07-26-2018, 10:38 PM
Pick 44 in a rookie draft, a draft where very few key forwards have ever succeeded. You're not getting Nick Riewoldt with that type of pick. You're lucky to get one game from those types let alone 100. Given his limitations he did the job filling the gap between losing Henderson/Waite and the younger ones developing as well as giving fine support in the ruck. Took him a few years to get on the main list and even then, outside of VFL Finals, where he excelled, he didn't have a great VFL career and may have been lucky to be around. Even then got a game because we got crippled with injury. Given where we picked him from he did better than we thought and did a reasonable job at the right time when he was needed. It's time now we go with McKay instead but I was happy he was around.