- Aug 9, 2016
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If any club offered 5 picks in the 3rd, 4th and 5th round for a #1-3 pick, they would be laughed out of the room.
I'll play devils advocate here. You are effectively saying that highly talented prospects are worth thirty times a rookie being someone at cusp of main draft. That's the point system. Yet our starting line up is littered with rookies. Does that not say that development and coaching are more important to creation of a top line afl player? Either that or the fact that development per se is unequal in the timeline it manifests? And if those statements are true then are we star gazing when so much value is placed on a youth who initially shows more aptitude?
Something doesn't reconcile yet people are adament of the correctness of that approach and that value. I know I'm out of step and that may mean I simply don't understand but there seems to be an anomaly in methodology. The outcomes don't support the theory