(03-20-2020, 03:45 AM)Sexybronco link Wrote:I know I'm backing over this issue one more time, but can someone give me a rational explanation as to why we picked DeLuca over Picket in the mid season draft??? A glaring difference between us and Richmond last night was speed/class and decision making, they have play makers all over the mark changing the courses of plays, Marlion being one of them.
I doubt anyone can give a rational explanation. 17 other clubs also passed on him. The Tigers have enough depth and stability and off field professionalism to know that he was worth a punt, and to be able to carry on if it didn't work out. They always look good when they come off. He was troubled, did jail time, and had been around the traps for a long time. No one went near him, not even the two WA clubs, who had him right under their noses.