Adelaide and North Melbourne currently hold two first-round picks in this year’s AFL Draft.
The Crows head into the draft with the prized No.1 pick as well as pick No.9 while the Kangaroos have picks No.2 and No.11 up their sleeve.
With potential No.1 pick Jamarra Ugle-Hagan likely to join the Western Bulldogs through their Next Generation Academy, fellow key position talents Logan McDonald and Riley Thilthorpe are both rated as top-10 draft prospects.
AFL Media reporter Callum Twomey thinks Adelaide and North Melbourne should snap up McDonald and Thilthorpe with their first selections.
“I think the Crows should take Logan McDonald. I think his performances this year as a key forward – he basically dragged Perth into the finals at WAFL level for the first time in nearly 30 years,” Twomey told SEN Breakfast.
“He marks well, he’s a competitor, he kicks goals, he’s a really straight kick – he doesn’t waste his chances to convert, and he’s got a bit of agro inside him.
“I think he’s the best player in it (the draft) apart from Jamarra Ugle-Hagan.
“And then the Roos, I think Riley Thilthorpe is a really good option for them, bearing in mind that the Roos have another pick inside that first 11 or so spots. The Crows also have pick No.9.
“So they’ll be thinking about what they can get with their top two picks and then what they can get with their next two picks.
“If they take a tall early instead of Elijah Hollands, who is also in that pick No.1 and No.2 mix, do they then say, ‘Let’s get a midfielder with our second pick’, which there’s a few more available at that point.”
The 2020 AFL Draft begins on December 7.