Ranking The AFL Draft Top 10s
1988
1 Alex McDonald - Hawthorn
2 Todd Breman - West Coast
3 Carl Dilena - Fitzroy
4 John McNamara - Kangaroos
5 Chris Naish - Richmond
6 Ray Sterrett - Geelong
7 Leon Cameron - Western Bulldogs
8 Dion Scott - Sydney
9 Michael Werner - Essendon
10 Peter Higgins - West Coast
Leon Cameron and Chris Naish are the better players out of this top 10. Naish was a very dangerous forward while Cameron was someone who could get the ball in the back half and supply it to the forwards with an accurate kick on either foot.
Geelong needed to look closer to home when they picked. Instead of taking Sterrett who was from the other side of Australia, he was recruited from East Fremantle, the Cats could have driven an hour or two down the road where Leon Cameron was playing for South Warrnambool.
The big news at the time was Hawthorn and their trade to acquire the top overall pick. They were probably hoping that Alex McDonald would be a big part of keeping Hawthorn up the top of the ladder throughout the 1990s but that didn't work.
North Melbourne was the worst team picking in the top 10, as they were the only team here that received zero games from their top 10 pick, but when they picked again in the 1988 draft they selected Anthony Stevens. 1988 was also the draft that Chris Grant went at pick 105, it is safe to say that all of the clubs above, except for the Bulldogs, wish they had taken him when they had the chance.
Ranking The AFL Draft Top 10s
1988
1998
1986
1996
1991
1995
1990
1987
1 Alex McDonald - Hawthorn
2 Todd Breman - West Coast
3 Carl Dilena - Fitzroy
4 John McNamara - Kangaroos
5 Chris Naish - Richmond
6 Ray Sterrett - Geelong
7 Leon Cameron - Western Bulldogs
8 Dion Scott - Sydney
9 Michael Werner - Essendon
10 Peter Higgins - West Coast
Leon Cameron and Chris Naish are the better players out of this top 10. Naish was a very dangerous forward while Cameron was someone who could get the ball in the back half and supply it to the forwards with an accurate kick on either foot.
Geelong needed to look closer to home when they picked. Instead of taking Sterrett who was from the other side of Australia, he was recruited from East Fremantle, the Cats could have driven an hour or two down the road where Leon Cameron was playing for South Warrnambool.
The big news at the time was Hawthorn and their trade to acquire the top overall pick. They were probably hoping that Alex McDonald would be a big part of keeping Hawthorn up the top of the ladder throughout the 1990s but that didn't work.
North Melbourne was the worst team picking in the top 10, as they were the only team here that received zero games from their top 10 pick, but when they picked again in the 1988 draft they selected Anthony Stevens. 1988 was also the draft that Chris Grant went at pick 105, it is safe to say that all of the clubs above, except for the Bulldogs, wish they had taken him when they had the chance.
Ranking The AFL Draft Top 10s
1988
1998
1986
1996
1991
1995
1990
1987
