Our draft picks over the years............

[Saints94]

LOOK at some of these

St Kilda Saints AFL Draft Picks at the end of Season 1991

Type Pick Player Current Team Games Since Drafted
Midyear 12 Garry Merritt 0
Midyear 26 Stephen Edgar 0
National 12 Rob Malone 0
National 53 Alistair Gray 0
National 61 Michael Addison 0
National 72 Michael Shields 0
National 82 Scott Morrison 0
National 87 Sam Jones 3
Pre-Season 10 Michael Ford 0
Pre-Season 24 Steven Clark 0


1992 draft

National 16 Brodie Atkinson 0
National 31 Shane Wakelin Collingwood 94
National 46 Matthew Jackson 4
National 76 Hugh Reimers 0
National 80 Stephen Newport 0
National 91 Jeremy McVay 0
National 106 Craig Treleven 0
National 119 Scott Morrison 0
Pre-Season 16 Mark Arceri 0
Pre-Season 32 Martin Heppell 2
Pre-Season 46 Chris Hollow 14
Pre-Season 60 Darren Bourke 18
Pre-Season 69 Leigh Capsalis 0
Pre-Season 76 Nick Hanson 0
Pre-Season 79 Greg Wooten 0
Pre-Season 80 David Nienann 0
Pre-Season 81 Jason Mifsud 0




1993 draft

National 8 Michael Frost 11
National 25 Clinton Shaw 6
National 51 Kristian Pascoe 0
Pre-Season 4 David Strooper 6
Pre-Season 24 Adrian Burns 4
Pre-Season 33 Doug Bailey 11
Pre-Season 38 Daniel McCarthy 0
Pre-Season 39 Alister Carr 4


1994 draft

Pre-Draft Selections 5 43 Traded Zone/Concession Darryl Wakelin 94
Pre-Draft Selections 9 63 Supplementary List Matthew Jackson 0
National 5 Joel Smith 38
National 13 Chris Hemley 0

Pre-Season 5 Glen Coghlan 18
Pre-Season 19 Mark Kennedy 0



They are just some of the brainible picks we gave up for.

[Oh When the Saints]

homework, back in those days, drafting was like playing lotto.

You heard a few good things from a mate about a bloke playing somewhere up in the country, and took him with your first pick.

It was largely guesswork, and clubs did not have the full-time or even part-time recruiters they have now.

James Hird was taken with a pick in the 70's ... Chris Grant with the last pick in the draft ...

All clubs stuffed up. Richmond took a bloke at #1 who played about 5 games.


Sheldon probably handled it himself, and his draft/trading record as coach was part of the reason he was sacked.

It wasn't until the mid 90's that drafting started to become more accurate and clubs had recruiters on staff.

[Saints94]

homework, back in those days, drafting was like playing lotto.

You heard a few good things from a mate about a bloke playing somewhere up in the country, and took him with your first pick.

It was largely guesswork, and clubs did not have the full-time or even part-time recruiters they have now.

James Hird was taken with a pick in the 70's ... Chris Grant with the last pick in the draft ...

All clubs stuffed up. Richmond took a bloke at #1 who played about 5 games.


Sheldon probably handled it himself, and his draft/trading record as coach was part of the reason he was sacked.

It wasn't until the mid 90's that drafting started to become more accurate and clubs had recruiters on staff.

Sorry my bad didn't know that it was like lotto back in them days

[supersaints]

homework, back in those days, drafting was like playing lotto.

You heard a few good things from a mate about a bloke playing somewhere up in the country, and took him with your first pick.

It was largely guesswork, and clubs did not have the full-time or even part-time recruiters they have now.

James Hird was taken with a pick in the 70's ... Chris Grant with the last pick in the draft ...

All clubs stuffed up. Richmond took a bloke at #1 who played about 5 games.


Sheldon probably handled it himself, and his draft/trading record as coach was part of the reason he was sacked.

It wasn't until the mid 90's that drafting started to become more accurate and clubs had recruiters on staff.

I agree that there was some guesswork but there was a lot of rorting and hiding players in those days
The guy who was the Footscray talent scout (who recruited Grant) was on SEN a few weeks ago and stated that after he was told about Grant and went to see him play with Daylsford. Footscray hid Grant by stopping him playing in the league altogether as they realised he would go as a number one pick. The recruiter said it was very common in those days.
On a personal level I had a very talented mate who did some pre season with Carlton back in the seventies (but had a dodgy knees at 18 years of age) , Carlscum paid him a large amount of money (yes in a brown paper bag !!!) not to sign for any other club for three years in case his knees came good..(they did not but the guy ended up a bit of a legend in the VFA as he could not train due to the chronic arthritis, he only turned up to play and kicked bags of goals).