Don’t lose hope Bombers fans. In the past few years we have had 1st and 2nd round draft picks such as Kepler Bradley, Leroy Jetta, Anthony Long, Tom Hislop, Andrew Lee and Jay Nash, who have not set the world on fire to say the least.
In the same period we have picked up Stewart Crameri, Josh Jenkins (found form at Adelaide), Ben Howlett, Heath Hocking as rookies; Michael Hibberd, Kyle Hardingham and Tom Bellchambers in the pre-season); and players like Bachar Houli and Cale Hooker in later rounds of the main draft.
Whilst losing basically 3 early round picks will hurt, hopefully we can trust in the recruiting people to really go above and beyond over the next 2 seasons to make the most of the limited picks that we have. Certainly some Crameri, Bellchambers, Hibberd standard players would be handy.