GOOD POINT ,ALTHOUGH WHEN ONE DISECTS THE ALL AUSTRALIAN TEAM ,YOU FIND
2009 AFL Under-18 All-Australian team
B: Andrew Hooper (Victoria Country) Blayne Wilson (Western Australia) Bradley Sheppard (Western Australia)
HB: Josh Toy (Victoria Metro) Daniel Talia (Victoria Metro) David Swallow (Western Australia)
C: Anthony Morabito (Western Australia) Dustin Martin (Victoria Country) Mitchell Duncan (Western Australia)
HF: Kane Lucas (Western Australia) Jack Darling (Western Australia) Gary Rohan (Victoria Country)
F: Brandon Matera (Western Australia) Matthew Panos (South Australia) Ben Cunnington (Victoria Country)
Foll: James Craig (South Australia) Jack Trengove (South Australia) Tom Scully (Victoria Metro)
Int: Luke Tapscott (South Australia) Ryan Harwood (Tasmania) Dylan McNeil (NSW/ACT)
Travis Colyer (Western Australia)
Coach: Andrew Lockyer (Western Australia) — Assistant coach: Brenton Phillips (South Australia)
Blayne Wilson has been picked up by Gold Coast,Sheppard has been talked about as a late first round or early 2nd.
Woewoeden whom coaches him thinks he could be a great pick up.Ditto- Lucas.
Swallow and Darling are too young for this years Draft- expected to go 1&2 next year to GC.Matera also expected to go to GC. Colyer,Duncan talked about as as second round picks. Morabito will go top5.Also have alook at last years All Australian, the WA players were picked up, but very late or rookie--Pearce,Deboer,Walters.,although the standouts went early- Naitanui,Rich,Hill.
Also, in my opinion andI have been watching these kids for over 40 years now- they are more equal ability this year, not as many standouts. Actually, I feel the draft will leave alot of extremely good footballers except not many that become champions. Except SCULLY and MARTIN.
I also think that recruiters tend to pick players from their own state if they can. Wait and see how many are picked from SA -Iam tipping 6