Worst Draft Pick Ever?

[Cat In A Hat]

My contribution is:

1990 #1 Steven Hooper (Geelong) - should be retiring from Geelong now aged in low 30s after successful career but never made an impact.

 

[The Passenger]

I reckon for the Eagles it would be Brandon Hill.

#10 in 1998/99 from memory and didnt' even play a game for us.

 

[nonchalance]

Daniel McAlister for the Bombers.

 

[itsintheblood]

NO WAY

ANTHONY BANIK AT NUMBER ONE IN THE 80'S FOR RICHMOND TOPS THE LOT

How many number one picks have failed as badly as this guy??

 

[Mark Viduka]

1989 Draft. #3 Jody Arnol. The same draft Peter Matera was taken at #4. I think Arnol played about 10 games for St Kilda and was never sighted again.

 

[Fall Out Boy]

Originally posted by Cat In A Hat
My contribution is:

1990 #1 Steven Hooper (Geelong) - should be retiring from Geelong now aged in low 30s after successful career but never made an impact.

This alone proves that you aren't legitimate. A Geelong fan wouldn't call Hooper a bad draft pick, given they'd know the situation surrounding his career.

 

[gofaz18]

LUKE LIVINGSTON. he went high not sure exactly how high but his been a dud and has not shown a thing cant even get a game for carlton last season when they were a team of duds. Not a hope of getting a game after all the off season aquisitions carlton have made.

 

[Fall Out Boy]

Our worst pick was the space cadet, Leigh Brockman, at #8 back in about 1996.

Passed up Nathan Brown in the process.

 

[ok.crows]

Angwin.

 

[Cat In A Hat]

Re: Re: Worst Draft Pick Ever?

Originally posted by phatandphreaky
This alone proves that you aren't legitimate. A Geelong fan wouldn't call Hooper a bad draft pick, given they'd know the situation surrounding his career.

The fact is he did nothing for Geelong and they wasted a pick on him.

 

[Fall Out Boy]

Originally posted by gofaz18
LUKE LIVINGSTON. he went high not sure exactly how

Pick 4.

 

[Fall Out Boy]

Re: Re: Re: Worst Draft Pick Ever?

Originally posted by Cat In A Hat
The fact is he did nothing for Geelong and they wasted a pick on him.

The bloke retired a freaking cripple. He was a great draft pick, circumstances didn't allow him to prove as much.

 

[Mark Viduka]

Re: Re: Re: Worst Draft Pick Ever?

Originally posted by Cat In A Hat
The fact is he did nothing for Geelong and they wasted a pick on him.

I wouldnt say he did nothing..... I remember him kicking a ball out from Fullback in a certain Grand Final straight to Peter Sumich who touched it onto Tony Evans who kicked it back over O'Reilly's head to bury Geelong. For that I will always remember him

 

[Zeke]

Originally posted by phatandphreaky
Our worst pick was the space cadet, Leigh Brockman, at #8 back in about 1996.

Passed up Nathan Brown in the process.

I went to school with Leigh, and I was baffled that he got drafted to any AFL club.

 

[tdubfleet]

Troy Johnson, Brisbane Bears 1995 from memory.

Didn't play a senior game, spent the first 1/2 of the year playing at West Brisbane. Upon being dragged before 1/2 time, stormed off into the change rooms, stole $200 and returned to Perth.

 

[Mark Viduka]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Worst Draft Pick Ever?

Originally posted by phatandphreaky
The bloke retired a freaking cripple. He was a great draft pick, circumstances didn't allow him to prove as much.

Even better.. he retired a cripple at Fremantle

 

[BlueBoy83]

Originally posted by gofaz18
LUKE LIVINGSTON. he went high not sure exactly how high but his been a dud and has not shown a thing cant even get a game for carlton last season when they were a team of duds. Not a hope of getting a game after all the off season aquisitions carlton have made.

Utter BS

He;s been in the best for the bullants all season, he's still only 20, has plenty of time to make an impact. he's 190cm and 90 odd kilos, so he's a developing kpp. we didnt really make ne kpp entries to our team, and norman and thornton are doing a good job down back for us atm. He has been emergency for past couple of weeks. He'll get a go and you'll see he can be a good player.

Get ur facts together b4 u judge him!!!

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Originally posted by itsintheblood
NO WAY

ANTHONY BANIK AT NUMBER ONE IN THE 80'S FOR RICHMOND TOPS THE LOT

How many number one picks have failed as badly as this guy??

disagree.the kid had talent we just couldnt afford to give him that time he needed to settle.was thrown to the wolves so to speak.

cheers!

 

[Mark Viduka]

Actually the 1989 draft was an absolute SHOCKER. Here are some of the noticeable missed draftpicks from that year.

http://www.comcen.com.au/~weaver/draft89.html

Player Recruited By Recruited From Games
1. Anthony Banik Richmond Won Wron Woodside 49
2. Mathew Croft Footscray Mildura (VCFL) 43+
3. Jody Arnol St Kilda North Hobart 13
4. Peter Matera West Coast South Fremantle 150+
5. Brad Rowe Brisbane East Fremantle 14
6. Mark Brayshaw Nth Melbourne Claremont 32
7. Stephan Edgar Carlton East Fremantle 14
8. Brad Tunbridge Sydney East Fremantle 50
9. Dale Kickett Fitzroy Claremont 15
10. Daryl Groves Collingwood Maryborough (VCFL) 0
11. Darren Smith Essendon Port Adelaide 0
12. Gavin Wanganeen Essendon Port Adelaide 126
14. Ben Allan Hawthorn Claremont 98
29. Wayne Campbell Richmond Golden Square (VCFL) 119+
33. Shaun Hart Brisbane Shepparton Utd (VCFL) 101+
59. Daniel Frawley Geelong Wangaratta 0
64. Tony Evans West Coast Claremont 89+
70. Paul Williams Collingwood North Hobart 113+
92. Brett Heady West Coast Subiaco 119+
112. Ashley McIntosh West Coast Claremont 111+

50 of the first 80 picks did not even play a single senior game!

 

[itsintheblood]

Originally posted by tiger of old
disagree.the kid had talent we just couldnt afford to give him that time he needed to settle.was thrown to the wolves so to speak.

cheers!

So are most number ones these days tiger. Look at cooney, Hodge, reiwoldt, johnston, all playing good footy.

No excuses

The kid was a dud and coudnt cut it.

 

[Ralph Wiggum]

For Carlton, Murray Vance! Taken at #6 ...luckily Fevola was taken with our next pic, much lower. Don`t know why this dud was rated so highly. To short and slow for a KPP.

Livingston will develop into a pretty good KPP, a lot of tall defenders take a few years to come on. I think Carlton should persist at least for another year or so, with him.

 

[Adrian Shelton]

Essendon virtually wasted a pick at no. 11 one year with Darren Smith. His player retention scheme $ he was getting from the SANFL allowed him to make enough coin without heading for Melbourne. The drafting and redrafting of 'Bones' McDermott and the Jarmans by the Bears was a waste of everyones time and did SA footy a good service by keeping Andrew and Chris around for the formation of the Crows. John Hutton had the misfortune of going number 1 to the useless Bears, then on to crap Sydney where he was one of the vets sent back to the 2's by Barassi and then to those wacky Neesham coached Dockers. I've got the feeling some run and gun Footy with Blightys Cats would have shown the AFL the real John Hutton.

 

[Captain Blood]

Originally posted by itsintheblood
NO WAY

ANTHONY BANIK AT NUMBER ONE IN THE 80'S FOR RICHMOND TOPS THE LOT

How many number one picks have failed as badly as this guy??

Banik was bad, but you are forgetting one Richard Lounder, who the Tigers picked up in 1989.

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Originally posted by itsintheblood
So are most number ones these days tiger. Look at cooney, Hodge, reiwoldt, johnston, all playing good footy.

No excuses

The kid was a dud and coudnt cut it.

being a no1 pick today is totally different to way back when banik was selected.
the amount of time and money these days to get to know everything about a young footballer has risen by about 75% compared to 1989.
the kids themselves are better prepared to the riggers of afl before they are selected.in baniks case and a whole lot of others they didnt have that.
banik had the talent however when your in a side where 90% of your teamates are just as babyfaced as you are your going to struggle as an individual and as a team.

cheers!

 

[Weaver]

Originally posted by Mark Viduka
Actually the 1989 draft was an absolute SHOCKER. Here are some of the noticeable missed draftpicks from that year.

Most of the early drafts, say 86-91 have lots of quirks in them and people should be careful about just picking names off lists from this era, for example in 89..

1. Only one player per club from WA.
2. Father-son for last pick in draft (eg Ashley McIntosh at 112)
3. Under-19s teams still in operation, so almost no Vic Metro players. Mostly just country Vic and Tasmania.
4. Player retention scheme in SA paying guys to not play in the AFL.
5. Some Melbourne clubs too broke to afford interstate transfer fees and therefore stuck with country Victorians. Richmond, Footscray and St Kilda couldn't have taken Matera even if they wanted to.
6. NSW/ACT/QLD and NT being zoned to Sydney and Brisbane. Those clubs could take a 'local' from the age of 16 to 19 without other clubs having a chance. Only after 19 did they enter the open market.
7. The likes of Kemp might have been very late picks but it was artificial. 86-87 clubs could not take WA players. In 88-89 it was one each (with 2-3 clubs not being able to afford it). It meant that Kemp might not have been in the first 110 picks, but he was in the top 10 WA players of his age group.