08-31-2020, 07:06 AM
(08-31-2020, 05:50 AM)WASurfer link Wrote:https://www.sen.com.au/news/2020/08/31/h...-improved/
Cornes is a flog but it's a pretty valid point. Go back as far as the draft of 2015 through to 2018 (LY too early to call yet)....and in those 4 years, who has really come on?
2015
Weitering - been a gun this year.
McKay - frustrates us with glimpses in patches but is also injured a lot.
Curno - ditto
Cunningham - ditto
Silvagni J - been a surprise packet for mine for such a late pick.
2016
SPS- again, glimpses in patches but hasn't come on.
Fisher - been good and looks like he can make it.
Macreadie - barely played with injuries and form.
Polson - been enough said already.
Williamson - finally getting some return this year.
Kerr - gone.
2017
Dow - enough said.
O'Brien - not sure he'll make it either.
TDK - after a couple of injury plagued seasons he's looking like a great pick up and a long term future for sure.
Schumacher - gone
Garlett - gone
2018
Walsh - gun
Stocker - who knows?
O'Dwyer - speculative pick unlikely to survive the cut.
Silvagni B - same as O'Dwyer?
So for 4 years worth of draft picks and plenty of really high ones, the only successes to date look to be Weitering, Curnow (?), Fisher, Williamson (maybe), Walsh, TDK....McKay into his 5th year and needs to get better pretty quickly....
Kerr was dead unlucky, victim of too many key forwards, Schumacher also to a lesser extent. We've done ok with later picks, which has been a big change.
McKay goes ok. Tough work being a key forward this year where 7 goals is often a winning score.
With some of those other early picks, those kids were thrown into the deep end. They should've been in lesser roles as they develop. That has definitely not helped them at all. Even Weitering struggled for quite a while.