McGrath over Taranto (and even McGrath over McCluggage) is shaping as a big mistake for Essendon IMO.
Do you really draft a small outside mid/flanker at #1?
If the best player in each of these drafts so happened to be drafted with pick 6, do you think it would hold more value than pick 1?
Picks are a commodity and regardless of the players obtained with them, their value remains consistent to the order they sit. Astute drafting is not mutually...
...12 is the perfect pick to trade. It's a greta pick but not so good you don't want to get rid of it. When was the last time someone traded a pick #1? It's too much capital. No player is theoretically worth pick 31 (Judd wasn't even) because Pick #1 could be the next Judd, Cripps, Dangerfield...
...currently our trade with Stocker and Adelaide looks iffy but if Stocker was playing TAC Cup this year + a year of AFL development would he go #1? Probably, or close to it. If we can finish 15th and Adelaide 8th or 9th the trade all of a sudden doesn't look so bad.
Drafting his son (BSOS)...