2010 All-Australian team
The 2010 All-Australian team represents the best performed Australian Football League (AFL) players for the 2010 season. It was announced on 13 September 2010, as a complete Australian rules football team of 22 players and a coach. An initial squad of 40 players was previously announced on 30 August 2010. The team is an honorary and does not actually play any games.
Selection process
The selection panel for the 2010 All-Australian team was Andrew Demetriou (chairman), Adrian Anderson, Kevin Bartlett, Gerard Healy, James Hird, Glen Jakovich, Mark Ricciuto and Robert Walls.[1] Healy and Walls both announced their retirement from the panel and therefore the 2010 season was their last as selectors.[2] It was also Hird's last season as a selector, as he became coach of Essendon in 2011.[3]
Selected team
| 2010 All-Australian team | |||
| B: | James Frawley (Melbourne) | Brian Lake (Western Bulldogs) | Corey Enright (Geelong) |
| HB: | Brendon Goddard (St Kilda) | Harry Taylor (Geelong) | Harry O'Brien (Collingwood) |
| C: | Leigh Montagna (St Kilda) | Luke Hodge (Hawthorn) (captain) | Joel Selwood (Geelong) |
| HF: | Alan Didak (Collingwood) | Lance Franklin (Hawthorn) | Paul Chapman (Geelong) |
| F: | Barry Hall (Western Bulldogs) | Jack Riewoldt (Richmond) | Mark LeCras (West Coast) |
| Foll: | Aaron Sandilands (Fremantle) | Dane Swan (Collingwood) | Gary Ablett, Jr. (Geelong) (vice-captain) |
| Int: | Mark Jamar (Melbourne) | Steve Johnson (Geelong) | Chris Judd (Carlton) |
| Scott Pendlebury (Collingwood) | |||
| Coach: | Michael Malthouse | ||
The 2010 All-Australian team was announced on 13 September 2010. Six of the 22 players were Geelong players, with four players coming from minor premiers Collingwood, while St Kilda, Melbourne, the Western Bulldogs and Hawthorn had two players each and Fremantle, Richmond, West Coast and Carlton all had a lone representative. This meant that Sydney, Brisbane, Essendon, Adelaide, Port Adelaide and North Melbourne were not represented in the final 22. Players to make the squad for the first time were James Frawley, Harry Taylor, Harry O'Brien, Jack Riewoldt, Mark LeCras, Mark Jamar and Scott Pendlebury.[4] No current team captains were named on the field (Chris Judd, captain of Carlton, was named on the bench) and so the selectors named Hawthorn vice-captain Luke Hodge as the captain and 2009 Brownlow Medallist Gary Ablett as vice-captain, though he was neither a captain or vice-captain at the time.[5]
Of the 18 players from the squad of 40 who missed out, the non-selections of St Kilda's Lenny Hayes, Fremantle's Matthew Pavlich, Melbourne's Brad Green and 2008 Brownlow Medal winner Adam Cooney were considered the most contentious.[6] Hayes, in particular, was considered a surprise, with St Kilda team mate and All-Australian wingman Leigh Montagna saying "I was very surprised Lenny wasn't in the team... I pencilled him in for a captain or vice-captain. It's a big shock".[5] Pavlich's non-selection also raised some eyebrows, with many experts predicting that the Fremantle captain would be selected in what would have been his seventh All-Australian side.[7]
Initial squad
Carlton: Chris Judd
Collingwood: Alan Didak, Darren Jolly, Harry O'Brien, Scott Pendlebury, Dane Swan
Essendon: Dustin Fletcher, Jobe Watson
Fremantle: David Mundy, Matthew Pavlich, Aaron Sandilands
Geelong: Gary Ablett, Corey Enright, Paul Chapman, Steve Johnson, James Kelly, Harry Taylor, Joel Selwood
Hawthorn: Luke Hodge, Lance Franklin
Melbourne: James Frawley, Brad Green, Mark Jamar
North Melbourne: Brent Harvey, Brady Rawlings, Andrew Swallow
Richmond: Brett Deledio, Jack Riewoldt
St Kilda: Nick Dal Santo, Brendon Goddard, Lenny Hayes, Leigh Montagna
Sydney: Adam Goodes, Nick Malceski, Shane Mumford
West Coast: Mark LeCras
Western Bulldogs: Matthew Boyd, Adam Cooney, Barry Hall, Brian Lake
A squad of 40 players was selected on 30 August 2010. There was a change from the tradition of previous years and instead of players being selected by position, the selectors simply chose who they considered to be the 40 best performers for the season.[8] The top four sides provided half of the 40 players. Geelong had the most players selected of any side, with seven, while minor premiers Collingwood had five and the third and fourth placed finishers, St Kilda and the Western Bulldogs respectively, both had four players selected. Adelaide, Brisbane and Port Adelaide did not have any players nominated to the squad. Eighteen players in the 40-man squad had not been selected to the All-Australian team before.[2] Eight players who had been selected in the 2009 team did not make the 2010 squad, including 2009 captain Nick Riewoldt, Jonathan Brown, Brendan Fevola, Leon Davis, Craig Bolton, Simon Goodwin, Nick Maxwell and Matthew Scarlett.[8]
References
- ↑ "AFL All Australian Team 2010". 3AW. Archived from the original on 16 September 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
- 1 2 Witham, Jennifer. "Seven Cats, five Pies in AA squad". AFL. Archived from the original on 3 September 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
- ↑ Paton, Al (1 April 2011). "Leigh Matthews joins All-Australian selection panel". Herald Sun. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
- ↑ "All Australian at a glance". AFL. Archived from the original on 16 September 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
- 1 2 Gleeson, Michael (13 September 2010). "St Kilda star a surprise omission". Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 15 September 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
- ↑ Witham, Jennifer. "Pies, Cats dominate 2010 All Australian side". AFL. Archived from the original on 16 September 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
- ↑ Vaughan, Roger (13 September 2010). "Fremantle captain Matthew Pavlich left out of 2010 All-Australian team". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 14 September 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
- 1 2 Paton, Al (31 August 2010). "Collingwood captain Nick Maxwell misses All-Australian cut". Herald Sun. Retrieved 13 September 2010.