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If you have a healthy list with a healthy spread of players age, you only need to find 2 good recruits most years, and a third sometimes.
StKilda's poor history pre-dates Lyon, and would be worse if we hadn't picked up smokeys like Milne, Gwilt, and Fisher.
Including players at the level of McQualter and Raph, and Leigh Fisher and Goose. The numbers include 5 Rookies.
2000 , 3
2001 , 5
2002 , 2
2003 , 2
2004 , 2
2005 , 1
2006 , 3
2007, 2
2008 , maximum 2
2009, 0
2010, maximum 4
So from 2000 to 2007 we were averaging 2.5 / year
from 2002 to 2010 we have averaged a maximum of 1.7 /year
Drafting mature age players only brings forward a future problem.
In 2000 we traded a first round pick for a player who was good for 4 seasons, and another early pick for a player who was good for 7 seasons
In 2001 we traded a first round pick (James Kelly pick ) for a guy who went home to mummy after 3 seasons, leaving us with a player we had no desire for.
In 2002 we traded a first and 2nd round pick for a guy who would clog the list with 8 games in four years.
We kept our pick in 2003, and Raph was a reasonable choice, it would have actually been a good time to trade.
2004, Ditto 2003, but McQualter
2005 Traded our first pick for a guy who went on to play one game
2006 Grabbed Armo
2007 Grabbed McEvoy
2008 Got Lynch who was unsuccessful, but we recovered a 2nd rounder.
2009 Arrrrrrrgggggggggg ( another first rounder gone )
2010 Got another W.A. mommy's boy.
This seems to indicate DO NOT TRADE THE BLOODY FIRST ROUNDER UNLESS YOU CAN GET FRASER GEHRIG.
Even with Gehrig, his retirement ended up happening at the worst possible time.
Even Cripps, McQualter, and Raph were not the total losses some of these bigshot trades ended up as.
6 big trades. 1 good. 2 cut short 3 disasters
10 first round drafts, 3 really good, 3 good, 2 ordinary . 2 left of their own accord but are still playing ( different issue ).
This is why Watters has needed to hedge his bets, otherwise we will run out of players.
Downgrading our draft pick in 2011, still gave us Ross, but we have a chance with Milera and Saad.
Watters/Pelchin/Trout are giving us multiple chances.
All of Lee/Wright/White/Hickey will not fail.
If we can get all this back on track, then all we need to do is find 2 to 3 good players a year.
Look at Melbourne, how many good players have they lost from their list through premature retirement and disgruntled players. Was it worth it for a couple of early picks? How will they replace them all?
StKilda's poor history pre-dates Lyon, and would be worse if we hadn't picked up smokeys like Milne, Gwilt, and Fisher.
Including players at the level of McQualter and Raph, and Leigh Fisher and Goose. The numbers include 5 Rookies.
2000 , 3
2001 , 5
2002 , 2
2003 , 2
2004 , 2
2005 , 1
2006 , 3
2007, 2
2008 , maximum 2
2009, 0
2010, maximum 4
So from 2000 to 2007 we were averaging 2.5 / year
from 2002 to 2010 we have averaged a maximum of 1.7 /year
Drafting mature age players only brings forward a future problem.
In 2000 we traded a first round pick for a player who was good for 4 seasons, and another early pick for a player who was good for 7 seasons
In 2001 we traded a first round pick (James Kelly pick ) for a guy who went home to mummy after 3 seasons, leaving us with a player we had no desire for.
In 2002 we traded a first and 2nd round pick for a guy who would clog the list with 8 games in four years.
We kept our pick in 2003, and Raph was a reasonable choice, it would have actually been a good time to trade.
2004, Ditto 2003, but McQualter
2005 Traded our first pick for a guy who went on to play one game
2006 Grabbed Armo
2007 Grabbed McEvoy
2008 Got Lynch who was unsuccessful, but we recovered a 2nd rounder.
2009 Arrrrrrrgggggggggg ( another first rounder gone )
2010 Got another W.A. mommy's boy.
This seems to indicate DO NOT TRADE THE BLOODY FIRST ROUNDER UNLESS YOU CAN GET FRASER GEHRIG.
Even with Gehrig, his retirement ended up happening at the worst possible time.
Even Cripps, McQualter, and Raph were not the total losses some of these bigshot trades ended up as.
6 big trades. 1 good. 2 cut short 3 disasters
10 first round drafts, 3 really good, 3 good, 2 ordinary . 2 left of their own accord but are still playing ( different issue ).
This is why Watters has needed to hedge his bets, otherwise we will run out of players.
Downgrading our draft pick in 2011, still gave us Ross, but we have a chance with Milera and Saad.
Watters/Pelchin/Trout are giving us multiple chances.
All of Lee/Wright/White/Hickey will not fail.
If we can get all this back on track, then all we need to do is find 2 to 3 good players a year.
Look at Melbourne, how many good players have they lost from their list through premature retirement and disgruntled players. Was it worth it for a couple of early picks? How will they replace them all?

