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This is what picks 3, 6, 14, 18 & 22 really get you -
1999 2000 2001 2002
3 - Aaron Fiora Alan Didak Chris Judd Jared Brennan
6 - Damien Cupido Dylan Smith Ashley Sampi Steven Salopek
14 - Travis Gaspar Daniel Harris Ashley Watson Daniel Bell
18 - Rhyce Shaw Daniel Kerr Shane Harvey Kris Shore
22 - Ezra Poyas Richard Hadley Mark Seaby Matthew Ferguson
2003 2004
3 - Colin Sylvia Ryan Griffen
6 - Kepler Bradley Tom Williams
14 - Fergus Watts Angus Monfires
18 - Llane Spaanderman Cameron Wood
22 - Cameron Thurley Jesse Wells
The best you can hope for with these picks is two solid contributors. These picks will not create a premiership side for 2007 or 2008. Out of the 30 picks over 6 years only Judd, Kerr, Harris and probably Griffen have made a significant impact for their team. DRAFT PICKS ARE OVERATED. Pick a year and put those players on our list, how many of them make an impact?
Trade any draft picks to recruit proven quality young players. Cash in old wood (even Everitt!) to attain quality developed young players.
Lots of great players have traded clubs for the right price - Gehrig, Hamill, Nathan Brown, Shannon Grant, Anthony Rocca, Nick Stevens, Barry Hall, Jeff White.
The draft is a lottery. With strong scouting information picks 40, 55 and 60 can be just as good as picks 14, 18 & 22. It is only the very 1st picks that are worth holding on to.
Hawthorn need the guts to trade quality players and draft picks for proven champions. How good has Everitt been? Definately worth every penny.
Could we have traded Everitt and picks 6 & 22 for Ryan OKeefe, Amon Buchanan and pick 19?
Both are really consistant young players, whilst Everitt is a champion with about 2 years left. Pick 6 gets you a Sampi, Salopek, Kepler Bradley, Tom Williams, Dylan Smith, Damien Cupido type.
Would you prefer Hay, Lonie and pick 22 to Kangaroos for David Hale?
I think picks 14 and 18 are overated. Have another look at what they were worth in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003 & 2004. The year 2000 they were great value, but still it is a 1/6 chance that we will get anyone thats any good.
When a champion player is available, you have got to pay the price to get them. The draft is overated. Picks outside the top 4 or 5 aren't much chop.
Trading Chick, Thompson, Hay, Rawlings etc for draft picks is risky. What other clubs have been so keen to lose key position talent for a risky gamble?
Buy a superstar if you have to, trade an ageing champ if you have to, but if you have the option between a few draft picks or a quality young player, take the player every time. Surely we'd have some room in our salary cap with Crawf on the veterens list, Holland and Hay gone, Barker ....gone.
1999 2000 2001 2002
3 - Aaron Fiora Alan Didak Chris Judd Jared Brennan
6 - Damien Cupido Dylan Smith Ashley Sampi Steven Salopek
14 - Travis Gaspar Daniel Harris Ashley Watson Daniel Bell
18 - Rhyce Shaw Daniel Kerr Shane Harvey Kris Shore
22 - Ezra Poyas Richard Hadley Mark Seaby Matthew Ferguson
2003 2004
3 - Colin Sylvia Ryan Griffen
6 - Kepler Bradley Tom Williams
14 - Fergus Watts Angus Monfires
18 - Llane Spaanderman Cameron Wood
22 - Cameron Thurley Jesse Wells
The best you can hope for with these picks is two solid contributors. These picks will not create a premiership side for 2007 or 2008. Out of the 30 picks over 6 years only Judd, Kerr, Harris and probably Griffen have made a significant impact for their team. DRAFT PICKS ARE OVERATED. Pick a year and put those players on our list, how many of them make an impact?
Trade any draft picks to recruit proven quality young players. Cash in old wood (even Everitt!) to attain quality developed young players.
Lots of great players have traded clubs for the right price - Gehrig, Hamill, Nathan Brown, Shannon Grant, Anthony Rocca, Nick Stevens, Barry Hall, Jeff White.
The draft is a lottery. With strong scouting information picks 40, 55 and 60 can be just as good as picks 14, 18 & 22. It is only the very 1st picks that are worth holding on to.
Hawthorn need the guts to trade quality players and draft picks for proven champions. How good has Everitt been? Definately worth every penny.
Could we have traded Everitt and picks 6 & 22 for Ryan OKeefe, Amon Buchanan and pick 19?
Both are really consistant young players, whilst Everitt is a champion with about 2 years left. Pick 6 gets you a Sampi, Salopek, Kepler Bradley, Tom Williams, Dylan Smith, Damien Cupido type.
Would you prefer Hay, Lonie and pick 22 to Kangaroos for David Hale?
I think picks 14 and 18 are overated. Have another look at what they were worth in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003 & 2004. The year 2000 they were great value, but still it is a 1/6 chance that we will get anyone thats any good.
When a champion player is available, you have got to pay the price to get them. The draft is overated. Picks outside the top 4 or 5 aren't much chop.
Trading Chick, Thompson, Hay, Rawlings etc for draft picks is risky. What other clubs have been so keen to lose key position talent for a risky gamble?
Buy a superstar if you have to, trade an ageing champ if you have to, but if you have the option between a few draft picks or a quality young player, take the player every time. Surely we'd have some room in our salary cap with Crawf on the veterens list, Holland and Hay gone, Barker ....gone.

