Its not his failures
Recruiting is not just about James, there are a miriad of people involved in the end decisions, and his job is to capture the information on all of the potential players, and offer up his opinion
Then the horse trading comes into play inside the club, and then outside. There are 16 clubs looking at the same stock and you must admit that we have not been in that good of a postion to get the good early draft picks in the last few years.
I havent heard many complain about the Jarman shuffle etc, but the last few years have been lean, but I am sure it was more than James who made the decision to draft Carey etc and go for a flag.
To do a St Kilda we will need a few years of pain to get some good pics, but can we stomach that, Im not sure.
Even with the early draft pics, you are not assured of winner, based on some of the ones we have got, and some of the failures at other clubs that were picked in early rounds
Its a bit like looking at kids driving go carts and then trying to pick one who in a few years will win you an F1 or V8 super car championship, there are a lot of good go cart drivers at 16 but not many realise their potential and make it all the way through