Playing devils avoacado, Greg Beck often had all his early picks traded away and left him not much to work with
You also never know what his instructions were, instead of going for best available he could have been told by the coach "We need a small forward" (Pettifer) or "We need some pace in the midfield" (Fiora). Having Richo & Ottens on the list meant that our coach was comfortable with those positions being sorted so looked for guns elsewhere rather than making long term structural decisions.
He had some decent pick ups with late selections who played quite a few games with us, but also that is a bit of a false economy as they often were the only players we had so were given games by default
At the end of the day, without being a fly on the wall for the 8 years he was with us we'll never know how much was his ineptitude and how much was the coach at the time. Given the coaches we had in those 8 years, even working together, they wouldn't be able to organise a root in a brothel with a fistful of 50s.