Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd 15: Carlton vs. Freo

[Thryleon]

There is no problem it's flawed thinking. History proves drafting is a coin toss, the minute Stocker played and looked OK we'd already won a 50/50.

Fans talk about low draft picks like they are certainty, when in reality so few picks succeed it's ludicrous not to swap them for a guaranteed player. We swapped a future pick for a player and won, that already puts us well ahead of the curve, no matter what happens in the future!

Retrospectively claiming some later pick was better is not relevant, it's like backing a champion racehorse the day it eventually loses after you've already had a collect on the same horse, or eventually backing a winner after you've lost on the same horse a bunch of times. Nothing that occurs in the future diminishes or enhances your previous wins or loses!

Bulldust.

We have people complaining about Chris Yarran vs Rich vs Ziebell, vs Sidebottom in one draft.

We even had people complaining about the Boekhorst trade, even though we turned pick 7 (Paul ahern) into Boekhorst, the other dud midfielder from GWS, and Jaksch.

People always find a reason to complain.  Stocker is one element of the equation that has paid off.

If we get a top 10 pick from Adelaide, then we get another chance to get a win out of it, and Stocker is simply a bonus.

If we give away picks 1-3, and we see anything like Sam Walsh, Connor Rozee, the King Twins, or anything of that nature in the next draft people will quickly forget about Stocker.