jabso said:
Oh dear another retrospective recruiting comment.
Are you still fuming after picking up Jason McCartney with #4 in the 1990 draft when James Hird went at #79?
Jasbo, you can't NOT be distraught at the blunder Magpies42 mentioned.
Next Friday night will be particularly hard for me, St. Kilda v Sydney. I always cringe when I see Nick Dal Santo and Michael O'Laughlin running around: -
Dal Santo Pick 13 - We took Richard Cole with Pick 10.
O'Laughlin Pick 40 - We took Chad Liddell with Pick 33.
And then there's the MATTHEW PAVLICH one where we were too smart to pick him instead opting to offload pick 3 and Clinton King to Richmond for McKee and Pick 7 with which we got Danny Roach (don't blame all of you who are asking "WHO?") and then sat by and watched as Melbourne picked Brad Green at No 19! To make it worse for a couple of weeks prior the Tassie media kept saying Collingwood were gonna pick Green!
Bo Nixon with the pick we got for Nick Davis is another one! OUCH!
And I'm sure there's many more that I'm unaware of!
And everyone wonders why we're so Shyte when we cop a few decent injuries!
I'm considering writing a book on the topic.
And to think Judkins had a reputation at Essendon as a recruiting genius! If I ever see him he'll cop the Duncan Fearnley around the noggin!