You are right, my intentions in the post have been misunderstood and thats my fault, I was laughing at the fact that we all (me included) have all these hopes and expectations of young players and make these predictions and to me its just funny going back and looking at these. Its the same hopes I have now for the likes of Kavanagh, Merrett, Browne, Ross, O'Brien, Dalgliesh, Davis, Dell'Olio who I have said will be good players for our
club. I also expect/hope Melky, Pears, Heppell, to become A-graders in the near future.
I'm not claiming clairvoyance, I think I was just rightly wary...
It's all well and good to be rated "one of the best" X from your draft... big step up from there.
I would think the same if we had to rely on the Kavs/Merretts to play senior roles, this early.
So good to have that depth & selection pressure, where these kids can be brought in when they're good & ready.