Revealed: Brighton Grammar’s best team of the past 50 years

It is a school that has had two No.1 draft picks in the past 13 years alone. But who makes Brighton Grammar’s best team of the past 50 years?

Former No.1 draft pick Jack Watts was a Brighton Grammar product. Picture: Getty Images

Two No.1 draft picks, a Collingwood 2010 premiership player and one of the biggest off-field characters to ever play the game.

Brighton Grammar has produced its fair share of AFL talent — including a trio of current-day young guns.

Jack Watts is perhaps the best-known player to come out of the prestigious school, given he began playing senior football for Melbourne while he was still in Year 12 at Brighton Grammar.

Watts was drafted by the Demons with pick No.1 in the 2008 national draft, while still aged 17.

He played three AFL games for Melbourne in 2009 while still completing his final year of school.

Watts went on to play 152 games for the Demons until the end of 2017, when he was traded to Port Adelaide.

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Brighton Grammar product Jack Watts kicked 161 AFL goals. Picture: Michael Klein

Injury cut short his career at the Power, with retirement coming in 2020.

Watts finished his AFL playing days on 174 games and kicked 161 goals.

He was known as a versatile player who could be used up forward or as an outside midfielder.

Former Sydney and Brisbane Bears high-flyer Warwick Capper did not complete his schooling at Brighton Grammar, but was at the Melbourne school until the end of Year 9.

The forward, who recorded a 1985 single ‘I Only Take What’s Mine’, was a talented player on the field but became best-known for his off-field antics.

However, Capper was a four-time Swans leading goalkicker in the mid-1980s as well as winning the award in 1988 with the Bears.

The 124-game player kicked 388 goals at the top level and won the 1987 Mark of the Year award for an unusual mark over the top of Hawthorn’s Chris Langford.

Collingwood 2010 premiership forward Chris Dawes is another Brighton Grammar product.

Dawes, who was also Melbourne’s leading goalkicker in 2014, played 121 AFL games for a return of 130 goals.

Collingwood premiership forward Chris Dawes attended Brighton Grammar.

Eight years after Jack Watts, the school produced another No.1 draft pick in Essendon midfielder Andrew McGrath.

McGrath made an instant impact at the top level, winning the AFL Rising Star award in his debut season in 2017.

Other current AFL players from Brighton Grammar include Greater Western Sydney midfielder Josh Kelly, Melbourne pair Christian Salem and Jayden Hunt.