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You can't be serious. So we should just hand out career contracts and players don't have to be good enough to play AFL?
I don’t think I’ve seen Taylor play, or if I have, I haven’t noticed him.
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Hindsight is wonderful but no way it was a "complete draft blunder" when he didn't go a hell of a lot earlier than was predicted with several other clubs showing interest as well as us including Richmond and Melbourne. No doubt Richmond would have liked his manic pressure and running ability suited to their game style at the time. I suppose we could have taken this board's favourite at the time Jackson Hately who hasn't done a whole lot yet to get too carried away with.
Jack Ginnivan recent example we had to pay out Bryce Gibbs when we had the first pick in the rookie draft, usually a good chance at a good player.
Why comment then?
If he was picked at 45 or 65, there would be a lot less expectation. The thing that shits me still was we wasted the opportunity to trade inside the top 7 of that draft. Port did it with a worse draft hand. Any single one of the top 7..who were highly touted at the time, would have been vastly better than taking jones AND McHenry. It to me is as bad as the McAsey pick looks to date interms ofmajor draft blunders
Unlikely given Hately went before McHenry.
The smart play would have been to bundle the picks together for pick 5 which ended up being Rozee.
That freo pick 6 was always gettable. 8 and 16 and freo would have bitten off our hand compared to what port offered. Then even if we stayed there...come on down ben king
I think it's just a bit ridiculous to comment on something like this which is legitimate discussion.
this isn’t having a go at you as I am genuinely saying it in a nice way.. but..
How does that change that he was this board's favourite for a pick around that mark? It doesn't.
We did try to get higher up the draft ladder but Rankine and Lukosius were the targets not Rozee and I daresay if either had been there Rozee wouldn't have been at Powa either.
Surely Taylor debuts early next season & plays a good chunk of games.
That's literally what I said.
You do realise recruiters have all the information predraft and are paid to make good decisions, hindsight doesn’t come into it, they can’t hide behind it and you shouldn’t put it up as a defence. Especially given those 4 first round blunders in a short period.
