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Very hard to rebuild when the first 2 years we lost 2 first round, 2 second round and a priority pick.

To rebuild through the draft you have to trade away players to get picks, something we have never done in fact we've done the opposite, traded away picks to get players.

This is the first time that Carlton have built their team through the draft while trading in young talent as well.

It was a rebuild, just not through the draft initially....
Pagan moved on the older players and replaced them with 'average' mid-aged players from other clubs.
Probably the thinking was that they were a bit above average which in most cases turned out not to be the case.
That's not completely unlike what we've done with some of the players we've picked up from other clubs.
The difference this time is the youth approach.

While it's easy to look back in hindsight and say what a disaster it was at the time, there was genuine hope a bounce back from the draft penalties would only take a few years.

The mid-age group were merely a stop-gap until we were again able to hit the draft early.
At that point, other than number one picks, it became more about poor choices and poor development.

That's where we need to be better this time.