07-24-2016, 07:14 AM
(07-24-2016, 07:05 AM)laj link Wrote:I don't think we've done well out of speculative picks ever.There was a time when we were pretty good at it. Guys like Houlihan and Hammill were excellent late picks. However, since we institutionalized the idea under WH, we lost the knack. We had a decade of failure with that type of pick, especially when our last pick was still in the 30's. I wanted us to get Swallow, who went well after our last pick that year. Any guesses as to who we actually selected? I'll give you a hint: his old man played for a couple of clubs including Richmond.
I could Raso: his pick was very late. Others.....
That sort of ide did not seem to be part of the Silvagni lexicon: we didn't have a live pick later than the 20's, and the one we did have was Jack Silvagni. After a decade of missing out, I could live with that.
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