We were getting late draft picks instead of top 5 draft picks because we were winning, as coach that is the bit he is responsible for. That is his part in the list degradation and it is a good problem to have, it only accounts for a small portion of the list woes.
If you don't think he gets an out, he therefore is responsible. So, have at it, aside from 3-4 years of bad draft picks due to winning, where is he responsible for the list degradation?
Here is a good starting point
http://www.fremantlefc.com.au/club/history/draft-history As we still have Mundy, Sandi and Jonho on the list, take it from after Mundy, so 2004.
Draft Players missing that could be on the list still. This is the drafting preceding Ross, we should still have at least 8-10 more players from these drafts still on the list (players 24 years old and over).
2004 Josh Carr (played for 3 years) or the traded picks (11, 27, 45). Copping, Stribling, Haines, Krieger, Juniper, Crowley, Schofield
2005 Marcus Drum, Robert Warnock, Ibbotson, Warnock, Duffield, Stribling
2006 Chris Tarrant (or the traded pick 8 and Medhurst), Clayton Collard, O'Brien, Mourish, Smith, Foster, Rumble, Copping
2007 Rhys Palmer, Clayton Hinkley, Mayne, Mark Johnson, Bradley, Connelly, Pratt, Dunn, Head
2008 Suban, Zarke, Bucovaz, Ruffles, Hall, Sibosado, de Boer, Shepheard, Clancee, van Berlo, Broughton
2009 Morabito, Houghton, Crichton, Roberton, Barlow, Silvagni, McPhee
2010 Pitt, Michie , Roberts, Lower, Bucovaz, Ruffles, Anthony
2011 Crozier, Forster, Schloithe, Menegola, Wilson King, Clancee, Dawson
Who out of that, should we still have on the list? Barlow, maybe Menegola, Crozier and de Boer. Barlow I will pay as being Ross (he only needed to enforce that he was a required player). In general, this is just list management failure, they picked and traded awfully and didn't give us enough talent worth being here in ten years time, or were the footy gods fault (Morabito, Pitt).
Not a lot of degradation that you can pin on Ross that was drafted since he was here - Simpson walked out in a hissy fit, could be a Ross issue in how he was handled but, drafting suck a fickle player in the first place goes back to the list manager. Robertons girlfriend knocked up aint Ross's fault, Yarran was Yarrans fault - or list managers fault for procuring him, Weller for Brayshaw - is this even an issue? Is there anyone in the deadwood that has been cut that you think Ross should have up as a B22 player?