It seemed to change from when Francis Jackson became full time ifor the 2006 draft. So the 2025 draft will be 20 years with so far only Conca amongst the rd 1 picks having go home factor attached. And he eventually went home.
yeah but there are so many more variables to picking a player than state.
the draft is 50% Victorian, so before you consider any other factor such as talent tiers, positions etc… there’s about a 1 in 2 chance the kid will be Victoria.
I don’t know what the vic 1st rounds compared to interstate ratio is but since Hodge there has only been 3 non Victoria no.1 picks (maybe I missed one?) Cooney, Swallow and JHF, who we threw a truckload at Norf to pick, so obviously despite his go home thing we weren’t fussed.
If we deem the kid is the highest rated player on our board I reckon we will back ourselves to keep them.






agree