Pick swap. It will be his downfall.
We swapped a pick so we will effectively have three first round picks in two years.
At this stage we have traded pick 1 to 5ish for pick 19 and 14ish which is an ok trade but not outstanding.
Pick's are all well and good but the only thing that matters is the quality of the player you get with those picks. Both us and Adelaide have not got that far yet.
We will be looking to trade that pick I'm sure, if the pick is good enough to trade then great.
As far as I can see, at this stage it's a win for both clubs. If we get two really good players instead of one then that is a win. If Adelaide get a really good player or they use it in a trade which I think they will then that is a good result for them. They need a ready made gun to improve them, we need numbers of good young players to build our team.
The only defining factor here really is whether Stocker turns out to be a good player and by all indications he is going to.
Imagine how much we'd be all over SOS if his recruiting was like this:
2001
Pick 20 - Elstone - 0 games
2002
8 - Luke Brennan - 28 games
2003
25 - Harry Miller - 18 games
2004
21 - Murphy - 112 average player
26 - Little - 1 game
2005
3 - Ellis - 120 games, no star but ok player
6 - Dowler - 16 games, bust
18 - Bailey - 43 games just a player, bust
22 - Muston - 13 games, bust
2006
6 - Thorp - Bust
24 - Renouf - 68 games average player
For those who are wondering who this is, it's Hawthorn's list of poor to mediocre players taken with early picks. Didn't stop them from building one of the greatest lists you will ever see.
And we have posters here complaining that SOS did a deal to get an extra first round draft pick at the sacrifice of one early pick and we have people complaining SOS is drafting too many duds.
SOS isn't burning first round picks like this and that's the main thing a recruiter must not do. A couple might be just average players but the strike rate is good. With Agresta on board we have picked up guys like Newman, Gibbons and now DeLuca who might well become good players so there's the budget side of our recruiting being ticked off.
I think we need a little dose of reality. Expectations of a recruiting department to be perfect need to be tempered down because that's not the reality of the nature.
SOS is not a Rogers or Hughes and burning early picks and if that box is being ticked then that's the main thing.