You're living in the past, there's a thing called the AFL draft and a thing called the salary cap now that makes it almost impossible to accrue the best SA talent.
I think we have a better balance past couple of drafts though.
Jones aside, I think we got the best available talent.
I don't think that selecting local talent was even a passing thought let alone a factor in any of our drafting (nor should it be unless it's line-ball talent wise) the last 2 drafts.
Certainly the way our picks went, maybe if Pedlar went earlier we would have settled on Tom Powell but who knows?
would you swap them?
Dylan Stephens was available to us with our original 1st pick (4 after the AFL's GCS priority pick) but obviously McAsey was our target hence us swapping picks with GWS (4 for 6 & GWS 2020 1st) confident that McAsey would still be available. GWS 2020 pick ultimately landed us Luke Pedlar didn't it?
How about as every pick is taken in the first 2 rounds, whichever team is next in line from the draftees home state, they get first right of refusal. And can use points like the father son system but no discounting by 20%. 3rd round and on remains as is.
Not sure I would want anything like that. The VFL would not be able to put in a rule that doesn't end up of significant benefit to the Victorian teams, so I'd rather it not be touched at all.
Doedee is the better player. That's all I based it on.
I think people may be reading a little too much into the 2020 draft. It's entirely possible we sided with SA talent purely because the recruiters got to see more of the SA boys playing in 2020 as opposed to the Vic boys who played less due to covid lockdowns in Victoria.
