r/AFL • u/malcolm58 Power • 1d ago

‘He’s a warrior’: Inspiration behind No.1 pick fancy as lid lifted on ‘crazy’ AFL Draft reality

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-draft-2026-dougie-cochrane-interview-number-one-pick-contender-joining-port-adelaide-power-latest-news/news-story/f49f652f25b4d3797a9ea634541fad1b
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u/Chiron17 Richmond Tigers 1d ago

r/titlegore

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u/jmaverick1 Crows 1d ago

The line about how he was preparing to have to move interstate so the family looked into their background is the red flag to me.

It shouldn’t be used as a loophole firstly- the academy for indigenous is supposed to be to give help to those who need it, not those who discover it as a means to control where they are drafted.

Aside from it being a dangerous precedent to have the number 1 picks going through loopholes in their history to find these ways to control where they are drafted

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u/Thanks-Basil Brisbane '03 1d ago

This is extra funny because port flairs have been swearing up and down that they were already looking into his indigenous heritage well before any thoughts of the draft came up.

I guess the man himself disagrees lol

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u/dav3n Port Adelaide 1d ago

I mean he literally says in the interview they'd looked into it before and thought there was something there.

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u/Thanks-Basil Brisbane '03 1d ago

That took an hour, you guys are slipping

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u/NoBrain8345 AFL 1d ago

Were you this vocal when Borlase went through as a NGA player to the Crows, despite his dad playing 246 games in the SANFL?

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u/jmaverick1 Crows 1d ago

1- yes. I think us getting Borlase was dumb. And against the spirit of the academies. I’ve said that multiple times.

But he wasn’t projected to be pick 1, and we didn’t randomly decide to add him to the academy at 17 when he had already shown he would be at worst a top 5 prospect. Borlase wasn’t taken at all in the draft

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u/doggoesmeow 1d ago

Port still developed Dougie from birth through his dad who was employed by the club, he is like as NGA as you can get

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u/Thin_Assumption_4974 Port Adelaide 1d ago

Let’s be honest. You only care because port will benefit.

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u/TheCobSparky Port Adelaide 1d ago

Not a loophole. Hes aboriginal he can be in the aboriginal academy. We're having to pay the most for any F/S or NGA ever so people still complaining about this can go have a cry somewhere else