One of the great exercises when talking footy is to debate your club's best draft steals. Sure, high draft picks are great, but everyone knows it's much easier to hit a winner with a top 10 selection than it is with a pick in the 50's. Or in the Rookie Draft for that matter.
So we've decided to put together something for you to refer to next time the debate springs up over a couple of beers.
For the purposes of this exercise, anyone drafted before pick 40 is ineligible and we've decided to keep it in the AFL era. This is by no means a complete list, every year tosses up several gems and sadly, we can't include them all.
So without further distraction, here are our biggest draft steals for every club in the competition.
Port Adelaide
Robbie Gray (pick 55)
Port have had some serious steals over the years and it's hard to argue that Robbie Gray isn't the pick of the bunch.
Starting his career as small forward with slick skills and incredible goal sense, Gray transformed himself into the best clearance player in the competition for several years.
Now being touted as perhaps the Power's greatest ever player, this four time All-Australian, triple B&F winner and dual leading goalkicker has also represented Australia three times int he International Rules series.
All of this after suffering one of the more gruesome knee injuries you'll ever see early in his career, Robbie Gray goes down as one of the all time great draft steals.
Honourable mentions: Dom Cassisi (pick 50), Justin Westhoff (pick 71), Tom Jonas (Rookie selection)
