Cripps

[jeza]

Trading in blokes who haven't quite made the grade in weaker teams is always going to be a high risk strategy.  However, in terms of drafting, we have done OK with a few and ballsed a few up.  Probably no better or worse than most clubs.

Kennedy was probably as good as Jaksch is right now when we traded him to WC.

I remember Kennedy loping out from the forward line like a lost kid, jumping at the ball and it cleared his head by 2 metres. I remember thinking - how is it possible this guy was a pick 5? Hendo when we first got him wasn't worth 2 bob.

Don't underestimate players who are still too young to tell - like Jaksch.

I hope we leverage SOS knowledge of the GWS list to pick up a bunch of their next rung down players who can't get a game. There is a truckload of talent still there. First round draft picks and U17 priority picks right through their reserves. Most of them still too young to have ramped up and trade value. Surely we can rip another 2 or 3 good ones. I still think Whiley will be very good eventually.