2001 Draft
Trent Croad & Luke McPharlin for Pick 1, 20 and 36
Troy Simmonds & Jeff Farmer for Daniel Bandy and Pick 17
Heath Black (to St Kilda) for Pick 17
Daniel Schell (to Adelaide) for Peter Vardy (Melbourne)
Graham Polak - Pick 4
Andrew Browne - Pick 52
Paul Medhurst - Pick 56
Pretty piss poor performance really. Yeah Heath Black eventually came back to Freo and Luke McPharlin and Jeff Farmer played at the club for years but really.............. Croad? Simmonds? Polak? Medhurst? Where are they now? Elsewhere. What did we get for them? Future years will show that we didn't get what we should've.
Players missed out on - James Kelly, Dane Swan, Jimmy Bartel, Luke Hodge, Luke Ball, Chris Judd, Steve Johnson, Nick Dal Santo
2002 Draft
Leigh Brown (to Roos) for Pick 13
Adam McPhee (to Essendon) for Pick 55
Des Headland for Pick 3 and 19
Byron Schammer - Pick 13
Greg Edgcumbe - Pick 48
Ryan Crowley - Pick 55
Brett Doswell - Pick 63
Rookie Elevations - Aaron Sandilands, Roger Hayden and Andrew Siegert
Well really, what can be said here? We traded with the full intention of trying to make finals. Fancy farewelling a couple of then promising youngsters in Brown and McPhee. Has Des Headland delivered? Sure, he's played some good games but nowhere near enough to justify the Pick 3 (Jarred Brennan) and Pick 19 (Troy Selwood). As for drafting, well 2 good players in Crowley and Schammer but 2 players who never played a game. The Rookie elevations saw a couple of gems in Sandilands and Hayden
Who we missed out on - Jarrad McVeigh, Nick Malceski, Jarred Brennan
2003 Draft
Trent Croad (to Hawthorn) for Pick 10
Steven Koops (to Dogs) for Pick 19
Ryley Dunn - Pick 10
Ryan Murphy - Pick 12
David Mundy - Pick 19
Adam Campbell - Pick 27
Brett Peake - Pick 43
Michael Johnson - Pick 8 PSD
Rookie Elevations - Daniel Gilmore, Luke Webster
In terms of players drafted this was one of the better drafts. Picking up Mundy, Campbell (though has never fulfilled potential), Murphy (similar to Campbell) Peake and Johnson was good. The one though that makes me go WTF is Croad for Dunn essentially. I mean that'd be the worst decision I've ever come across
Players we missed out on - Amon Buchanen
2004 Draft
Josh Carr for Pick 11, 27 and 45
Troy Simmonds for Heath Black
Benet Copping - Pick 59
Toby Stribling - Pick 67
Daniel Haines - Pick 69
Jarrad Schofield - Pick 5 PSD
Rookie Elevation - Steven Dodd, Dylan Smith
Cry me a river. Seriously, of all the drafts that you could mess up, this would be the worst of all time. There is no way whatsoever that a player is worth 3 draft picks and the fact that we gave up 3 draft picks, shows how pathetic Connolly and Schwab really were. Carr has since returned to Port Adelaide and this would go down as one of the worst drafts. We picked up no-one that has contributed to the Freo cause, except for medical bills.
Players we missed out on - Nathan Van Berlo
2005 Draft
Marcus Drum - Pick 10
Garrock Ibbotson - Pick 26
Robert Warnock - Pick 42
Rookie Draft - Paul Duffield (Pick 7) and Toby Stribling (Pick 23)
Seriously, this is a drafting effort that almost comes out 50/50. Ibbotson and Duffield have been gems, Drum has since fallen out with Mark Harvey and Warnock chased the big bucks at Carlton. Overall, can't read too much into this particular draft
Players we missed out on -
2006 Draft
Chris Tarrant for Paul Medhurst and Pick 8
Graham Polak and Pick 13 (to Richmond) for Pick 8
Clayton Collard - Pick 31
Brock O'Brien - Pick 52
Calib Mourish - Pick 77
Rookie Draft - Andrew Foster (Pick 28), Chris Smith (Pick 13), Darren Rumble (Pick 42), Benet Copping (Pick 53)
This was the last Schwab/Connolly draft and really you've gotta wonder. Trading away a KPP like Polak, seriously WTF is with that? Trading a player and top 10 pick for Chris Tarrant. No player is worth that. As for the draft picks, absolute rubbish all round.
Players we missed out on - Kurt Tippett, Alwyn Davey, Lindsay Thomas, Josh Hill
Now, amoung all that waffle that I've just written, you quickly come to the realisation as to why we're currently in the shithouse. We have no depth as a result of all those picks traded away for players that haven't always delivered. Also the common theme is the lack of drafting of KPP players. This has set us back many, many years.
Mark Harvey has started to correct this horrible situation but really we're a long way away. I hope that people look at this before making ill-informed comments on the Fremantle Football Club and their current predicament