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\u201cI missed it, I was up in my room,\u201d Ludowyke, overcome with emotion, later informed viewers on Fox Footy. <\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, I mean, I didn\u2019t know if I was going (to be picked), so I headed upstairs and just started crying. <\/p>\n
\u201c(But) I just heard all the boys start cheering downstairs and I raced down. <\/p>\n
\u201cI know (I missed it) \u2014 you know what, I don\u2019t care, I\u2019m happy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ludowyke was picked 50th overall by the Crows despite having a Fox Sports Lab rank of 29 \u2014 with Adelaide snaring a bargain to add to its forward brigade. <\/p>\n
The freshly-turned 18-year-old, who began to tear up mid-interview, said of having his family and friends with him during his special moment: \u201cIt means everything. It\u2019s what I\u2019ve worked (towards) for 18 years \u2014 to have it finally come true is the best thing ever. <\/p>\n
Ludowyke added \u201cit will\u201d make him hungrier to achieve his top-level potential after injury issues this year and having to wait until late on day two to have his name called. <\/p>\n
\u201cOne hundred per cent \u2026 Adelaide, thank you. I guess just work as hard as I can (to) prove everyone wrong,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to work as hard as I can, try and get in the team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eagles select Duursma, Duff-Tytler | 02:50<\/p>\n
Ludowyke kicked bags of four and five goals for the Sandringham Dragons and booted five majors across two AFL Academy games against VFL opposition this year. <\/p>\n
Long-time draft guru Kevin \u2018Shifter\u2019 Sheehan spoke glowingly of what Ludowyke had produced this year before being struck down with injury. <\/p>\n
\u201cKicked five in a game earlier this year, and I think everyone would be thinking \u2018he\u2019s a top-10 choice\u2019. He played for the Australian under-18s and was impressive, (he) kicked three and two against VFL opponents,\u201d he said on Fox Footy. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got a bit of Aaron Cadman about him \u2014 lovely size at 197 \u2014 and like many of the kids we\u2019ve talked about for two days, just had injuries when the national championships came up. <\/p>\n
\u201cA couple of games in, hurt himself, and we didn\u2019t see him in the back half of the year. <\/p>\n
\u201cHis aerial ability is pretty special \u2026 there\u2019s a massive upside with this young fellow, and that marking, when you see him mark the ball at the highest point, he\u2019s very, very hard to match up on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When newly-minted Adelaide forward Archie Ludowyke had his name called out at Pick 50 on Thursday night, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[2534,9126,3437,638,64,63,55,639,170155,149276,166609,52536,3231,170159,170157,13483,33348,170158,57266,85,170156],"class_list":{"0":"post-296871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-aaron-cadman","9":"tag-adelaide-crows","10":"tag-aerial-ability","11":"tag-afl","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-australian-football-league","15":"tag-australianfootballleague","16":"tag-boys-start","17":"tag-draft-gun","18":"tag-footy-dreams","19":"tag-fox-sports-lab","20":"tag-jack-jovanovski","21":"tag-long-time-draft-guru","22":"tag-lovely-size","23":"tag-magic-moment","24":"tag-national-draft","25":"tag-room-crying","26":"tag-special-moment","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-young-fellow"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296871","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=296871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}