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Who do you think is the all time best draft smokee

I'd say

Chris Grant #105
James Hird #79

imagine getting a player of this calibre that late
 

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Collingwood have a couple of guys who could all turn out to be pretty good in Ben Johnson, Tristan Walker and Julian Rowe, all taken at 60+...
 

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Cameron Ling in the 40's has been great value, considering he was a pudgey forward now is a top midfielder. Football nouse and ability is often better than "athletes"
 

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The best smokies are the players who come through the Rookie List, they didn't even make the draft list.

eg. Chad Fletcher, Cox, Haddrill, 211 etc.
 

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Cameron Ling in the 40's has been great value, considering he was a pudgey forward now is a top midfielder. Football nouse and ability is often better than "athletes"

Ling was a classic example of Recruiters being unable to look outside the square, almost all of them saw him as a strong leading and marking FF/goalkicker but not big enough to play that position at AFL level. Consequently they all overlooked him, Little is another they had a similar view of.
 

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I reckon there's been more success using the rookie draft than late national draft picks.
Not a fair comparison though. A club might have 1 or 2 late ricks and 3-5 rookie list players. Makes it somewhere between twice and five times as many chances to get a good player from the rookie list.
 

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Not a fair comparison though. A club might have 1 or 2 late ricks and 3-5 rookie list players. Makes it somewhere between twice and five times as many chances to get a good player from the rookie list.
there was an article in a paper over here in the west which had something like 35 players after the 3rd round make it to a certain milestone (i cant remember what) and 34 rookie listed players have also reached that milestone. sounds pretty even, although as u said their are quite afew more rookie listed players than players picked after the 3rd round.
 
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