08-15-2015, 02:45 PM
(08-15-2015, 02:16 PM)Mantis link Wrote:Picks are not as important as developing players. If we don't learn this trade secret soon we will never prosper. The key is not the number value of the pick as much as what you develop in the selection to become something special. Hird the turn wasn't a high pick. Yet he became a scum great. I am not saying I have all the answers and am correct in my opinion either. Just putting nit out there.
Mantis it's the bleeding obvious AND it's bleeding obvious the club have no idea how to fix the problem - how long have they had and over how many drafts? The lack of development at Carlton has been nothing short of negligent, some of these players had talent and if they'd gone to other clubs would have been successful - we simply cannot develop talent at Carlton. We're rubbish in this area and have been rubbish since probably as far back as our last premiership. We don't rebuild at Carlton included we don't develop at Carlton.
I said awhile back that we're so poor we cannot be trusted with draft picks - we'll just screw them up, we have to get the top one or two picks to ensure we don't pick a Richard Tambling like the Tigers. It has to be so simple a monkey could do it. We're probably better off picking the best developed talent at some other club and trading our picks and paying overs to at least guarantee some sort of talent. Our culture is rotten, our development structure is rubbish, we have an ineffectual board and leadership and we'll struggle to attract top line talent for years to come.