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The 2009 AFL draft consisted of four opportunities for player acquisitions during the 2009/10 Australian Football League off-season. These were the trade week (held between 5 October and 9 October), the national draft (held on 26 November), the pre-season draft (15 December) and the rookie draft (15 December).
Dustin Fletcher, the son of Ken Fletcher has played the most games of any father–son selection, with 400 AFL matches played. The father–son rule is a rule used for recruiting in the Australian Football League, along with an equivalent father–daughter rule in its women's competition, AFL Women's: both allow clubs first recruiting access to the son or daughter of a long-serving member of ...
From the 2009 draft, players must be at least 18 years of age on 31 December in the year in which they are drafted, so that players who turn 18 during their first months of Year 12 will be able to finish studying without the pressure of AFL.
For many years the league was primarily a competition for 18-year-olds, though exceptions were made for bottom-aged players—16- or 17-year-olds—and since 2007, over-age players—19-year-olds—to participate in the competition. In 2021 the league shifted to an under-19 level, though the entry age for the AFL Draft remains 18. [10]
Too young to enter the 2009 AFL Draft, he was predicted during the 2009 season to be a top-five draft pick, but some off-field incidents, including being suspended from his school and spending time in hospital following a fight at a nightclub, saw him slip to the first selection of the second round in the 2010 Draft. [3]
John Butcher (born 3 July 1991) is a former professional Australian footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was among the three Port Adelaide players drafted in the first round of the 2009 AFL Draft, where he went at pick 8. [citation needed]
Josh Thomas (born 1 October 1991) is a retired Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Thomas, a Queensland Under 18 representative in the 2009 AFL National Under 18 Championships, was drafted by Collingwood with the 75th selection in the 2009 AFL Draft. [1]
Originally recruited from Branxholm Football Club and North Launceston Football Club in northern Tasmania, he was drafted to Fremantle with selection 48 in the 2009 AFL draft. [1] He represented Tasmania at the 2008 and 2009 AFL Under 18 Championships.