1991 AFL draft

Draft for the Australian Football League December 2017 May 2023 The 1991 AFL draft is the annual draft of talented players by Australian rules football teams that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Australian Football League. It consisted of the main national draft, the pre-season draft and the trade period.Lovett, Michael AFL 2004 - The Official Statistical History Of The AFL AFL Publishing 2004 0-9580300-5-7 In 1991 there were 89 picks to be drafted between 15 teams in the main national draft. History When the competition was known as the Victorian Football League (VFL), the league introduced the first incarnation of a draft system in 1981, where teams had two selections each of interstate players determined by reverse finishing position order.Quayle, Emma (17 November 2006). "The draft blows in"August 2026 InternetArchiveBot . The Age. This was introduced as an equalisation strategy in response to the increasing transfer fees and player salaries at the time, which in combination with declining attendances, threatened to derail the league. It was also a result of the failure of country zoning, introduced in the late 1960s, which had led to a systematic inequality whereby the clubs with the best zones, like Carlton and Hawthorn, could dominate over clubs with poorer zones like Melbourne. In 1986, the first VFL draft was held. The draft saw players tied to zones based on their location of residence, with each club having first call on players falling within that zone. The West Coast Eagles received access to all West Australian players, while the Brisbane Bears received six concessionary picks before the other clubs. Draft rules The minimum draft age was 16. Clubs were allowed to select only one WA player each and South Australia was off-limits because of the introduction of Adelaide. Players in Queensland and NSW/ACT could only be selected by clubs other than the Brisbane Bears and Sydney Swans respectively, if the player was older than 19 and not required by the 'local' club. Faced with these restrictions the league reduced the number of choices from eight to six. In exchange for the SA moratorium, the Crows were excluded from the draft (they could pick any South Australian, but only South Australians). Background The talent pool was clearly shallow and most clubs shied away from investing too much hope in the draft. A number of the Victorian clubs, notably Richmond and Fitzroy, couldn't afford to recruit established players so stuck with country footballers and young unproven youngsters. Clubs were believed to be looking to Tasmania as perhaps the only recruiting ground which hadn't been ravaged. The Under-19's competition was still in operation and clubs had only to list players who had been drafted, and those over the age of 19. Essendon and North Melbourne at this point for example had very talented reserves sides drawn from their metropolitan zones (these zones would later provide the basis for the Northern Knights Under-18 teams). Pre-draft picks # Player Recruited by Recruited from Games with new team1 Jason Ball West Coast Swan Districts (WAFL) 103 Pre-draft trades Player Recruited by Recruited from Games played with club Colin Alexander Brisbane Collingwood 5 Russell Jeffrey Brisbane St Kilda 8 Rod Owen Brisbane Melbourne 9 Brendon Retzlaff Brisbane Collingwood 15 Ron De Iulio Carlton North Melbourne 104 Earl Spalding Carlton Melbourne 102 Greg Williams Carlton Sydney 109 Brad Hardie Collingwood Brisbane 2 Gary Pert Collingwood Fitzroy 70 Brad Rowe Collingwood Brisbane 51Tony Woods Collingwood Fitzroy 18 Sean Denham Essendon Geelong 142 Russell Evans Essendon North Melbourne 0 Shane Strempel Essendon Brisbane 0 Paul Abbott Fitzroy Hawthorn 26 Brad Boyd Fitzroy Collingwood 70 Dale Fleming Fitzroy Hawthorn 13 Ashley Matthews Fitzroy Carlton 6 Peter Sartori Fitzroy Carlton 23 Tony Campbell Footscray Melbourne 35 Darren Morgan Footscray Sydney 0 Ricky Jackson Footscray Melbourne 0 Bernard Toohey Footscray Sydney 40 John Barnes Geelong Essendon 144 Colin Gasden Geelong North Melbourne 0John McNamara Geelong North Melbourne 0 Geoff Miles Geelong West Coast 20 Jason Taylor Hawthorn Fitzroy 80 Michael Pickering Melbourne Richmond 015 Tim Bourke North Melbourne Geelong 0 Richard Dennis North Melbourne Carlton 13 Stevan Jackson Richmond West Coast 21 Steven O'Dwyer Richmond Melbourne 5 Todd Breman Richmond West Coast 25 Craig O'Brien St Kilda Essendon 52 Adrian Fletcher St Kilda Geelong 22 Darren Flanigan St Kilda Geelong 8 Lawrence Bingham St Kilda Hawthorn 22 Darren Kappler Sydney Fitzroy 59 Gavin Rose Sydney Collingwood 55Stuart Wigney Sydney Footscray 1 Simon Minton-Connell Sydney Carlton 46 Paul Gow West Coast Footscray 0 Paul Harding West Coast St Kilda 43 Trent Nichols West Coast Richmond 4David Regan West Coast Richmond 4 1991 mid-season draft Pick Player Recruited from Recruited by1Ashley Byrne2David GilesClarence3Ernie HugPrahran4Fraser Murphy5Athas HrysoulakisPrahran6Mark Naley7Brendan ParkerTongala8Michael RyanSt Mary's9Grant WilliamsSandy Bay10Stephen Zamykal11Trevor Spencer12Jason BriggsRobinvale13David McMurrayKeilor14Simon KennyKedron Grange15David Morrison16Mark StockdaleTraralgon17Dean StrauchGolden Square18Shane FellGlenorchy19Paul BrownDandenong20Trevor Robinson21Simon PalmerWestern Suburbs22Stephen Wearne23PassedN/A24Steven HandleySD25Justin PascoeWhorouly26Rod Saunders27Peter Bennett28Alan ThorpeTatura29Damian HoganSale30PassedN/A31David PrestonGrovedale32PassedN/A33Ross HartGolden Point34Dean SmithSt Joseph's35PassedN/A36David RyanTerang37Daryl ArgusKyabram38PassedN/A39Shaun BallansLara40Darren Enever41PassedN/A42Tony LithgowCasterton43Brad NichollsBell Park44Robert GilbertSouth Barwon 1991 national draft # Player Recruited by Recruited from Games with new team 1 John Hutton Brisbane Claremont 18 2 Marcus Seecamp Fitzroy East Perth 51 3 Darren Kowal Melbourne Claremont 105 4 Andrew McGovern Sydney Claremont 29 5 Jason Norrish Melbourne Claremont 20 6 Paul Burton Sydney Claremont 0 7 Jeremy Guard Fitzroy Claremont 68 8 Michael Symons Essendon Subiaco 109 9 Stephen O'Reilly Geelong Swan Districts 36 10 Andrew Lamprill Melbourne Hobart 33 11 Leigh Willison Geelong East Perth 3 12 Rob Malone St Kilda Claremont 0 13 Shane Crawford Hawthorn Finley (VCFL) 305 14 Fabian Francis Brisbane Southern District (NT) 22 15 Kieran O'Dwyer Hawthorn Barooga (NSW) 0 16 Daniel Metropolis West Coast Subiaco 108 17 Anthony Cole Sydney North Hobart 0 18 Matthew Hogg Carlton Footscray 114 19 Phil Gilbert Melbourne Claremont 25 20 Brett Cook Fitzroy Broken Hill (NSW) 25 21 Willie Dick Essendon Perth 7 22 Simon Crawshay Hawthorn Hawthorn 19 23 Mathew McKay Melbourne Hawthorn 0 24 Kane Morphett West Coast East Fremantle 0 25 Steven Davies West Coast Subiaco 0 26 Ben Herrald Hawthorn Hawthorn 0 27 Terry Board Brisbane Fitzroy 0 28 Cale O'Keefe Carlton South Launceston 0 29 Matthew Connell West Coast Subiaco 3 30 Kane Purcell Collingwood North Shore (T) 0 31 Haydon Kilmartin Melbourne North Hobart 0 32 Micah Berry Melbourne Melb. 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(APS) 0 33 Paul Morrish Fitzroy Essendon 20 34 Tim Leng Nth Melbourne Nth Melbourne 0 35 Darryl Donald Geelong Wangaratta (VCFL) 0 36 Jason Dullard Melbourne Essendon 0 37 Ryan O'Connor Essendon Ulverstone 63 38 Jamie Rundle Footscray Dandenong (VFA) 0 39 Richard Taylor Hawthorn Hawthorn 4 40 Nick White Melbourne Richmond 0 41 Todd Curley Collingwood West Perth 3 42 Peter Freeman West Coast St Kilda 0 43 David Strooper Sydney Fitzroy 32 44 Brett Sholl Carlton Nth Melbourne 35 45 Gary Barrow Footscray Essendon 6 46 Bruno Italiano Collingwood South Fremantle 0 47 Glenn Manton Essendon Essendon 21 48 Kevin Mitchell Essendon Claremont 0 49 Todd Hawes Richmond Swan Districts 0 50 Bruce Hando Nth Melbourne St Arnaud (VCFL) 0 51 Shaun Brooker Richmond Sydney 0 52 Mathew Henderson Hawthorn Morwell (VCFL) 0 53 Alistair Gray St Kilda Carey Grammar (APS) 0 54 Leigh Snooks Carlton Derinallum (VCFL)) 0 55 Glenn Hoffman Richmond Essendon 0 56 Andrew Dunkley Sydney North Launceston 217 57 Anthony McDonald Carlton Carlton 0 58 Justin Pickering Footscray Richmond 0 59 Greg Turner Collingwood South Fremantle 0 60 James Billington Essendon Subiaco 0 61 Michael Addison St Kilda Carey Gr. (APS) 0 62 Peter Maclean Geelong Seymour (VCFL) 0 63 Brendan Bower Essendon Richmond 3 64 Chris Barrett Fitzroy Geelong 4 65 Heath Shephard Brisbane Burnie Hawks (T) 4 66 Nick Roney Richmond North Launceston 0 67 Shane Ellen Footscray Footscray (VCFL) 11 68 Mathew Bell Sydney Sydney 0 69 Brad Sholl North Melbourne North Melbourne 2 70 Jon Lister Collingwood Sandy Bay (T) 0 71 Luke Chambers Brisbane Brisbane 0 72 Michael Shields St Kilda St Kilda 0 73 Cameron Burke Geelong Warragul (VCFL) 0 74 Brendan Krummel West Coast East Fremantle 9 75 Travis Edmonds Hawthorn Swan Districts 0 76 Matt Rendell Brisbane Fitzroy 13 77 Jay Burton Richmond Subiaco 0 78 Mathew Dickson Carlton Sandhurst (VCFL) 0 79 Bevan Smillie Carlton Essendon 0 80 Damian Ryan Footscray Coburg (VFA) 0 81 Brendan Barrows Collingwood Claremont 0 82 Scott Morrison St Kilda Nth Melbourne 0 83 Peter Jacks Geelong Ballarat YCW (VCFL) 0 84 Alistair Burke Hawthorn Hawthorn 0 85 John Kennedy Richmond Hawthorn 0 86 Jamie Madigan Footscray Footscray 0 87 Sam Jones St Kilda Sandy Bay 3 88 Aiden Bussell Hawthorn Whorouly (VCFL) 0 89 Paul Dimattina Richmond Richmond 0 1992 pre-season draft # Player Recruited by Recruited from Games with new team 1 Ashley Green Brisbane BearsEssendon 23 2 Gavin Exell Fitzroy Geelong 5 3 Mark McQueen Richmond Richmond 34 4 Damien Mellow Sydney Swans Adelaide 0 5 Mark Athorn Carlton Sydney Swans 15 6 Greg Jones Footscray St Kilda 0 7 Alex Ishchenko North Melbourne Brisbane Bears 70 8 Ross Napoli Collingwood Essendon 0 9 Alan Schwartz Essendon Essendon 0 10 Michael Ford St Kilda Footscray 2 11 Wayne Henwood MelbourneSydney Swans 1 12 Tim McGrath Geelong North Melbourne 219 13 Tim Watson West Coast Eagles Essendon 0 14 Ricky Nixon HawthornSt Kilda 8 15 Jason Jones Brisbane Bears Darwin (NTFL) 0 16 Danny Sexton FitzroyNorth Melbourne 0 17 David Honybun Richmond Richmond 16 18 Alan Thorpe Sydney Swans Fitzroy 3 19 Paul McCormack Carlton Dandenong (VFA) 14 20 Mark Majerczak Footscray Carlton 0 21 Marty Christensen North MelbourneGeelong 2 22 Ross Johns Collingwood Carlton 0 23 Paul McMaster Essendon Carlton 0 24 Steven Clark St Kilda Melbourne 6 25 Andy Goodwin Melbourne Richmond 17 26 Garry Phillips Geelong Geelong 0 27 David Ogg West Coast Eagles Brisbane Bears 0 28 Ernie Hug Jr. Hawthorn Prahran (VFA) 0 29 Darren Bartsch Brisbane Bears West Adelaide (SANFL) 0 30 Simon Taylor FitzroyMontmorency 0 31 Brad Gwilliam Richmond West Coast Eagles 4 32 Allan McKellar Footscray Sydney Swans 0 33 Rohan Welsh Carlton Dandenong (VFA) 42 34 Paul Satterley Footscray Footscray 0 35 Leigh Tudor North Melbourne North Melbourne 3 36 Paul Docherty CollingwoodEssendon 0 37 Glenn Kilpatrick Essendon North Melbourne 0 38 Dale Kickett St Kilda West Coast Eagles 21 39 Ben Judd Melbourne Sturt (SANFL) 0 40 Ben Graham Geelong Geelong 219 41 Jason Disney Richmond West Coast Eagles 0 42 Austin McCrabb Hawthorn Geelong 9 43 Matthew Clarke Richmond Brisbane Bears 0 44 Simon Dennis Richmond Richmond 2 45 Andrew Peck Sydney Swans Sydney Swans 0 46 Paul Tuddenham Carlton Collingwood 0 47 Glenn Page North Melbourne Sydney Swans 5 48 Derek Percival Collingwood Collingwood 0 49 Justin Peckett St Kilda St Kilda 252 50 Cristian O'Brien Melbourne Melbourne 2 51 Campbell Black Brisbane Bears Southport 0 52 Adam Jones Xavier College Richmond 0 53 Phil Krakouer Footscray Sydney Swans 0 54 Jeremy Smith Carlton Carlton 1 55 Michael Scoon North Melbourne North Melbourne 0 56 Pass - Carlton References External links The Complete AFL draft Official AFL draft page Category:Australian Football League draft Afl Draft, 1991