MysticChameleon
Draftee
- Sep 13, 2024
- 2
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- AFL Club
- Collingwood
Didn't we finish 17th the year we got Naicos, I realise we'd traded our pick away to GWS but just in terms of being down the bottom it wasn't that much of a stretch for the second worst team to end up with a top 5 draft player.Of course it is! That's exactly the point. If you want a player like Naicos (who everyone could see was going to be at least very very good) then you pay through the nose. As it stands, he cost almost nothing relative to his likelihood of succeeding.
And great as he's become, at the time he was considered behind Darcy and Horne-Francis by most recruiters. It's only with hindsight - us winning a premiership and Naicos developing to be even better than expected - that people call this out as being unfair. Collingwood's had plenty of misses with fs picks too, but they're less interesting to talk about.