2014 All-Australian team

The 2014 Virgin Australia All-Australian team represents the best performed Australian Football League (AFL) players during the 2014 season. It was announced on 16 September as a complete Australian rules football team of 22 players.[1] The team is honorary and does not play any games.

Selection process

The selection panel for the 2014 All-Australian team consisted of chairman Gillon McLachlan, Kevin Bartlett, Luke Darcy, Mark Evans, Danny Frawley, Glen Jakovich, Cameron Ling, Matthew Richardson and Warren Tredrea.

Team
2014 All-Australian team
B: Cale Hooker (Essendon) Daniel Talia (Adelaide) Nick Smith (Sydney)
HB: Nick Malceski (Sydney) Alex Rance (Richmond) Brodie Smith (Adelaide)
C: Nathan Fyfe (Fremantle) Josh Kennedy (Sydney) Dyson Heppell (Essendon)
HF: Robbie Gray (Port Adelaide) Nick Riewoldt (St Kilda) (vice-captain) Luke Breust (Hawthorn)
F: Hayden Ballantyne (Fremantle) Lance Franklin (Sydney) Jarryd Roughead (Hawthorn)
Foll: Aaron Sandilands (Fremantle) Joel Selwood (Geelong) (captain) Gary Ablett Jr. (Gold Coast)
Int: Jordan Lewis (Hawthorn) Scott Pendlebury (Collingwood) Travis Boak (Port Adelaide)
Tom Rockliff (Brisbane Lions)    
Coach: Alastair Clarkson (Hawthorn)

Note: the position of coach in the All-Australian team is traditionally awarded to the coach of the premiership team.

West Coast midfielder Matt Priddis won that year's Brownlow Medal but didn't make the final All-Australian team. It was the first time this had happened since Melbourne midfielder Shane Woewodin missed selection in 2000.

Initial squad

While Melbourne was the only club not to receive a nomination, co-captain Nathan Jones was considered unlucky given 2014 was his best season statistically.[2]

gollark: If it really was mostly user-defined, then you'd expect a bunch of oscillation for a while as it alternates between "lots in cave, lots being picked up" and "few in cave, few being picked up" before reaching a mostly-stable state until trends disrupt it.
gollark: Ah, yes, that's true.
gollark: 1. most players will have non-rare stuff more than rarer stuff2. said non-rare stuff does not end up suddenly becoming rare "because ratios".
gollark: Okay then, but it does seem a bit weird based on observations of stuff.
gollark: So, golds are set higher but other stuff is set the same but affected by ratios? I kind of doubt that.

References
  1. "Gary Ablett, Nathan Fyfe and Lance Franklin named in All Australian AFL team of the year". 16 September 2014.
  2. Guthrie, Ben (11 September 2014). "Demons keen to keep Nathan Jones". AFL.com.au. Telstra Media. Retrieved 3 November 2014.


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