We certainly could have done better, but how much harm has really been done here? Drafting is a combination of skill and luck, we all know that any draft were recast the order would be entirely different. Dal Santo would not have gone at 12 if everyone knew what we know now, and Reilly seems like he will be a solid player, and better than some before and after.
Angwin was a bust, but consider the other player we were though to be at, Luke Livingstone - would it really matter now if carlton went for Angwin and we got Livingstone (we were the market for those 2 players). 2000 was a rubbish draft.
There are some stories about now that some of the staff also favoured Kane Cornes, fair enough, but really who cares? he's not really amounted to an awful lot.
Tim Watson wrote in the Age how when they drafted Lenny Hayes, they didn't really want him, but after all their other preferred players had gone, they picked him up.
There's a lot of luck involved, and I think our draft record isn't bad when you consider the quality of our picks. Other teams have had higher picks, grabbed some good players, and burnt plenty as well.
One thing I am sure of, is that a continued spurt of mediocrity won't work either. St Kilda, who stockpiled so many young players in a relative short period of time, need to resign them - as do Freo. if they all come up for renewal within a year or so of each other, you can't hold onto them all - the distribution of age, quality, length of contract on your player list is not right.