1981 Phantom Draft

[footyfan1978]

Same task as previously posted retro-drafts here for 1975 year and onwards.
Simply a fun task to look back in retrospect of all players that would have turned 18 in 1981 that ended up playing in the league then or later (some obviously earlier as there was no actual draft or restrictions of players under 18 not being able to play)

If you followed and watched the VFL in the 1980's you will have some memory of how good some of these footballers were.
Here is the retrospective draft pool of 18 year olds in year 1981:

1963 Born players (retrospective 1981 Draft)
Robertson, Shane
Handley, Darren
Ford, Alister
Barich, Adrian
Hughes, Danny
Pickering, Michael
Thompson, Mark
Wilson, Peter
Dargie, Ian
Brown, Peter
Dickson, Robert
Duursma, Jamie
Wall, Mark
McDermott, Chris
Love, Terry
Thripp, Terry
Atkins, Graeme
Walpole, Gary
MacIlwain, Geoff
Bradley, Craig
Mutimer, Brendan
Christensen, Damien
Knight, Phillip
Evans, Barry
McGrath, Craig
Giffard, Allan
Williams, Greg
Mustey, Trevor
Geary, Richard
MacPherson, Rod
Taylor, John
Yonson, Rudy
Harrington, Tim
Foschini, Silvio
Battiston, Adrian
Matera, Wally
Frawley, Danny
Rugolo, Francesco
Kernahan, Stephen
Davidson, Peter
Lockman, Michael
Daniels, Greg
Larkins, Trevor
Bamblett, Les
Furey, Tony
Kourkoumelis, Spiro
Reynolds, Michael
Winton, Brian
Norman, Rick
Bairstow, Mark
Whittlesea, Gregory
Zychla, Peter
Graham, Andrew
Goodwin, Andy
Harris, Ben
Roos, Paul
OConnell, David
Nichols, Stephen
Capper, Warwick
Watt, Ron
Hein, Neil
Fidge, Ted
Lee, Scott
Petraglia, Angelo
Silvestro, Jim
Dintinosante, Renato
Cleave, Craig
Frangalas, Gary
Ross, Bradley
Grant, Darren
Manton, John
Dear, Greg
Ezard, Alan
Nixon, Ricky
Fyffe, Greg
Simpson, David
Connolly, Chris
Gaghan, Neil
Rickman, Ian
Platten, John
Hughes, Tony
Bolden, Darren
Chilcott, Arthur
Kelly, Tony
Toohey, Bernard
Warhurst, Tom
Eustice, Mark
Osborne, Graham
Sutcliffe, Scott
Egan, Phil
Ogier, Darren
ODonnell, Simon (went on to become cricket one day specialist and part of 1987 World Cup winning side)
Daniher, Anthony
Browne, Murray
Conlan, Greg
Loveridge, Richard
Hughes, Kevin
Dugdale, Dean
Murphy, Fraser
Langford, Chris


Previous Retro-Draft Polls
1975 retro-draft
1976 retro-draft
1977 retro-draft
1978 retro-draft
1979 retro-draft
1980 retro-draft

 

[Monkey King]

One of the better talent pools from this series you've put up. Got some dead set top line talls in Langers, Roos, Sticks & Frawley and top line mids in Platten, Braddles & Bairstow, with the best of them all IMO, Diesel Williams.

 

[RUNVS]

There are some amazing players on that list. Very hard to pick between them.

 

[InFineForm]

One of the better talent pools from this series you've put up. Got some dead set top line talls in Langers, Roos, Sticks & Frawley and top line mids in Platten, Braddles & Bairstow, with the best of them all IMO, Diesel Williams.

Agree - but I hated Diesel too much to ever put him as 1st pick! Amazing footballer to watch.

 

[Amers]

Sticks. KPP over midfielders.

 

[footyfan1978]

Sticks. KPP over midfielders.

Seems in this case the gun mid is wanted slightly more than the gun key forward.
You could not lose with pick 2 or 3 if you were a club after a key position player.
Sticks or Roosy excellent options.