In a game filled with stars, how do you separate out those that shine the brightest?

Adam and Joe hand out their superstar status for the class of 2024. Who makes the cut? Who do you think should have get a jacket?

Plus have the pre-season games changed your mind about the prospects of any club this year?

It's probably the best time of the year to be wrong, but doesn't it feel amazing to be right!

Badges handed out left, right and centre on this pod for the team the boys are most excited, nervous or intrigued about.

The boys go through the final nine teams including:

- Essendon 2:14

- Hawthorn 18:30

- North Melbourne 28:13

- Geelong 38:04

- St Kilda 50:55

- Adelaide 1:05:58

- Western Bulldogs 1:22:31

- Port Adelaide 1:36:43

- Fremantle 1:53:46

The time capsule is now complete in podcast form - how right were the boys in terms of ladder prediction, number of wins and the players to watch?

Is it that time already? Season 2024 is sneaking up on us like Heath Shaw on Nick Riewoldt in a Grand Final, so Adam and Joe begin their season preview looking at what lies ahead and the players who need to be in the spotlight (if they're not already).

Who will they deem the teams they are:

- Most excited about?

- Most nervous about?

- Most intrigued about?

In this pod: Sydney (3:36), Melbourne (19:08), Brisbane (30:47), Carlton (44:52), Gold Coast (57:33), Richmond (1:06:54), GWS (1:17:25), Collingwood (1:28:09), West Coast (1:41:31).

It's a time capsule podcast - how right were the boys in terms of ladder prediction, number of wins and the players to watch?

Summer is almost here and for many of us, there's a few months off before the next AFL season roars back into life - but there's plenty left to ponder heading into 2024.

Who got what they needed in the AFL National Draft? Is there a clear strategy for clubs like Richmond? Did West Coast play it safe by holding on to their first round picks in the 2023 and 2024 draft?

Plus what's the solution to the grumbling around the NGA and father son picks? Some clubs have more than raised their eyebrows after the Suns were able to secure their four NGA prospects in the first round of the draft, but there's been little mention of how many father/son picks Collingwood had in their Premiership winning side this year.

Also a bg thank you to everyone who tuned in at some stage throughout this season. Your support is invaluable.

What will West Coast do - hold or trade #1? And can they get back into the first round? And will the top pick of the Class of 2023, be like Nick Riewoldt, and top the class of 2000 in 20 years time?

The boys look at the ramifications of the lead up to this year's draft by also taking a look back at the 2000 AFL Draft. Nick Riewoldt is in a rare class of his own as going as the #1 pick and then being redrafted as the #1.

Adam Cooney was the prized #1 selection in the 2003 draft and went on to win a Brownlow, but does he go #1 20 years later? Adam and Joe take a look back at the draft, as well as discover a few of the lessons clubs learned two decades ago which may still be relevant today.

At the end of the 2005 AFL Season, the Swans are celebrating a drought-breaking premiership, but at the draft that's to follow, a young Scott Pendlebury makes it on to an AFL list and sets in motion a career that is now destined for elevation to Legend status in the AFL Hall of Fame.

But who else goes in the top 5 of the class of '05? Adam and Joe try to reshuffle the picks and reassign the first round.

As West Coast's list management team fields offers for the top pick in the 2023 draft, the lessons from 2001 draft loom large when their cross town rivals Fremantle traded the top pick to Hawthorn.

Adam and Joe revisit the 2001 'Superdraft' and try to rearrange the vast array of talent, while delving into lessons key lessons from the first round. Who's nailed it and who should have their picks again?

The trade period is done, as all attention turns to the AFL draft.

But who's improved their list, who's regressed and who's stayed the same? The boys go through all 18 clubs.

Plus does trade period need to be condensed or turned into a larger window like other codes?

The trade period has thrown up an early flurry of activity, but who's cooking and brewing something that could detonate the final few days?

It could be Melbourne having seen James Harmes, Brodie Grundy and James Jordan all depart, with only Tom Fullarton arriving. They still have a chronic need for a power forward.

And with several key deals yet to be done, the boys look at who actually has the leverage?