The Craziness Of The 2004 AFL Draft - Fremantle
59 Benet Copping
67 Troy Stribling
69 Daniel Haines
From The Age: Who your team picked
The Dockers traded away this draft to get Port Adelaide premiership player Josh Carr. It was a big price to pay, probably too much. A star key position player may be worth a bunch of picks, but a midfielder rarely is.
The Dockers do seem to do things differently to other clubs, and redrafting players they have delisted is one of them. They took Haines in a rookie draft a few years before this one, and then after delisting him thought they better bring him back.
The Dockers could have drafted Matthew Egan, Daniel Pratt and Chris Bryan. Those three were taken late in the 2004 draft but are still in the league.
Fremantle's drafting and trading in 2004 was followed by bad decisions in 2005 and 2006. At least the 2007 draft is looking a bit better for the purple people, with Rhys Palmer as well as Mayne and Hinkley.
The Craziness Of The 2004 AFL Draft - Essendon
67 Troy Stribling
69 Daniel Haines
From The Age: Who your team picked
THE CLUB SAYS "With Troy Simmonds moving on it's very important we got a quality key-position player into our squad ... Daniel (Haines) had an injury that's really come good. Everyone around the club will be really excited he's back on the list and he'll be trained up to play AFL senior footy. We had a number of specialists check out the state of his injury and it looks really positive for the future for him." - Chris Connolly, Fremantle coach
The Dockers do seem to do things differently to other clubs, and redrafting players they have delisted is one of them. They took Haines in a rookie draft a few years before this one, and then after delisting him thought they better bring him back.
The Dockers could have drafted Matthew Egan, Daniel Pratt and Chris Bryan. Those three were taken late in the 2004 draft but are still in the league.
Fremantle's drafting and trading in 2004 was followed by bad decisions in 2005 and 2006. At least the 2007 draft is looking a bit better for the purple people, with Rhys Palmer as well as Mayne and Hinkley.
The Craziness Of The 2004 AFL Draft - Essendon
