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Sorry for this folks but I was just looking through the AFL web-site of some of our past trades under Judge and its just really cracked the ****s with me.
he made some OK ones, Getting rid of Gehrig allowed us to get Kerr which was a huge plus, but thats what we want to see.
How about some of the others though.
He got rid of White for picks 27, 45 and 57.
Those aren't great picks but IMO any pick outside of the top 20 is pretty even. There is very little difference between pick 25 and pick 75 for mine.
With those picks we could've picked up 3 young guys.
But we traded 2 for Michael Prior and Mark Merenda. Oooooooo god what we were thinking.
With the other we got Carroll.
With picks 27 and 57 Ted Richards by Essendon and Steven Sziller by Richmond were picked up.
They're not great picks but even Ted Richards has more future than Prior did.
As for Sziller, we wouldn't have picked him up, but with pick 60 the Kangaroos picked up Corey Jones, who is looking like he could be quite a decent centre half forward, just a player we could do with. Played very well last week against Freo in his first match of the season.
THen for 2001 - I dont know how much Judge had to do with this, but we picked up Seaby at 22.
We missed out on Steven Armstrong who is a Western Australia player expected to go in the top 15. If he's there at 22, you can't not take him. He's been quite a gun for Melbourne, while Seaby is yet to play and looks unlikely to.
And Paul Medhurst - how we missed him I'll never know, but that is a shocker.
I know its a bit of a gamble with the draft, but how Armstrong was missed was a REAL shocker.
Sorry for this, but i just cracked the ****s and had to complain, because we could've had a much better future. I know we already do, but there were a few REALLY DUMB mistakes made in that Judge era.
he made some OK ones, Getting rid of Gehrig allowed us to get Kerr which was a huge plus, but thats what we want to see.
How about some of the others though.
He got rid of White for picks 27, 45 and 57.
Those aren't great picks but IMO any pick outside of the top 20 is pretty even. There is very little difference between pick 25 and pick 75 for mine.
With those picks we could've picked up 3 young guys.
But we traded 2 for Michael Prior and Mark Merenda. Oooooooo god what we were thinking.
With the other we got Carroll.
With picks 27 and 57 Ted Richards by Essendon and Steven Sziller by Richmond were picked up.
They're not great picks but even Ted Richards has more future than Prior did.
As for Sziller, we wouldn't have picked him up, but with pick 60 the Kangaroos picked up Corey Jones, who is looking like he could be quite a decent centre half forward, just a player we could do with. Played very well last week against Freo in his first match of the season.
THen for 2001 - I dont know how much Judge had to do with this, but we picked up Seaby at 22.
We missed out on Steven Armstrong who is a Western Australia player expected to go in the top 15. If he's there at 22, you can't not take him. He's been quite a gun for Melbourne, while Seaby is yet to play and looks unlikely to.
And Paul Medhurst - how we missed him I'll never know, but that is a shocker.
I know its a bit of a gamble with the draft, but how Armstrong was missed was a REAL shocker.
Sorry for this, but i just cracked the ****s and had to complain, because we could've had a much better future. I know we already do, but there were a few REALLY DUMB mistakes made in that Judge era.
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