Our coaches are farken idiots.
AFC is like a government department, once you have tenure you’re in until they drag you out in a coffin.
To be fair Taylor has had fitness and injury issues for most of his Crows tenure...A LOT OF.
Another Ogilivie drafting gem. His skinny frame was miles off AFL level when we first drafted him too. Murray, Keane and Nank have been shrewd selections in recent years.
Whist that is correct that talent can come from anywhere, the odds of hitting talent the closer to pick 1 you have should be greater so missing targets inside the top 10 with all the scouting media spotlight etc on the best kids should be highlighted.
We seem to erase all learning from the previous season over the summer. It always takes us 4-5 rounds to re-learn it.
We get seduced by the Brent Reilly types who look amazing against the traffic cones. They are great at following instructions but not so good at executing under AFL standard pressure.
At the end of the day, do you think Sydney cares about taking Dylan Stephens with pick 5 in 2019, when they hit gold at pick 39 with Chad Warner?
Or..scary option...we nail the 1st round pick AND the later pick where the chances of nailing talent in the 1st round is greater than later rounds as you are getting one of the first picked best kids in the land
You didn’t actually answer my question. No club nails every first round pick, it’s about maximizing every mechanism of recruiting.
You'd be very mistaken if you think AFL recruiters boards look the same as the media draft boards hence why often players are classed by the media as "sliders", for instance 2 SA lads were spoken about as 1st round chances at different times in Arlo Draper and Kobe Ryan especially but ended going much later and not at all even in the rookie draft. No player to my recollection we've taken in the 1st round wasn't spoken about as a 1st round possibility so no picks you'd call a real stretch especially picks taken outside the 1st 10.
Its not the point though is it. The clear point i am making to BACCS is that if they can pick the right players with later picks, the odds they should be picking the right players with higher picks is much greater so why have we missed so often in the 1st round? Forget the media then, all clubs have extensive scouting networks, watch these guys many many times and we have the national champs where the best kids get to play against each other so none of them are site unseen.
It is the point. Why don’t Sydney cop it for drafting a Dylan Stephens at pick 5? Because he was always rated a top 10 selection and got Warner later, so net result is the same, they got an elite mid in that draft.
Exactly, Hamish is on record as saying had the Sun's taken Rachele we'd likely have taken Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera so obviously our guys also rated him highly.
Gallucci, McHenry, Jones, Milera, McAsey represent 4 drafts where we have badly lost out at the top end and those busts are haunting us to this day as we have a shortage of top end talent in that 23-27 age group. You say Pedlar but he is at the crossroads where he might not be the player we all want him to be. MM was a father son and bid on inside the first round - by Sydney no less!! so he is a 1st round pick and probably the best of the lot.
Oh ok, so we are only looking at first round busts and ignoring anything else done to build a list?
How many different ways do you want to keep missing the point? - we expect that the 1st round picks we make are not busts as the earlier you pick, the greater the pool of quality kids should be there to pick. Up until 2020, our track record of drafting at the top end has been that poor we are still paying the price for it now. And for every hit we have had later in the draft, how many misses have we also had to go along with the misses at the top end.
Picking up talent at any stage of the draft is important, there is no guarantee with any kid you take at 18 years of age.
