The Craziness Of The 2004 AFL Draft - Collingwood
10 Chris Egan
23 Sean Rusling
39 Travis Cloke
55 Adam Iacobucci
From The Age: Who your team picked
They were given Cloke, and also drafted an inconsistent player, an injury-prone forward and also a VFL player. Travis is the best of the three Clokes, and also the only one still at Collingwood. At pick 39 he was a draft steal, and has shown that he is a top 10-worthy talent. It was picks like this that had many teams wanting the father/son bidding process.
Rusling and Egan still have the potential to kick a lot of goals for Collingwood. Rusling can't stay healthy long enough to show the Magpies his quick leading and strong marking. Egan can do some good things, but he also makes a few too many mistakes and there is a lot of competition at Collingwood for the small and medium forwards.
Collingwood do have Cameron Wood now, after working a trade with Brisbane and Melbourne, but they also had the chance to pick him at number 10 in the 2004 draft.
The Craziness Of The 2004 AFL Draft - Carlton
23 Sean Rusling
39 Travis Cloke
55 Adam Iacobucci
From The Age: Who your team picked
THE CLUB SAYS "We were lucky enough to pick Egan up at 10. We weren't quite sure how it would go but it pretty well went as expected and we were really happy that he was there. Our pick at 23 was a real toss-up. It's an unusual draft, very hard to predict it all. Father/son is debatable whether it's a good thing or not. We think it's a great thing when you can pick up Travis Cloke. I've said it 100 times this week, it's still the most intriguing part of footy, the whole recruiting/drafting thing. You've got to somehow predict what they're going to be - we think we've got a really good mix." - Neil Balme, general manager, Collingwood football operations
Rusling and Egan still have the potential to kick a lot of goals for Collingwood. Rusling can't stay healthy long enough to show the Magpies his quick leading and strong marking. Egan can do some good things, but he also makes a few too many mistakes and there is a lot of competition at Collingwood for the small and medium forwards.
Collingwood do have Cameron Wood now, after working a trade with Brisbane and Melbourne, but they also had the chance to pick him at number 10 in the 2004 draft.
The Craziness Of The 2004 AFL Draft - Carlton
