2015 AFL draft
2015 AFL draft | |
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General information | |
Date | 24 November 2015 |
Location | Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, South Australia |
Broadcast | Foxtel |
First selection | Jacob Weitering, Carlton Football Club |
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The 2015 Australian Football League draft consisted of the various periods where the 18 clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL) can trade and recruit players following the completion of the 2015 AFL season. Additions to each club's playing list are not allowed at any other time during the year.
The key dates for the trading and drafting periods were:[1][2]
- Academy players to be nominated by 15 September. With a bidding process held on 24 November along with father–son selections during the national draft.
- The free agency offer period; held between 9 October and 18 October. Three further free agency periods are held for delisted players, between 31 October and 9 November, 11 November to 20 November, and 25 November to 26 November.
- The trade period; held between 12 October and 22 October.
- The 2015 national draft; held on 24 November at the Adelaide Convention Centre, which, for the first time, included live bidding for academy and father-son selections.
- The 2016 pre-season draft; which was to be held on 27 November, but was cancelled when all clubs declined to take part, and
- The 2016 rookie draft; which was held on 27 November.
Additionally, following the guilty verdicts handed down to 34 past and present Essendon players in January 2016 for doping violations, Essendon was given the opportunity to recruit top-up players between January and March 2016.
Contents
Player movements
Free agency
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The initial list of free agents, published in March 2015, consisted of 74 unrestricted and restricted free agents, however, 35 of those players re-signed and 15 retired during or after the home-and-away season.[3]
Player | Date | Free agent type | Former club | New club | Compensation | Ref |
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Matt Suckling | 12 October 2015 | Unrestricted | Hawthorn | Western Bulldogs | End of 2nd round | [4] |
Scott Selwood | 12 October 2015 | Restricted | West Coast | Geelong | 2nd round | [5] |
Matthew Leuenberger | 15 October 2015 | Restricted | Brisbane Lions | Essendon | End of 2nd round | [6] |
Dawson Simpson | 16 October 2015 | Unrestricted | Geelong | Greater Western Sydney | None | [7] |
Andrew Moore | 6 November 2015 | Delisted | Port Adelaide | Richmond | None | [8] |
Jarrad Grant | 6 November 2015 | Delisted | Western Bulldogs | Gold Coast | None | [9] |
Daniel Gorringe | 9 November 2015 | Delisted | Gold Coast | Carlton | None | [10] |
Matthew Wright | 26 November 2015 | Delisted | Adelaide | Carlton | None | [11] |
Trades
For the first time, clubs were allowed to trade future selections from the next year's draft as well as the current draft.[12] Geelong became the first AFL club to trade a future draft pick on 14 October 2015 when they traded their 2016 first round pick to Carlton for Lachie Henderson.[13]
- Note
- The numbering of the draft picks in this list may be different to the agreed draft picks at the time of the trade, due to adjustments from either the insertion of free agency compensation draft picks or clubs exiting the draft before later rounds.
Changes by team
2015 national draft
The 2015 AFL national draft was held on 24 November 2015 at the Adelaide Convention Centre.[1] For the first time, live bidding occurred during the draft for selections made under the father–son rule and from the northern state's development academies, whereby each draft selection is allocated a points value. Clubs nominating a player were forced to use their existing draft selections to match the points value of the pick used by the club bidding for the player.[44][45]
- Final draft order[46]
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Rnd | Pick | Player | Drafted to | Recruited from | League | Notes |
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1 | 1 | Jacob Weitering | Carlton | Dandenong Stingrays | TAC Cup | |
1 | 2 | Josh Schache | Brisbane Lions | Murray Bushrangers | TAC Cup | |
1 | 3 | Callum Mills | Sydney | North Shore | Sydney AFL | Academy player; Melbourne's bid matched with picks 33, 36, 37 and 43[47] |
1 | 4 | Clayton Oliver | Melbourne | Murray Bushrangers | TAC Cup | Traded from Gold Coast |
1 | 5 | Darcy Parish | Essendon | Geelong Falcons | TAC Cup | |
1 | 6 | Aaron Francis | Essendon | West Adelaide | SANFL | Traded from St Kilda |
1 | 7 | Jacob Hopper | Greater Western Sydney | North Ballarat Rebels | TAC Cup | Academy player; Gold Coast's bid matched with pick 11[47] |
1 | 8 | Callum Ah Chee | Gold Coast | South Fremantle | WAFL | Traded from Melbourne |
1 | 9 | Sam Weideman | Melbourne | Eastern Ranges | TAC Cup | Traded from Greater Western Sydney; received from Collingwood |
1 | 10 | Harry McKay | Carlton | Gippsland Power | TAC Cup | Traded from Greater Western Sydney |
1 | 11 | Wayne Milera | Adelaide | Central District | SANFL | Traded from Geelong |
1 | 12 | Charlie Curnow | Carlton | Geelong Falcons | TAC Cup | Traded from Western Bulldogs |
1 | 13 | Matthew Kennedy | Greater Western Sydney | Collingullie-Ashmont-Kapooka | RFNL | Academy player; Richmond's bid matched with picks 34 and 40[47] |
1 | 14 | Eric Hipwood | Brisbane Lions | Aspley | NEAFL | Academy player; Richmond's bid matched with picks 36 and 37[47] |
1 | 15 | Daniel Rioli | Richmond | North Ballarat Rebels | TAC Cup | |
1 | 16 | Harrison Himmelberg | Greater Western Sydney | Mangoplah-CUE | RFNL | Academy player; Adelaide's bid matched with picks 48, 50, 55 and 59[47] |
1 | 17 | Tom Doedee | Adelaide | Geelong Falcons | TAC Cup | |
1 | 18 | Jade Gresham | St Kilda | Northern Knights | TAC Cup | Traded from Sydney |
1 | 19 | Ryan Burton | Hawthorn | North Adelaide | SANFL | Traded from North Melbourne |
1 | 20 | Brayden Fiorini | Gold Coast | Northern Knights | TAC Cup | Traded from Fremantle |
1 | 21 | Ben McKay | North Melbourne | Gippsland Power | TAC Cup | Traded from Brisbane Lions; received from West Coast |
1 | 22 | Kieran Lovell | Hawthorn | Kingborough | TSL | |
1 | 23 | David Cuningham | Carlton | Oakleigh Chargers | TAC Cup | Traded from Richmond; received from Gold Coast; received from Greater Western Sydney via a trade in 2012; received from Fremantle in 2011; compensation pick from 2011 (Palmer) |
2 | 24 | Ben Keays | Brisbane Lions | Brisbane Lions reserves | NEAFL | Academy player; Western Bulldogs' bid matched with Brisbane's next pick[47] |
2 | 25 | Josh Dunkley | Western Bulldogs | Gippsland Power | TAC Cup | Traded from Carlton; father-son eligible (son of Andrew Dunkley), but Sydney did not match bid[47] |
2 | 26 | Kieran Collins | Western Bulldogs | Dandenong Stingrays | TAC Cup | Traded from Carlton; received from Brisbane Lions |
2 | 27 | Darcy Tucker | Fremantle | North Ballarat Rebels | TAC Cup | Traded from Gold Coast |
2 | 28 | Luke Partington | West Coast | Norwood | SANFL | Traded from Sydney; received from Essendon |
2 | 29 | Alex Morgan | Essendon | Oakleigh Chargers | TAC Cup | Traded from St Kilda |
2 | 30 | Mason Redman | Essendon | Glenelg | SANFL | Traded from Melbourne |
2 | 31 | Ryan Clarke | North Melbourne | Eastern Ranges | TAC Cup | Traded from Brisbane Lions; received from Collingwood |
2 | 32 | Brayden Sier | Collingwood | Northern Knights | TAC Cup | Traded from Greater Western Sydney |
2 | 33 | Mitchell Hibberd | North Melbourne | Clarence | TSL | Traded from Collingwood; received from Greater Western Sydney; received from Carlton; received from Adelaide; received from Geelong |
2 | 34 | Joshua Schoenfeld | Gold Coast | Peel Thunder | WAFL | Traded from Gold Coast, received from Port Adelaide |
2 | 35 | Marcus Adams | Western Bulldogs | West Perth | WAFL | |
2 | 36 | Tom Cole | West Coast | Bendigo Pioneers | TAC Cup | Traded from Gold Coast; received from Richmond |
2 | 37 | Riley Bonner | Port Adelaide | West Adelaide | SANFL | Traded from Adelaide |
2 | 38 | Harley Balic | Fremantle | Sandringham Dragons | TAC Cup | Traded from Gold Coast; received from Fremantle |
3 | 39 | Rhys Mathieson | Brisbane Lions | Geelong Falcons | TAC Cup | Traded from North Melbourne; received from Hawthorn; free agency compensation pick (Suckling) |
3 | 40 | Brandon White | St Kilda | Dandenong Stingrays | TAC Cup | |
3 | 41 | Matthew Flynn | Greater Western Sydney | Narrandera | RFNL | Academy player; Melbourne's bid matched with GWS' next pick[47] |
3 | 42 | Mitch King | Melbourne | Murray Bushrangers | TAC Cup | |
3 | 43 | Corey Wagner | North Melbourne | Aspley | NEAFL | Traded from Collingwood; academy eligible, but Brisbane Lions did not match bid[47] |
3 | 44 | Blake Hardwick | Hawthorn | Eastern Ranges | TAC Cup | Traded from Greater Western Sydney |
3 | 45 | Aidyn Johnson | Port Adelaide | Bendigo Pioneers | TAC Cup | Traded from Gold Coast; received from Geelong |
3 | 46 | Liam Hulett | Melbourne | Dandenong Stingrays | TAC Cup | Traded from Port Adelaide |
3 | 47 | Sam Skinner | Brisbane Lions | Gippsland Power | TAC Cup | Traded from Carlton |
3 | 48 | Bailey Williams | Western Bulldogs | Glenelg | SANFL | |
3 | 49 | Bailey Rice | St Kilda | Dandenong Stingrays | TAC Cup | Father–son rule selection (son of Dean Rice); Richmond's bid matched with St Kilda's next pick[47] |
3 | 50 | Oleg Markov | Richmond | North Adelaide | SANFL | |
3 | 51 | Tyrone Leonardis | Sydney | Northern Knights | TAC Cup | Traded from Essendon |
3 | 52 | Mackenzie Willis | Gold Coast | Kingborough | TSL | Traded from Fremantle |
3 | 53 | Jack Silvagni | Carlton | Oakleigh Chargers | TAC Cup | Father–son rule selection (son of Stephen Silvagni); Essendon's bid matched with Carlton's next pick[47] |
3 | 54 | Mitch Brown | Essendon | Sandringham | VFL | Traded from West Coast |
4 | 55 | Sam Collins | Fremantle | Box Hill Hawks | VFL | Traded from Gold Coast |
4 | 56 | Jordan Dawson | Sydney | Sturt | SANFL | |
4 | 57 | Kurt Mutimer | West Coast | Dandenong Stingrays | TAC Cup | Traded from Essendon |
4 | 58 | Tom Phillips | Collingwood | Oakleigh Chargers | TAC Cup | |
4 | 59 | Ryan Gardner | Geelong | Burnie Dockers | TSL | |
4 | 60 | Declan Mountford | North Melbourne | Claremont | WAFL | |
4 | 61 | Shane Yarran | Fremantle | Subiaco | WAFL | |
4 | 62 | Matthew Allen | West Coast | Glenelg | SANFL | |
5 | 63 | Rupert Wills | Collingwood | Collingwood reserves | VFL | Traded from Greater Western Sydney; received from Carlton |
5 | 64 | Yestin Eades | Essendon | North Ballarat Rebels | TAC Cup | |
5 | 65 | Ben Crocker | Collingwood | Oakleigh Chargers | TAC Cup | |
5 | 66 | Sam Menegola | Geelong | Subiaco | WAFL | |
5 | 67 | Nathan Broad | Richmond | Swan Districts | WAFL | |
6 | 68 | Michael Hartley | Essendon | Coburg | VFL | |
6 | 69 | Wylie Buzza | Geelong | Mount Gravatt | QAFL | |
7 | 70 | Matthew Hayball | Geelong | West Adelaide | SANFL |
- Notes
- Compensation picks are selections in addition to the normal order of selection, allocated to clubs by the AFL as compensation for losing uncontracted players to the new expansion clubs, Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney. The picks can be held for up to five years and clubs declare at the beginning of the season of their intent to utilise the pick at the end of the season. Picks could be traded to other clubs in return for players or other draft selections.
- Free agency compensation picks are additional selections awarded to teams based on their net loss of players during the free agency trade period.
Rookie elevations
Clubs were able to promote any player who was listed on their rookie list in 2015 to their 2016 primary playing list prior to the draft. In total, 14 players were promoted.[48]
Player | Club |
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Jake Kelly | Adelaide |
Jack Frost | Collingwood |
Shaun McKernan | Essendon |
Ethan Hughes | Fremantle |
Michael Luxford | Geelong |
Adam Saad | Gold Coast |
Keegan Brooksby | Gold Coast |
Kurt Heatherley | Hawthorn |
Aaron vandenBerg | Melbourne |
James Harmes | Melbourne |
Sam Gray | Port Adelaide |
Kane Lambert | Richmond |
Jack Sinclair | St Kilda |
Sam Naismith | Sydney |
2016 rookie draft
The 2016 AFL rookie draft was held on 27 November 2015.[49] The official rookie draft order was released on 26 November and each club, with the exception of Greater Western Sydney who are still operating with an expanded list, can have between 4 and 6 players on their rookie list, as long as they have a maximum of 44 players on their combined primary and rookie lists.[50]
The pre-season draft was not held as all eligible clubs informed the AFL they would not be participating.[50]
Round | Pick | Player | Drafted to | Recruited from | League | Notes |
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1 | 1 | Jesse Glass-McKasker | Carlton | Swan Districts | WAFL | |
1 | 2 | Jackson Paine | Brisbane Lions | Brisbane Lions | AFL | |
1 | 3 | Tom Keough | Gold Coast | West Adelaide | SANFL | |
1 | 4 | Gach Nyuon | Essendon | Dandenong Stingrays | TAC Cup | |
1 | 5 | Nick O'Kearney | St Kilda | Calder Cannons | TAC Cup | |
1 | 6 | Josh Wagner | Melbourne | Aspley | NEAFL | |
1 | 7 | Lachlan Keeffe | Collingwood | Collingwood | AFL | Ineligible to play in 2016 due to serving a two-year ban for testing positive to banned substance clenbuterol |
1 | 8 | Sam Reid | Greater Western Sydney | UWS Giants | NEAFL | |
1 | 9 | Jock Cornell | Geelong | Mangoplah-CUE | RFNL | |
1 | 10 | Will Snelling | Port Adelaide | West Adelaide | SANFL | |
1 | 11 | Bradley Lynch | Western Bulldogs | Swan Districts | WAFL | |
1 | 12 | Callum Moore | Richmond | Calder Cannons | TAC Cup | |
1 | 13 | Paul Hunter | Adelaide | Redland | NEAFL | |
1 | 14 | Tom Papley | Sydney | Gippsland Power | TAC Cup | |
1 | 15 | Farren Ray | North Melbourne | St Kilda | AFL | |
1 | 16 | Matt Uebergang | Fremantle | Redland | NEAFL | |
1 | 17 | Jordan Snadden | West Coast | East Fremantle | WAFL | |
1 | 18 | Luke Surman | Hawthorn | Norwood | SANFL | |
2 | 19 | Andrew Gallucci | Carlton | Williamstown | VFL | |
2 | 20 | Reuben William | Brisbane Lions | Zillmere | QAFL | |
2 | 21 | Darcy MacPherson | Gold Coast | Northern Knights | TAC Cup | |
2 | 22 | Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti | Essendon | Essendon reserves | VFL | |
2 | 23 | Nick Coughlan | St Kilda | Albury | O&MFL | |
2 | 24 | Viv Michie | Melbourne | Melbourne | AFL | |
2 | 25 | Josh Smith | Collingwood | Redland | NEAFL | |
2 | 26 | Daniel Lloyd | Greater Western Sydney | Killarney Vale | BDAFL | |
2 | 27 | James Parsons | Geelong | Eastern Ranges | TAC Cup | |
2 | 28 | Cameron Hewett | Port Adelaide | North Adelaide | SANFL | |
2 | 29 | Luke Goetz | Western Bulldogs | Western Jets | TAC Cup | |
2 | 30 | Mabior Chol | Richmond | Aspley | NEAFL | |
2 | 31 | Jonathon Beech | Adelaide | West Adelaide | SANFL | |
2 | 32 | Harrison Marsh | Sydney | Sydney | AFL | |
2 | 33 | Majak Daw | North Melbourne | North Melbourne | AFL | |
2 | 34 | Ryan Nyhuis | Fremantle | Nightcliff | NTFL | |
2 | 35 | Brant Colledge | West Coast | West Coast | AFL | |
2 | 36 | Kade Stewart | Hawthorn | South Fremantle | WAFL | |
3 | 37 | Matthew Korcheck | Carlton | Arizona | Pac-12 | International player (basketball) |
3 | 38 | Ryan Davis | Gold Coast | Swan Districts | WAFL | |
3 | 39 | Will Hams | Essendon | Essendon | AFL | |
3 | 40 | Josh Saunders | St Kilda | St Kilda | AFL | |
3 | 41 | Joel Smith | Melbourne | Geelong Supercats | SEABL | Three-year non-registered player, via basketball (also the son of Shaun Smith) |
3 | 42 | Josh Thomas | Collingwood | Collingwood | AFL | Ineligible to play in 2016 due to serving a two-year ban for testing positive to banned substance clenbuterol |
3 | 43 | Passed | Greater Western Sydney | — | — | |
3 | 44 | Tom Ruggles | Geelong | Geelong reserves | VFL | |
3 | 45 | Dan Houston | Port Adelaide | Oakleigh Chargers | TAC Cup | |
3 | 46 | Jed Adcock | Western Bulldogs | Brisbane Lions | AFL | |
3 | 47 | Adam Marcon | Richmond | Williamstown | VFL | |
3 | 48 | Hugh Greenwood | Adelaide | Perth Wildcats | NBL | 3-year non-registered player, via basketball. |
3 | 49 | Passed | Sydney | — | — | |
3 | 50 | Anthony Morabito | Fremantle | Fremantle | AFL | |
3 | 51 | Alec Waterman | West Coast | West Coast | AFL | |
3 | 52 | Alex Woodward | Hawthorn | Hawthorn | AFL | |
4 | 53 | Cameron Loersch | Gold Coast | South Fremantle | WAFL | |
4 | 54 | Tom Wallis | Essendon | Calder Cannons | TAC Cup | Father–son rule selection (son of Dean Wallis) |
4 | 55 | Tim Golds | Collingwood | Greater Western Sydney | AFL | |
4 | 56 | Passed | Greater Western Sydney | — | — | |
4 | 57 | Kane Mitchell | Port Adelaide | Port Adelaide | AFL | |
4 | 58 | Alex Keath | Adelaide | Victoria | Cricket Australia | Three-year non-registered player, via cricket |
4 | 59 | Kyle Galloway | Sydney | Shepparton | GVFL | |
4 | 60 | Josh Deluca | Fremantle | Fremantle | AFL | |
4 | 61 | Simon Tunbridge | West Coast | West Coast | AFL | |
4 | 62 | Conor Glass | Hawthorn | Derry GAA | GAA | International player (Gaelic football) |
5 | 63 | Danny Stanley | Gold Coast | Gold Coast | AFL | |
5 | 64 | Darrean Wyatt | Collingwood | Coastal Georgia | SSAC | Three-year non-registered player, via basketball |
5 | 65 | Passed | Greater Western Sydney | — | — | |
5 | 66 | Sam Murray | Sydney | Wodonga | O&MFL | |
6 | 67 | Jesse Joyce | Gold Coast | Palm Beach Currumbin | QAFL | |
6 | 68 | Passed | Greater Western Sydney | — | — | |
6 | 69 | Colin O'Riordan | Sydney | Tipperary GAA | GAA | International player (Gaelic football) |
7 | 70 | Passed | Greater Western Sydney | — | — | |
8 | 71 | Passed | Greater Western Sydney | — | — | |
9 | 72 | Passed | Greater Western Sydney | — | — | |
Source[51] |
Essendon top-up signings
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On 12 January 2016, thirty-four past and present Essendon Football Club players – twelve of whom were still on the Essendon list – were suspended until November 2016 after being found guilty of being injected with the banned substance thymosin beta-4 during the 2012 season, significantly compromising Essendon's playing list for 2016. The club received permission to augment its list by recruiting up to ten top-up players from lower levels on contracts which would last until 31 October 2016. The club was limited to players who had been on an AFL list in either 2014 or 2015, with no more than one player to be taken from any state-level club; or, it could recruit any VFL-listed player from its own reserves team without restriction.[52]
Player | Date | Recruited from | League | Former AFL club | Ref |
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Ryan Crowley | 19 January 2016 | Swan Districts | WAFL | Fremantle (2015) | [53] |
James Kelly | 20 January 2016 | Southern Districts | NTFL | Geelong (2015) | [54] |
Jonathan Simpkin | 27 January 2016 | Balwyn | Eastern FL | Hawthorn (2015) | [55] |
Matt Dea | 28 January 2016 | Williamstown | VFL | Richmond (2015) | [56] |
James Polkinghorne | 29 January 2016 | Essendon reserves | VFL | Brisbane Lions (2014) | [57] |
Mathew Stokes | 29 January 2016 | Palmerston | NTFL | Geelong (2015) | [57] |
Mark Jamar | 2 February 2016 | St Kevin's Old Boys | VAFA | Melbourne (2015) | [58] |
Sam Grimley | 6 February 2016 | Subiaco | WAFL | Hawthorn (2015) | [59] |
Nathan Grima | 18 February 2016 | Strathmore | EDFL | North Melbourne (2015) | [60] |
Sam Michael | 25 February 2016 | Redland | NEAFL | Brisbane Lions (2014) | [61] |
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- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.