The Dockers didn't even rate Mundy
that highly; they had already taken Ryley Dunn at #10; a player who has managed AFL selection 4 times in 3 seasons. A team can't boast or be applauded for their later selections when they have made mistakes with their earlier choices. I, as a cat fan, am not overly proud of Geelong's 1999 draft selections (Chapman at #31, Ling at #38 and Enright at #47) when Geelong also took Ezra Bray at #17 who never played senior football.
Kane Tenace may be viewed as a draft bust, but FFS he is hardly a contender for the Inept Drafting Hall of Fame. IIRC Geelong were actually super keen to get Kepler Bradley and were shattered to miss him by having a selection just one spot too late. They have both been very disappointing and so Geelong would have been in trouble either way. Yet IIRC Geelong wasn't doing anything radical by taking Tenace (or seeking Bradley) so I think criticism of the GFC is a little lame when Geelong did just as almost every other team would have done if they were in the same position.
Also considereing how Kepler Bradley is developing:
http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?p=6847235#post6847235
FFS, Tenace wasn't even taken top 5 and he has played 44 senior games. Riley Dunn at #10 has played 4 games and accumulated 15 disposals in total; Tenace has managed to gather more disposals in one game than Dunn has in his entire career on many occasions. Luke Molan in 2001 was taken at #9 by Melbourne and he never even made the senior team (to be fair, he was constantly injured).
Choosing to use
Tenace at #7 in 2003 as an example of a horrible recruiting decision is just strange. He was in the senior team at the end of last season (was injured and so missed R22 IIRC). If he never makes the seniors again that will leave him with 44 games and that is 43 more than Danny Roach managed for Collingwood after also being taken at #7 (in 1999). Or 42 more senior games than Leigh Brockman could contribute to Geelong after being taken at #8 in 1996.
It's also a little ironic that Tenace's best ever disposal total was in his last game against Carlton.
That Kane Tenace sure does suck - even though the last time he played my team he had 21 touches, many more than most of my team's players could gather. He's an awful footballer but my team let him pick up more possessions than he ever has before or since.
This is quite a peculiar type of troll: dissing a player for being inept when you are the supporter of the one team that probably should be the least vocal on this issue
.
FYI his surname is pronounced teh-narchie not teh-nays. It's Italian.
Like the pronunciation of
Liberace.