If we did draft a ‘gun’ with all those first round picks, would they have stuck around with less opportunities behind our premiership stars? Would we have been able to retain their next salary after their draft deal with other clubs sniffing around? Would we have been able to recruit the players we have from other clubs when accounting for the cap space the gun round 1 draft picks would have taken?
Take Cripps for example, if we had taken him instead of Lennon, I can see a situation whereby dusty would have walked in free agency as the difference btw our offer and norths would be too much to turn down. If somehow we kept dusty, then there’s no way lynch would have fit into our cap and so on and so on.
What I’m trying to get at is that’s it’s not as simple as just taking out our current bottom 6 players and replacing them with these gun round 1 draft picks.