WCE Wizard
Premiership Player
- Jun 14, 2015
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- West Coast
Masten is a solid player lets face it he was never going to be a Dangerfield, abllet or fyfe. Does his role and plays a solid gameWest Coast were massively into Cotchin, and would have taken him if available, and history proves he has been much much better than Masten. Still they are now both premiership players.
In an alternate universe Carlton would have been much better served by not trading for Judd, instead drafting Cotchin (at 1) and say Lachie Henderson (at 3) and keeping Kennedy.
But our team infrastructure and management, such as development & fitness, were so crappy in that era that I suspect we would still have stuffed it up.
2016 onwards is the first time we have conducted a proper from the ground list build with appropriate infrastructure; obviously our 2018 results show no reward, but there are fundamentals in place now that were not there in 2008.