AFL rookie draft 2018: Tomas Bugg, Hugh Goddard become Blues
Tomas Bugg will get the chance for redemption after Carlton offered the delisted Melbourne firebrand a lifeline, which the Blues also gave to ex-Saint Hugh Goddard in the rookie draft.
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AGITATOR Tomas Bugg will get the chance for redemption after Carlton offered the delisted Melbourne firebrand a lifeline in the rookie draft.
Bugg, who notoriously served a six-game ban in 2017 for striking Sydney Swans youngster Callum Mills off the ball, played only three AFL games last season at the Demons.
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The Blues took former St Kilda defender Hugh Goddard with the first pick in the rookie draft.
Goddard played only a handful of games with the Saints in a three-year career dogged by injury.
Gold Coast, Brisbane, Collingoood, Essendon and North Melbourne made good of pledges to re-draft the likes of Michael Rischitelli, Ryan Bastinac, Tim Broomhead, Matt Dea and Kyron Hayden.
In total, 18 of the 40 rookies named were players re-drafted by their own AFL clubs, including Magpie Tim Broomhead who sustained a gruesome broken leg last season.
North Adelaide defender Callum Wilkie (St Kilda) and Port Melbourne ruckman Kieran Strachan (Adelaide) were among a handful of state-league prospects to land at AFL clubs, while the Kangaroos plucked 22-year-old Tom Wilkinson from NEAFL side Southport four years after the ex-Sandringham Dragon was overlooked in the draft.
In a surprise move Hawthorn pounced on former GWS Giants defender Tim Mohr with pick No. 43, while Collingwood and Sydney re-drafted Sam Murray (suspended) and Kurt Tippett (retired) despite the pair not playing next season.
ROOKIE DRAFT
1. Hugh Goddard – Carlton
2. Michael Rischitelli – Gold Coast
3. Callum Wilkie – St Kilda
4. Ryan Bastinac – Brisbane Lions
5. Ethan Hughes – Fremantle
6. Lachie Young – Western Bulldogs
7. Kieran Strachan – Adelaide
8. Tom Jok – Essendon
9. Tobin Cox – Port Adelaide
10. Tom McKenzie – North Melbourne
11. Tom Atkins – Geelong
12. Durak Tucker – Sydney
13. GWS – pass
14. Damon Greaves – Hawthorn
15. Kade Chandler – Melbourne
16. Jake Aarts – Richmond
17. Tim Broomhead – Collingwood
18. Harry Edwards – West Coast
19. Tom Bugg – Carlton
20. Jack Leslie – Gold Coast
21. Jacob Allison – Brisbane
22. Tobe Watson – Fremantle
23. Jordan Sweet – Western Bulldogs
24. Paul Hunter – Adelaide
25. Matt Dea – Essendon
26. Cameron Hewett – Port Adelaide
27. Kyron Hayden – North Melbourne
28. Harry Reynolds – Sydney
29. GWS – pass
30. Will Golds – Hawthorn
31. Melbourne – pass
32. Jacob Townsend – Richmond
33. Sam Murray – Collingwood
34. Josh Smith – West Coast
35. Carlton – pass
36. Brad Scheer – Gold Coast
37. Ryan Nyhuis – Fremantle
38. Western Bulldogs – pass
39. Jordon Butts – Adelaide
40. Essendon – pass
41. Tom Wilkinson – North Melbourne
42. Kurt Tippett – Sydney
43. Tim Mohr – Hawthorn
44. Melbourne – pass
45. Mabior Chol – Richmond
46. West Coast – pass
47. Harrison Wigg – Gold Coast
48. North Melbourne – pass
49. Will Langford – Hawthorn
50. Richmond – pass
51. Gold Coast – pass
52. Richmond – pass
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