Prestia
Bennell
Ablett
O'Meara
Martin and Ah Chee would be very good 'cream' players if the Suns were able to keep their nucleus together.
Garlett couldn't be helped due to the illness with his brother.
When your club is in its infancy and in a volatile state for footy you can’t just assume that small core will stay stable. Look at the inside mids that GWS has lost already: Treloar, Adams, Tyson, Miles, Townsend, Steele, Kennedy...
It was naive to spend so much on cream players until your squad has settled, and I would be pissed if I was one of the handful of GC supporters.
Fair enough 2012 was a pissweak draft so maybe they thought pick 2 for Martin was a decent gamble.
Ah Chee was taken with pick #8: Daniel Rioli, Charlie Curnow, Wayne Milera all went within the next 7 picks. In terms of a different 'type', Weidemann, McKay, Doedee, Gresham and Burton all went before their next pick who was Fiorini.
Martin traded for pick #2: O'Rourke was taken with this pick. Macrae and Wines both went top ten that year (and Daniher who was F/S).
Garlett pick #15: Lukas Webb and Kyle Langford probably the best players taken between this and their next pick at #29 who was Touk Miller.
Yeah 2012 draft was shithouse in retrospect and maybe that’s why we traded for Sharrod and GC traded for Martin.
Still, at that stage of its existence I’d rather my club loaded up on KPP and inside grunts than speculative skinny flankers