- Sep 25, 2013
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- St Kilda
If GC get a priority pick this year it will be an absolute farce.
Out of curiosity i looked at the win loss for us, blues and suns since their debut year. I’ve taken off the first 2 seasons as they were pretty much full of 18 year old kids with zero experience and were never going to succeed in those years.
Since 2013:
St Kilda wins 42
Carlton wins 37
GC wins 38
Draft picks aren’t going to help them. Building culture and development is the only thing that can save them. Cause the kids will just keep walking out the door.
The draft needs to be addressed by the AFL cause as it stands it doesn’t work. Rooey made a good point the other day: the only thing that separates the bottom team and top team is a pick 17 places apart. A player makes up 5% of a team. Hardly enough to turn a bottom side into a contender. If you want to trade for a superstar it costs 2 first rounders.
Compared to basketetball, Zion Williamson this years no1 makes up 20%. Enough to make a huge impact on the success of the team.
The first 20 picks should go to the bottom 10 sides. 18th gets pick 1 and 11 and so on. The top 8 begin picks at 21, with first place getting 28.
The draft then goes in order from 29 onwards as normal.
This would fast track the rebuild of struggling clubs either by draft or trading their picks for A graders.
Our last 3 drafts would look like this:
2016 10 Bowes, 20 Cumming and 38 Sean Darcy
2017 8 Coffield, 18 Starcevich and 36 Constable
2018 3 King, 13 Quaynor and 31 Foley
The above takes only into consideration who was drafted at that pick and disregards academy or father son. Also Rankine went pick 3 but i think we would’ve gone King anyway. Also doesn’t take into traded picks.
Our future would look a lot rosier with those 9 names than it does at the moment
Out of curiosity i looked at the win loss for us, blues and suns since their debut year. I’ve taken off the first 2 seasons as they were pretty much full of 18 year old kids with zero experience and were never going to succeed in those years.
Since 2013:
St Kilda wins 42
Carlton wins 37
GC wins 38
Draft picks aren’t going to help them. Building culture and development is the only thing that can save them. Cause the kids will just keep walking out the door.
The draft needs to be addressed by the AFL cause as it stands it doesn’t work. Rooey made a good point the other day: the only thing that separates the bottom team and top team is a pick 17 places apart. A player makes up 5% of a team. Hardly enough to turn a bottom side into a contender. If you want to trade for a superstar it costs 2 first rounders.
Compared to basketetball, Zion Williamson this years no1 makes up 20%. Enough to make a huge impact on the success of the team.
The first 20 picks should go to the bottom 10 sides. 18th gets pick 1 and 11 and so on. The top 8 begin picks at 21, with first place getting 28.
The draft then goes in order from 29 onwards as normal.
This would fast track the rebuild of struggling clubs either by draft or trading their picks for A graders.
Our last 3 drafts would look like this:
2016 10 Bowes, 20 Cumming and 38 Sean Darcy
2017 8 Coffield, 18 Starcevich and 36 Constable
2018 3 King, 13 Quaynor and 31 Foley
The above takes only into consideration who was drafted at that pick and disregards academy or father son. Also Rankine went pick 3 but i think we would’ve gone King anyway. Also doesn’t take into traded picks.
Our future would look a lot rosier with those 9 names than it does at the moment