Ranking The AFL Draft Top 10s
September 11th 2008 02:45
1991
1 John Hutton - Brisbane
2 Marcus Seecamp - Fitzroy
3 Darren Kowal - Melbourne
4 Andrew McGovern - Sydney
5 Jason Norrish - Melbourne
6 Paul Burton - Sydney
7 Jeremy Guard - Fitzroy
8 Michael Symons - Essendon
9 Stephen O'Reilly - Geelong
10 Andrew Lamprill - Melbourne
Above are the actual results for the top 10 that year, not a lot of players there have the qualities that the top 10 picks possess in most drafts.
Four or five solid players, no real stars, definitely no superstars. When Stephen O'Reilly and Marcus Seecamp are the best from the top 10, it wasn't that great of a top 10. Michael Symons may have been the most exciting of the top 10 players.
Winning games, kicking goals, selling memberships, that is what teams hope they will get from a player when they pick them up the top of the draft. Fitzroy, Melbourne and Brisbane didn't have fans requesting memberships due to the excitement their picks created. At least those clubs were not as bad as Sydney, who in those times was probably the worst when it came to drafting.
Most fans can name a lot of the first overall draft picks, but few can remember who John Hutton was. If it wasn't for the fact that he wore a helmet, there wouldn't be anything that set him apart from the rest of the draft picks in 1991.
The top 10 from 1991 does look like a future Fremantle team. There is O'Reilly, Hutton, Norrish, McGovern. The Dockers also had a couple of Burtons, but Paul Burton was not one of them.
Ranking The AFL Draft Top 10s
1991
1995
1990
1987
1 John Hutton - Brisbane
2 Marcus Seecamp - Fitzroy
3 Darren Kowal - Melbourne
4 Andrew McGovern - Sydney
5 Jason Norrish - Melbourne
6 Paul Burton - Sydney
7 Jeremy Guard - Fitzroy
8 Michael Symons - Essendon
9 Stephen O'Reilly - Geelong
10 Andrew Lamprill - Melbourne
Above are the actual results for the top 10 that year, not a lot of players there have the qualities that the top 10 picks possess in most drafts.
Four or five solid players, no real stars, definitely no superstars. When Stephen O'Reilly and Marcus Seecamp are the best from the top 10, it wasn't that great of a top 10. Michael Symons may have been the most exciting of the top 10 players.
Winning games, kicking goals, selling memberships, that is what teams hope they will get from a player when they pick them up the top of the draft. Fitzroy, Melbourne and Brisbane didn't have fans requesting memberships due to the excitement their picks created. At least those clubs were not as bad as Sydney, who in those times was probably the worst when it came to drafting.
Most fans can name a lot of the first overall draft picks, but few can remember who John Hutton was. If it wasn't for the fact that he wore a helmet, there wouldn't be anything that set him apart from the rest of the draft picks in 1991.
The top 10 from 1991 does look like a future Fremantle team. There is O'Reilly, Hutton, Norrish, McGovern. The Dockers also had a couple of Burtons, but Paul Burton was not one of them.
Ranking The AFL Draft Top 10s
1991
1995
1990
1987
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