2006 Draft - St Kilda v Collingwood v Geelong

[Austinnn]

(Info from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_AFL_Draft)

This is a comparison of how these three teams fared in the 2006 Draft, considered to be one of the strongest drafts ever.

2006 Final Position:
St Kilda 8th (lost EF to Melbourne
Collingwood 7th (lost EF to Footscray)
Geelong 10th


Trades:

St Kilda - Shane Briss (Brisbane for pick 59)
Collingwood - Paul Medhurst and pick 8 (Freo for Chris Tarrant)
St Kilda - Michael Gardiner (Weagles for pick 43)

National Draft:

Pick 7 Geelong - Joel Selwood
Pick 8 Collingwood - Ben Reid
Pick 9 St Kilda - David Armitage
Pick 10 Collingwood - Nathan Brown
Pick 25 Geelong - Nathan Djerrkura
Pick 27 St Kilda - Brad Howard
Pick 28 Collingwood - Chris Dawes
Pick 41 Geelong - Tom Hawkins (father/son)
Pick 44 Collingwood - Brad Dick
Pick 57 Geelong - Simon Hogan
Pick 59 St Kilda - Jarryd Allen
Pick 63 Collingwood - Tyson Goldsack
Pick 74 St Kilda - Matthew Ferguson (from ourselves)
Pick 75 Collingwood - pass


Other notable picks from that draft after our picks;

11 Andrejs Everitt -Bulldogs
12 James Frawley - Melbourne (nephew of Saints legend Danny Frawley)
13 Jack Riewoldt - Richmond (cousin of Saints legend Nick Riewoldt)
32 Kurt Tippett - Adelaide
36 Alwyn Davey - Essendon
37 Todd Goldstein - North Melbourne
79 Jesse White - Sydney
82 Aaron Edwards - North Melbourne

2007 Pre-season Draft

7 St Kilda - Matthew Clarke (from Adelaide)
8 Collingwood - Chris Bryan (from Carlton)

2007 Rookie Draft

7 Geelong - Joel Reynolds
9 St Kilda - Clinton Jones
10 Collingwood - Sharrod Wellingham
25 St Kilda - Luke van Rheenen
26 Collingwood - Brent Macaffer
38 Geelong - Jason Davenport
39 St Kilda - Robert Eddy
40 Collingwood - Martin Clarke
50 Geelong - Tom Lonergan
51 St Kilda - James Wall
58 St Kilda - Jarryn Geary
62 St Kilda - Jayden Attard

Other notable picks from that draft after our picks;

22 Matthew Suckling - Hawthorn
27 Jarrod Harbrow - Footscray
44 Luke Brennan - Sydney

[Grantaire]

It's the past, move on. I mean we only got six premiership players from that draft- including 3/4 of a premiership spine.

Not sure why you've included 2005 finishing positions, though, as that has no bearing on the 2006 draft. 2005 is relevant I guess for Pendles and Thomas.

[Austinnn]

Really? I thought that where you finish on the ladder dictates what picks you get the following year. It doesn't? Did I get the years wrong or something?

Thanks for your opinion. And for the gloating. Enjoy your victory while you can, success is fleeting.

Just to pre-empt any sensitive souls out there, I'm not a Pies troll like this last poster trying to rub it in, just a big Saints fan wondering why we took Howard, Allen, Van Rheenen, Attard, Wall, Briss and the other no-marks while our competitors recruited players who killed us in the first quarter of the GF replay last year.

I think I may have just looked like a troll with that last sentence, but I promise; I'm not!

This is just a chapter.

[Dr Spaceman]

Unless the AFL is gonna re-run it I just don't see the point.

[clarky449]

We lost in the PF not SF

[Old Mate]

Dawes and Tippett absolute bargains for decent big blokes.

[noreason41]

Few mistakes of the top of my head,
Birss was from the bulldogs, and
Gardiner + 59 for 43.

Btw, was that our first real rookie draft?

[plugger66]

I didnt see the one I should tick for f****** stupid posts.

[noreason41]

I didnt see the one I should tick for f****** stupid posts.

It's the fourth one from the top, just written in a very nice way.

[desertsaint]

jesus christ - at this rate they'll soon outnumber us!

[Austinnn]

Thanks for the feedback so far. I corrected the mistake about finishing positions. As for any other errors, I got all the info from Wikipedia, sorry if it's inaccurate.

The message I'm getting so far is that let's not talk about it, perhaps because you all realised this years ago, but I'm just now trying to process why we've fallen off the top and why we missed out last year. Don't try and tell me it was just a errant kick away from a premiership, that may be true but this year shows that that we are far from a champion team, which is what we all want to be.

Interesting that this post has been called "f****** stupid" by Plugged66. Perhaps you could enlighten me?

[MCG-Unit]

jesus christ - at this rate they'll soon outnumber us!

Yep, there's about 10 of them reg between 14-22 June - not very good at it though