Seen all three. Seen King just the once, but Rankine and Lukosius, I've seen them live on at least four occasions as I work directly within a SANFL club. Rankine will slide next year. I like him, but he's almost a clone of James Aish at the same age, but with a better handball, but poorer pace. His last game for the Bloods was excellent, but he also had some poor games throughout the year against kids his own age, like many of these prospects do, we just remember the highlights. I haven't seen enough of King to make an informed judgement, but while Lukosius has looked good at times, he's also been very well held. In the QF, his only two goals, both came from very soft free-kicks in the goal square, one of which which was a third man up hold in the marking contest, and the other was due to a kick out infringement. He was held all game, to zero direct goals by a 180cm makeshift full back who hadn't played full back all year. Now that's not a slight on Lukosius who's achieved great things at his age, it's more to the point that we look at underage players with Rose coloured glasses on but judge 18 year olds to a much higher standard. Fogarty was injured throughout the year, and has fallen out of the top 8 in most phantoms, even though he was a clear #1 at this stage last year based on his underage form.
Same thing will happen next year mate. There will be a new crop of underage players who will play well in the National Championships, and might play a couple of senior games at the end of the year. But then, come 2019, bigfooty will tell us it's a weak draft but the 2020 group could be the best since 2001...