This is a look back at players born in 1981 that played in senior AFL system.
It does not mean they were part of the draft pool in the year of actual 1999 but it does mean that under current AFL conditions since 2009 all the eligible types that turned 18 in that year of 1999 are included if they made their debut at some point.
I did a series of retrospective draft pools last year that I posted here starting with players turning 18 during the year 1975 and each subsequent year the next batch of 18 year olds. This is just a fun task to look back in the time that I been watching football in this league and wondering the quality of players that can be found retrospectively, as if drafts were done the same as they've been done since 2009, which is to have no players younger than 18 at end of that year able to be drafted.
Most of us would have watched football from this period, so feel free to add your own thoughts on players you felt would have been number 1 in the 1999 retro-draft and the following years.
This particular one of players born in 1981 for a retro-draft of 1999 seems to me to have some serious deep quality in first 20 to 30 picks and seems a rare pool where tall players may be the ones considered more for the early picks and not a pool where it was to get the best mids. In fact it is probably a pool down on options for gun midifelders. Dean Cox, Matthew Pavlich and Johnathon Brown just some of the very worthy candidates to be considered for number one pick from this retrospective draft pool. In this type of draft you might not be fussed if you were pick number 5 as every chance at pick 5 some serious quality as good as pick one could be picked up.
Also seems like players for just about every role on field that could be hand picked by a club short in one area and get an elite player for that role in round one of such a draft. However if you wanted to grab exciting midfielders this may actually been one of weakest midfielder pools I seen in this series.
Here is the retrospective draft pool of 18 year olds in year 1999:
1981 Born players (retrospective 1999 Draft)
Pavlich, Matthew
Tuck, Shane
Schwarze, Troy
Rooke, Max
McCarthy, Matthew
Medhurst, Paul
McPharlin, Luke
Thurley, Cameron
Cunningham, Ben
Jolly, Darren
Chapman, Paul
Brown, Jonathan
Johnson, Brett
Johnson, David
Morgan, Adam
Shaw, Rhyce
LeCras, Brent
Kenna, Stephen
Stone, Nick
Ferguson, Ryan
Enright, Corey
Shir, Matthew
Podsiadly, James
Bruton, Nicholas
Bowden, Patrick
Cox, Dean
Hargrave, Ryan
Clark, Michael
Doyle, Stephen
Gilbee, Lindsay
Kennelly, Tadhg
Haynes, Ben
Embley, Andrew
Fixter, Ben
Bateman, Chance
Mills, Andrew
Hunter, Adam
Davis, Leon
Hazell, Tim
Hasleby, Paul
Haynes, David
Rawlings, Brady
Hille, David
Copeland, Robert
Glass, Darren
Hahn, Mitch
Teague, David
Harding, Leigh
Mott, Ricky
Fiora, Aaron
Pickering, Adam
Wheatley, Paul
Haines, Daniel
Johnson, Ben
Dragicevic, Marc
Gaspar, Travis
McCormick, Jonathon
Poyas, Ezra
Blake, Jason
Green, Brad
Lamb, Chris
Ling, Cameron
Jones, Corey
Loats, David
Simpson, Dwayne
Clayton, Jeremy
Wiggins, Patrick
Penny, Luke
McGregor, Ken
Haddrill, Robert
McVeigh, Mark
Spriggs, David
O'Keefe, Ryan
Headland, Des
Longmuir, Justin
Fevola, Brendan
Morrison, Shane
Adkins, Damien
Rix, Michael
Nicholls, Bill
Previous Retro-Draft Polls
1975 retro-draft
1976 retro-draft
1977 retro-draft
1978 retro-draft
1979 retro-draft
1980 retro-draft
1981 retro-draft
1982 retro-draft
1983 retro-draft
1984 retro-draft
1985 retro-draft
1986 retro-draft
1987 retro-draft
1988 retro-draft
1989 retro-draft
1990 retro-draft
1991 retro-draft
1992 retro-draft
1993 retro-draft
1994 retro-draft
1995 retro-draft
1996 retro-draft
1997 retro-draft
1998 retro-draft
It does not mean they were part of the draft pool in the year of actual 1999 but it does mean that under current AFL conditions since 2009 all the eligible types that turned 18 in that year of 1999 are included if they made their debut at some point.
I did a series of retrospective draft pools last year that I posted here starting with players turning 18 during the year 1975 and each subsequent year the next batch of 18 year olds. This is just a fun task to look back in the time that I been watching football in this league and wondering the quality of players that can be found retrospectively, as if drafts were done the same as they've been done since 2009, which is to have no players younger than 18 at end of that year able to be drafted.
Most of us would have watched football from this period, so feel free to add your own thoughts on players you felt would have been number 1 in the 1999 retro-draft and the following years.
This particular one of players born in 1981 for a retro-draft of 1999 seems to me to have some serious deep quality in first 20 to 30 picks and seems a rare pool where tall players may be the ones considered more for the early picks and not a pool where it was to get the best mids. In fact it is probably a pool down on options for gun midifelders. Dean Cox, Matthew Pavlich and Johnathon Brown just some of the very worthy candidates to be considered for number one pick from this retrospective draft pool. In this type of draft you might not be fussed if you were pick number 5 as every chance at pick 5 some serious quality as good as pick one could be picked up.
Also seems like players for just about every role on field that could be hand picked by a club short in one area and get an elite player for that role in round one of such a draft. However if you wanted to grab exciting midfielders this may actually been one of weakest midfielder pools I seen in this series.
Here is the retrospective draft pool of 18 year olds in year 1999:
1981 Born players (retrospective 1999 Draft)
Pavlich, Matthew
Tuck, Shane
Schwarze, Troy
Rooke, Max
McCarthy, Matthew
Medhurst, Paul
McPharlin, Luke
Thurley, Cameron
Cunningham, Ben
Jolly, Darren
Chapman, Paul
Brown, Jonathan
Johnson, Brett
Johnson, David
Morgan, Adam
Shaw, Rhyce
LeCras, Brent
Kenna, Stephen
Stone, Nick
Ferguson, Ryan
Enright, Corey
Shir, Matthew
Podsiadly, James
Bruton, Nicholas
Bowden, Patrick
Cox, Dean
Hargrave, Ryan
Clark, Michael
Doyle, Stephen
Gilbee, Lindsay
Kennelly, Tadhg
Haynes, Ben
Embley, Andrew
Fixter, Ben
Bateman, Chance
Mills, Andrew
Hunter, Adam
Davis, Leon
Hazell, Tim
Hasleby, Paul
Haynes, David
Rawlings, Brady
Hille, David
Copeland, Robert
Glass, Darren
Hahn, Mitch
Teague, David
Harding, Leigh
Mott, Ricky
Fiora, Aaron
Pickering, Adam
Wheatley, Paul
Haines, Daniel
Johnson, Ben
Dragicevic, Marc
Gaspar, Travis
McCormick, Jonathon
Poyas, Ezra
Blake, Jason
Green, Brad
Lamb, Chris
Ling, Cameron
Jones, Corey
Loats, David
Simpson, Dwayne
Clayton, Jeremy
Wiggins, Patrick
Penny, Luke
McGregor, Ken
Haddrill, Robert
McVeigh, Mark
Spriggs, David
O'Keefe, Ryan
Headland, Des
Longmuir, Justin
Fevola, Brendan
Morrison, Shane
Adkins, Damien
Rix, Michael
Nicholls, Bill
Previous Retro-Draft Polls
1975 retro-draft
1976 retro-draft
1977 retro-draft
1978 retro-draft
1979 retro-draft
1980 retro-draft
1981 retro-draft
1982 retro-draft
1983 retro-draft
1984 retro-draft
1985 retro-draft
1986 retro-draft
1987 retro-draft
1988 retro-draft
1989 retro-draft
1990 retro-draft
1991 retro-draft
1992 retro-draft
1993 retro-draft
1994 retro-draft
1995 retro-draft
1996 retro-draft
1997 retro-draft
1998 retro-draft
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