I can pick out a heap of draft selections in the last decade or so alone that were worse. Far far worse.
- macasey over Young/serong
- Dylan Stephens over young/serong
- mcCartin over petracca
- Billings over Bont
- paddy Dow over LDU
- Schache instead of Curnow/Mckay
- north selected Will Walker at 23 in 2017. In the following 10 picks, Tim Kelly, Ryan, Sam Taylor, Daniels, Fritsch, Balta, Tom McCartin were all picked. All much superior to Logan McD. You wanna hang shit on north for a bad draft pick? - there’s one right there.
Also comparing Lance Franklin in the same breath as Logan mcdonald, you know better that that lol
The point is Logan is a league average footballer at best. He’s not generational or a superstar, or even an AA level player. He’s not a huge miss.
Thats the point. Missing out on gun players hurts at draft time in retrospect.
Picking a C grader instead of a D grader doesn’t hurt near as much.
I thought Tambling was a pretty good comparison for Phillips tbh. Still do hence why I originally said Buddy except a good player rather than all time great.
McDonald is better than a C Grader even now. C Graders don’t kick 30 goals in a season - that’s an above average KPF even when you ignore everything else he does and that he’s in his fourth year.
I actually think this is worse at the time than any of the picks you’ve stated tbh. Everyone except North had McDonald ahead of Phillips - those picks you’ve said are either 50/50 or were always happening the way they did. My point is more about how obvious it was from day one - Hindsight doesn’t even need to come into it IMO.
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