We have suffered paying overs for players at the trade table. Beams mental health issues Treloar the double hamstrings we never got value on the trade.It helps Dan is already a star in a position of need. Other than Naicos who is better than him? The injury risk also applies to the unknown draftee and we’ve already suffered on that front multiple times.
Collingwood’s issue for mine is not that draft picks have failed with injury as Freeman and Scharenberg would be 30 themselves next year.
It’s that we took a gamble in 2020 loading up with kids, Henry, Finn, Reef, Poulter, McMahon, McCreey, Ginivan and Chugg. 8 kids in one year is a lot to bring in, we lost Henry and Ginivan two who made the cut, Fin and Reef haven’t delivered, Poulter McMahon and Chugg all got cut and McCreey is the only one from that 8 that made it. The gamble in 2020 was that we could find some diamonds in the rough due to the season being cancelled and no top age form to judge off, it failed