Great delisting but I dont think people should get ahead of themselves, just because we have got rid of a bunch of players that couldn't do it for us, doesn't mean the young kids we have can.
Drafting is a weeding process and we should draft as many new kids for as much possible talent as we can and weed out those who can't. We aren't in any kind of finals shape and wont be so for 2 or 3 years at best.
From last years draft of 14 new faces, we have already lost 1. I would not be surprised if we lose 6 more in the next 2-3 years as it becomes obvious they can't perform at AFL level. That would be a %50 hit rate which is about average.
From this years 11 (I really do hope we take 11 new faces and not 9) we will keep about 5, with half a dozen or so originals, 7 from last year and 5 from this year in 2 years we could have a competitive team.
I still think we will need this years and the next two years drafts to go well too.
We are so far away from being finals competitive at the moment, only 3 players have player 100+ games and 13 in total 50+, lets not get ahead of ourselves.
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. I agree we are a fair way away from finals. Not sure where Craig Cameron gets 2012 from ???.
The problem in the past is we've not only been well below the 50% hit rate but we've compounded the problem by having/using so few picks on kids to begin with
. Hopefully using 7 ND picks last year and 5 ND picks this year (with one up our sleeve for the future) are of sign we're starting to understand how to use the National draft properly. It of course could've been much better if we had tanked (less than 4 wins in each of 2009-10) and collected another top 4 and top 20 pick
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For mine if you gain 3 best 22 players from one draft then your on par. Anything below that is a shocker. Gaining 4 best 22 players is a good draft and 5+ is an excellent draft (such as Geelong in 1999, 2001 and the Pies in 2006). You also want to find at least one A-grader per year in that lot. So going through our list ...
2000 - FAILChris Newman - National Draft (No.53)
2001 - FAIL ..... so much for the superdraft 2002 - FAILKelvin Moore – Rookie Draft (No.3) – promoted to senior list 2004
2003 - PAR . .....Foley being injured though has hurt us.Daniel Jackson – National Draft (No.53)
Shane Tuck - National Draft (No.71)
Nathan Foley – Rookie Draft (No.4) – promoted to senior list 2005
2004 - FAIL ....Lids is A-grade but Thursty and McGuane on borrowed time for mine. All those other picks goneski Brett Deledio – National Draft (No.1)
Luke McGuane - National Draft (No.36)
Will Thursfield – Rookie Draft (No.1) – promoted to senior list 2005
2005 - FAIL ...... just 3 picks in the ND was pathetic for a club meant to be rebuilding. Matthew White – Pre-Season Draft (No.5)
Angus Graham – Rookie Draft (No.5) – promoted to senior list 2008
2006 - PAR-ish .... Jack is A-grade but jury still out on the rest. Kingy on borrowed time for mine despite his yearJack Riewoldt – National Draft (No.13)
Shane Edwards – National Draft (No.26)
Daniel Connors – National Draft (No.58)
Jake King – Rookie Draft (No.24) - promoted to senior list 2007
2007 ..... Cotch has the ability to be A-grade. Need at least two of the other 3 to make it to score a PAR.Mitch Morton - Exchange period (traded by West Coast)
Trent Cotchin – National Draft (No.2)
Alex Rance – National Draft (No.18 )
David Gourdis - Pre-Season Draft (No.1)
2008 ..... Jury still out on TV, Postie and Browne as talls take longer to develop. Nahas will be lucky to survive this time next year. Tempting to give it a FAIL just for the fact that there's only 4 left just two years later and only 2 picks on kids in the National draft was a disgrace .Tyrone Vickery - National Draft (No.8 )
Jayden Post - National Draft (No. 26)
Robin Nahas - Rookie Draft (No.8 )
Andrew Browne - Rookie Draft (No.39)
2009 ..... Too early to tell after just one year. Has the potential to be our only above-par to excellent draft of the past decade. No guarantees at this stage though. Here's hoping we get 5+ best-22ers and even a couple of future A-graders from this groupMitch Farmer - Exchange period (traded by Port Adelaide)
Dustin Martin - National Draft (No.3)
Ben Griffiths - National Draft (No.19)
David Astbury - National Draft (No.35)
Matthew Dea - National Draft (No.44)
Troy Taylor - National Draft (No.51)
Jeromey Webberley - National Draft (No.67)
Ben Nason - National Draft (No.71)
Dylan Grimes - Pre-Season Draft (No.2)
Robbie Hicks - Rookie Draft (No.7)
Pat Contin - Rookie Draft (No.23)
Nick Westhoff - Rookie Draft (No.51)
Jamie O'Reilly - Rookie Draft (No.70)
2010 ..... yet to conclude. At least we'll have 5 picks in the NDShaun Grigg - Exchange period (traded by Carlton)