It's more than enough to take us forward. We just need to get more value with our later picks. Last year draft we did really well. If we do half aswell as last years draft we will still have some decent kids. And Terry actually left as pretty well for talls.
I abhor tanking, and the Priority Pick that rewards it. ok the draft pick order does too but I can cop that. If you want the priority pick, well, go get yourself a carltank membership to go with it. And if you dont want one of them well theyve got Melbourne ones too.
If every team was looking to draft picks- well thatd be great - comedy in football, as 15 teams try to lose to each other whilst Geelong racks up Cups.
And fk spoon to flag, Ill pay $$ for a few years of solid mediocre to build on.
There - no membership for me until we finish 9th again!
that said - I dont think that getting games into the kids or developing players roles in different positions is tanking - but it could be - obviously if youve got a 2nds side that could belt your 1sts you are taking it, and the 2s are the obvious place to do role development, rather than on game day a la the Ds vs us in the 09 spoon playoff.
You could argue that we didnt even take the cue out of the rack this year - but equally that our older players (Polly, slops, Thommo, Kingy Tambling, aor our trades, Shultz, Raines) not substantially better than the young uns, and so Im ok with our 2010 so far ie we remain untainted by the stagnant waft of tank, but Ill tell you this, I dont want another SPOON even if pick 4 is Charles Brownlow himself!
I sincerely wish that a spoon LOST you a pick or bumped a pick
Give up Delidio AND Cotch AND Martin? (oh...& Rance, hardly seems worth mentioning this year)
ouch, but, yep, itd be a way better comp
imagine the scrabble out of last!
(and I guess we'd have someone else instead- plus other teams wouldnt have their PPs either - well, sheesh- that might have landed us Paddy Ryder instead of JON, Scully instead of Martin if we so chose...)