I'll start with 2005-2010. I rushed this, so I might have got bits wrong. Rookies in italics, trades in bold.
2005: Watts, Gilbert, Rix, Raymond, Sweeney, Corr, Pfitzner.
OTHER PLAYERS OF NOTE: Marc Murphy, Dale Thomas, X Ellis, Josh Kennedy, Pendlebury, Dowler, Ryder, M Clark, Higgins, N Jones, Hurn, Birchall, Varcoe, Vince, A Swallow, Toovey, Duffield, Priddis,
2006: Birss, Gardiner, J Allen, Armitage, Howard, Matt Ferguson, M Clarke, Clint Jones, Luke van Rheenen, Eddy, James Wall, Geary, Jayden Attard
OTHER PLAYERS OF NOTE: B Gibbs, Gumbleton, L Hansen, Leuenberger, T Boak, M Thorp, J Selwood, B Reid, N Brown, J Frawley, J Riewoldt, Hampson, L Jetta, Grigg, Dawes, E MacKenzie, Petterd, K Tippett, Goldstein, JP Kennedy, Hawkins, Houli, L Thomas, R Gray, Goldsack, Westoff, Jesse White, Thurgood, Leigh Adams, Wellingham, Suckling, Macaffer, Harbrow, J Tippett
2007: King, Charlie Gardiner, Schneider, Dempster, McEvoy, Jack Steven, Gehrig (reboot), E Connors, G Chivers, L Miles, McQualter, Haretuku
OTHER PLAYERS OF NOTE: Kreuzer, Cotchin, Masten, C Morton, Palmer, Henderson, Dangerfield, Veszpremi, Cioli, Ebert, Grimes, Lobbe, H Taylor, Rance, C Ward, S Selwood, Pears, Greenwood, M Westhoff, Scott Thompson, Mayne, E Wood, C Hooker, C Bird, K Bradley, Taylor Walker, Bellchambers, N Grima, E Curnow, Mumford
2008: Ray, T Lynch, R Stanley, N Heyne, Alistair Smith, Paul Cahill, Colm Begley, Z Dawson, T Simpkin, S Gaertner, Tungatulum, McGarry, B McGrath
OTHER PLAYERS OF NOTE: Watts, Naitanui, Hill, M Hurley, Yarran, Rich, Vickery, Wiebell, Sidebottom, A Cordy, M Brown, Schoenmakers, Shuey, Ballantyne, Trengrove, Zaharkis Wuban, Redden, Beams, Hannebery, Roughhead, Liam Jones, L Shiels, Z Clarke, S Motlop, Banfield, Sloane, M Walters, Corneilus, Tom Lee, Shane Savage, J Garlett, Robin Nahas, Luke Delaney, J Blair, L Picken, Luke Breust, G Broughton
2009: Lovett, Peake, Winmar, Jesse W Smith, Pattison, W Johnson, M Hutchings, D Archer, Tommy Walsh
OTHER PLAYERS OF NOTE: Scully, J Trengrove, D Martin, Morabito, J Butcher, Talia, L Jetta, D Menzel, N Fyfe, Bastinac, K Stevens, J Carlile, A Black, T Coyler, Gunston, S Reid, Christensen, R Ah Chee, M Barlow, Skipper, Crameri, Casboult, Podsiadly
2010
J Cripps, Sam Crocker, Ledger, Siposs, Gamble, Polo, Simpkin, Curren, Andreoli, J Ferguson,
OTHER PLAYERS OF NOTE: D Swallow, Bennell, Day, Gaff, J Polec, Conca, Caddy, Happell, Presita, T Lynch (GC), B Smith, Smedts, Jacobs, I Smith, Lamb, M Wallis, Karnezis, Darling, Howe, P McCarthy, L Parker, Tom Liberatore, L Mitchell, Mitchie, Fasolo, T McDonald, Puopolo, Hitchcock, Seedsman, J Giles, Curnow, Dahlhaus
This is NOT an "If we'd only done Y instead of X" thread, many of these players were unavailable to us, lots of different reasons why it went that way.
All I'm doing here is reminding us all of our history so we can understand why our list looks so bad compared to others.
Regarding the OTHER PLAYERS OF NOTE sections, I'm only selecting the names I've heard a bit about in the last few years, not taking much time to judge if they've been that successful or not. I think we can all agree that our recruiting has mostly delivered us to where we are.
