before the GF on saturday they were showing how many top 10 draft picks each side had. Saints had 7, pies 8(7 played).
How many do we have? 5, whichever way you look at that simple stat and where we have been for so long - well thats just criminal!!!!
in 2005 and 2006 collinwood got pendles, thomas, reid and brown, thats how successful clubs rebuild, they get a mountain of high draft picks in a short period of time and then build with and around that quality.
you still need top end quality....
but anyhow we dont need them an extra few quality players dnt help
How do you figure 5? That's a furphy. The way I see it we had 8: Cotchin, Deledio, Martin, Polak, Riewoldt, Vickery, Tambling & Cousins.
Then factor in Ottens, Pettifer, Meyer, Pattison and Oakley Nicholls all 1st round picks who are either playing elsewhere right now or retired from AFL but could still be playing. I might have forgotten a few as well!
That's 13 1st rounders in the last 10 years or so, and people still sit here and carp on about quality and tanking and that's the only way forward etc.
It's rubbish. Complete rubbish.