Lol we do like rewriting history.
In Jacksons first 10 yrs i couldnt be bothered going any further Jackson had 81 picks that is N/D, PSD, Rookie. 10 of them went on to play in the 2017 premiership. Some of these 81 picks were mature types and may not be attributable to him but the fact they are in the three drafts i have included them. I have not included trades as i have never thought that an area of resposibility although im sure as our head recruiter he had input.
So out of all those picks he found 1 premiership player per yr.
Of those 81 my own opinion is only 13 were half decent players. There are probably 3 or 5 others that people could argue about and id be okay with that.
the 13 players are
1/ Deledio, 2/ Cotchin, 3/ Martin, 9/ Vlastuin, 13/ Riewoldt, 15/ Ellis, 18/ Rance, 26/ Edwards, 31/ McIntosh 35/ Astbury, Grimes psd, King (r), Miles (r)
In anyones language his first 10 yrs were appalling just three players in all drafts after pick 35. With only basically hits with a percentage of top 30 picks.
iM happy to do the remaining few yrs as well but im sure it continues in the same sort of vein
I hate seeing history rewritten. I understand we had issues but at the end of the day recruiting came down to him and he was lucky to keep his job imo. If we had continued in the same sort of vein then we would have never won a flag. finding just one good player a yr our good players would have been too old before we found enough others. We were so poor for so long because of recruiting and Jackson has to take responsibility for that.
this means nothing unless you do a comparison against every other clubs recruiting in the same time period.
Every recruiting team has more busts then hits I reckon.
Not to mention you’ve already fabricated history by including 2004 draft when he wasnt at the club and 2005 draft where he was part time and miller picked JON based on a video tape.
Could also mention in 2009 the pies recruiting budget was 15 times ours and FJ was paying for his own accommodation when scouting. Not to mention the clear improvement in our development in the last few years.