Will there ever be a draft as good as 2001

[yibbida]

2001 has definitely earned the right to be considered the best ever. But I reckon 2008 is a decent chance to be spoken about in the same vein (not suggesting it will be better) but at least good enough to be comparable. Have a feeling though that the 2001 midfielders will be superior (can't imagine better top end midfielders than this draft) and the 2008 talls might be a little better, but its still so early that the initial assessment could be way off. Certainly no other year after 2001 has come close.

2008 would be the closest out of other years. Still 2001 is better.

Have a look at the rookie list from 2008! (btw -Hawks and Freo did very nicely from this rookie draft!)

 

[harliquin]

On average each draft should eventually produce 1 Brownlow Medal, 1 Norm Smith, 1 Coleman and 22 Premiership medals.

How do you figure that?

 

[Forward Press]

How do you figure that?

You have 1 draft every year. You have 1 Brownlow medallist every year etc.

 

[QS]

Just looked up who Melbourne got that year. Luke Molan, Steven Armstrong, Aaron Rogers, Brad Miller. Somehow I'm not surprised.

Armstrong won a flag.. with us.

 

[Watson_my_mind]

I reckon a 2001 Draft best 22 would defeat a rest of the competition combined 22 it is that good. Except keyforward stakes may be a bit weak, the defense is strong, the midfield is unbelievable

In fact, with Sandilands they would smash them

 

[Ed_Gein]

Would love to know who the Swans would have considered taking from the draft. We traded off picks 14 and 17 to get Barry Hall who in hindsight was easily worth every bit as a Judd, Hodge, Ball to us who were taken with the first 3 picks.

 

[yaco55]

Think the 94 draft is under-rated - Many played 150/200 games from that draft.

 

[Bluelegs]

Armstrong won a flag.. with us.

Legend of the game.

 

[Rushed_Behind]

Think the 94 draft is under-rated - Many played 150/200 games from that draft.

personally i reckon the 99 draft is better than what it is given credit for especially if you look deep, there are some beauties in it.

 

[WCEbrody]

Legend of the game.

Greatest single goal ever kicked in a grand final , i actually had totally forgot about him..what happened to his career after the 06 premiership?

 

[The Speaker]

Think the 94 draft is under-rated - Many played 150/200 games from that draft.

Perhaps we should be eagerly awaiting the 2015 draft, then...

 

[Bluelegs]

Greatest single goal ever kicked in a grand final , i actually had totally forgot about him..what happened to his career after the 06 premiership?

I'm guessing that when West Coast bottomed out they wanted to make space for some young talent.

 

[themidlandmaster]

2001 draft team
B: Rutten Lake Brown
HB: Hodge Bock Carazzo
C: Bartel Swan Dal Santo
HF: Ball Lynch Ablett
F: Johnson Waite Schneider
R: Sandilands Mitchell Judd

Int/Other: Kelly, Montagna, Boyd, Hale, Jamar, Seaby, Reilly, Ladson, Gram, Maguire, Thornton, Mattner, Rodan, Roberts-Thompson, Medhurst... plus plenty of others who had reasonable careers. Underlined are All Australians.

Seriously doubt we'll ever see that much quality out of one draft again. Midfield depth is just ridiculous and backline isn't far behind

A 2008 comparison:

B: Suckling, Davis, Yarran
HB: Watts, Keefe, Shiels
C: Sloane, Hannebery, Shuey
HF: Zaharakis, Hurley, Hill
F: Bruest Jurrah Ballantyne
R: Naitanui, Beams, Rich
Int/ Others: Shoenmakers, Broughton, Banfield, Garlett, De Boer, McKenzie, Jurrah, Picken, Savage, Vickery, Hartlett, Ziebull, Rockliff, Robinson, Trengove, Redden,sidebottom

Underlined are Round 8-10 2012 equal intercept mark leaders

 

[Lionheart182]

Missed Jack Redden in that '08 team

 

[Final Siren]

Yeah, nice move of the Tigers to sit out the 2001 draft. We went in with pick #33 and then a few in the 60s.

 

[Hard_to_Beat]

2008 will be better.

 

[billyboutsis]

2008 has the better spread of talent. Was funnily considered to be a not so strong draft at the time from memory.

 

[Wallaby]

The 97 draft was fairly good - every one of the top 10 played 130+ games, (7 of the 10 played 200+) so no duds, but lacks the absolute stars. Best players were outside the Top 10, however - Black, Goodes, Scarlett.
A quick look reveals 3 Brownlows, Premiership captain (VanDenBurg) and the usual good handful of premiership players.

 

[Richard Jones]

The 2001 draft is by far the greatest draft of all time.

 

[Forward Press]

I'm guessing that when West Coast bottomed out they wanted to make space for some young talent.

Not really - he turned out to be quite erratic and not that good in the end.

Delisted at the grand old age of 24. Despite being used up forward, never averaged more than a goal a game, and never averaged more than 16 touches in a year either.

 

[Jars458]

2001 draft team
B: Rutten Lake Brown
HB: Hodge Bock Carazzo
C: Bartel Swan Dal Santo
HF: Ball Lynch Ablett
F: Johnson Waite Schneider
R: Sandilands Mitchell Judd

Int/Other: Kelly, Montagna, Boyd, Hale, Jamar, Seaby, Reilly, Ladson, Gram, Maguire, Thornton, Mattner, Rodan, Roberts-Thompson, Medhurst... plus plenty of others who had reasonable careers. Underlined are All Australians.

Seriously doubt we'll ever see that much quality out of one draft again. Midfield depth is just ridiculous and backline isn't far behind

Rutten Bock and Mattner were all rookies. One we kept, one we gave away and one was stolen. Our club has done pretty well really wihtout bottoming out, having some bad luck with top ten picsks, and being pillaged by the Suns and the Giants.

 

[themidlandmaster]

Missed Jack Redden in that '08 team

Knew I'd miss somebody... Redden, Rockliff, Rich, it's as bad as Hawthorn

 

[hoddo22]

The 97 draft was fairly good - every one of the top 10 played 130+ games, (7 of the 10 played 200+) so no duds, but lacks the absolute stars. Best players were outside the Top 10, however - Black, Goodes, Scarlett.
A quick look reveals 3 Brownlows, Premiership captain (VanDenBurg) and the usual good handful of premiership players.

In which bizzaro, parallel universe did this happen???

 

[Big Kahuna Boot]

2001 draft team
B: Rutten Lake Brown
HB: Hodge Bock Carazzo
C: Bartel Swan Dal Santo
HF: Ball Lynch Ablett
F: Johnson Waite Schneider
R: Sandilands Mitchell Judd

Int/Other: Kelly, Montagna, Boyd, Hale, Jamar, Seaby, Reilly, Ladson, Gram, Maguire, Thornton, Mattner, Rodan, Roberts-Thompson, Medhurst... plus plenty of others who had reasonable careers. Underlined are All Australians.

Seriously doubt we'll ever see that much quality out of one draft again. Midfield depth is just ridiculous and backline isn't far behind

2005 draft

Murphy
Thomas
Ellis
Kennedy
Pendlebury
Ryder
Clarke
Higgins
Jones
Hurn
Birchall
Varcoe
Bailey [what if in regards to if he were injury free - huge talent]
West
Vince
Warnock
Swallow
Carlile
Patfull
Stokes


Rookies

Toovey
Hocking
Priddis
McGlynn
Jack

..reckon there's plenty of quality to choose a very strong team out of..

 

[Doss]

^^ Dempsey was also a very solid get for us from the 2005 draft.