Essendon's Greatest Draft Year

What year will prove to be the greatest in Essendon's recent history?


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2002
Draft selection: 10, Jason Laycock
Draft selection: 11, Jason Winderlich
Draft selection: 27, Darren Walsh
Draft selection: 28, Tristan Cartledge
Draft selection: 40, Jobe Watson Father/Son Rule
Draft selection: 67, Steve Alessio from Essendon

2003
Draft selection: 6, Kepler Bradley
Draft selection: 13, Brent Stanton
Draft selection: 28, Jay Nash
Draft selection: 44, Ricky Dyson
Rookie: Nathan Lovett-Murray
Rookie: Andrew Lovett
Rookie elevation: Courtney Johns
Rookie elevation: Ben Haynes

2004
Pre season: 6, Ty Zantuck
Draft Selection: 14, Angus Monfries
Draft Selection: 30, Andrew Lee
Draft Selection: 46, Henry Slattery
Draft Selection: 60, Paul Thomas
Rookie: 11, Ryan Bain
Rookie: 27, Ben Jolley

2005
Draft Selection: 7, Patrick Ryder
Draft Selection: 19, Courtenay Dempsey
Draft Selection: 39, Jay Neagle father/son selection
Draft Selection: 50, Sam Lonergan
Draft Selection: 66, Austin Lucy
Rookie: 4, Lachlan McKinnon
Rookie: 20, Heath Hocking
Rookie: 35, Matthew Firman
Rookie: 47, Tim O’Keefe
Rookie elevation: Nathan Lovett-Murray
Rookie elevation: Andrew Lovett
Pre Season: 4, Scott Camporeale
Pre Season: 16, Chris Heffernan
Trade: Richard Cole

2006
Draft Selection: 2, Scott Gumbleton
Draft Selection: 18, Leroy Jetta
Draft Selection: 20, Tom Hislop
Draft Selection: 36, Alwyn Davey
Draft Selection: 42, Bachar Houli
Draft Selection: 47, Kyle Reimers
Rookie: 2, Dean Dick
Rookie: 18, Danny Chartres
Rookie: 33, Adam Ramanauskas
Pre Season: 2, Mal Michael

2007
Draft Selection: 6, David Myers
Draft Selection: 23, Tayte Pears
Draft Selection: 39, Darcy Daniher father/son selection
Draft Selection: 54, Cale Hooker
Pre Season: 5, John Williams
Pre Season: 8, Tom Bellchambers
Rookie elevation: Adam Ramanauskas
Rookie elevation: Heath Hocking
Rookie: 5, Rhys Magin
Rookie: 21, Jarrod Atkinson


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Clearly 2004 :rolleyes:

Edit: Should have noted I went for 2005 due to my player bias, but 2006 was great as well. Now if only we can get Gumby onto the park...
 

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I voted 06 with 05 a very close second.

07 shouldn't be in there. Way too early. Could turn out real good with a Full Back, some classy mids and some talls.
 

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I voted 06 with 05 a very close second.

07 shouldn't be in there. Way too early. Could turn out real good with a Full Back, some classy mids and some talls.
Its really too early to tell how the 06 draft went too, yet its leading the pack. I assume people are voting on potential and not on results with this one.
 

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I went 03,
Standton, Dyson key midfielders of the future.
Nash is my favourite player :)
Johns wasn't given enough games in a row to show how good he can be.

WTF happened to Haynes though?
I've always wondered, because the few games I saw him play he was wonderful.
 

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Lovett and Natrat should be included in 2003, as that was when they were drafted to the club.

On potential 05 and 06 are very close, and could form the core to our next tilt at a premiership (07 is too early to tell).

2003 would be the best so far, as longy said, on performance. Stanton, Dyson, Nash, Lovett, Lovett-Murray have all play a fair few games with good performances mixed in.
 

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Its really too early to tell how the 06 draft went too, yet its leading the pack. I assume people are voting on potential and not on results with this one.
"What year will prove to be the greatest in Essendon's recent history?"
Yeah, the idea was to vote on what you thought WILL be the best draft, not on results so far.
 
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