Ogilvie told The Advertiser after night one.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cWe always thought he was seriously going to be in the mix for Essendon.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith Marshy, we think there\u2019s big scope for him to still improve and we\u2019re only scratching the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n
PILE ON! Father-son draftee swarmed | 05:07<\/p>\n
While Sharp grew up an Essendon supporter, Marsh is an Adelaide Crows man through and through. The son of 1998 premiership Crow Ben, Marsh is a season-ticker holder at West Lakes and a groundskeeper at the Adelaide Oval.<\/p>\n
The young gun, who booted 12 goals in the National Championships and 30 in 15 games for West Adelaide, has the ability to play across all three lines on the ground and will help to \u201cfuture-proof\u201d Adelaide\u2019s rising side.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a cracking kid\u2026 he had to carry a big load in that Westies team and didn\u2019t shirk it,\u201d Ogilvie said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got a great attitude to work and is such a good runner for a tall kid.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Picking him) really helps to future-proof for whatever happens, even if it\u2019s injury.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pick No.1! Duursma becomes an Eagle | 04:17<\/p>\n
Speaking to Fox Footy immediately after being drafted, Marsh said it was \u201cunreal\u201d to land at the club he grew up supporting.<\/p>\n
\u201cGrowing up going for the Crows my whole life, my old man played for them as well, being able to get drafted here is unreal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Marsh, who models his game off Geelong superstar Jeremy Cameron, said his dad Ben had been a key influence in his footy journey.<\/p>\n
\u201cDad\u2019s obviously been a huge influence throughout my whole life with his experience and the knowledge he\u2019s been able to give me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The 2025 Telstra AFL Draft continues tonight on Fox Footy and Kayo Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide made a stunning draft night play in an attempt to land South Australian star Dyson Sharp, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[9126,638,64,63,689,55,24916,639,169292,169562,15832,169559,169289,150057,1127,2105,168486,2536,3417,12141,38311,647,18092,3453,677,164624,169560,1124,85,169561,16702,660,7067,16710],"class_list":["post-295577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-adelaide-crows","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australian-star","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-blues-father-son-draftee","tag-crow-ben","tag-draft-picks","tag-draft-talent","tag-father-son-draftee","tag-footy-journey","tag-fox-footy","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-hamish-ogilvie","tag-harry-dean","tag-jacob-farrow","tag-jeremy-cameron","tag-kayo-sports","tag-melbourne","tag-midfield-stocks","tag-mitch-marsh","tag-oceania","tag-recruiting-boss","tag-season-ticker-holder","tag-south-australia","tag-sports","tag-stunning-draft-night","tag-taylor-walker","tag-victoria","tag-west-coast-eagles","tag-west-lakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}