Tonight, the AFL announced the 2011 All Australian team at the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre. The team was cut down to 22 players from the 40 man squad named earlier on in the month.
The selection panel for the All Australian team is: Andrew Demetriou (chairman), Adrian Anderson, Kevin Bartlett, Luke Darcy, Danny Frawley, Glen Jakovich, Leigh Matthews and Mark Ricciuto.
As well as the announcement of the All Australian team there were also 3 individual medals awarded; the Coleman Medal, Mark of the Year and Goal of the Year.
Coleman Medallist: Lance Franklin (Hawthorn)
Mark of the Year: Andrew Krakouer (Collingwood)
Goal of the Year: Hayden Ballantyne (Fremantle)
2011 All Australian team:
Full Back: Matthew Scarlett (Geel), Darren Glass (WCE), Corey Enright (Geel)
Half Back: Robert Murphy (WB), Ben Reid (Coll), Leon Davis (Coll)
Centre: Dale Thomas (Coll), Sam Mitchell (Haw), Scott Pendlebury (Coll)
Followers: Dean Cox (WCE), Chris Judd (Carl) (VC), Gary Ablett (GC) (C)
Half Forward: Marc Murphy (Carl), Travis Cloke (Coll), Dane Swan (Coll)
Full Forward: Stephen Milne (St K), Lance Franklin (Haw), Adam Goodes (Syd)
Interchange: Matthew Boyd (WB), Nick Dal Santo (St K), James Kelly (Geel), Drew Petrie (NM)
Tags: Adam Goodes, All Australian, Andrew Krakouer, Ben Reid, Chris Judd, Corey Enright, Dale Thomas, Dane Swan, Darren Glass, Dean Cox, Drew Petrie, Gary Ablett, Hayden Ballantyne, James Kelly, Lance Franklin, Leon Davis, Marc Murphy, Matthew Boyd, Matthew Scarlett, Nick Dal Santo, Robert Murphy, Sam Mitchell, Scott Pendlebury, Stephen Milne, Travis Cloke
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The captain is the wrong choice.
Captain should have been Judd, I agree.
I can’t imagine how you could leave Judd out of the squad. He is hardly a receiver, maybe you should look at some stats before you make ridiculous statements, Joffa Bobblehead.
Walker was robbed blind for the mark of the year. Krrakoeur’s was barely mark of the round. He wasn’t even fully up on his back. He only got up about as high as a ruckman jumping. Ridiculous.
Great team, whats the salary cap!!
Yep agreed, Judd should have been captain. Gablett was a stupid decision in my opinion.
There were some players who were lucky to get in. Don’t think Murphy should have been there, also don’t think Milne should have been there. Deledio and Johnson would have been better in those respective positions.
Priddis, Thompson, unlucky to not make it in. I had a feeling there would only be 1 ruckman selected, hence no Goldstein.