2001 AFL Draft...who would have thunked it?

Question

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

1) Hodge - Hawthorn

2) Ball - St Kilda

3) Judd - WCE

4) p***k - Freo

5) Clarke - St Kilda

6) Sampi - WCE

7) Hale - Roos

8) Bartel - Cats

9) Molan - Dees (not playing)

10) Power - WB

11) Cole - Pies (not playing)

12) Reilly - Ade

13) Dal Santo - St Kilda

14) Watson - Roos (not playing)

15) Brooks - St Kilda (not playing)

16) Ladson Hawks

17) James Kelly - Cats

other notable names are

36) Sam Mitchell - Hawks

37) Montagna - St Kilda

56) Medhurst - Freo

58) Swan - Pies

Your thoughts....especially the clubs who missed out on the top 10

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Answer 1

Awesome list there - with the amount of drafts St Kilda got, Im suprised they didnt win a flag (although they did improve somewhat).

I agree with Romper, glaring omission of Richmond in Top 10 draft picks...whats with that?

Answer 2

Yea pretty good.... Hodge, Judd, Bartel etc

Notice that StKilda have or have had 7 of the top 23 in their list and of those 6 are still there. (Ball 2, Clarke 5, Dal Santo 13, Gram 19, Maguire 21 and Gardiner 23. Brooks 14 is the other one... also wanted to point out Brooks was draft to Port and later StKilda)

Plus the Saints have Montagna (Pick #37; as mentioned) and Adam Schneider (Pick #60)

Ash Hansen (pick #38) played for my junior footy club! :D

but then again so did Warwick Capper >.>

I would've also mentioned...

Steve Johnson (pick #24) - yea he has some problems but he's a good footballer

Campbell Brown (#32)

David Rodan (#33) - Come good for the Power! Richmond just has no luck!

Gary Ablett (#40 F/S)

Jarrad Waite (#46 (F/S??)

Adam Schneider (#60)

Brian Lake (Harris; #71)

Answer 3

It was a great draft, there have been none better since then

Answer 4

ONE GLARING FACT  oops, that stands out to me is there are no tiger players, and look at our history over the past few years. wonder why we never had a top 10 pick that year, 2000 we finished 9th, fools must have traded our pick away, 2001 made prelim, beaten by Brisbane who won the flag.

great list though macca, hey well done in our dream team match, i watched it live on the comp, our head to head, 35 points, thought i was goin to get up for a minute, we both lost ablett, my fatefull error was not taking nagle instead of daniher, wasn't sure nagle was playing, made him emerg, daniher 16, neagle 57, would of got ya by 6,  decisions hey, good stuff though mate, now waiting till round 17 for arsenal.

Answer 5

No sign of Sydney on that list and we still got a premiership and another GF appearance as well as the AFL president bagging us out at every turn. Vic got well looked after though....hmmm.....

Answer 6

Very Snazzy list.. I do agree with the swans not bein there and may I add a couple of Swan Brownlows to that list..

I tell ya whos not there... Blues and by geez did they suffer for the following years to come...

Well they got Juddy now with a twist of fate, so lets see if they can work some magic like Hawks and Geelong... oh

Doggies arent there and theyre building a fine 2008 season so far!

Answer 7

wow sammt was no 36 yeah cant balme hodgey being no 1 he is the 08 brownlow medalist

Answer 8

I didn't realise that and boy is that an impressive list!

Thanx for pointing it out to us!

Answer 9

I have no thoughts on the matter.

There are some decent footballers amongst this lot & so there should be - they are top drafts. Plus there are some drop-kicks & some who are not so flash.

Not all kids with ability progress. Some have hearts as big as split peas & wont be any good at whatever they try.

Answer 10

7 Best and Fairests

8 Premiership Players

2 Norm Smith Medalists

2 Brownlow Medalists

3 Current/Former Captains

Not bad at all...

Brian Lake (Harris) was aslo a great pickup in the 70's

Answer 11

Who would have thunked Bartel would be what he is, for example?  Of those at the time, I had my eye on Sampi but it was always obvious where he'd end up.  Ball looked good of course.  I was surprised Dal Santo took so long to go.  Judd I called 'over-rated' ... hmmm ok and I don't run a footy club.

Montagna was a bargain.  Was that father-son or something.