The curse of the number 1 draft pick

[The Coon Dog]

Re: The curse of the number 1 draft pick

Richard Lounder and John Hutton, good ordinary players, i wonder who the 2nd and 3rd picks were that year.

1987 behind Lounder were Chris McDermott (Bris) & Graham Wright (Coll) & in 1991 behind Hutton were Marcus Seecamp (Fitz) & Darren Kowal (Melb).

[ledge]

Re: The curse of the number 1 draft pick

they were all just good ordinary players , bad years those 2

[Bornadog]

Re: The curse of the number 1 draft pick

Back page of Sports Age has picked up this thread and gone with it. Except they had Griffen out.

[mjp]

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They never used to always end up in crap sides. Stupid sides used to trade the first round pick for established players. 1 that springs to mind is West Coast trading Scott Watters & Troy Begavich (I think) to Sydney for the #1 pick which netted them Drew Banfield. Fremantle were the beneficiaries of compensatory selections which they traded away, One that I recall was Essendon trading Tony Delaney & Todd Ridley to Fremantle who then used that selection to secure Matthew Lloyd.

Interesting comments TCD. I guess in Fremantle and Sydney's defence, they were trying to get some experience into struggling/new teams, get a few wins and get some members. If you look at the players in the trades, guys like Ridley, Delaney and Begovich in particular were young, had played a few games looked fairly promising...and we have to remember that the footy landscape was very different back then...picking 18year olds and waiting a few years wasn't the done thing. I think Watters was runner-up in a Sydney B&F, but was such a WA boy he returned home after 2 seasons in any case.

Picking Lloyd at 16, the Eagles taking Wirrpanda at 16...and being prepared to simply 'wait out' a few years of development. Decisions like those ones have really changed the entire face of not just one competition (the AFL), but of about 10. Now we have the TAC Cup, the WAFL, VFL and SANFL are largely after-thoughts, we are about to see the National u16 Championship played on Grand Final day as a curtain raiser....the world and footy especially is a very different place.

[The Coon Dog]

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Interesting comments TCD.

Easy for me to say with the benefit of hindsight too! Yeah, it wasn't as scientific back then.

[LostDoggy]

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Nor is Cordy.

Fortunately Cordy will only cost us pick 16, not pick 1.

[The Coon Dog]

Re: The curse of the number 1 draft pick

Fortunately Cordy will only cost us pick 16, not pick 1.

That's a huge assumption on your part bc013.............there's no guarantee Carlton or Richmond will win 4 games, might blow out to pick 18!