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It's Milesi's doing.These are the draft pick hits that Sam will be judged on... need to nail more of them.
Milesi reports to Sam, but, operationally, Milesi leads the draft talent identification.
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It's Milesi's doing.These are the draft pick hits that Sam will be judged on... need to nail more of them.
These are the draft pick hits that Sam will be judged on... need to nail more of them.
Tom Williams wasn’t a miss. When he was on the park he was A Grade and one of the only defenders who could hold down Buddy in his prime. Unfortunately his body was more broken than not 90% of the time.naw, nailing first rounders (or not) is way more significant.
Its why Scott Clayton in hindsight was a flop - he burned so many top picks on average players
Tom Williams - pick 6
Jarrod grant - pick 5
Andrej Everitt - pick 11
Christian Howard - pick 15
just miss after miss with our best picks
Agree. And apart from Jordan Lewis at pick 7 there wasn’t really a lot left in that 2004 draft.Tom Williams wasn’t a miss. When he was on the park he was A Grade and one of the only defenders who could hold down Buddy in his prime. Unfortunately his body was more broken than not 90% of the time.
Christian Howard was a Dalrymple pick. Not Clayton.naw, nailing first rounders (or not) is way more significant.
Its why Scott Clayton in hindsight was a flop - he burned so many top picks on average players
Tom Williams - pick 6
Jarrod grant - pick 5
Andrej Everitt - pick 11
Christian Howard - pick 15
just miss after miss with our best picks
Christian Howard was a Dalrymple pick. Not Clayton.
You can't "hope" that who you sincerely think is the best talent at the time would last, especially if you legimatley think he'd be better than lewis.right. Kind of fits - Clayton seemed to prioritise athleticism , and Howard was not that.
As for Williams, we can agree to disagree - he was an athlete first. Pretty new to footy before being drafted, which made him a huge risk to be taken so early. He eventually turned out to be serviceable when fit, but pick 6 material? Spending that kind of currency on someone with so little experience was irresponsible. Ok, it was shit draft (after Lewis), but that doesnt excuse it in hindsight. A good recruiter would have taken Lewis and hoped for Williams to drop to 2nd round at least - which he probably would have.
Anyway, the point remains - nailing the most valuable picks is how we need to judge our recruiters
You can't "hope" that who you sincerely think is the best talent at the time would last, especially if you legimatley think he'd be better than lewis.
Only three players (Lewis, Monfries, Lydenn Dunn) in the top 25 or so had meaninfully better careers than him. Even players that had worse or equal better careers than him did so with better injury luck than Williams.
Of course it looks bad with Jordan Lewis next pick but surely in terms of identifying the best football talent at the time, given the lack of other talent that was considered top 20-25 worhty, the fact that Williams was identified ahead of them can actually be considered right?
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Uberflog yes. But he would have been OUR uberflog.I think we're all forgetting the vitally important point that picking Williams allowed us to not have the uberflog that is Jordan Lewis at our football club.
Clayton was doing us all a favour, for the greater good.