Most clubs now don't want to be forced to be 24/7 babysitters of what are meant to be young adults and use up club resources worrying about one player at the expense of the rest of the list. As al has said, the days of getting drafted on natural talent alone as gone.
Well he will get picked up and your theory will be wrong
Hawks most likely will pick em up, if not many other suitors ready to pounce
And what happens if he doesn't work out? There are no guarantees here to suggest it workout with Garlett so to suggest otherwise is..well... foolish.
Just say we did pick him up (and I don't care if they do & ditto if they don't), it doesn't work out and he ends up being like the Troy Taylor experiment. Who will you blame? The Club or the player?
Hawks had Carl Peterson for a time, people on here bagged our Club about letting him go because he played a handful of good games for the Hawks. Then low & behold the Hawks ended up flicking him too.... for the same reasons we did
As I said there are no guarantees and it doesn't matter who the club is
suppose it comes down to which pick hawthorn use on him. pick 58 is worth risking on garlett imo.
at this pick taking any other kid is a risk lets say talent wise.
if hawthorn use 58 on another kid it is more likely to fail than succeed thats the hard reality. theres no guarantees.
the risk with garlett is not skills but supposedly attitude there are no guarantees. at pick 58 its a risk either way so for me it then becomes an issue of risk / reward.
with any other kid its a high risk for likely low reward. if he makes it and its a big if hes likely only going to be a decent player at best.
with garlett its still high risk but bloody hell if he makes its high reward because of his skillset.
as for the baysitter comments of some. if they took the time to find out what the kids done the last 12months they would see there are no babysitters. hes done it all off his own back if anything hes shown a real desire to succeed.
