Jarrod and the Berry boys
Jarrod Berry was at home, playing on the PlayStation, on the day everything changed.
Emma Quayle joined The Age as a cadet journalist in 1999 and has been covering football since 2001. She has won awards from the Australian Football Media Association and AFL Players Association for her feature writing, and specialised for many years in covering junior football and the AFL draft. Emma's two books - The Draft and Nine Lives (the story of former Essendon wingman Adam Ramanauskas' battle with cancer) - were published in 2008 and 2010.
Jarrod Berry was at home, playing on the PlayStation, on the day everything changed.
Tim Taranto won't have too much time this week to sit around wondering where he will be playing football next year.
Former Hawthorn recruiting manager John Turnbull lost his job because he picked Luke Hodge instead of Chris Judd in the 2001 Superdraft.
Andrew McGrath was born near Toronto and moved to Melbourne when he was five. Could he be Canada's first No.1 pick in the AFL draft?
The third of a three-part series ahead of this week's national draft.
The second of a three-part series ahead of next week's AFL national draft.
Draft expert Emma Quayle ranks her best 30 prospects in next week's AFL national draft.
When Hugh McCluggage was six he would spend hours out the back of his family's house near Warrnambool, working on the dairy farm.
Dane Swan had only just started schoolies week on the Gold Coast when he was chosen by Collingwood at pick 58 in the 2001 draft.
After sending a text message, Cedric Cox booked flights and headed from remote Halls Creek to country Victoria to follow his football dream.
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