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Was just taking a look at the draft that year.

WOW!!!!

Will it go down as the greatest draft of all time!

Just had a quick look on Wikipedia. Big names.
I sorted the draft by teams and the big winners by far were Geelong, Hawks and Saints. Probably no coincidence that they were the top 3 teams from 2007 through to 2011, when these guys matured. Amazing recruiting.

Too lazy to look it up.. any chance someone can post the draftees?

Isn't it know as the 'Super draft' or something like that?

whufc wrote:Was just taking a look at the draft that year.

WOW!!!!

Will it go down as the greatest draft of all time!

usually much more interesting if you post the link too!


Round Pick Player Recruited from Club
Priority 1 Luke Hodge Geelong Falcons Hawthorn
Priority 2 Luke Ball Sandringham Dragons St Kilda
Priority 3 Chris Judd Sandringham Dragons West Coast Eagles
1 4 Graham Polak East Fremantle Fremantle
1 5 Xavier Clarke St Mary's St Kilda
1 6 Ashley Sampi South Fremantle West Coast Eagles
1 7 David Hale Broadbeach Kangaroos
1 8 Jimmy Bartel Geelong Falcons Geelong
1 9 Luke Molan Geelong Falcons Melbourne
1 10 Sam Power Oakleigh Chargers Western Bulldogs
1 11 Richard Cole Eastern Ranges Collingwood
1 12 Brent Reilly Calder Cannons Adelaide
1 13 Nick Dal Santo Bendigo Pioneers St Kilda
1 14 Ashley Watson Bendigo Pioneers Kangaroos
1 15 Barry Brooks Tassie Mariners Port Adelaide
1 16 Rick Ladson Bendigo Pioneers Hawthorn
1 17 James Kelly Calder Cannons Geelong
1 18 Shane Harvey Northern Knights Essendon
1 19 Jason Gram Gippsland Power Brisbane Lions


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_AFL_Draft

Geez that is a good draft!

Bargains included SJohnson (24), Mitchell (36), Montagna (37), Swan (58) and Lake (71).

Rookie picks included Sandilands, Boyd, Rutten, Carazzo.

Geelong were gifted a lad called GAblett at pick 40 of the draft too.

Definitely the Super draft to this point in time and hard to see it being topped.

Not too bad. Although are they calling an end to footy soon?

number 18,Shane Harvey brother of Brent,another case of geez we hope he can be as good as his bro.

Ron Burgundy wrote:Bargains included SJohnson (24), Mitchell (36), Montagna (37), Swan (58) and Lake (71).

Rookie picks included Sandilands, Boyd, Rutten, Carazzo.

Geelong were gifted a lad called GAblett at pick 40 of the draft too.

Gifted? We paid 50k for that one.

regards,

REB

Richard ******* Cole...

Q. wrote:Richard ******* Cole...

Made up for that in spades with swanny though [THUMBS UP SIGN]

Ron Burgundy wrote:
Geelong were gifted a lad called GAblett at pick 40 of the draft too.

You are correct but from memory he was considered a late first round pick, not projected to become the star of historical significance he has.
Am happy to be corrected though

Crazy to think these blokes have been in the system for best part of 13 years! Time sure flies by!

St Kilda must be ruing the fact that either Hodge or Judd was theirs for the taking and they opted for Ball.

westozfalcon wrote:St Kilda must be ruing the fact that either Hodge or Judd was theirs for the taking and they opted for Ball.

please explain to me how Hodge was theirs for the taking when he was picked before they could have taken him?

the big bang wrote:

westozfalcon wrote:St Kilda must be ruing the fact that either Hodge or Judd was theirs for the taking and they opted for Ball.

please explain to me how Hodge was theirs for the taking when he was picked before they could have taken him?

was thinking the same thing! Judd yes but not Hodge.

westozfalcon wrote:St Kilda must be ruing the fact that either Hodge or Judd was theirs for the taking and they opted for Ball.

Probably, I believe there was some big questions over Judd's shoulders at the time which prevented him going number 1

westozfalcon wrote:St Kilda must be ruing the fact that either Hodge or Judd was theirs for the taking and they opted for Ball.

yes, if the clown factory that is St Kilda had actually let Malcolm coach the club, you would wonder whether he would have had a say in it.