2001 AFL Draft
The 2001 AFL Draft consisted of a national draft, a rookie draft, a pre-season draft and a trade period. The AFL Draft is the annual draft of players by Australian rules football teams that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Australian Football League (AFL).
In 2001 there were 83 picks to be drafted between 16 teams in the national draft. The Fremantle Dockers originally received the first pick in the national draft after finishing on the bottom of the ladder in the 2001 AFL season but they traded it to Hawthorn for Trent Croad. The No.1 draft pick was Luke Hodge, who became the first draft pick in many seasons to play in a premiership side.
This was the third consecutive year the Sydney Swans were banned from the first round of the AFL Draft, owing to salary cap breaches dating back to the late 1990s. Sydney would subsequently miss the finals in 2002.
The draft is known widely as the "superdraft" [1] due to both the recruitment of modern star players such as Hodge, Ball, Judd, Bartel, Dal Santo, Steve Johnson, Mitchell, Montagna, Ablett, Waite and Swan, as well as the depth of talent throughout all 83 picks. The 2006 AFL Draft was considered to have comparable talent.[1] All but Waite in the aforementioned players have played in at least one Grand Final, all but Dal Santo and Montagna have played in a premiership team and Judd and Mitchell have captained their respective teams to victories in the 2006 and 2008 Grand Finals.
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[edit] Honours
Brownlow Medallists:
- Chris Judd: 2004 and 2010
- Jimmy Bartel: 2007
- Gary Ablett, Jr.: 2009
- Dane Swan: 2011
Norm Smith Medallists:
- Chris Judd: 2005
- Steve Johnson: 2007
- Luke Hodge: 2008
- Jimmy Bartel: 2011
Premierships:
- Lewis Roberts-Thomson: 2005
- Adam Schneider: 2005
- Chris Judd: 2006
- Mark Seaby: 2006
- Steven Armstrong: 2006
- Ashley Hansen: 2006
- Quinten Lynch: 2006
- Jimmy Bartel: 2007, 2009 and 2011
- Luke Hodge: 2008
- Rick Ladson: 2008
- Campbell Brown: 2008
- James Kelly: 2007, 2009 and 2011
- Gary Ablett, Jr.: 2007, 2009
- Steve Johnson: 2007, 2009 and 2011
- Dane Swan: 2010
- Luke Ball: 2010
- Sam Mitchell: 2008
[edit] Trades
In alphabetical order of new clubs
[edit] 2001 National Draft
[edit] 2002 Rookie Draft
[edit] 2002 Pre-season Draft
| Pick | Player | Recruited from | Club |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pass | St Kilda | |
| 2 | Aaron Lord | Hawthorn | Geelong |
| 3 | Nathan Saunders | Werribee Football Club | Western Bulldogs |
| 4 | Scott Cummings | West Coast Eagles | Collingwood |
| 5 | Trent Hentschel | Woodville-West Torrens Football Club | Adelaide Crows |
| 6 | Tony Lockett | Sydney Swans | Sydney Swans |
| 7 | Pass | St Kilda | |
| 8 | Pass | St Kilda |
[edit] References
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