Jack-Packenham said:
So why do we accept that they are not that good. Why don't we trade them and get players that are good.
Jack, I hear your frustration but I'm not sure that it's easier to just trade to get "good" players than to develop kids ourselves.
Lets say, if there is a player out there, looking to move, that could be classified as "good" or even better then "good" key forward, that wants to come to us, I'm sure we will at least put our foot in the water. But the fact is they rarely come on the market without baggage and this baggage can affect ones opinion of whether they are "good".
The Blues men this year Fev and Whit both have issues that might effect our group, directly or indirectly. The people in the know, not you and I, but the ones who are in the industry and the ones who rep our club are paid to make these choices and judgements. Now if we were desperate, if we feel we are short on time with the current group we may gamble and try to grab them anyway but I don’t feel we are at that stage yet.
The other thing is the trade cost , the opportunity cost down the track. The player that we could have had
The current system punishes those who aren't patient. Take Ottens for eg. he cost us two players who may have played 150 games of football for us, if you do that enough you sell your future. Our current B&F cam from P8, we might just be selling our best player from tomorrow.
I feel you think we accept mediocrity by persisting with attempting to develop our own but I don’t see any real alternative. If it was so easy to trade for gun players why do Collingwood struggle to get them. In a different era they would have Pavlich there right now on a Million a year but that method is gone the way of the dodo.
Maybe our picks on occasion's haven’t been as focused as they should have been, Mackie is one I have question before but one can see he is quality player just not a KPP.
I suppose at a point we must make a call on the guys picked, I feel most of the development guys on our list have 12 months left to prove themselfs,so this time next year there will 3-4 talls on our list that will be given a push, so you may get your way in 06