Snarls Barkley
Brownlow Medallist
- Jun 7, 2012
- 11,389
- 14,287
- AFL Club
- Western Bulldogs
- Other Teams
- San Antonio, West Ham, Renegades
Small without great endurance, and injured partway through his draft year so couldn’t storm home and really show what he could do. His draft profile reads like a high risk high reward, x-factor kind of player, and you’ve gotta be really brave to pick that over someone like Smith who was incredibly consistent at a very high level.
They talked about those top 7 and Blakey non-stop that year. They were saying its the best draft since 2001.
It wasn't the wrong pick. The best players in the draft are never going to go exactly in draft order.
And Smith has shown to be a gun. That 2021 finals series was something else and was doing very good things in 2022 until the sniff incident and head butt. 2023 was a write off, and he was played completely out of position which didn't help. Reckon he would have had a bumper 2024 but it wasn't to be