bulldogs
<\/strong>24 Geelong Cats
<\/strong>25 North Melbourne<\/p>\n
<\/strong>26\u00a0Western Bulldogs (compensation pick)
<\/strong>27 Carlton
<\/strong>28 Fremantle
<\/strong>29 Collingwood
<\/strong>30 Adelaide
<\/strong>31 GWS Giants
<\/strong>32 Melbourne
<\/strong>33 Brisbane Lions
<\/strong>34 Western Bulldogs
<\/strong>35 Geelong Cats
<\/strong>36 North Melbourne<\/p>\n
<\/strong>37\u00a0Melbourne (compensation pick)
<\/strong>38 Carlton
<\/strong>39 Fremantle
<\/strong>40 Collingwood
<\/strong>41 Adelaide
<\/strong>42 GWS Giants
<\/strong>43 Melbourne
<\/strong>44 Brisbane Lions
<\/strong>45 Western Bulldogs
<\/strong>46 Geelong Cats
<\/strong>47 North Melbourne<\/p>\n
<\/strong>48 Carlton (compensation pick)
<\/strong>49 Carlton
<\/strong>50 Fremantle
<\/strong>51 Collingwood
<\/strong>52 Adelaide
<\/strong>53 GWS Giants
<\/strong>54 Melbourne
<\/strong>55 Brisbane Lions
<\/strong>56 Western Bulldogs
<\/strong>57 Geelong Cats
<\/strong>58 North Melbourne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"