Pre game postulations: AFL 2021 Rd 7: Carlton vs the Drug Cheats

[shawny]

Well....at least you're open minded and willing to listen to reason.  :

Let me try anyway.

Are you happy with Harry McKay? I'll assume, yes.
"Oh but it was an obvious choice" you might say.
Sure, if you wanna go down that path......even though 9 players were picked before him. How is #2 Josh Schache going. An 'obvious' choice behind Weitering....but i digress.

However, you realise that we never had the pick we used to get Harry McKay. So where did we get it from?
Its convoluted, so i'll make it as easy as i can.

Trade 1:
Lachie Henderson -> Geelong 1st round pick

Trade 2:
Geelong 1st round pick + Pick 28 + Pick 77 + Pick 95 ->  Jed Lamb, Andrew Phillips, Lachie Plowman, Liam Sumner + Pick 8.

Trade 3.
Andrew Phillips + pick 61 + Pick 72 -> Pick 57 + Pick 70

Trade 4.
Pick 54 + Pick 63 -> Marc Pittonet + Pick 61

That Pick 8. got pushed back to pick 10 after some bids were matched, but that is the selection we used for Harry McKay.

So....in conclusion
Lachie Henderson being traded out
=
Lachie Plowman
Marc Pittonet
Harry McKay
(as well as Lamb, Sumner and a couple years out of Phillips)

You can thank Silvagni for that.

CBF working out where Charlie Curnows pick came from, but at a guess its from Zach Tuohy trade.

So don't judge Silvagni on the players that were picked up mid or late, and exclude the 'early obvious' picks, because he is the reason we had those early obvious picks and he plucked them out of thin air most of the time.

Throw enough punches in the dark and eventually you hit something. He was a massive fail when you look at sheet number of first and second round picks we had.

If you want to pat him on the back for the few like Harry that worked you are setting the bar very very low imo.