Not necessarily, consider blokes taken away from their SANFL clubs over recent years like Duigan, Puopolo, Phillips, Giles and Coad just to name a few ...
Catch 22, the blokes who are good enough to play AFL footy are going to be the same ones with maximum SANFL output. The only way to get around it is for a club to strike it lucky with someone like Walker who dominated the SANFL beyond all expectations yet still didn't get a run with the Crows.
I would expect Cloke and Harding to be amongst the first selections being rookies meaning they probably won't play AFL right away but experienced enough to dominate the SANFL, but after that it's a bit of a crap shoot presumably with the players going in near draft order with a real project like...
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