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no, as I said, Lukosius had not made any comment about what he preferred as far as I could tell. Then there were guys like Chayce jones at 8 - a tasmanian with no go home issues etc. Taking players who are still 1st round talent is not taking bad players. Most years the crows only ever have 1 1st round pick and generally it is in the teens and we have done ok. The issue you have and it seems it has already started is how to hang on to players that are going to be really highly sought after - Rankine and Lukosius won't be flying under any radars and nor will Ben King. How demoralising will it be for Ainsworth, Brodie and Florini if Lukosius manager puts a massive deal to him from another club this up coming year and he says - GC - I'm out. At least with taking less high profile 1st round who are still top players anyway, they may be there longer and establish the club to a better position whilst it brings ion more talent in the coming seasonsThe way you talk about it , might as well pick all GC academy players , no go home factor At pick 2,3,6 . Lynch and May stayed for 7 + year before they left because of lack of success , getting players with less skill will make players like Ainsworth , Florini , Brodie ask to be trade in a few years because of lack of success.
Your strategy only work if those players ( Jones, Hately ) suggested are equal or better than Ainsworth , Bowes ,Weller and Brodie .
Edit - even with the strategy the club took - surely to mitigate the go home factor, instead of taking Rankine who being indigenous and having close family ties in Adelaide - they take Max King at 3 so to keep both king twins together with Lukosius. As was mentioned you have plenty of smaller players and need the key position players. Having both King twins is surely better than taking 1 unless the club is banking on getting a better return for him in 2 years time when his contract is up and he wants to go back to melbourne with his brother?
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