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We added senior players like Heater and Munford more like the Demons are doing now. Filling list holes as the team around them develops. Definiteky bith if thise were critical to our rise.For mine the difference between Giants and Suns is the Giants ensured they got quality senior players to help the talented kids, and they picked two young stars with leadership qualities in Davis and Ward.
Failed rebuilds like Melbourne and Suns believed that a glut of high draft picks will eventually come good...but they didn’t, and IMO the fact they were surrounded by poor senior players was a big part.
Even go back to teams like Geelong who had the wave of youngsters coming through, the Cats still had plenty of quality senior players to help the kids develop.
The Giants had a solid build after the first two seasons - year 3 the Giants won 6 games, year 4 they won 11 and had a % of 100
If 2015 is ground zero, the Lions had a 90% season in year three, whilst Carlton trotted put a sub 60% year.
Can see the Lions giving mid table a nudge in year 4 of their rebuild.
I think you're missing the two wooden spoons in the timeline a bit though. At that time the future was uncertain and the Suns got out if the blocks better.
The Blues have the advantage of more senior players in house than we did, but not the volume of draft picks obviously.