Fair enough. I'd speculate draftees are being increasinglgy blunt about where they want to be, and Howes and Bazzo wanted to be home. We could have used a player of their types for sure, but if the only ones we rated didn't want to come....Sometimes its better to say nothing.... but I've never been one to follow good advice.
Firstly, dont get me wrong, we haven't drafted bad players. I can see the potential in all of them.
I just don't understand the mix of player we drafted or why we abandoned kicking skills as a pre requisite to being drafted.
Roberts is a good player but after getting Sheldrick, knowing Anderson is coming and expecting Murley, Dittmar or Long would be available at our 3rd there was no reason not to pick a point of difference player at our 2nd. If we had picked Howes, Bazzo or Taylor at our 2nd I'd have felt much better about this draft. My personal opinion is this draft haul doesn't move us forward and also doesn't plug some of our gaps
To me it seems we've prioritised a bit of physicality and mongrel. And found the type of guys that will not cry about missing mum's cooking but get on with it. We've liked what Gulden, Chad and McInerney too bought to the team early on in their careers and thought, yep, lets get some more of that in. This is a team building to knock the likes of the Dogs, Dees and maybe GWS off the ball and have the pace to get away and do something with it. And I'm here for it.
I think this has been a strong draft for us, but sure not a perfect one.