pick 74 hey.
a pick they reckon they werent going to use.
just had a look at all our picks from pick 50 onwards since 2000. it doesnt make for pretty reading.
the best we have managed with picks after 50 in that time is tuck and mark graham who were both mature recruits, grahams circumstance similar to edwards this yr with age etc.
raines still plays for brisbane and most tiger supporters have no time for him.
all those picks over all those yrs and how many good players have we found after pick 50. seems to me we are better off taking mature players with these types of picks.
needed to add newman at 55 in 2000 and jackson at 53 in 2003.
just on picks over 50.
i had a look at geelong probably the most succesful side since 2000.
i count just 13 nd picks used past pick 50 since 2000. two of them f/s picks. compared to 26 odd by us. so we have used twice as many picks past this point. a point with a extremly high fail rate
geelong have used 40 top 50 picks since 2000. richmond have used 34 top 50 picks despite finishing contantly in the bottom 8 and warping that figure with 6 top 50 picks in 2004.
we have a side above us actually useing more of the successful picks than us over a long period of time.
where we use our picks and how we use them is important.
to me the success rate of mature state league players is pretty decent. ithink with later picks past 50 we should be useing them more on mature players. we may not get 100 game players with the likes of edwards but we will get players who can make a short term decent contribution rather than no contribution at all.
anyway just thought it might be interesting for some.