Taylor
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- #126
Quaynor also made the all australian team so I don't think top 20 is a stretch.
It's the same effect. If you know a player before going into a game you're looking for them, you notice their contributions.
The best thing a young player can do to lift their profile before the draft is to get in front of a camera or on a newspaper, it will have the self perpetuating AFL media repeating each other's opinions as fact, validating each other with the repeat of the same opinions. Seriously, there is a media figure who doesn't watch the majority of players at all in any live sense and is considered an expert on the draft, purely from collating reports of others.
The only metric with which to grade the players is the actual draft. Where someone actually has some skin in the game.