gringo wrote:I like Sydney' s ability to take the really good kids in strong drafts and then use their later picks or preseason picks on the mature guys. they cost very little in trade terms while still nabbing guys like Jetta, Hannerbury etc. with their earlier picks.
Maybe, though I'm not sure they nailed that many picks. In four full drafts between 05 and 08, they got just six players: Jack, White, Smith, Bird, Hannebery and Pyke. The rest from those drafts are gone (except Brett Meredith and Campbell Heath who are likely to be gone this year) - that's 28 picks out of 34 which amounted to little more than nothing.
Then they got lucky in 09/10, getting Rohan, Jetta, Reid, Parker and Johnson, along with Dennis-Lane and Spangher, and Jed Lamb who hasn't debuted yet so might be no good. 2011 is too soon to tell.
Their core is from before these drafts: Goodes, Bolton, O'Keefe, Roberts-Thomson, Malceski, McVeigh, Grundy. Overall, their lineup is about one-third semi-veterans, one-third recycled players, one-third (relatively) recent draftees. That's probably not a bad model to aim for.
2005 51: M Laidlaw, 54: K Thornton, 59: R Brabazon, R16: J Simpkin, R32: J Wall, R45: P Currie, R54: S Phillips,
R57: K Jack, R58: E Barlow, R59: A Prior, R60: S Rowe
2006 15: D O'Keefe, 49: D Currie, 65: P Faulks,
79: J White,
R15: N Smith, R30: M O'Dwyer, R44: L Brennan, R55: M Davis, R59: E Shaw
2007 11: P Veszpremi,
26: B Meredith,
59: C Bird, R10: M O'Dwyer, R26: B Murphy, R41: J Orreal, R53: M Beckmans, R58: A Bruce, R61: D Terlich
2008 12: L Johnston,
30: D Hannebery,
61: C Heath, R12: K Thornton, R28: T Gilchrist, R43: K Coney,
R57: M Pyke
2009
6: G Rohan,
14: L Jetta,
38: S Reid, 54: Sumner,
55: T Dennis-Lane, PS4: D Bradshaw, R10: H Playfair, R63: C McKaigue,
R71: N Gordon,
R75: D McNeil
2010
21: J Lamb,
40: L Parker,
57: A Johnson,
73: M Spangher, R21: M Otten, R38: B Haren,
R88: E Kruger