The Hard Road To The Premiership

[laj]

You know what killed us.
In 2004 we went from 4 wins in 2003 to 10 wins in 2004
That 2004 draft had Roughead, Franklin and Lewis in it.
If we'd have been 15th or 16th with priority picks instead of 11th our history could have been completely different.

With our recruiting we'd have taken Tambling too before Buddy...lol

We used all our picks on mature age rejects in 2004, worked for a years, meaning, yes, we did well with bigger bodies for a year, but was short term, hence we missed out on 2004 bounty. Then after the spoon we had to properly rebuild moving out all the mature age rejects.

Did get Murphy and Josh Kennedy in the 2005 draft though, which led to Judd.