we're not all happy to just scrape into the finals claw, take it easy.
From where we are coming from, most are happy to see we are finally on the right track, this doesnt mean we all expect to see jackson, edwards, King, nahas, mcguane, white etc etc stay a part of this over the next several years, we expect the natural progression to continue and that over the next 2-3-4-5 drafts(actually every draft from here on in) we will continue to cut the deadwood and grow the list and with it, grow our DEPTH! Telling us all the bleeding obvious, is a futile excercise - we know - save that sort of preaching for BF 
i will ask just one question.
not talking best 22 here . is our list a finals list. will refine it. take out rookies and say two or 3 development players who are obviously a way off do we have say 30 - 35 players who can take us to finals.are our bottom 6 in the 22 good enough and if we lose just good players a mixture that is of those up to standard thru to v/good will we crash and dive.
ive seen this before and ive gotta tell ya i carry on so much because ive seen us so many time think the job is done when theres miles to go. i can tell ya now if this rebuild goes off the rails there will be many of us who will say no more see ya later do the hard yards and see it right thru for just once in 27yrs.
if we all run around patting each other on the back we are all going to end up believing we are there. i will at every single opportunity point out to supporters that we have a long way to go. i will only stop when we have the depth and quality to have sustained success based on what has worked for other clubs who have had dynastys. sorry if i pee people off but i wont get burnt by this mob again.
you know what the obvious is we are setting ourselves up for another fall.
I agree with that, we've all seen this club do things half arsed for 30 bloody years now, but you know what? I dont have the fear we will do it again, Ive seen enough to know that finally we have grown as a club and doing things right. Not saying this football department team will net us a flag or that we cant do it better, but what theyve done is put us back in the game and I have every confidence in them that we wont deviate.
Do i think we have a finals list? Nope, no depth
but we have a side that with some luck with injuries will see us give it a shake this season, which is premature to what i realistically expected. The important thing is that now duds like Jackson and Edwards are at least playing a role within the side which has seen their brain explosion hurt factor moments drop bigtime and has actually seen them legitimately contribute to the cuase the past few weeks. They arent the future but if we can get these types to contribute this way whilst they are on our list, all the better.
Like you, I think this draft is HUGE for us, just HUGE, I think a big problem we have atm is that the only young developing midfielder we have waiting in the wings really, is Arnott. We need to clean out a fair few and bring in 3-4 young mids min this draft to replace some list cloggers. We need to keep going through small fwds we only have maric and turner waiting in the wings, i have doubts on both long term, so how we going to upgrade Nahas and King? Im under no illusion we need to turn over a fair few, but geez we are playing some good footy now, so im going to enjoy it
