We picked a couple of good ones in Lyons time, just forgot to hold on to them with Cripps, Mc Evoy and Lynch. 2010 to 2016 were pretty dire years. Since then we look like we are improving but only time will tell. Plenty before have looked promising and failed to deliver.
We had a few , but not enough.
When our stars and recycled players were retiring, we had no-one coming through.
To me, if you are drafting around 2 decent players a year, ( ie good enough to play AFL, not necessarily big stars ) after a decade you will have a decent spine of 20 players , and you will have kids coming through. The there are the extra's , rookie picks that come good etc.
from 2004 to recently, we were lucky to draft 1 a year.
So we turned on the tap again, but the water won't be flowing out the end of the pipe for a long time.