A List with Real Potential

[shawny]

You mentioned 9 names.
One of them was our captain and premium midfielder. Yes, spend some time forward, but 90% of it in the guts.

Of the other actual 8 we have...
Wright - delisted by adelaide, won our goalkicking with a meager 22 goals. Played 116 games and a known quantity who will be solid without being outstanding. Lock him in.

From the other 7, we have
- 2 players who have played a total of 14 games between them Curnow (6) Silvagni (8)
- 4 players who have yet to actually play a game Pickett, McKay, SPS, Kerr
- 1 player who isn't even on our list yet.
 
So 7 players with an average of 2 games between them.

Now, plenty of potential amongst them.....but guaranteed nothing.

Don't you think all this talk of depth is a bit premature??

We counted our chickens with KP stock when we recruited Watson, McCarthy, Mitchell etc too  :-[

x2.

Early draft picks mean SFA until they can prove they can compete at the top level on a regular basis which usually takes 2-3 years. (Weiters is an exemption).

Yes our picks look likely but as Krudder points out we have been down this path before and ended up with players that were that bad we couldn't even trade them out - they were delisted and out of the game. Yet when we selected them we pencilled them in at 10 year key position players.

I like the look of Curnow but he's green, he's raw and very well 'could' be a player and yet has the same chance to simply show glimpses for the next 3-4 years but then be delisted when our patience is out....who knows. Same goes for young Silvagni. He shows some great signs but its way, way,  too early to commit to him being a regular AFL player let alone a very good one which too many on here pencil these guys in for.

McKay, Pickett, Kerr, SPS are again all hopeful of being regular AFLs players yet as it stands they are kids with hope...that's it.

This is what happens when you bottom out lose regular but ageing AFL players and go to the draft.  Its a very big unknown.

We had to do it and I think we have selected well. Time will tell now if they are worthy of the pick.