
"I was just hoping to make the (Dandenong) Stingrays squad and then hopefully play round one and just keep my spot through the whole year, and then hopefully get a trial for Country and try to play in the Championships, and then just try to do well enough for Melbourne to look at me and hopefully go there," Andrew said.

However, a rule change ahead of the start of the season meant that clubs could no longer match bids for NGA players that came in the top 20 of the draft.ĬAL TWOMEY’S PHANTOM DRAFT Top 30, late picks, club whispersĪndrew's form throughout the season has put him firmly at the pointy end of this year's draft but he told 's Draft Countdown on Wednesday that his goals at the start of the year were far more modest. The athletic, 200cm ruck-forward is tipped to head to Gold Coast with the Suns' first pick in Wednesday night's first round of the draft after starting the year as a potential Melbourne player through the club's Next Generation Academy. FROM just hoping to get a game to being a near-certain pick in the top five of the NAB AFL Draft, it's been a meteoric rise for Mac Andrew in 2021.
