Prior to the 2017 draft: via Ryan Daniels, 15th November 2017
At the AFL draft next week 17-year-old Rockingham defender Aaron Naughton will be among those predicted to go in the top 10.
But the talent, who is already being compared to the Eagles’ All-Australian star Jeremy McGovern, has a message for the Fremantle Dockers.
‘Let me go to Collingwood’.
Considered a ready-made AFL defender, experts have been suggesting that Freo would attempt to snap up the youngster with pick five.
But Naughton, who is born in Victoria, has his sights on Collingwood at pick six.
“For me personally I think Melbourne, being the home of footy and playing for the biggest club in Australia, that'd be the way to go for me,” he said.
Seems a clear message to me. If someone, particularly a player manager, is running a counter-narrative to that, then they are at best mischevious, at worst flogs of the highest order.
So we took Cerra at 5. No-one is going to argue with Brayshaw at 2. Hardly seems to be treating Naughton poorly, and I doubt we promised him anything at all if he was openly saying don't draft me.
